Funny little exchange at Sweeney Todd the other day...- Page 2

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 6:44pm

My favorite theatre convo I overheard in NYC:

Woman 1: Did you see Mamma Mia.

Woman 2: Yeah, I don't get all the fuss. I guess I'm just not a Mamma Mia-rer.

Posted: 10/14/05 at 6:59pm

www.overheardinnewyork.com is a great site! You people should contribute.

[fiatlux]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:15pm

Comments made by members of an audience during a performance heard from the stage are also entertaining and/or just perplexing.

My particular fave was during a particularly bloody version of Lear, we had just got to the end of Gloucester's blinding and I heard a lady in the front row say to her companion,"The same thing happened to Mrs MacDonald last week." That threw us all for a second.

Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:43pm

Iwas working for a group sales agent a while ago and a lady with a VERY thick Brooklyn accent wanted to get tickets to Barry Shnikoff's new show (Metamorphosis). When I asked her to repeat it, she said Barry Shnikoff, ya know the Russian ballet dansah!

[gwalke4]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:37pm

Working at the community theater box office last summer, I was trying to sell tickets to "Children of Eden" (I was not very successful, nor was anyone else - the show was pretty bad).

At the same time, I was working the professional production of "Always, Patsy Cline," which was the biggest theatre event Baton Rouge had seen in years (or so it seemed, made tons of money, people loved it)

It was really ridiculous how many people called the community theater trying to get tickets to "Patsy," which was long ago sold out. I didn't have the heart to tell them it was the wrong theater they were calling; I just told them we were sold all out.

[Elphabuff2]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:00pm

Embarrassing but when I was in eighth grade and got tickets to the EVITA tour, it was well past the middle of Act I when I asked my mother, "Hey, when's Evita coming out?" I guess I was expecting a blonde the entire time.

[LuvUrBatBoy]

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

ALright here's 2 cute old people stories.

A few years ago when I was working in the box office at my school's theatre, we got a call from a little old lady the day after daylight savings time and I'll never forget her message.

"Hello, this (name) and I was calling to find out about the show this afternoon. I know it starts at 2, but is that the new time, or old time?"

Bless her heart.

The other story is from when my college did The Threepenny Opera and my roomate played Jenny. Her parents brought her grandmother to one of the performances. We were all coming out of the dressing rooms after the show when I over heard my friend asking her parents where her grandmother was. They told her that her grandmother was waiting outside and "didn't want to look at her or talk to her until she washed her face and didn't look like a hussy anymore."

[broadway86]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:21pm

Before the lights went down for Fran's Bed, a blonde, high school student was talking to her father.

Blonde: Oh my God!!! Julia Stiles is in this!
Father: Who?
Blonde: She's a really good actress. She was in, like, 10 Things I Hate About You, and she also played Ophelia in Othello...

I lifted my head from my Playbill, and said: "Hamlet."

[Katecab99]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:15am

i still love during RENT the older couples who will say:

"oh my god - i think that the one dressed like santa claus is a MAN!"

or

"what is AZT?"

hahahaha...i love it. it's too cute

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:48am

Several years ago I was sitting in the State Theater waiting for RIGOLETTO to begin. Behind me sat two middle-aged ladies who were trying to be very sophisticated. They were talking about the PBS fund drive and how much they donated, they were discussing the new line of handbags at Gucci's, and talking about the next opera they wanted to see. On the schedule was Puccini's LA RONDINE (pronounced (La Ron-din-ay) and they kept pronouncing it "La Ron-dyn". Ah, they proved their real worth!

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 2:14am

I was seeing Passion at Ravinia and the women behind me were extactic to see Audra McDonald, the original Annie, playing "Clara." What a shocker it was to them when "Happiness" started. "I don't remember Annie being black."

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 2:19am

Oh. My. God. That's the best one ever!

[John4763]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:00am

This one came from my kids :
"Annie Get Your Gun, you know -- the sequel to Annie"

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:31am

Not really a show title goof, but I have a pretty funny typo story: You know how the Star ledger has that contest where if you are drawn from a hat with a question and you get the question RIGHT? Well, one time they had Wicked, and the question was which school did the two witches attend in college? The right answer was Shiz, but the paper said SH*TZ. Naughty, naughty.

[Buscee]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:23am

I remember standing at TKTS when a woman asked for tickets to Barefoot in the Park With George... Who knew Sondheim and Simon collaborated.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 11:23am

This one came from my kids :
"Annie Get Your Gun, you know -- the sequel to Annie"


John4763---Funny you should say that. When Andrea McArdle played Annie Oakley in a production years later, they advertised it as "ANNIE'S BACK... AND THIS TIME SHE'S GOT A GUN!"

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 2:02pm

"ANNIE'S BACK... AND THIS TIME SHE'S GOT A GUN!"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What GREAT advertising!

[Di2]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 2:32pm

I was walking into the stage door the other night (I am in "Aida") when a patron pulled me aside and asked "What is the really famous song from "Aida"?

And I said, "Well there are tons of songs. Can you hum a little of what you are thinking of?"

She proceeded to hum a few bars of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina."

I said "Well....(confused), that song is "Dont' Cry for Me Argentina."

And she said "YES.. that's the ONE! So, when do you sing that song?"

My reply..."Um, ma'am...you are seeing "AIDA" not "EVITA."

She was very upset......

[Di2]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 3:30pm

***BUMP***

I LOVE these funny stories...

[ken8631]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 3:39pm

Was watching "An Almost Holy Picture" from the second roww center orch. The older lady next to me fell asleep, and then left at intermission. The play was so-so, but Kevin Bacon did a good job with it.

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/17/05 at 3:57pm

This was at an audition in college...

A girl was trying to get through her monlogue from Antony and Cleopatra, always getting caught on the line "Till by degrees the memory of my womb..."; she stopped three times and began again, only on the third time, she got stuck even before she got to that line. As she searched her brain, a few of us in the audience, who'd learned it by now, tried to help her out by giving her "Till by degrees..." She turns to us and says "Are you sure?" We laughed for 5 miuntes straight, she didn't get the role, but she got a bunch of new friends.