Best Character Entrance?

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#0Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:11pm

What character do you think has the best entrance in a Broadway show? Why?

broadwayguy2
#1re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:13pm

Edna in the exploding can of Hairspray. Need I say more?

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Jimmcf
#2re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:15pm

Norma Desmond coming down the staircase in "Sunset Blvd"


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DickonDefysGravity
#3re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:16pm

Fruma Sarah in Fiddler is pretty cool
Glinda in Wicked
I love the Entrance of "Modern Millie"....OBC...
fastest costume change ever


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Princeton78
#4re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:20pm

Velma Kelly appearing in sillouette at the climax of the overture for "Chicago." It's stunning.


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pattifan2
#5re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:42pm

Definitely Rose's entrance in 'Gypsy'. This has to be one of the most unusual.


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CATSNYrevival
#6re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:56pm

RENT when Angel makes her first entrance in drag in the santa get up with the pink light behind her... awesome!

Yankeefan007
#7re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:58pm

bialystock exploding from under the sheet of newspapers on his couch

Mythus
#8re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:04pm

Yankeefan007, that's not his first entrance. Are we talking first entrances? Ehhh. Uh, the best? I'd say Roger DeBris in The Producers. I knew it was coming, and it still blew me away. Of course, Carmen's entrance is right up there with his - his walk is hilarious, and I love his line when he answers the phone. "Listen, you broken-down old queen! He was drunk, he was hot, he was lucky. Don't ever call here again!"

I think that's it. *wanders off to put that in her signature*

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pab
#9re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:04pm

Well, I don't know it this is a thread about the entrance of the character the first time we see them on stage or anytime they enter the stage.

One of my favorites is the entrance of The Wiz in the Broadway musical of the same name (not that movie of The Wiz that Blows . . . . Chunks!)


"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

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Mary_Ethel
#10re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:11pm

I second Rose's entrnace in GYPSY.

It's so unexpected, yet consistently keeping in touch with the role and musical.

It makes you feel more like a part of the show. I've seen GYPSY with been Angela Lansbury and Tyne Daly and both times it sent goosepimples up my spine!

It's... THEATER!!! :)


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dididda
#11re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:11pm

Carla in the revival of nine! so amazing!

i too really like millie's entrance, so simple yet so good.
also glinda in wicked


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Rathnait62
#12re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:12pm

Rose's is so exciting because she walks in yelling from the back of the house, right through the audience. That's a very special kind of effect that can't be beaten by exploding hairspray cans or glass bubbles.


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CaliforniaCarrie
#13re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:14pm

Right now it's Glinda.

The excitement of a new show sticks with me for a while and I only got to see it a few months ago for the first time.

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The Distinctive Baritone
#14re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:19pm

What a great thread!

I have to say the best musical theater entrance ever has to be for Sweeney in "Sweeney Todd." You have the build-up throughout the opening number, and then the chorus, in cresendo, going "SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEEEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!" And then he appears out of the grave (or the crowd, as in the Hearn-Lansbury video). Friggin' awesome!

Chrysanthemum62001
#15re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:35pm

Millie. It always gave me chills. Mama Rose is a great one too.


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luvtheEmcee
#16re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:35pm

I love Rose's in Gypsy. "Sing out, Louise!"


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LuvUrBatBoy
#17re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:37pm

Other awesome entrances:

Hedwig in his cape in the beginning of Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Harold Hill appearing in the train car in Music Man

Bat Boy appearing in the dark cave in Bat Boy


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broadwayinthebigcity
#18re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:54pm

I always liked how the wizard came in through the door. And out through the floor.


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broadwayinthebigcity
#19re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:54pm

I always liked how the wizard came in through the door. And out through the floor.


"as good or quite likely better than any other show with killer rabbits and a legless knight opening on Broadway this season." -Eric Idle on SPAMALOT

Gpvegas
#20re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:55pm

I have to say. Dr. Frank-n-furter's entrance in Rocky Horror in the lastest Broadway run was great. The way he entered from the ceiling was great.

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Oscar Jaffee
#21re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:55pm

I agree that Sweeney's entrance is awesome. I also love Oscar Jaffee's entrance in "On the Twentieth Century." He had to jump aboard the train by hanging on and climbing through a window. Pretty funny.

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WestEndBird
#22re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:59pm

Dr. F RHPS no doubt...


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Chote887
#23re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 4:20pm

Rose in Gypsy is of course amazing.

I've always liked Amneris's entry in Aida, if you can call it an entrance.

Also the entrance of the animals in the opening to the lion king is by far the most worthwhile part of the show.
Updated On: 10/19/04 at 04:20 PM

twogaab2
#24re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 4:28pm

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