Doesn't it bug you when...

[rorschach37]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:36pm

...people refer to a musical as a play?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:41pm

Yes. Nearly as much as vague subject lines.

[jnthnxlent]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:42pm

Thats funny, I have actually been thinking about this very recently..and yes it does bug me. I don't know why it does, but I tend to separate the two in my head so it always irks me when other people don't.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:42pm

Nope.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:43pm

No... There are these things called preferences...

[jnthnxlent]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 12:49pm

I don't have a problem with other people calling anything differently than I do, I'm just honestly saying that from my standpoint it bugs me a little. Not that I would ever tell the person because like theatrefan said preferences exist. It's just something I've noticed a lot of people do.

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:04pm

Yes, and also when people call movies "shows."

[Jon]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:09pm

... or when people use the pharse "the show" to refer to a movie theare, as in "I hardly ever go the the show anymore. I mostly rent DVDs."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:15pm

Jon it's the Picture Show...as in Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Last Picture Show. I am going to the show this afternoon. I want to see that Drew Barrymore picture.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:23pm

It doesn't bother me to the point I insist other people use the terminology correctly, but it does bother me to the point that I will always differentiate between a play and a musical.

Although I have yet to find a satisfactory umbrella term for the two; "show" sounds too frivolous when applied to certain plays, and "production" means something very specific already...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:28pm

Musicals are plays.

What's the problem?

I hate it when I tell people I love theater and they take it to mean "all Broadway musicals."

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 1:38pm

Musicals are plays.

Exactly.

The term "musical" is actually a shortened version of the full term "musical play." (In case you hadn't noticed, "musical" is an adjective, not a noun.)

There are musical plays, or musicals, and straight plays, or non-musical plays.

Does it bug you when people call a poodle a dog? Because that's essentially what you're saying.

[lightguy06222]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 2:18pm

POODLES ARE NOT DOGS. THEY ARE POODLES. MUCH SMARTER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAT NORMAL DOGS.

god, get it right.

[dshnookie]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 2:32pm

[off topic] It bugs me more when the audience decides to start clapping in the middle of a belt, drowning out the end of the song/note completely.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 3:01pm

Poodles are the most annoying of dogs. The only think worse than a poodle is a poodle owner.

[jnthnxlent]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 3:10pm

dshnookie,
Agreed, especially when it happens during the last few seconds of Bernadette singing "Send in the Clowns"...I was seriously gonna smack the lady next to me who started it.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 5:30pm

I hate it when I tell people I love theater and they take it to mean "all Broadway musicals."

In what way? The "Wasn't Mamma Mia great!" unwashed masses, or the Broadway fans who think all theatre begins at 41st street and ends at 54th?

[Daniel2]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 5:34pm

No, not especially.

[maggiemar142]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 6:09pm

it bugs me that my dad says he's taking me to see "that one play" because he doesn't want to admit he's going to see a musical. that really pisses me off.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 6:29pm

No it doesn't bother me.
Yes, musicals are plays.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 8:03pm

Sometimes.

What really irks me is when people call cast recordings "soundtracks" and call soundtracks "cast recordings"

[Haybe]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 9:06pm

I know somebody who posted on facebook the other day that she was going to see "the musical play Rent"

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/10/10 at 10:17pm

^Then s/he would be correct. A bit formal, but correct.

[singtopher]

Posted: 9/11/10 at 1:04am

I actually got into a discussion with a lady about this who was all ticked off that she couldn't get a musical in the play only line at TKTS. She told me it was misleading, and that the sign "Should say Draaama" I piped back, "What if it's a comedy?" She didn't have an answer.

P.S. I hate it when people say drama with a hard "a." Right up there with "The-ay-ter" and "Eye-talian."

[My Oh My]

Posted: 9/11/10 at 3:21am

It bugged me years ago. Silly.

I also used to bark at people who called an orchestra a "band." I quit when I realized those who use it are almost always from the U.K. and it's a widely used slang term for *any* group of musicians, regardless if they are made-up of keyboard and electric guitar players or the L.A. Philharmonic. I had assumed people didn't know the difference between an orchestra and a band. Durr. *Blush*

So, yep. Feeling like a fool is more annoying than anything. :S