Wicked
Wicked
JackersCrackers
Swing Joined: 7/26/04
#0Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 4:40pmDid anyone see the night performance of Wicked this past Wed, the 28th? Joey was so funny, he dropped his gun during the scene where he tries to rescue Elphaba. JLT and Idina burst into a fit of giggles...adorable. Also, thanks to everyone for the tips for the stagedoor! We got to meet Joey, Idina, and JLT...Idina was beautiful, JLT was so cute, and Joey was extremely extremely nice. Anyone else have stagedoor experiences they would like share? I LOVE hearing them!
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
-Sir Laurence Olivier
wickedfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/8/04
#1re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 4:44pm
Jackers - I'm happy for ya... How long did it take before you saw them after the show?
I'm going August 12!
#2re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 6:13pm
i wasnt at the wicked performance you mentioned but i have had some interesting stage door experiences
the first time i saw rent i met adam anthony daphne and idina at the stage door... we were chatting for a while and i asked them what their favorite experiences with the show were etc and got into this really great conversation abuot larson... we must have been talking for 15-20 min.. ive never met any other broadway actors that take their fans so seriously before
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#3re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 8:15pmOH MY GOD!!!!!!! NODAYBUT2DAY2, you met them!!!!!!!!!AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! It's my DREAM to meet them!!!!! I have met Idina!!!!!!!!I LOVE THEM!!!!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#5re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 8:17pmHEHEHE!!!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#6re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 8:18pmOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IDINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!KRISTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!JENNIFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!JOEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOAT MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#7re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 8:19pm
"Joey was so funny, he dropped his gun during the scene where he tries to rescue Elphaba. JLT and Idina burst into a fit of giggles...adorable."
It might be adorable, but very unprofessional.
CCM '10!
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#9re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 8:21pm
"Joey was so funny, he dropped his gun during the scene where he tries to rescue Elphaba. JLT and Idina burst into a fit of giggles...adorable."
Than JLT picked up a pillow and hit Idina with it and they got into this pillow fight and than the sprinklers were turned on and they ripped off their costumes until they were practically naked and dripping wet having a pillow fight! So cute!
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#10re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 8:22pmBwayTheatre11, I was thinking the same thing...I've read a lot of these posts where people say how much the LEADS in Wicked break out of character and laugh or something like that. It's extremely unprofessional...not adorable.
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 08:22 PM
1'm Better Than This
Chorus Member Joined: 7/8/04
#11re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:46pmAt first, I thought this was very unprofessional also. Then I read an interveiw with Kristin Chenoweth, and she explained why she does break character when something goes wrong. It all actually makes a lot of sense. When somethin goes wrong in a show, the audience definitely notices, and it makes the audience uncomfortable. They break character and make a joke about the problem to make the audience forget about how awkward it is. Very good tactic.
#12re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:29pm
Y'all stole the words right out of my....hands. There's been so many mentions of them "giggling" on stage....ugh.
It's NOT a "very good tactic" in my opinion. I've seen alot of stuff happen wrong and you should always try to stay in the moment.
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#13re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:36pmA good actor can handle situations like that and stay in character. It is incredibly unprofssional to break character in the middle of a show and make a joke to the audience about it. I don't care how small and cute you are.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#14re: Wicked
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:42pmI remember reading an interview with Kristin a while ago, and it didn't seem to me that she was in any way defending breaking character...she was defending the improvisations she tended to do onstage that were in character to keep the audience engaged when something went wrong. Updated On: 7/30/04 at 10:42 PM
#15re: Wicked
Posted: 7/31/04 at 11:22am
"I don't care how small and cute you are."
haha
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
JackersCrackers
Swing Joined: 7/26/04
#16re: Wicked
Posted: 8/3/04 at 2:58amwickedfan2, it didn't take long at all to meet the cast after the show...I would say about 15-20 minutes until all of them came out. You're going to LOVE it! Have fun and let me know how it goes!
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
-Sir Laurence Olivier
BalletGirl85
Featured Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#17re: Wicked
Posted: 8/3/04 at 3:07am
Than JLT picked up a pillow and hit Idina with it and they got into this pillow fight and than the sprinklers were turned on and they ripped off their costumes until they were practically naked and dripping wet having a pillow fight! So cute!
Matt G wins for being funny!!!! Yay, I spit soda on my keyboard.
I also agree that it is very unprofessional. I must've read a billion threads about Idina and Kristin breaking character and laughing and literally stopping the show and having to redo a scene when they did something wrong.
I did a professional production of "Nine" as one of the Ensemble characters (Guilietta the Italian) and our "professional" union stage manager thought it was funny to hold up gay porn magazines during the scenes the Ensemble weren't in (where we just chilled at our boxes, original version style) and yeah, I laughed the first time. I even laughed the second time. But after an hour and a half of our SM showing me gay porn, it got old and I was really embarrassed for laughing at all - how can you not be? People are watching you. If you break character, they can see it.
Staying in character is tough in situations where someone screws up a line, or drops a gun (which isn't even funny...) and if you're paying $100 a ticket, you'd kind of expect the PROFESSIONAL PAID ACTORS to be professional about a little incident like that! I've seen plenty of productions where people have dropped stuff. In "Millie" during the NFTLOM reprise that the Hotel girls sing, one of the girls ripped their little magazine thingy right in half...did they all giggle and laugh and break character? No, they did the song, and tried not to bring attention to it.
#18re: Wicked
Posted: 8/3/04 at 9:53amWhen I saw Wicked Cheno's bed didn't come on, and that is a pretty crucial set piece for the song. However instead of breaking character while the dresser and bed were moving she said "Elphie, are you doing that". It got a big laugh and when the bed finally arrived Cheno swan dove onto it saying as she did "This is a 14 million dollar production" but then just went right back into the scene. Although a little unprofessional it was her last night performance and what else can you do when a set piece like that doesn't come on.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
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