Funny little exchange at Sweeney Todd the other day...

[adamgreer]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 3:56pm

I think you all will enjoy this.

Before the show began, a group of three "theater ladies" of a certain age was sitting chatting in front of me, and I couldn't help but overhear their conversation.

Woman 1: "Didn't we see a show here once before?"
Woman 2: "Yes we did. The one with the naked baseball players. What was that called?"
Woman 1: "I don't remember the name, but I remember the naked baseball players."
Woman 3: "Oh I remember the title. It was Take it Off."
Woman 1: "That's right. You've got a good memory, you know that."

They were so sincere, that I didn't have the heart to inform them that the show was Take Me Out, and that it played a completely different theater.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 3:58pm

lol...that reminds me of a guy I knew who worked at bway.com...he often got calls for tickets to Thoroughly Modern Molly and The Directors...

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:04pm

Hehe...that's like when I saw Ragtime at Paper Mill, and enjoyed overhearing a lovely conversation between some old women behind me about Broadway shows they're thinking of seeing, and one highly recommended the show that one the Tony this year, "Slamalot."

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:32pm

Oh, this is so cute!

[neocomposer]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:36pm

Haha. I was sitting next to two older women who had apparently just seen Little Women without Sutton and the conversation went:

woman 1: I didn't want to see Sutton anyway.
woman 2: Yeah she's never been in a play before.
woman 1: she just screams the words, i hear.

hehe

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:37pm

When I saw Wonderland (british indie) I was the only person in the theatre with three older men...two of them get up to leave about 30 minutes in, and the third says "But it got 3 stars!" They left anyway.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:38pm

The "blue haired" crowd is the best. They have no idea what show they're seeing or even where they are. But they doll up, and trot it out there every time, ready to be entertained.

God bless each and every one of them!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:39pm

ah, yes. "Take It Off". what a great play that was...

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:41pm

Last night at Sweeney there was an older couple sitting one seat down from me. I sized them up, and figured they would leave at intermission. Well, they stuck through the whole show to my surprise (maybe its becuase they payed a hundred bucks for their seats). The woman though, kept pulling pocket-book candy out of her bag and noisily unwrapped them.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:46pm

While working in a box office years ago, I would get calls for:

Evatta
Carousel (we were doing Camelot)
The Magic Man (aka Music Man)
Little House of Whores
Amadamus
Cat on a Roof
Sugar Babes
A Chorus Boy
Playground (aka Picnic)


It was a hard lesson... but I speak fluent geriatric now.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:50pm

That's awesome...love the Monty pic btw...the things I coulda done for him!

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:50pm

Keep in mind, folks - we're ALL gonna be those blue-hairs someday. Some of us sooner than others.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:53pm

"The woman though, kept pulling pocket-book candy out of her bag and noisily unwrapped them."

That sounds like my Grandma! She'd see shows with my family over Passover and she'd unwrap the almond kisses so slowly.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:54pm

I'm gray now, redhot! But I think I'll at least know what I'm seeing...hopefully...

[paradox_error]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:55pm

One can only hope that we'll get to be the blue-haired crowd.

My mother has vowed to live long enough to become a burden on her children. I'd like to do the same...

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:57pm

lildogs---Thanks! I kinda like this pic myself.

redhotinnyc2---you're so right. I'm owning up to it already. I'm gonna be just like them when I grow up.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:59pm

To be fair, Little House of Horrors can sound like Little House of Whores when said fast.

Or it's just a premature desire.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:02pm

actually, whenever I say "Little Shop of Horrors" I just say Little Shop of Whores cuz' when you say it fast it sounds like Horrors... or at least, when I say it...

[Eliza0114]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:05pm

Freudian slip. that's what I say.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:05pm

BSoBW2 --- The really confusing part was that we were putting on BOTH shows that season: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Little Shop of Horrors. But we had quite a few folks call in for "Little House of Whores." We kept a tally, actually, but it's a long time ago and I've forgotten how many.

Further questions usually needed to be asked to complete the "translation" of the show they actually wanted to see.

Oh, I did get "Best Little Warehouse in Texas" once. I stopped and asked them if they knew what the show was about. I didn't want any outraged patrons thinking I'd steered them down a seedy path.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:15pm

You actually bring up an interesting point w/ Little Shop of Whores. See going off to college there's obviously a great deal of laughter and cringing in words you pronounce different. I am one of the only ones that pronounces the word horrible like..well just the horr part the way I say it rhymes with car. The way most say it apparently it rhymes with core. So I always reply when say it that way, what is there a broadway show called little shop of whores?

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:16pm

Broadway IS a little shop of whores...

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:18pm

lildogs --- LOL!

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:24pm

As if The Light in the PIZZA typo at TKTS wasn't enough...

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Posted: 10/14/05 at 5:38pm

I work in a box office, and while people generally call with their orders already in mind, one woman a few months back called looking for ten tickets to "Pipey." Pronounced PIPE-y. While we were, at that time, approaching our summer childrens theatre season and I could understand someone looking for "Pippi Longstockings," this woman absolutely insisted that she wanted to take her children to see "Pipey," and that it was some sort of a sequel to "Pippi Longstockings."

After a few minutes of (calmly) trying to convince this lady that she was looking for tickets to a show that didn't exist, I remembered that the high school just down the street had put up a huge sign for... "Pippin," their spring musical. Not one to be proved wrong, however, the woman huffily hung up, saying that she would find out where "Pipey" was playing and would buy tickets there instead.

Oy.