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Your most memorable moment of a show
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#50re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 7:17pm
I was 12, seeing my very first show, Phantom. Chandelier goes up, overture comes in full force, I am dumbstruck and remained that way for the whole show.
Seeing Rent for the first time was an unforgettable experience, and I loved every minute. Act 2 was so emotional for me, having only heard the OBCR to that point. Seeing it happen on stage made it REAL. I cried for the entire end of Without You and all the way up to Goodbye Love.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
#51re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 7:29pm
Seeing my idol Sutton in Little Women...she was sooooo close and I couldn't believe someone THAT talented was in front of me.
OR when I saw Rent a few days earlier...it was my first ever bway show! I was in love with the first "December 24th 9 p.m." and i was bawling by the time the song "RENT" started cuz I was soooo happy I was in a REAL bway theatre seeing RENT in NY!! omg...i tear up just thinking about it! *that was like three weeks ago!*
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
redmustang
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#52re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:00pmI've seen tons of shows in my life. All of you people who keep mentioning Wicked are really clueless. It must have been your first and only show and you all must be 12 years old. I saw Wicked. It was entertaining. I liked it. That's all. There are hundreds on better shows that have magical moments in them. Enough of the Gershwin already! Go see something else.
#53re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:04pm
Maureen singing 'Days of Plenty'
Rent Finale
Movin' Out...like, the whole time.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#54re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:06pm
One was in my early theatergoing days seeing Bob Holliday flying in as Superman.
I have had many more since
Linda Hopkins singing Deep In The Night from Inner City springs to mind right away
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One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#55re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:11pm"Your Eyes from" Rent. that was so emotional that i and my mom started to cry.
I'm not a gay stereotype. I'm a coincidence.
#56re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:15pm
Bui Doi in Miss Saigon
Defying Gravity
Streetsinger because I used it as an audition and got my part in a musical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
#57re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:18pmMine was the very last performance of "Sweeney Todd" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. which ended the show's tour. As soon as the cast came out for their curtain calls everyone rose to their feet. I looked at people around me (yea, I'm sure many were die-hard fans) and saw they were as moved as I was for tears were streaming down their faces. Then Angela and George came out and the whole house burst out in a thunderous roar, the likes of I've never seen before. They both bowed several times and then Angela did something I found so incredibly moving. She put her hands on both sides of George Hearn's face and kissed him on the mouth and held that kiss for what seemed to be an eternity. It was at this point that I too felt the tears streaming down my face.
#58re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:20pmJust recently "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" has become really powerful to me. It might be because I had a good friend move recently but that song makes me tear up all the time now.
"You know just because you put a smiley face after it doesn't change the fact that it was an a-hole comment." ~ Sumofallthings
redmustang
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#59re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:23pm
Dimitri2,
My God, that evening must have been tremendous. How lucky you were!
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#60re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:30pm
More than one moment of a show for me ... it'd have to be just the whole experience of finally getting to see my friend and one of my absolute favorite actors ever LIVE onstage when I saw Gregory Jbara in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on opening night. (When I first became a fan and got to know Greg, he was in Hollywood doing movies and tv, so I totally missed out on his earlier Broadway days.) The first 'moment' I'd choose would be the first instant I saw him step out on stage. And then hearing and seeing him act and sing live. It was just a dream come true for me, and I'm so grateful to him and his wife Julie for making it possible for me and my husband to be there. I love the Jbara's!!
Updated On: 3/31/05 at 08:30 PM
#61re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:39pmThere really is nothing quite like seeing your friends dreams come true! That is awsome
"You know just because you put a smiley face after it doesn't change the fact that it was an a-hole comment." ~ Sumofallthings
#62re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:42pm
Oops..just thought of another one...lol. It was Bernadette in "Gypsy" during and after the show. I was sitting in the first row and had this very strange feeling that during moments while she was singing she was looking right at me (the first couple of rows were pretty well lit from the stage lights). It continued to the point where I began to question my sanity but I soon forgot about it. After the show I walked through Schubert Alley and at the stage door there were railings on either side that led to a limousine. Out came Bernadette but I couldn't get that close since people were already blocking me. I waited for them to leave after BP had signed their Playbills and stood at the railing thinking I'd at least get a view of her from a few feet away. All of a sudden BP looked in my direction and walked back to where I was standing and I swear to you...she grabbed my Playbill to sign it and said to me "You were sitting in the front row weren't ya?" I said "Wow, there were times I thought you were singing just for me" to which she replied, "I was" and walked off! Relaying this story afterwards to friends in the theater, they said it's not uncommon for a performer to zero in on a particular audience member while singing. I guess it was my lucky night...:)
Updated On: 3/31/05 at 08:42 PM
#63re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:48pm"I Know Where I've Been" during Marisa Jaret Winokurs last Hairspray performance on Broadway also the same song during Matt Morrisons last on Broadway.
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
Updated On: 3/31/05 at 08:48 PM
#64re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:55pmYour Eyes...Rent
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#65re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 8:56pm
Foot, thanks ... it really was so special for me ... many times
I've wished I could go back in time and see Greg in Damn Yankees or Chicago ... or V/V live (I've seen the video with him as Squash, but a tv screen isn't the same as the stage!) ... so seeing DRS was incredible, and Greg and Julie just made sure the whole experience was an unforgettable one for me. Tonight's a lunar month since the opening, and I still get excited just thinking about being there, hanging out in Greg's dressing room after, the party at the Copa ... awesome is the word for it alright! :)
#66re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 9:09pmWell, my moment isn't emotional or anything, but I'll never forget it. In "The Money Song" of Avenue Q, I gave Princeton some money, and on his way back up, the puppet kissed me on the cheek. It was just adorable, and I was already in ecstacy anyway, that just made it better.
HROK?
broadwayjunkie2
Swing Joined: 3/12/05
#67re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 9:19pmthe first show i ever saw on broadway-Thoroughly Modern Millie-I was so thrilled with the whole thing that i didnt even notice until my dad told me at intermission-i was mouthing all the words through the entire first act without realizing it.
Lord knows, at least I was there, and I'm here! Look who's here! I'm still here!-Follies
When i see how sad you are it sort of makes me...happy!-Avenue Q
#68re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 9:23pm
Demetri, those are 2 of the coolest things i have ever heard espcially about bernadette. Though Im the biggest Todd fan like ever and had i been born yet id have killed to be there it is very cool to have an actress as famous as bernadette peters to say something like that.
And to the one person above me, you gave him money? I wonder what they do with it.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#69re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 4/1/05 at 1:21am
MRF's last show at Rent - his ICYR was the most amazing thing I have ever heard. Also, Krystal and Jeremy's last show.
ANd John's last at Avenue Q.
"Less Of A Marilyn, More Of A Jackie"
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#70re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:28amWow where to start? "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" in RENT. I saw it for the first time three weeks ago in NYC and bawled. Twice actually...there and the finale. Wow soooo moving. Also "The Circle of Life" in The Lion King. I was in the 5th row in Chicago about 6 seats in and then this elephant with five people inside of it comes walking right past me. I was breathless. My list goes on but those two really really stand out for me.
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Bwaybaby109
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/03
#71re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:48pm
My one for being in a show: Performing my last night in South Pacific as Bloody Mary because it was my last show in high school.
For seeing a a Bway show: Seeing Bernadette live for the first time in Gypsy.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#72re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 4/1/05 at 2:57pm
1. The "CATS" overture-first time ever in a Broadway theatre
2. "The Who's Tommy"-All of it
3. Sutton's "Gimmie Gimmie"
4. Marin and Stokes both reaching for opposite sides of the door in "So In Love"
5. Silly as it sounds, Idina's "It's Meeeeeeeeeeeee"
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
#73re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 4/1/05 at 3:18pm
Basically the entire second act of RENT for me. From SOL, the emotions start (I only cry a little though haha.) Then Without you… utterly amazing. Finally I’ll Cover You (Reprise) every time I see RENT I cry, and its one of my favorite cries ever (especially when MRF does it… it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard!) So from there I’m pretty much a huge walking/sitting ball of emotion… and I love it!
Also the second act of 700 Sundays (I don’t know how many people have seen it, I haven’t heard too much about it on the boards) but I went from laughing hysterically and crying hysterically the whole time. I don’t know how he does it, but Billy Crystal has a way of being able to touch almost everyone in the theater. I though it was beautiful.
"To riding your bike midday
Past the three piece suits
To fruits ~ To no absolutes
To absolut ~ To choice
To the village voice
To any passing fad
To being an us for once - for once - instead of a them" ~RENT
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
~James Dean
#74re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 4/1/05 at 8:14pmI took my mom to Avenue Q and the understudy for the girl who play Gary Coleman was on. My mom noticed the slip saying so and so would be filling in as Gary Coleman. After the show I asked he what she thought and she said she loved the show but was really sad that Garry Coleman wasn't in it tonight.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
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