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

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.

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.

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.

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."

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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

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."

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

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

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

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What GREAT advertising!

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***BUMP***

I LOVE these funny stories...

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.