|
|
Post by inthenose on May 3, 2021 0:34:58 GMT
I am watching a guerilla style recording of Les Mis on a popular video streaming service, and this tender, heart-wrenching moment with Daniel Koek (Jean Valjean) and Na-Young Neon (Fantine) seemed a bit... odd, if you know the show! 🤣 They are both fantastic performers - this was weird!  GIFs not required, of course, but have YOU ever seen strange moments in shows, where perhaps you thought to yourself... "Ummm... What?"? I have another couple; I was at a performance of Phantom where in the dramatic unmasking of the Phantom at the end of "The Point of No Return", John Owen-Jones just screamed "you lying b***h!", which was surreal and I swear I'm not making up! That's definitely what he said. Another Phantom one, I saw the show in Vegas and Anthony Crivello was starring. At the curtain call, the ovation had been huge for Raoul (Andrew Ragone) and Christine (Kristi Holden), when Crivello came out the applause dropped a little. He visibly mouthed "f**k off" at the audience... Also;  Cos-gette over there, kid! |
|
874 posts
|
Post by daisy24601 on May 3, 2021 8:50:40 GMT
Lea Salonga as Fantine would sometimes lift her skirt up on the line "I like to see what I buy". Unnecessary!
|
|
|
|
Post by theoracle on May 3, 2021 9:37:36 GMT
Lucy Montgomery as Suzi in Viva Forever would suggest oral sex during Too Much by going down on her knees in front of a male ensemble member's groin area whilst belting "I want a man, not a boy who thinks he can!" It was defo a bit too much for me
|
|
|
|
Post by inthenose on May 3, 2021 10:05:08 GMT
Me again. This one was more funny than anything else. Openly gay actor Miriam Margolyes played Madame Morrible in the original West End cast of Wicked.
I was at an early performance where she was being very naughty. There is a line in the show where, I paraphrase - but fans will hopefully know the bit I mean - "if you're good to the Wizard, he'll be good to you". (Please correct me below with the correct line.)!
At this point, Miriam made a very suggestive gesture with her tongue towards Idina Menzel playing Elphaba, who struggled to hold it together..
|
|
|
|
Post by ThereWillBeSun on May 3, 2021 13:10:20 GMT
Lucy Montgomery as Suzi in Viva Forever would suggest oral sex during Too Much by going down on her knees in front of a male ensemble member's groin area whilst belting "I want a man, not a boy who thinks he can!" It was defo a bit too much for me Rebel Wilson did something similar in Guys and Dolls. Too crude. |
|
2,149 posts
|
Post by richey on May 3, 2021 13:20:28 GMT
Most of the last tour of Rock of Ages was inappropriate with it's overly sexual staging
|
|
18,808 posts
|
Post by BurlyBeaR on May 3, 2021 13:27:29 GMT
Guys and Dolls 2015/16 tour, it opened in Manchester and we were at the opening night. David Haig (Nathan Detroit) made his entrance, said a couple of lines then clutched his head in his hands shouted “AAAGGGH!” and ran off never to return (that evening).
|
|
258 posts
|
Post by notmymuse on May 3, 2021 22:34:48 GMT
So this is weird rather than inappropriate and was in Am Dram (and I'm sure I've seen something like it in an actual comedy), but the main actor kept leaving long, dramatic pauses. And the prompt, helpfully, kept prompting him, thinking he'd forgotten his lines... The first time he just glowered at the prompt, the second time he snapped at them, and the final time he stormed off stage, never to be seen again... It was such an awkward pause... I also saw an actor walk off a stage once by mistake, quite a crashing sound followed.
|
|
4,448 posts
|
Post by Being Alive on May 4, 2021 10:08:51 GMT
Guys and Dolls 2015/16 tour, it opened in Manchester and we were at the opening night. David Haig (Nathan Detroit) made his entrance, said a couple of lines then clutched his head in his hands shouted “AAAGGGH!” and ran off never to return (that evening). If I remember correctly he had something wrong neurologically and was out of the show for a few days after that? |
|
|
|
Post by sfsusan on May 5, 2021 17:24:39 GMT
|
|
3,927 posts
|
Post by Dawnstar on May 5, 2021 19:29:03 GMT
I see it is stated towards the end that the dogs were twins. Maybe they'd also appeared in a production of Die Walkure & had picked up some ideas! |
|
4,593 posts
|
Post by Someone in a tree on May 6, 2021 15:33:49 GMT
On the giselle theme, BRB, I remember hunting dogs on stage crying and distracting the soloist until they had to be taken away. |
|
