"Wait.. why is everyone laughing?" Moments

[COOOOLkid]

Okay, I'm sure everyone has one of those moments where you don't get the humor or the reason why the rest of the audience is laughing, but you aren't... Feel free to share it!


I've many of those moments, but I can only think of one...
Why exactly do some people chuckle when Glinda puts on a black cape on Elphaba during Defying Gravity?

[ThankstoPhantom]

I can think of one:

During THE WOMAN IN WHITE, after Marian completed her journey across the projected wall of the house, pretneding to be on a ledge, the two front screens split apart with her moving along with it as if we the audience are moving to the side...for some reason, people found this to be dreadfully funny (I thought they'd have laughed at her walking across the ledge, if at all).

[Yankeefan007]

The black cape, hat, and broom are the signatures of the Wicked Witch of the West, as seen in Wizard of Oz.

[bwayondabrain]

yeah
my moment was during WONDERFUL TOWN during "Ohio"...Donna Murphy started singing and people were cracking up and I was like "wtf?"
but now i sort of understand why...
but yeah, a lot of WICKED moments...

[showbiz287]

Glinda is the one who gave her the pointy hat and the cape. I think it has to do with the cliche of withces wearing capes and pointy hats. The fact that the stereotype came from a person like Glinda is the funny part...at least thats what I think is funny about it.

[munkustrap178]

Most of THE PRODUCERS. People were screaming and running around on stage and I was like...that's funny?

[StageManager2]

bwayondabrain: What was funny about Donna's singing?

[bwayondabrain]

i have no clue
people were laughing, and i wasnt, and yeah...i didnt get it
i might have been her facial expressions, or the voice she used, but i just remember everyone was cracking up for no reason
hmmm.

[broadway_socialite]

I saw it with linda muggleston, Donnas understudy, and I don't remember any random bouts of laughter in ohio so it must have been something Donna did.

[Yankeefan007]

What don't you all understand in Wicked?

[orangeskittles]

Most of THE PRODUCERS. People were screaming and running around on stage and I was like...that's funny?

LOL, I came in to post the exact same thing! It has it's moments, but considering all the hype, not that great.

[JustChillin8908]

"What don't you all understand in Wicked?"

I don't think it's that they don't understand the jokes, but the fact that they didn't understand what was so funny about it. I had a bunch of moments like that in Wicked, I only laughed maybe once or twice yet the rest of the audience was cracking up the entire time...

[The Stars R Aligned]

well this more like a "Why are they laughing" moment
while i was in Jersey Boys..they curse a lot in the show, so i was sitting behind these 2 10 year olds and when they said a** hole they broke out laughing. it wasnt supposed to be funny
he just called him a name.
the 2 girls broke out in a screaming crying laughter
and im thinkin "What is so funny?"
it was supposed to be serious
i was mad because they laughed for 10 minutes

[Little_Mary_Sunshine]

The second time I saw Sweeney, everyone seemed to think it was hilarious everytime someone died. Especially when Jonas Fogg was killed.

When I was in a local production of Sweeney, people laughed everytime Jonas Fogg was shot. For some reason, that scene is amusing to people. I never quite got that.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Every joke in Wicked. Out of the whole time the whole audience was laughing I only cracked a small a few times.

[dancingthrulife04]

Most of THE PRODUCERS

[SNLMedia]

I never understood why some people laughed after Link's line "To lose thee were to lose myself! Some kid named Milton wrote that in the third floor boys' room!" in Hairspray. So I looked it up and discovered that it's a quote from John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost". It's a very esoteric joke, but I'm glad I now understand the humor behind it.

[alliez92092]

It kind of bothers me that everyone laughes at the cape moment. It's such a sentimental part, and the laughing kills it. For the sake of the show, take the cape part out and put it somewhere else.

[munkustrap178]

Sentimental?

I don't think that moment is funny OR sentimental....

[ashley0139]

I always though the audience laughed at the cape thing because it was a little cheesy. Like... there just happens to be a cape there that she can wear that is exactly what she needs. I don't know...

[alliez92092]

I think it's meant to be sentimental.

[chinkie azn jai]

lol I laughed at the cape moment because of the loud click the cape makes when it's attatched...even Kristin made fun of it in an interview.

[enjolrasissex]

At the "Sweeney" revival, people laughed when Michael brought out the baby coffin.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

I saw a non-equity production of West Side Story during a student when the gunshot at the end frightened everyone and they laughed through Tony's death scene.

I also saw the national tour of Les Mis and a lot of people again were startled and laughed the first time Gavroche got shot.

[singtopher]

"I also saw the national tour of Les Mis and a lot of people again were startled and laughed the first time Gavroche got shot"

I guess that has more to do with awkwardness than humor.

For me, it was "Why in the world would anyone put olives in a gibson" I had no idea what a gibson was until I went to a bar and asked the bartender. Now I get it.