"Have you ever had an experience in theatre when you felt so part of the show because of intimacy?"
That sounds kinda wrong
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"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas." -Danmeg's 10 year old son.
The first thing that came to mind was a production of Sondheim's Passion at Chicago's Shakespeare Theatre with Kathy Voytko and Ana Gasteyer. It was a TINY black box theatre and the whole auditorium felt like the stage because the actors would make entrances everywhere. It was a great experience!
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lly thought John Caird did a great job with Jane Eyre ~ The Musical, atleast on a Jane aspect. Did I feel connected to everyone? No, but Jane atleast you did - the ups, the downs...
This isn't Broadway, but the recent staging of Grey Gardens in Cleveland was performed in a very small theatre with a thrust stage surrounded by the audience. It felt like you were in the Beales home. It was a great choice for the show. I'd highly recommend it for future productions. It was very intimate and at times very in your face (it really upped the emotional ante of the piece.)
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Don't know if my experience really counts or not, but Mary Testa threw a thong at me, and talked to me at Xanadu. Okay, it doesn't help that I was the only person in the 3 seat front section where she does interact with the audience at the one part. LOL! I also felt like in the beginning of the show that Cheyenne kept looking at me. I doubt he was, but I really had no idea what was going on, since it was the first time I saw the show, and people were still talking as he was on the stage, doing the chalk drawing.
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I saw Spelling Bee in Chicago at a matinee. It was basically 100 kids from my school, and maybe fifty people who came seperately. We were moved down to front. The Drury Lane is an intimate theater to begin with, but when you have so few people in the audience, and the show breaks the fourth wall throughout the entire performance, it was like it was real rather than a performance.
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Sat in the front row for A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory a few months ago. When Hannah Waddingham made her first entrance, she walked straight downstage and stood right in front of me barely a foot away - from that vantage point she appeared to be about 10 feet tall.
Me and my friend (I was wearing stripes, he was wearing purple) had a VERY intimate experience at "The Norman Conquests" tonight. We kept getting really dirty looks from this guy sitting across from us, though.
Loved the show. I couldn't stop laughing or clapping.
Even though I didn't feel part of an intimate setting because of the size of the theater, I felt one of my most intimate theatre experiences was the Drowsy Chaperone, especially with the Man in the Chair constantly interacting with the audience.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Sitting in the front row at August: Osage County was an awkward/intimate experience, and stands as one of the greatest theatrical events of my life. Lots of uncomfortable eye contact moments with the actors, and it really felt like I was in the house. I'll never forget nearly jumping out of my skin when they started smashing the plates right in front of me!
The MOST intimate theatre experience I've had, though, was definitely Speech and Debate, which was in a tiny black box set up like a classroom. Sitting in the front row, there were times when the actors were practically in my lap. I remember I couldn't cross my legs because they would get in the way, so I ended up just kind of tucking them under my chair. Being up that close to the action was amazing. Great, great experience.
Marvelous Wonderettes is great. There's a good deal of audience interaction in the show. During a single performance I've been waved at, blamed for being a litterer, had my clothes complimented, been told I was smart and a good listener.
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