The hardest you ever laughed..
The hardest you ever laughed..
#1The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:05pm
while witnessing a piece of theatre was?
Mine would probably be The 39 Steps.
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#2re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:06pm
I cry big old crocodile tears whenever I go see Second City's improv show in Chicago :) (from laughing...not sadness...lol). Other than that probably at Avenue Q (where I also cried from laughing so hard)
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Updated On: 9/15/08 at 09:06 PM
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#2re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:07pm
The first time I saw Xanadu, not knowing ANYTHING about it.
Second place goes to Jennifer Laura Thompson's ballet dancing during Popular, she killed me.
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#3re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:08pmSpelling Bee. I came very close to peeing my pants several times.
#4re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:08pmthe revival of "Noises Off"
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#5re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:09pmThat would be last week at the end of the Lance Horne concert @ Ars Nova (I'm counting it because there were theatre people involved). The last song. If you were there, you know what I mean. :P
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#6re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:10pmProbably Boeing-Boeing. I thought Speech and Debate was hilarious too. Norbert in Is He Dead had me cracking up too.
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#8re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:15pmI'm with Pippin, the revival of Noises Off six years ago had me in tears. The only show to come remotely close was Boeing-Boeing.
#9re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:21pmMessage From a Nightingale song in The Drowsy Chaperone.
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#10re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:26pmCall me a philistine, but I can't remember laughing harder than watching John Treacy Egan playing Chef Louis in "The Little Mermaid." That man is amazing; I don't know why I don't hear more about him. He can get laughs out of anything. I laughed until my mascara started running and my stomach started to hurt.
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#11re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:31pmXanadu, when Whoopi was in it.
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#12re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:35pm
I thought Whoopi was out-funnied by everyone else in that cast.
For me, it's Avenue Q or Spelling Bee.
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#13re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:37pmAvenue Q, and then Spelling Bee
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#14re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:41pmSpelling Bee fo sho.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#15re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:44pm
Hmmmm...I'd say Speech and Debate.
The hardest I've ever cried was at Little Women.
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#16re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:51pm
Well maybe only because it's so fresh in my mind, but tonight at our annual member's meeting of our community theatre, a group of 20 of our best performers did some musical numbers -- fully staged and costumed. At one point the 10 girls all came out dressed as the whores in Les Miz and the music to their song was playing as they took positions. Then without warning, the music changed to "It's a Hard Knock Life" from Annie, and they did the entire number AS the whores. Go through the words to Hard Knock Life thinking whores and you'll get an idea of how funny it was. I hurt from laughing.
On Broadway, it's been a lot of years, but I still remember laughing like crazy at Jane Connell doing Gooch's song in Mame.
#17re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:05pmThe first time I saw The Producers. I was like 16, had never seen the movie or knew anything about the show before seeing it. I had never laughed so hard in my life for the entire show.
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#18re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:05pmthe original Broadway Noises Off. Peed my pants (literally).
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Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#19re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:08pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels, especially during "Love is My Legs" and "All About Ruprecht."
#20re: The hardest you ever laughed..
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:14pmFirst time I ever saw the adult show of Spelling Bee in SF.
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#24re: The hardest you ever laughed/cried.
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:31pmThe first time I saw "Altar Boyz", and during a lengthy ad lib between Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in "The Producers".
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#25re: The hardest you ever laughed/cried.
Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:35pm
the adult Bee was great.
I almost fell out of my seat.
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