Anyone care to share those amusing moments during their speech for the Broadway Cares- Fight Against Aids where actors like to ab lib and shake it up. My favorites so far:
Norbert (DRS 11/6)- "You can get these wonderful T-Shirts for a nice donation...just in time for winter!"
Shoshana (Wicked 10/23) - She forgot the price of the CD and she says "Oh geez I forgot. I am sooo fired."
Ana Harada (Avenque Q last Nov) -First off, I dont really talk like that (referring to her Christmas Eve voice).
I was not there but I heard about a funny Wicked story for David Ayers (Wicked last year). Basically he does his speech and then someone in the audience asks, "How much for you?" After the cast cracks up, he says, "Well..for a nice contribution, you get a chat and...a hug?"
Harvey (FIDDLER 11/5) - "You can get the 'I Love Anataveka' shirt autographed by all of us on the back. Except for Rosie who's on the front cause she's special."
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
A few Januarys ago, WICKED had an auction for Galinda's crown and no one was bidding. Cheno said: "Lets go, guys. Am I gonna have to start stripping?.........Again?"
John Pinnet at Hairspray last night: "This is going to be very short... because I'm wearing HEELS. I was NOT meant to wear these! The costume guy said it was like putting shoes on a ham!"
Ana G had a ton of funny quips when she made the speech last week....of course I can't remember any of them, which makes this post pretty useless. I think one had to do with the fact that her underwear didn't go for very much on ebay, so if anyone was planning on selling it, they might want to rethink their plan.
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Back in March, at La Cage aux Folles, they were auctioning off Zsa Zsa's boa and Gary Beach cried, "Oh, this is more fun than clams at Howard Johnson's!" There was more from that particular day, but that's what I can remember.
Probably everything Jan Maxwell has said in Chitty. I've only heard about 2 so far and they were both hysterical.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson said something funny about how other theaters throw away their trashed props, but at Spelling Bee they sell them for ridiculous amounts of money, then went on to show the signed broken karate board.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
I didn;t hear this one but I remember my friend telling me about. This was when Les Mis was still on Broadway and when orchestras were (I think) ready to go on strike or maybe it was when Broadway was thinking of just having recorded orchestrations. Anyways, during the show, when Thenardier drops the tray and it rolls into the orchestra, one of the orchestra guys throws if back to him.
then (and these are my friends exact words): "Immediately following the final bows, Thenardier (Nick Wyman) wandered back onstage and delivered the annual BC/EFA speech, which was marked by a cute little "Top Ten Reasons Broadway Shouldn't Use Canned Music" routine. Some of the highlights were "Number 9: Who would toss the tray back to me when it rolls into the orchestra pit?" and "Number 4: Who the hell wants to go to a karaoke bar with a $100 cover?" "
I thought it was hilarious!
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree. ~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel. ~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known. ~A Tale of Two Cities ~
Carole Shelly's speech after Wicked in March was...funny to some people. I didn't laugh too hard, but it was "cute". She was advertising the Wicked cook book (for only like 50 or 100 DOLLARS. YEAH, right). She said something like, "Be the first one your block to cook ____ munchkins. Can't remember what it was called.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
Last week, Megan Hilty in Wicked couldn't pronounce Stephen Schwartzs' last name and then she said "And if anybody happens to have an loose change... any spare singles...fives...tens...twenties..."
In My Life thanked the audience for just being there and asked for a donation, if they didn't mind spending any more $$. most of the crowd bypassed the bucket holder.
Rob Bartlett's LSOH speeches were always funny. He always ran the auctions like a real auctioneer, with nobody able to understand wat he was saying.
Megan Hilty's speech on Wicked Day was quite funny. I hate when actors come out and act like they're performing in a public speaking competition. I love when they have fun with it.
My avatar is Megan on Wicked Day, her speech was so funny. I have a lot of pics of her making so many funny faces. She was looking through the pics on my camera and was like, OMG you have to send these to me!
I went and saw Hairspray on Thursday night and Julie Halston (Prudy) did the speech and was talking about the different things they had for sale, and she started talking about how they had pins and keychains that the lovely Link Larkin was holding, and at that time Blake Edwards made some stupid face and couldn't hold up the keychain for some reason, and Julie stopped, looked at him and was like "and yes ladies, he is straight".
Quite humorous if you were there...lol
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These are all so great!! At Spelling Bee last week Jose Llana was giving the speech and said something like, "BCEFA is a great organization that gives Aids to all people...crap...i mean gives help to all people with AIDS... oh skrew it...just give us money" He turned a few shades of red. I can't remeber all of it but it was priceless!