Favorite Cliffhanger?
Favorite Cliffhanger?
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#2Favorite Cliffhanger?
Posted: 1/26/14 at 11:17am
Not so much the end of Act 1 but the end of the play (which had no intermission). I saw Shining City at the Huntington a few years back and the way it ended without giving away spoilers, all I could think to myself was, "Oh my God, what's gonna happen next?!"
*sigh* Blackout.
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#2Favorite Cliffhanger?
Posted: 1/26/14 at 2:24pmAugust: Osage County when Barb screams, "I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW" *blackout*
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#3Favorite Cliffhanger?
Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:47pmThe end of Act One of Light In The Piazza. You could easily assume what happens based on the situation, but it was so incredibly well-done.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
oasisjeff
Broadway Star Joined: 11/15/07
#4Favorite Cliffhanger?
Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:54pmI'm actually not kidding about this, but Taymor's original Spider-Man was perplexing, since Spider-Man captured the Green Goblin at the end of Act One, and you were like, jeez, if that was act one, how can they top it in act two?! Of course, well, we know how that played out...
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#5Favorite Cliffhanger?
Posted: 1/26/14 at 6:37pmI love the end of Act 1 of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#6Favorite Cliffhanger?
Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:22pmFor me the best was the end of Act 1 of "PROOF". Also the above Act 2 end of August Osage.
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