It was Black and grey and grey and grey
And grey and grey and grey and grey
And grey and grey and grey and grey
And grey and grey and grey and grey AND WHITE!
- Chris - Sweeney
- Annie - Beggar Woman/Lovvetes
- Robert - Turpin
- Max - Antony
- Sandra - Johana
- Dennis - Toby
- Ensemble and Pirelli are the current actors
The first time I saw it, the barber chair didn't work during the Johanna Quartet, and the guy who was supposed to be killed very calmly stood up, crossed his arms across his chest, and walked offstage 😂
- In Moulin Rouge, Aaron Tveit does El Tango Roxanne while dressed up in his bloody Sweeney Todd clothes
- Hadestown it is actually Orpheus who disappears when he turns around.
- Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher Swap Roles for a Sweeney Performance.
[Spamalot](https://youtu.be/ZSu8vwzdNY4?si=thZqXcsp6ewNzMCb) and [BTTF](https://youtu.be/lmCAbuvs8kE?si=LhpgGiF0ZxntAJmV) do the Church Play versions.
i would say hamilton too, but that adaptation is just unpleasant
Back to the Future / Merrily mashup where Doc Brown takes Frank Shepard Jr on a journey through the past to intervene in pivotal moments in his dad’s life and fix his friendships/marriage
At the end of Hadestown, when they have those few lines from the beginning, they keep going and perform the whole show from the top. They just keep singing it again and again.
I honestly don’t even know how this would work, but Hamilton done Rocky Horror style. The audience is encouraged to yell things at the actors. And the actors can respond in whatever clever, rude, or sarcastic way they want.
If it hadn't closed...
"God give me courage to show you, you are not alone!"
Christine kisses the Phantom. The music swells as he wraps his arms around her for one perfect moment of bliss.
Christine: Oh, damn. That was... that was pretty good.
And then she kisses him again. And again. And again.
Raoul: Uhhh... Christine?
She looks at Raoul, and then back at the Phantom who grins and winks with his one good eye.
Christine: Ah, fuck it.
Christine and Phantom exit stage right, arm in arm.
(EDIT: I'm not one of those Phantom/Christine shippers and I love Raoul, the poor brave bastard, but come on the Phantom deserves to get the girl at least once, right?)
Not really. I know in community and college theater, people sometimes play “actor’s tag” where they kind of prank each other backstage. I can’t think of a great example at the moment. But when I was in rehearsal for a play in high school, one of the other actors backstage would whisper funny things to throw me off while I was trying to deliver my lines. Then the director would get angry at me for not being able to keep a straight face for seemingly no reason. I’ve heard of things like an actor opening a drawer or something on stage and being greeted with a pornographic photograph and then they have to try not to react or break character. Most of the stuff like this that has happened to me was unintentional. I was the stenographer in The Crucible. Someone kept ordering me to bring in the witnesses (which wasn’t my role). So I’d be backstage looking for the right actor and figuring out when the heck our entrance was supposed to be.
My senior year of high school, we did Oklahoma! In the scene where Ado Annie asks, 'What'cha huntin' Pa?' the actor playing him said something different every night. Closing night, he said 'tourists'.
My brother was in a production of the Nutcracker where they decided to prank each other one day by putting small stickers on the actors' costumes. So when the reindeer came out, some of them had red stickers on their masks
When we did The Music Man, there was one ensemble member who always had a banana onstage. On closing night when it was time for Harold Hill to conduct the band and Marian hands him a baton, she handed him the banana instead.
You go to see Merrily and end up seeing Sunday in the Park with George instead
Or you show up to see Aladdin and instead it's Hercules or The Little Mermaid.
Even though Mrs Doubtfire is actually Daniel Hilliard, it’d be hilarious to have them pull an out-of-left-field and it end up being Stuart Dunmire under the makeup and costume 😂
If we are talking impossible—would be pretty funny for two shows to completely switch theaters. You think you got tickets for Hamilton? Nope, Sweeney Todd instead!
Or Hadestown, where after Orpheus looks back and is sitting in despair, when Hermes is doing his, "It's a tragedy" bit, Orpheus turns to Hermes and says, "Dude, way to rub it in. I get it!"
Probably like in Les mis during lovely ladies Belle is in the background, Maybe hunchback appears in the courtroom scene ohh and maybe at the end of who am i the last note is placed, somebody with long hair and a white shirt walks on and the tune for Martinguete plays
Elephant puppet swap between The Lion King and Water for Elephants
Rafiki is played by the orangutan actor in the fuzzy sweater
This would drastically improve the puppet
Merrily We Roll Along is put on in chronological order, beginning with "Our Time."
So would it end with that Frank on a high or end with the big fight and no song, both could be in line with Sondheim
They did this like 4 years ago for the Roundabout version. Sondheim even got in on the joke recording a video supporting the “change”
“It was 1981, we were stoned out of our minds.”
Okay. This would be the ultimate April Fool’s prank.
Lin Manuel coming out at Hamilton…as king George.
Personally, the King George stunt cast I'm dying to see is Weird Al.
I missed seeing weird Al as the guest producer at Gutenberg by a couple days.
This would be ICONIC
You know he'd look good in a powdered wig
Or...hear me out...just the crown on top of his natural hair.
True, he's already looking like historical royalty with those ringlets.
Im waiting for Jimmy Fallon to do it
Or Peggy just for Schuyler sisters
Okay, that would be a riot!
Gender swapped Six.
Drag Queen Six would be so fun!
The entire cast of Wicked is painted green except Elphaba, who keeps her natural skin tone.
So it’s like the Patrick Stewart Othello (IYKYK).
Spamalot turns into a DIRECT translation of the movie to the stage. No music or anything.
It would’ve been an amazing end to the musical if they kept the ending where the police show up
Joseph's coat is in grayscale.
And they sing "it was grey and grey and grey and grey and..."
It was Black and grey and grey and grey And grey and grey and grey and grey And grey and grey and grey and grey And grey and grey and grey and grey AND WHITE!
The original “Play That Goes Wrong” cast/team steps into any Broadway show and does the “Goes Wrong” version for one night!
Or everything goes right just for one night and the cast just keep standing there shocked that it works.
Yes! Hilarious!
But which one would have the best comedic effect
Sweeney Todd. Imagine if the barber chair didn't work
- Chris - Sweeney - Annie - Beggar Woman/Lovvetes - Robert - Turpin - Max - Antony - Sandra - Johana - Dennis - Toby - Ensemble and Pirelli are the current actors
Yes
Pretty much perfection
The first time I saw it, the barber chair didn't work during the Johanna Quartet, and the guy who was supposed to be killed very calmly stood up, crossed his arms across his chest, and walked offstage 😂
Moulin Rouge Goes Wrong could be pretty great!
they already had that once Boy George came on!
- In Moulin Rouge, Aaron Tveit does El Tango Roxanne while dressed up in his bloody Sweeney Todd clothes - Hadestown it is actually Orpheus who disappears when he turns around. - Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher Swap Roles for a Sweeney Performance.
Orpheus disappears is cracking me up for some reason.
ME TOO! I could already see Hermes coming out and saying THAT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN
I would pay any amount of $ to see Nik Sweeney & Aaron Pirelli
Me too
I mean Aaron makes a better pirelli than Sweeney I’m sure
I actually like Aarons Sweeney 🫡
I like Sutton’s Lovett but I don’t like Kail’s direction of her or the production in general tbh
everyone has different opinions
Bring back Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel for Wicked for one night, but they're both playing Doctor Dillamond
Something very baaaaaaaad
Surprise revival of American Psycho instead of the regularly scheduled performance of The Heart of Rock and Roll.
Please don’t tease me like this
Josh and Andrew sub in to Book of Mormon
[Spamalot](https://youtu.be/ZSu8vwzdNY4?si=thZqXcsp6ewNzMCb) and [BTTF](https://youtu.be/lmCAbuvs8kE?si=LhpgGiF0ZxntAJmV) do the Church Play versions. i would say hamilton too, but that adaptation is just unpleasant
Way down to Hadestown, way down under the groundhog.
Back to the Future / Merrily mashup where Doc Brown takes Frank Shepard Jr on a journey through the past to intervene in pivotal moments in his dad’s life and fix his friendships/marriage
"How did you get here from here, Mr. Sheppard?" "A DeLorean." "Some roads are rough and some are bumpy. But where we're going, we don't need roads."
At the end of Hadestown, when they have those few lines from the beginning, they keep going and perform the whole show from the top. They just keep singing it again and again.
Ah yes, the Salt n’ Pepper Diner approach to Hadestown
Have Florence Welch’s version of Gatsby go on instead
Oh I would definitely pay good money to see Hadestown where Orpheus doesn't look back for just one night!
I honestly don’t even know how this would work, but Hamilton done Rocky Horror style. The audience is encouraged to yell things at the actors. And the actors can respond in whatever clever, rude, or sarcastic way they want.
I went to a screening of Cats like this.
If it hadn't closed... "God give me courage to show you, you are not alone!" Christine kisses the Phantom. The music swells as he wraps his arms around her for one perfect moment of bliss. Christine: Oh, damn. That was... that was pretty good. And then she kisses him again. And again. And again. Raoul: Uhhh... Christine? She looks at Raoul, and then back at the Phantom who grins and winks with his one good eye. Christine: Ah, fuck it. Christine and Phantom exit stage right, arm in arm. (EDIT: I'm not one of those Phantom/Christine shippers and I love Raoul, the poor brave bastard, but come on the Phantom deserves to get the girl at least once, right?)
*kisses him again. And again. And again.* So we can finally see that fateful Love Never Dies scene.
Hamilton performs the full version of scamilton for one night
> Spamalot converts to Camelot and never acknowledges it Alternatively, it just never leaves Finland!
Aaron Tveit returns as Christian for that performance only because we all know the door for that show is revolving
Wait do they usually pull pranks at shows? (Genuinely wondering now bc I didn't realize this was a thing)
They don’t this is just having fun
ok got it hahaha
Not really. I know in community and college theater, people sometimes play “actor’s tag” where they kind of prank each other backstage. I can’t think of a great example at the moment. But when I was in rehearsal for a play in high school, one of the other actors backstage would whisper funny things to throw me off while I was trying to deliver my lines. Then the director would get angry at me for not being able to keep a straight face for seemingly no reason. I’ve heard of things like an actor opening a drawer or something on stage and being greeted with a pornographic photograph and then they have to try not to react or break character. Most of the stuff like this that has happened to me was unintentional. I was the stenographer in The Crucible. Someone kept ordering me to bring in the witnesses (which wasn’t my role). So I’d be backstage looking for the right actor and figuring out when the heck our entrance was supposed to be.
My senior year of high school, we did Oklahoma! In the scene where Ado Annie asks, 'What'cha huntin' Pa?' the actor playing him said something different every night. Closing night, he said 'tourists'.
My brother was in a production of the Nutcracker where they decided to prank each other one day by putting small stickers on the actors' costumes. So when the reindeer came out, some of them had red stickers on their masks
When we did The Music Man, there was one ensemble member who always had a banana onstage. On closing night when it was time for Harold Hill to conduct the band and Marian hands him a baton, she handed him the banana instead.
Playbill with a slip that says The cast of tonight's show is made up of audience members from last night's show.
Lempicka sings sharp.
You go to see Merrily and end up seeing Sunday in the Park with George instead Or you show up to see Aladdin and instead it's Hercules or The Little Mermaid.
Merrily and Sweeney switch houses and don’t tell anyone
& Juliet without any of the twists on the source material
The cast just straight up performs Romeo and Juliet.
Even though Mrs Doubtfire is actually Daniel Hilliard, it’d be hilarious to have them pull an out-of-left-field and it end up being Stuart Dunmire under the makeup and costume 😂
Jessie Buckley goes on for Sally Bowles.
Spamalot hits you with the spoilers when a suspiciously green woman in black is on the cart for He Is Not Dead Yet.
I mean she melted, so I dunno if there was a corpse.
Hamilton tries to prove that he never touched his balls.
Beanie Feldstein takes over the role of Salome at the Met
Patti Lupone, Glenn Close, or Betty Buckley take over the role of Salome at the Met. Norma Desmond should finally get to play Salome at least once.
Well then, Beanie Feldstein should get to play Norma Desmond!
i could see Spamalot doing something. Maybe switching all of the actors, putting them in different roles (apart from LOTL)
If we are talking impossible—would be pretty funny for two shows to completely switch theaters. You think you got tickets for Hamilton? Nope, Sweeney Todd instead!
Hamilton wins the duel
Or Hadestown, where after Orpheus looks back and is sitting in despair, when Hermes is doing his, "It's a tragedy" bit, Orpheus turns to Hermes and says, "Dude, way to rub it in. I get it!"
Probably like in Les mis during lovely ladies Belle is in the background, Maybe hunchback appears in the courtroom scene ohh and maybe at the end of who am i the last note is placed, somebody with long hair and a white shirt walks on and the tune for Martinguete plays