Bill & Ted Stars Shock Broadway Audience with Spooky Encore

On Halloween night, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, the stars of the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, surprised the audience with a spooky encore performance. Following their usual curtain call, the two actors slipped backstage only to return moments later wearing nothing but their underwear and dripping in fake blood.

This gory gag was a cheeky nod to the director's recent trend of ending his shows with the leading men nearly naked and slicked with stage blood. Last year, the director's Tony-winning revival of Sunset Blvd. had audiences buzzing when the star took his final bow in black boxer briefs, drenched in red fluid. And this summer, in the director's headline-making revival of Evita in London's West End, the leading man took his bows in his underwear covered in blue fluid.

Reeves and Winter clearly got the inside joke, as they hyped up the crowd for the season's annual fall fundraising campaign for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The two friends have been working together for over 35 years, since first appearing in the 1989 sci-fi comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.