There are shows that I love, but there are also portions of shows that I love. Moments, scenes, songs, lines, characters, etc. I'm going to list as many as I can think of, including inside jokes and random stuff from shows I've been in. Don't judge me, okay? If you don't like these, that's too bad. I don't judge your likes and dislikes (although some might make my heart hurt a little.) I won't even list my dislikes, because they might be somebody's likes. Actually, I will list one: I HATE the Dream Ballet in Oklahoma! It drives me nuts. I call it Laurey's Acid Trip.
Okay, here's my list, alphabetical by show (points not in any particular order):
*The song "Maybe" makes me cry. Annie's yearning for her parents is so touching!*This is one show where there is not a stinker song in the bunch. Some shows have a throw-away song or two, but not this one! I noticed this last week when Emily and I watched the movie. I love all the songs in this show!
*I love how in the ABC movie version, the "Star-to-Be" is played by Andrea McArdle, who was the original Annie on Broadway.
Anything Goes!
*The corny dialogue that is inexplicably funny every single time! (Ex: "Crocker! I didn't know you were Chinese!")
*Jon's pants falling down onstage. I thought it was planned...it wasn't. (FRMT, Summer 2006)
Beauty and the Beast
*The song "Be Our Guest". It's a wonderful production number. I loved being in it, even though I had a huge plate strapped to my back and it was very hard to move around with knocking people over!
*When the Beast comes out after "Be Our Guest". There are streamers and confetti everywhere (at least, there was in our production) and he kind of looks around like "Aw, man. I missed the party."
*The Song "If I Can't Love Her". I watched this from backstage at every performance. I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
*The big reveal of the library. Okay, I'm just partial to the books, since I painted most of them.
*"Mama! Mama!" (When Chip runs out as a real boy at the end!)
*All dialogue and dynamics between Lumiere and Cogsworth
*Madame de la Grande Bouche as Brun Hilda in the Battle.
*The song "Home." Gorgeous!
Brigadoon
*Nick's Army crawl upstage of the set (FRMT, Summer 2004)
*The song "Come to Me, Bend to Me". Gorgeous!
*The scene where Mr. Lundie explains what's really going on. It's magical! (Not just what's happening, but the scene itself!)
*The Entrance of the Clans (Bagpipes included!)
*Stashing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the house set piece, so when I was trapped back there for a scene and a half, I had something to do. (FRMT, Summer 2004)
Bye Bye Birdie
*What we call "Mr. MacAfee's Nero Speech". Classic.
*The song "Rosie".
*The infamous Shriner's Scene (Especially the one at Loveland High, 1995)
Camelot
*The 1982 Broadway staging with Richard Harris. I grew up on a video of this version, taped off HBO! I now own the DVD.
*The character of Pellinore. Love him!
*Arthur and Tom of Warwick at the end of the show. Priceless!
*The song "If Ever I Would Leave You"
Carousel
*The song "Mr. Snow". I love to perform it. I hope to play Carrie someday.
*When Billy tells Jigger that Julie is going to have a baby, and Jigger says "My mother had a baby once."
*The entire scene of "If I Loved You."
*The "Soliloquy", especially the "My Little Girl..."part
*One of the things I love about this show is that it faces an issue head on that many other musicals of that same time period would have avoided or glossed over. Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't do what I call "Happy/Skippy Musicals". And I applaud them for it. Just because it's a musical doesn't mean we can't depict real life.
*The reprise of "If I Loved You" at the very end. Billy regrets his mistakes...and Julie & Louise are going to be okay.
The Drowsy Chaperone
*The character of Aldolpho. "The man of a thousand accents, all of them insulting."
*The character of Man in Chair. Finally! A narrator I can relate to!
*The song "The Bride's Lament". Genius!
*Robert rollerskating blindfolded
*When the power goes out and Super comes and shines his flashlight on everyone's faces. Hilarious!
*When Man in Chair puts on the wrong record for Act 2. And especially when he realizes it and comes running back in. HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fiddler on the RoofAnything Goes!
*The corny dialogue that is inexplicably funny every single time! (Ex: "Crocker! I didn't know you were Chinese!")
*Jon's pants falling down onstage. I thought it was planned...it wasn't. (FRMT, Summer 2006)
Beauty and the Beast
*The song "Be Our Guest". It's a wonderful production number. I loved being in it, even though I had a huge plate strapped to my back and it was very hard to move around with knocking people over!
*When the Beast comes out after "Be Our Guest". There are streamers and confetti everywhere (at least, there was in our production) and he kind of looks around like "Aw, man. I missed the party."
*The Song "If I Can't Love Her". I watched this from backstage at every performance. I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
*The big reveal of the library. Okay, I'm just partial to the books, since I painted most of them.
*"Mama! Mama!" (When Chip runs out as a real boy at the end!)
*All dialogue and dynamics between Lumiere and Cogsworth
*Madame de la Grande Bouche as Brun Hilda in the Battle.
*The song "Home." Gorgeous!
Brigadoon
*Nick's Army crawl upstage of the set (FRMT, Summer 2004)
*The song "Come to Me, Bend to Me". Gorgeous!
*The scene where Mr. Lundie explains what's really going on. It's magical! (Not just what's happening, but the scene itself!)
*The Entrance of the Clans (Bagpipes included!)
*Stashing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on the house set piece, so when I was trapped back there for a scene and a half, I had something to do. (FRMT, Summer 2004)
Bye Bye Birdie
*What we call "Mr. MacAfee's Nero Speech". Classic.
*The song "Rosie".
*The infamous Shriner's Scene (Especially the one at Loveland High, 1995)
Camelot
*The 1982 Broadway staging with Richard Harris. I grew up on a video of this version, taped off HBO! I now own the DVD.
*The character of Pellinore. Love him!
*Arthur and Tom of Warwick at the end of the show. Priceless!
*The song "If Ever I Would Leave You"
Carousel
*The song "Mr. Snow". I love to perform it. I hope to play Carrie someday.
*When Billy tells Jigger that Julie is going to have a baby, and Jigger says "My mother had a baby once."
*The entire scene of "If I Loved You."
*The "Soliloquy", especially the "My Little Girl..."part
*One of the things I love about this show is that it faces an issue head on that many other musicals of that same time period would have avoided or glossed over. Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't do what I call "Happy/Skippy Musicals". And I applaud them for it. Just because it's a musical doesn't mean we can't depict real life.
*The reprise of "If I Loved You" at the very end. Billy regrets his mistakes...and Julie & Louise are going to be okay.
The Drowsy Chaperone
*The character of Aldolpho. "The man of a thousand accents, all of them insulting."
*The character of Man in Chair. Finally! A narrator I can relate to!
*The song "The Bride's Lament". Genius!
*Robert rollerskating blindfolded
*When the power goes out and Super comes and shines his flashlight on everyone's faces. Hilarious!
*When Man in Chair puts on the wrong record for Act 2. And especially when he realizes it and comes running back in. HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
*The wedding is one of the most beautiful scenes in all of musical theatre. And I'm not just saying that because I played Tzeitel last year. I thought this before. Sunrise, Sunset is a gorgeous song.
*Tevye is one of the very best male characters in all of theatre. Not just musical theatre. Theatre.*I love the progression of breaking traditions, from Tzeitel through Chava. Tzeitel just wants to make her own match. Hodel dances with a boy (which isn't EXACTLY forbidden), and then marries within the faith, though Perchik is a radical. Chava...wow...she runs off and marries a Russian.
*"I think we need to go buy more potatoes." "Yes, let's go buy more potatoes". (You had to be there.) (UCDT, 2008)*Spending a year waiting to play Fruma Sarah, getting promoted to Tzeitel, and then spending an AMAZING 4 months with some amazing people. (UCDT, 2008)
Forever Plaid
*The song "Lady of Spain". Inventive and extremely hilarious (especially when done well.)
*I am an Honorary Plaid, and I have the plaid dental floss to prove it!
42nd Street
*The Act 1 Finale: When Julian comes out and says that the show is cancelled...and people believe him.
Guys and Dolls
*Adelaide. That's right. Just Adelaide.
*The very end of the show when all the guys find out that Sky's name is Obadiah.
Hello, Dolly!
*The way Janaque sang "So Long Dearie" (Loveland High, 1998)
*The way they did "Motherhood March" (Loveland High, 1998)
*When Craig and Seth switched wallets in a rehearsal and forgot to switch them back. Frantic call from Seth later that evening. (Loveland High, 1998)
*Every time Dolly talks to Ephraim.
*"You're only 17." "Yes, and in another year, I'll be an old maid!"
Into the Woods
*The song "Children Will Listen"
*Little Red offering to be Jack's mother at the end of the show
*The song "Agony"
Jekyll & Hyde
*After the "Transformation" when Hyde emerges, when he growls "FreeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Total goose-bumps moment!!!!!*In His Eyes is probably one the best female duets ever written. Frank Wildhorn = GENIUS!!*This is totally sick on my part, but I love all the ways the Hospital Board dies in the Act 1 Finale and the Act 2 Opening. Murder, Murder is a great song!!!!
The Last 5 Years
*How the show is laid out: Jamie telling their story beginning to end, Cathy telling it end to beginning. Very inventive and utterly FASCINATING!
*The song "The Schmuel Song"
*The beginning and end of "The Next Ten Minutes". It's where Jamie and Cathy basically switch places. I love how you hear part of a conversation at the beginning of the song and then you hear the other side of it at the end of the song.
Les Miserables
*I saw Sutton Foster as Eponine in the tour in 1999. ACK! I didn't realize it until she won her Tony a couple years later.The Last 5 Years
*How the show is laid out: Jamie telling their story beginning to end, Cathy telling it end to beginning. Very inventive and utterly FASCINATING!
*The song "The Schmuel Song"
*The beginning and end of "The Next Ten Minutes". It's where Jamie and Cathy basically switch places. I love how you hear part of a conversation at the beginning of the song and then you hear the other side of it at the end of the song.
Les Miserables
*The song "On My Own"
*When the barricade spins around after the battle and you see everyone dead. It's a heartwrenching moment that's hard to beat.
The Light in the Piazza
*This show = the most exquisite show I have seen in a very long time.
*Seeing Victoria Clark in her Tony-winning role of Margaret Johnson was an absolute THRILL!
*The untranslated Italian: You don't know what they are saying, and yet, you do. It's great!
*"Ciao, Van Johnson!"
*I don't know exactly why, but at the end of the song "Fable", which is the last song of the show, I cry. Every time. (And I've seen it a lot, since I saw it on Broadway, on Tour, and we recorded it when it was on PBS). I think it might be because my heart is so full...Margaret's pain has just given way to the knowledge that everything is going to be okay. For her and for Clara.*"Aiutami means 'Help me' in Italian. I don't speak English, but I have to tell you what's going on."
The Lion King
*The animals coming down the aisles at the beginning of the show. I wish I had been sitting on the main floor and not the top balcony. NEXT TIME!!!!!!!!!!
The Little Mermaid (AKA Ariel Broadway)
*The song "If Only"
*Seeing the show twice in Denver, before it went to Broadway!
*What I call "Ariel's Interior Monologues" in Act 2. She can't talk, 0bviously, but to have her sing what she's thinking: priceless.
*Seeing Sherie Rene Scott and Eddie Korbich! LOVE THEM!
*Feeling the energy ooze off the stage during "Under the Sea"
*Knowing the ending was all wrong, and then seeing it fixed the 2nd time I saw the show.
Little Women
*Driving 8 hours to see the tour in Salt Lake City.
*Seeing Maureen McGovern and getting to hear her sing "Days of Plenty" two times the next day at the Conference Center (Music and the Spoken Word with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
*Bawling all the way through Act 2
*The song "Somethings Are Meant to Be"
*Playing Aunt March!
The Lion King
*The animals coming down the aisles at the beginning of the show. I wish I had been sitting on the main floor and not the top balcony. NEXT TIME!!!!!!!!!!
The Little Mermaid (AKA Ariel Broadway)
*The song "If Only"
*Seeing the show twice in Denver, before it went to Broadway!
*What I call "Ariel's Interior Monologues" in Act 2. She can't talk, 0bviously, but to have her sing what she's thinking: priceless.
*Seeing Sherie Rene Scott and Eddie Korbich! LOVE THEM!
*Feeling the energy ooze off the stage during "Under the Sea"
*Knowing the ending was all wrong, and then seeing it fixed the 2nd time I saw the show.
Little Women
*Driving 8 hours to see the tour in Salt Lake City.
*Seeing Maureen McGovern and getting to hear her sing "Days of Plenty" two times the next day at the Conference Center (Music and the Spoken Word with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
*Bawling all the way through Act 2
*The song "Somethings Are Meant to Be"
*Playing Aunt March!
*"My dear little librarian. Pile up enough tomorrows and you'll find you're left with a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." "So would I."
*Closing performance at Jesters, Summer 1998 (A performance that will live in infamy...)
*"HAVE YOU SEEN PROFESSOR HILL!?!?"
Oklahoma!
*Hugh Jackman. Enough said. (I own the DVD and the CD of his performance.)
*When I had the entire first part of the solo in "Out of my Dreams" and the guy blew his nose in the middle of it. (Jesters, Summer 1999)
*The night Scott's shirt got ripped open on stage and we laughed for about a full 2 minutes (Jesters, Summer 1999)
*"You'll sure feel funny when I tell your wife you've been carrying on with another man." (Jesters, Summer 1999)
*The 6 foot wall of stage fog (FRMT, Summer 2002)
*The song "Pore Jud is Daid" (One of my favorite songs in all of musical theatre.)
Once Upon a Mattress
*Princess Winnifred the Woe-be-gone
*Seeing the show for the first time and realizing that Winnifred is me and I am Winnifred. (FRMT, Summer 2001)
*The song "Song of Love"
*The song "The Spanish Panic" (It's my ringtone on my phone right now.)
*My car is named Winnifred.
*Peter as the Nightingale of Samarkand (FRMT, Summer 2001)
Peter Pan
*Ordering pizza during a dress rehearsal, all via the com. (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*Playing "Find the Block" (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*Emily saving our bums when Amy's appendix decided to go bye-bye (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*The song "Ugg-a-Wug" and coming down from the booth to help do the "singing" from backstage during the dance break. (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*The song "Distant Melody"
*Having a running commentary on what exactly Tinkerbell is doing between the time she drinks the poison and crawls into her house, including sound effects. (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*The fact that some of the pictures that were taken of Tink, she looks like a real fairy! Not just a green light!!!! (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*Making Tink just around on the mushrooms that were on the backdrop (FRMT, Summer 2005)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
*The song "I'll Forget You"
*The foppy hilarity that IS "The Creation of Man"
*The fact that whoever plays Percy basically plays 3 different characters in 1!
*The song "Into the Fire"
The Secret Garden
*The first time I saw it, bawling during "How Could I Ever Know" (FRMT, Summer 1996)
*Playing Rose
*The song "Lily's Eyes"
*Getting the giggles onstage during "Storm 1" (Jesters, 2004)
Spamalot
*When everyone laughs just as a scene is starting, because they know exactly what's going to happen...thanks to the fact that we've all seen the movie a million times.
*The song "The Diva's Lament"
Thoroughly Modern Millie
*The character of Mrs. Meers. (I WILL play her someday.)
*What we call "The Millie Incident". Shauna and I saw this show twice in one day.
*Seeing Act 2 from 3rd row center
*The song "Gimme, Gimme"
Oklahoma!
*Hugh Jackman. Enough said. (I own the DVD and the CD of his performance.)
*When I had the entire first part of the solo in "Out of my Dreams" and the guy blew his nose in the middle of it. (Jesters, Summer 1999)
*The night Scott's shirt got ripped open on stage and we laughed for about a full 2 minutes (Jesters, Summer 1999)
*"You'll sure feel funny when I tell your wife you've been carrying on with another man." (Jesters, Summer 1999)
*The 6 foot wall of stage fog (FRMT, Summer 2002)
*The song "Pore Jud is Daid" (One of my favorite songs in all of musical theatre.)
Once Upon a Mattress
*Princess Winnifred the Woe-be-gone
*Seeing the show for the first time and realizing that Winnifred is me and I am Winnifred. (FRMT, Summer 2001)
*The song "Song of Love"
*The song "The Spanish Panic" (It's my ringtone on my phone right now.)
*My car is named Winnifred.
*Peter as the Nightingale of Samarkand (FRMT, Summer 2001)
Peter Pan
*Ordering pizza during a dress rehearsal, all via the com. (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*Playing "Find the Block" (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*Emily saving our bums when Amy's appendix decided to go bye-bye (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*The song "Ugg-a-Wug" and coming down from the booth to help do the "singing" from backstage during the dance break. (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*The song "Distant Melody"
*Having a running commentary on what exactly Tinkerbell is doing between the time she drinks the poison and crawls into her house, including sound effects. (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*The fact that some of the pictures that were taken of Tink, she looks like a real fairy! Not just a green light!!!! (FRMT, Summer 2005)
*Making Tink just around on the mushrooms that were on the backdrop (FRMT, Summer 2005)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
*The song "I'll Forget You"
*The foppy hilarity that IS "The Creation of Man"
*The fact that whoever plays Percy basically plays 3 different characters in 1!
*The song "Into the Fire"
The Secret Garden
*The first time I saw it, bawling during "How Could I Ever Know" (FRMT, Summer 1996)
*Playing Rose
*The song "Lily's Eyes"
*Getting the giggles onstage during "Storm 1" (Jesters, 2004)
The Sound of Music
*Of all the Von Trapp children, Brigitta is my favorite. She's the one with the sassy mouth. I am SUCH a Brigitta. Oh, to travel back in time and play that part!*The Wedding Processional is one of my favorite songs ever.*My favorite moment of the entire show is the finale. When the Von Trapps are hiking away into the Alps...*sobs* This moment is also part of my very first Musical Theatre Geek Moment, when I was 5 years old.
*I LOVE IT when the Captain and Maria are arguing about the children in Act 1 and he cuts her off and she goes "I'M NOT FINISHED YET." I think she was probably the first person ever to stand up to him.*My favorite song in the entire show, even the entire world is Edelweiss. Not only is it a gorgeous song, but it's also a wonderful moment for the Captain. He's saying goodbye to his homeland. He doesn't know if he'll ever be able to return.
Spamalot
*When everyone laughs just as a scene is starting, because they know exactly what's going to happen...thanks to the fact that we've all seen the movie a million times.
*The song "The Diva's Lament"
Thoroughly Modern Millie
*The character of Mrs. Meers. (I WILL play her someday.)
*What we call "The Millie Incident". Shauna and I saw this show twice in one day.
*Seeing Act 2 from 3rd row center
*The song "Gimme, Gimme"
Titanic: The Musical
*So much better than the movie. I just can't stress that enough.
*The song "We'll Meet Tomorrow". It just about breaks your heart. Up until that point, you really didn't know who was going to live and who was going to die. Not really. And Alice had no clue until that point that Edgar wasn't coming with her. Same with Caroline and Charles. And everyone else. *sobs*
*The song "Mr. Andrews' Vision". A beautiful and heart-wrenching way to explain sinking.
*Our production. Everything about it. Everything. (FRMT, Summer 2003)
Urinetown
*Where do I start? This show is so funny! SO FUNNY!
*I love how it breaks every rule of musical theater. They give away plot points, characters die who shouldn't...the list goes on and on.
*Holding up the revolving wall by myself while Shauna went to Ace Hardware (Nonesuch, 2006?)
*The song "Run, Freedom, Run"
*The character Officer Lockstock
*"Nothing kills a show faster than two much exposition." "What about bad subject matter? Or a bad title even. That could kill a show pretty good."
Wicked
*As I sat in the Gershwin Theatre in NYC, the lights went down and the overture started...and I cried. Sure, I'd seen the show before (on tour), but this was my first BROADWAY SHOW!!!*The heart-pounding excitement as Elphaba raises into the air at the climax of "Defying Gravity" = One of my favorite moments of all time.*The song "For Good" = perfection.
*"Well, we can't all come and go by bubble."*My first Elphaba: Stephanie J. Block. WOWZERS that girl can SING!!!!!!! If I ever get a chance to meet her, I'm going to ask if she had to learn to belt so effortlessly, or if she was just born that way.
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This is a work in progress. I've spent a couple days compiling this and I know that I'm leaving so much out. But this is what I could think of!
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This is a work in progress. I've spent a couple days compiling this and I know that I'm leaving so much out. But this is what I could think of!
1 comment:
I have to agree with the ballet sequence in Oklahoma. It's just a little bit weird. Spamalot is coming to San Francisco this year. I sooooo want to see it. We got tickets to see Wicked again and we're going to take Annalise this time. I'm so excited for her.
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