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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 7:23:10 GMT
I wrote a long reply and my phone refreshed the page instead and lost it 😕. I had a question what is fake corpsing? Fake corpsing is when the actors laugh intentionally, usually to get a laugh from the audience, although they make it look like it's completely unintentional. You can easily fall for it once. But if you see the show a second time, and exactly the same thing happens, chances are it was "fake corpsing"! (It used to be done a lot in pantos...) |
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Mar 10, 2017 7:34:11 GMT
I wrote a long reply and my phone refreshed the page instead and lost it 😕. I had a question what is fake corpsing? Corpsing is unintentionally laughing while in character, hence breaking character.  I remember seeing Brian Conley corpsing in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the conversation with the turkey farmer after Me Ol' Bamboo. I'm assuming it was fake after seeing his many other TV and panto appearances. Likewise with Joe Pasquale and Russ Abbot in The Producers after the 'If I could bottle you, I'd shove you under my armpits every day' line. I didn't mind it that much in One Man Two Guvnors, even when I saw it the second time. But I also remember seeing Spamalot where the Knights Who Say 'Ni' improvise a bit for the actor playing King Arthur to repeat, again I thought it works and it probably was a genuine corpse from King Arthur (Matthew Kelly at the time). Ohhhh I knew what corpsing was I just didn't get what was meant by fake corpsing. When I'm at Les Mis (a lot) I know ever track what happens & what goes wrong. There some esp ensemble where they do something different each time and very entertaining to watch. I remember one time one of the swings playing Babet walked into the scene he plays it very cocky. Then as he goes to pose the cane slips on the stage and falls to the ground. I looked at him (I was in their slip seats) see what he did. He styled it out then there is a point the character turns away but if you were in row of slip seats you basically saw him laugh. It wouldnt have been seen from stalls though. Then on Wednesday, another swing covering apart with the other. Master of the House is very ensemble joyful bit in the show. Anyway he was meant to arm wrestle the other swing so Thenardier can nick his money out his back pocket. He kind of forgot to do that. So you have Thenardier nicking stuff that maybe he is fully aware of. But becuase of the scene itself the pair laughed. I saw Toxic Avenger twice it never happened in the first one but I actually cant remember his nam. Anyway the show is funny at one point the audience laughed the actor just started to laugh. So we are now laughig at him laughing. He was trying to compose himself but kept giggling. It eventually stopped. I wouldnt have thought it was something repeated in future shows because he took so long to compose himself. |
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Post by adrianics on Mar 10, 2017 10:24:12 GMT
I still remember how disappointed I was when I found out that Michael Ball did the "I can't do this when you're standing behind me" bit during Timeless To Me at every Hairspray performance.
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Post by duncan on Mar 11, 2017 8:38:23 GMT
Happened in Throughly Modern Millie UK tour when I saw the matinee in Liverpool a few weeks ago. Fake corpsing.... ...act 2 and the actor playing Trevor pretending to get something wrong, by any chance? Stood out like a sore thumb in Edinburgh. |
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 11, 2017 8:57:34 GMT
I wouldn't mind actors breaking out of character if the character they break into is Kenneth Williams.
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Post by danb on Mar 11, 2017 9:15:29 GMT
I still remember how disappointed I was when I found out that Michael Ball did the "I can't do this when you're standing behind me" bit during Timeless To Me at every Hairspray performance. Arrggghhh! This spoilt 'Hairspray' for me. It's a crap song and to drag it out for so long is unforgivable! |
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Post by danb on Mar 11, 2017 20:40:40 GMT
I still remember how disappointed I was when I found out that Michael Ball did the "I can't do this when you're standing behind me" bit during Timeless To Me at every Hairspray performance. Arrggghhh! This spoilt 'Hairspray' for me. It's a crap song and to drag it out for so long is unforgivable! My coffee obviously hadn't hit at this point...what a grump! A more constructive way of phrasing this might be 'I'm not a fan of this section of the show.) 😳 |
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