Inappropriate/weird moments in musicals!

[inthenose]

I am watching a guerilla style recording of Les Mis on a
popular video streaming service, and this tender, heart-wrenching moment with Daniel Koek (Jean Valjean) and Na-Young Neon (Fantine) seemed a bit... odd, if you know the show! 🤣 They are both fantastic performers - this was weird!





GIFs not required, of course, but have YOU ever seen strange moments in shows, where perhaps you thought to yourself... "Ummm... What?"?

I have another couple; I was at a performance of Phantom where in the dramatic unmasking of the Phantom at the end of "The Point of No Return", John Owen-Jones just screamed "you lying b***h!", which was surreal and I swear I'm not making up! That's definitely what he said.

Another Phantom one, I saw the show in Vegas and Anthony Crivello was starring. At the curtain call, the ovation had been huge for Raoul (Andrew Ragone) and Christine (Kristi Holden), when Crivello came out the applause dropped a little. He visibly mouthed "f**k off" at the audience...



Also;



Cos-gette over there, kid!

[daisy24601]

Lea Salonga as Fantine would sometimes lift her skirt up on the line "I like to see what I buy". Unnecessary!

[theoracle]

Lucy Montgomery as Suzi in Viva Forever would suggest oral sex during Too Much by going down on her knees in front of a male ensemble member's groin area whilst belting "I want a man, not a boy who thinks he can!" It was defo a bit too much for me

[inthenose]

Me again. This one was more funny than anything else. Openly gay actor Miriam Margolyes played Madame Morrible in the original West End cast of Wicked.

I was at an early performance where she was being very naughty. There is a line in the show where, I paraphrase - but fans will hopefully know the bit I mean - "if you're good to the Wizard, he'll be good to you". (Please correct me below with the correct line.)!

At this point, Miriam made a very suggestive gesture with her tongue towards Idina Menzel playing Elphaba, who struggled to hold it together..

[ThereWillBeSun]

May 3, 2021 9:37:36 GMT theoracle said:

Lucy Montgomery as Suzi in Viva Forever would suggest oral sex during Too Much by going down on her knees in front of a male ensemble member's groin area whilst belting "I want a man, not a boy who thinks he can!" It was defo a bit too much for me

Rebel Wilson did something similar in Guys and Dolls. Too crude.

[richey]

Most of the last tour of Rock of Ages was inappropriate with it's overly sexual staging

[BurlyBeaR]

Guys and Dolls 2015/16 tour, it opened in Manchester and we were at the opening night. David Haig (Nathan Detroit) made his entrance, said a couple of lines then clutched his head in his hands shouted “AAAGGGH!” and ran off never to return (that evening).

[notmymuse]

So this is weird rather than inappropriate and was in Am Dram (and I'm sure I've seen something like it in an actual comedy), but the main actor kept leaving long, dramatic pauses. And the prompt, helpfully, kept prompting him, thinking he'd forgotten his lines... The first time he just glowered at the prompt, the second time he snapped at them, and the final time he stormed off stage, never to be seen again... It was such an awkward pause... I also saw an actor walk off a stage once by mistake, quite a crashing sound followed.

[Being Alive]

May 3, 2021 13:27:29 GMT BurlyBeaR said:

Guys and Dolls 2015/16 tour, it opened in Manchester and we were at the opening night. David Haig (Nathan Detroit) made his entrance, said a couple of lines then clutched his head in his hands shouted “AAAGGGH!” and ran off never to return (that evening).

If I remember correctly he had something wrong neurologically and was out of the show for a few days after that?

[sfsusan]

At a San Francisco Ballet production of Giselle in the scene when the nobles enter the village for the fete, Albrecht's fiancee had a pair of elegant wolfhounds on a leash. Unfortunately, the male dog was overcome by 'romance' and jumped the female dog. The resulting scramble was hilarious. I was there and this description is accurate:
www.facebook.com/OdettesOrdeal/posts/last-nights-performance-of-san-francisco-ballets-giselle-will-go-down-in-history/730826646950484/

[Dawnstar]

May 5, 2021 17:24:39 GMT sfsusan said:

At a San Francisco Ballet production of Giselle in the scene when the nobles enter the village for the fete, Albrecht's fiancee had a pair of elegant wolfhounds on a leash. Unfortunately, the male dog was overcome by 'romance' and jumped the female dog. The resulting scramble was hilarious. I was there and this description is accurate:
www.facebook.com/OdettesOrdeal/posts/last-nights-performance-of-san-francisco-ballets-giselle-will-go-down-in-history/730826646950484/

I see it is stated towards the end that the dogs were twins. Maybe they'd also appeared in a production of Die Walkure & had picked up some ideas!

[Someone in a tree]

May 5, 2021 17:24:39 GMT sfsusan said:

At a San Francisco Ballet production of Giselle in the scene when the nobles enter the village for the fete, Albrecht's fiancee had a pair of elegant wolfhounds on a leash. Unfortunately, the male dog was overcome by 'romance' and jumped the female dog. The resulting scramble was hilarious. I was there and this description is accurate:
www.facebook.com/OdettesOrdeal/posts/last-nights-performance-of-san-francisco-ballets-giselle-will-go-down-in-history/730826646950484/

On the giselle theme, BRB, I remember hunting dogs on stage crying and distracting the soloist until they had to be taken away.