Entrance Applause
Entrance Applause
bpstar
Chorus Member Joined: 12/15/11
#1Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:08pmWho has received the best entrance applause in a performance that you have seen?
Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#2Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:11pmProbably Angela Lansbury on the road with MAME in a 3,000 seat house.
#2Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:19pmYul Brynner in The King and I farewell tour.
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theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#4Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:40pmWhen I saw Blithe Spirit Angela Lansbury got entrance applause for all 3 of her entrances.
#5Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:03pmFor me, it's any time a performer makes their entrance and the audience has enough respect for the show not to break the mood by applauding a star's mere presence.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:06pmMichael Crawford's entrance in The Wizard of Oz is designed for entrance applause and it's just a tad awkard when theres none of it.
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#7Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:08pm
I disagree. I think entrance applause, if it's not too drawn out and obnoxious, is a nice way to let the actor know it's good to see them.
I remember the first time I saw Night Music, I couldn't wait to applaud Angela's entrance, I was just so happy to finally see her on stage.
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#8Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:08pm
Most entrances these days are designed for entrance applause. And of course it's awkward when there's none. Like at the performance of FOLLIES I recently attended where not a single principal received more than a hushed spattering. If 99% of entrances weren't built around entrance applause, then it wouldn't be so weird when there isn't any, and it would be truer to the flow of the show.
Just my $0.02.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 1/7/12 at 07:08 PM
#9Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:13pm^Especially when some principals got applauses and then some didn't.
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philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#10Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:22pm
I don't really understand entrance applause, minus certain circumstances (ie: after Tonys, closing, etc)
The opposite but:
I thought the entrance applause for Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan was random and distracting in Bonnie & Clyde, as well as unnecessary during previews anyway.
The most awkward entrance applause in my book, however, came from another Wildhorn musical, WONDERLAND with the villain, Kate Shindle receiving huge applause; looking back I don't think it was intentional but it calls her it. Especially since no one else got entrance applause, most importantly, uh Alice.
#11Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:25pm^ In the same token, I found it rather silly how Audra McDonald and David Alan Grier received massive entrance applause in PORGY & BESS, but Porgy himself (Norm) received none.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#12Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:29pmWell Kate was the only name in WONDERLAND, correct?
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
#13Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:30pmI saw Fantasia in The Color Purple in her very early shows, her entrance received quite the applause. When I saw Wicked this past week, the 2nd national tour, Glinda received roars while Elphaba almost got the, "Are we clapping for her as well" response.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#14Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:36pm
I wouldn't necessarily say it was Kate Shindle "packing" in the houses with WONDERLAND.
Actually in the January Tampa incarnation, Alice had a chance for entrance applause, perhaps it is in the style of the director: Some like the entrance applause opportunity, some don't (And it was a mesh of directors).
#15Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:46pm
It doesn't bother me but probably because I came to theatre through my love of ballet--where breaking the fourth wall for bows, etc, is the norm (particularly in Russia where it DOES become annoying, they can go on for five minutes).
Contrary-wise, I do think it takes guts for a composer, writer and director to do a show that has no room for applause at all--song "buttons", entrances, etc.
#16Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:48pmOh I know she wasn't, but still a more recognizable name than Janet Dacal.
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
CMoore
Leading Actor Joined: 8/17/07
#17Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:53pmThe couple of times I saw Wicked with Eden Espinosa, her applause was insane when she enters before "The Wizard and I."
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#18Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:27pmI was just listening to the soundboard of Barbara's final performance in Funny Girl.
#20Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:52pmI call it a tie between Kathleen Turner in HIGH and Harry Connick Jr. In ON A CLEAR DAY....although I give the edge to the former as the applause was uproarious in a half-full 750 seat house...
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broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#21Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:57pm
topol in fiddler on the roof. ( chicago tour)
John tartaglia in avenue Q
idina menzel and kristin chenoweth ( wicked) DUHHH
jetts7
Leading Actor Joined: 5/22/11
#22Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:27pm
.Daniel Radcliffe in How to succeed
.Gate opening in Addams Family
.Sutton Foster in Anything goes
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:32pmI haven't been on stage for a while, but the entrance applause I used to receive (along with my exit applause) really bothered other members of the cast. I don't know why.
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bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#24Entrance Applause
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:49pmThe beginning of the Prologue during the final week of the Ragtime revival.
