stage kiss
stage kiss
#1stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 9:20amWhat have been the best stage kiss u have had or you have seen on the stage or screen. and Please don't be mad at me!!!!!
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#2re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 9:30amSEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO?
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Updated On: 11/2/08 at 09:30 AM
#3re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 9:46am
Sorry, but I have a serious answer. 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' (play) at the Donmar Warehouse (and subsequent tour) in 2007. Rupert Evans and Will Keen had some STARTLING chemistry. It was pretty darn hot. :3
sayokay
Understudy Joined: 10/10/08
#4re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 11:23amThis is kind-of a dumb question, but what happens if one actor is sick? Like at the end of Legally Blonde, in the finale song, Elle and Emmett REALLY get into it. Bad way to pass germs!
#6re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 11:32amI think it's a great way to pass germs...
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
#7re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 11:36am
You know what would be hilarious?
If the sick person, when they were coming in to kiss, totally sneezed all over the other persons face. If someone did that to me I would die laughing. I wouldn't be able to finish the scene.
#8re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 11:46am
Stage kissing...such an interesting subject, I have to say. My first experience--many years ago as Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods in high school--was a very bad one. I learned the hard way about the male "stage kissing etiquette": basically, the first couple times you rehearse the scene(s) with kissing, you let her "lead"--the man should not necessarily keep his mouth completely closed, but only slightly open at the most, and not much lip movement. If the girl you are playing opposite is willing to do more (make it more "real"), she will do so. And it is your choice whether or not to go along with it. I say I learned this the hard way because The Baker's Wife literally instructed me on how to kiss her after I evidently got too "into it." Talk about embarrassing.
Many years later, I am now the veteran of many stage kisses, and I always obide by the etiquette I mentioned. Some girls will want to suck your face off, others (especially the married ones) will do more of a "stage kiss"--closed mouth, minimal lip movement (booorrring...LOL). Either way, as a man, it is always best to let the girl "lead," and actually, to perhaps even talk about it in a casual way when you get a moment alone. If I have to do scenes that involve a lot of physical passion (and I've had to do scenes that involved not just lots of kissing but also "second base"), I ALWAYS ask the girl, "Is everything okay?" 99% of the time they will say yes, but it is a nice gesture to show that you are being a gentleman and looking out for her.
I just had to throw that out there. You can all talk about Raul Esparza now 
#9re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 11:55amI've never had to deal with a instage kiss. There is one girl in my Les Mis thing. Most people performing in this have been in things together since they were all like ten and they were in Cabaret and she was someone where she just walked around and kissed people. Their relationships with her are now very interesting.
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#10re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 11:59amThank you for the straight answer, DB. I find these 'insider' posts to be quite enlightening!
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#11re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 12:03pm
"This is kind-of a dumb question, but what happens if one actor is sick? Like at the end of Legally Blonde, in the finale song, Elle and Emmett REALLY get into it. Bad way to pass germs!"
Well chances are if they are sick they will not perform, unless you're Patti LuPone or someone.
#12re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 12:04pmLOL, no problem. Seriously, I wish I could publish "The Male Actor's Onstage Kissing/Fondling Book of Etiquette." I wish someone had given one to me when I was younger.
#13re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 12:30pm
we just did A Little Night Music at my college and there are 4 kissing scenes (all involving different people). well, our director told them all to kiss just to the right of the mouth to make it look real, but that they didn't have to kiss. It looked so fake. So, two of the couples actually kissed and made it look awesome. One of the couples' kiss happened to be when someone else was singing so they were covered a little. They didn't exactly kiss, but made the way the director had said how to do it work a lot better then how he described it.
The last couple (the main couple too, Desiree and Fredrick) had to kiss right when the music swelled and at center stage for everyone to see and in slow motion. I'm not sure why they decided not to kiss properly, but the girl turned her head sideways like she was kissing him on the left side of his head and wrapped her arms around the top of his head so you could barely see his head at all. It was one of the most cheesiest things I have ever seen. and the director let them do that. He (and they) turned one of the most crucial and intimate scenes of the show into a farce. It sucked.
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#15re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 2:17pm
I can't IMAGINE people not being required to actually do kissing scenes on a college level. It's making a huge fuss about them that makes them awkward. If you just roll with it and act professional it becomes just part of the scene like anything else.
I was in a production of The Lower Depths where I had to do a MAJOR makeout scene. It was my first time doing kissing on stage. We had blocked the scene out once without kissing (which wasn't dictated in the actual script), and came back to it a week later. I had only met the guy once rehearsals started, and although we became really close friends, we barely knew each other at the time. Anywho, the direction literally went something like this: "All right, so you pull him in for the kiss after your line. He gets into it and then breaks off, next line, he pulls you in, make out, make out, you break off, you slap him, he slaps you, and then make out like crazy until he pulls away." Instead of making a big deal about it, we just...DID it. I felt awkward for all of 15 minutes and then got over it. We were soon trying to think of ways to make the scene as hot as possible.
I have also been involved in a kissing scene where my partner was sick. It was a production of King Lear and I was playing Goneril. Our director had us kissing at the end of 4.2, which is when Goneril gives Edmund a memento and then sends him off to lead her army. However, my Edmund got deathly ill during part of the run (like, whenever I was offstage, I would soak a new paper towel in cold water and give it to him for his forehead and face cause he was so feverish) and our director, worried about me catching the disease, told us to fake it. He basically just tilted his head the opposite way to sort of cover my face up and didn't actually put his lips to mine. It was very awkward. He was a good friend, though, so we laughed about it later.
So...yeah, people make way too big a deal about stage kissing. Just treat it like any other part of the scene, be respectful, etc. If you make a big deal about it and put it off, you just make it more awkward.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#16re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 4:13pm
"He (and they) turned one of the most crucial and intimate scenes of the show into a farce. It sucked."
Don't you love farce??
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#17re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 4:30pm
In my high school, we were doing a production of The Diary Of Anne Frank. There is a scene between Ann and Peter that takes place in the attic, which calls for them to kiss. While the director was blocking the scene and practicing the kissing, most of the students there were very immature about it. Laughing when they weren't supposed to, not realizing that what the two students were doing was something that might be hard for them to do with others watching. The director gave a big thank you two three people in the cast. Me being one of them, for sitting there and being quiet.
The only advice I can give for a kissing scene is this. If your in the rehearsal room while it is going on, be very quite. You don't know the personal history between the two actors who are kissing. They could be best friends and have no problem with it, they could hate one another and not be happy that they have to kiss on stage. Or, they could just find it strange that other people, people in the cast, are watching them kiss.
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#18re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 4:55pm
Once, I was playing a boy in a play, and I had to kiss a female character. But they cast a boy in the role, so I was relieved. (I was only nine!)
When my school did "Pride and Prejudice," Elizabeth and Darcy had a scene together near the end when Darcy proposed, and they were supposed to kiss at the end. But near the beginning of the scene, Darcy totally forgot his line, and Elizabeth forgot hers, and Darcy started looking really nervous, so Elizabeth just grabbed his face and started making out with him. It was the best.
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#20re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 8:01pm
SueleenGay: thanks for that. haha.
seriously, the two of them joked about it, saying how they should do a slow motion high-five instead. it was really sad.
people in my high school were better about dealing with stage kisses.
<--- 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 ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#21re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/2/08 at 8:15pm
I just did Beauty and the Beast this summer, and the man who played the beast was...let's just say quite a bit older than me...and we were rehearsing the kiss at the end when he transforms into the prince. I didn't enjoy it (at all!) but i was just going to deal with it. I mean...it's theatre. But it was the rest of the cast that told the director how ridiculous and uncomfortable it looked. So the director told us to cut the kiss and figure out a way to still make it sweet. So I ran into his arms and he twirled me around instead. People were still kinda creeped out by it though...but oh well, we tried.
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Updated On: 11/2/08 at 08:15 PM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#22re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:38am
What happens when one of the kissers are getting sick? They both get sick. Happens all the time. No way around it really...they aren't given enough sick days to cover colds and things like that.
Spring Awakening Cast shares a lot of sickness. And then the understudies get sick. It a sick cycle. Or a sickle.
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#23re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/3/08 at 1:13amWhen I was in Grease! back in high school I was Marty so the script called for me to make out with Vince Fontaine. Well, he smelled like parts of him had died and was a really creepy guy overall. We never even bothered to rehearse the kiss because I told my director he's a hude creeper and smelly and that's it. The first night of the show was normal. The second night, when the kiss is called for, he grabbed me and licked my neck out of nowhere. One of the teachers looked very young so we used him as a random kid in the dance scene walked up to me and amde like they were telling me a secret during some dialogue and just said, "OMG!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!" I glanced at my mom in the audience and she was hysterical!!! I wasn't amused.
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#24re: stage kiss
Posted: 11/3/08 at 1:17amThat's disgusting! You poor thing!
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