The Pillowman, the whole damn thing. It should have won best play, it's so well written.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
I'd have to say the Act II scene from "Phantom of the Opera" when the Phantom hurls the fireballs at Raoul, but then again I always get scared at scenes with pyrotechnics.
"Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good." -Terrence Mann
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
so i heard a recording of miss saigon in which the gunshot goes off in Act I and this woman screams so loud that EVERYONE in the orchestra is laughing at her... one of the funniest audios i have...
Not scary, but... One of the funniest (I thought) is in The Producers when Leo first walks into Max's office and calls out to him. Max pops up from the sofa (he's covered in newspaper). That can be startling, especially if you're expecting him to come through the door. :)
I've always thought it was blatantly obvious during that scene in The Producers that Max is under the papers.
I didn't see it, but I am told the original production of Wait Until Dark was quite terrifying (as opposed to the revival, which was supposedly horrendous).
As for shows I've seen, the ending of the Cabaret revival was scary, and anytime I hear a gunshot that I am not expecting I get jumpy. Once I know it's coming, it doesn't bother me.
Lamc16, you have to tell me how McDonough's new show is!
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
McDonaugh's new play, THE LIEUTENANT OF INSIHMORE, is utterly fantastic.
And back on topic, every gunshot in that show that I didn't see coming scared me.
The second biggest jump scene in a show I have seen was in THE PILLOWMAN when Michel jumps up out of bed right when the lightning cracks. My butt was literally five feet off the seat.
BUt the biggest has to go to the Woman in White. After getting the audience completely on the ends of their seats for about an hour, the main character goes to open a door (looking for the woman I think). But when his hand touches the knob, a loud shriek erupts from the back of the theatre where the speaker is. I swear to god I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I wanted to leave the theatre I was so scared. AHHH, good times.
The scariest moments for me have been (or at least the most intense):
NUMBER ONE MOST SCARY/INTENSE MOMENT/SCENE: The entire train sequence in THE WOMAN IN WHITE. The sheer intensity of the entire scene from Laura's confrontation with Glyde until the train came at the audience seriously made my body shake for those entire 6 minutes. It was a feeling I have NEVER had at the theatre. The chorus, the fog, the turntable, the acting, and the train all mixed together to create an intense, and rather scary/nerve-wrecking and powerful scene. I wanted the scene to never end.
Any gunshots on stage will startle me.
And the flames at the end of the gfraveyard scene in POTO always startle me a bit.
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
The pillowman was very scary, i was freakin out the whole time and at the alley it was an arena stage and i was about a two feet from the actors,
Wait until dark is frightening too, that moment when the lights go out always makes me jump for some reason
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