Have you ever overheard funny comments in the audience?- Page 2

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 6:07am

I think my favourite comment was one time when seeing Chicago, right after the Mary Sunshine reveal at the end of Act Two, the guy sat next to me turned to his wife and said "I don't get it, was that a man or a woman." And same show, different performance, the friend I was with overheard this exchange in the toilet:

Young Girl: Mummy, is this set in New York?
Her Mother: I don't know dear, let's look in the program when we get to our seats.

Dear LORD.

[jezzebelle]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 7:26am

During Hairspray, one of the women sitting behind me, turned to her friend halfway through Welcome to the Sixties and said to her in a very perplexed tone, "Is that a man ?" I almost died.

Another time, I was watching a tour of RENT and was seated behind two giggly girls who couldn't have been any older then 13 or 14. During La Vie Boheme, when Maureen flashes the audiences, the started shrieking and one of them exclaimed "Ew, what is this ??!!!!"

[Corine2]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 7:52am

At Avenue Q, a man behind me said. I thought Rod was going to end up with Trekkie Monster. I am disappointed.
I almost lost it! Updated On: 7/30/04 at 07:52 AM

[mominator]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:06am

The show Wicked
The time January
The woman behind me as shrill as can be and I quote
"That's NOT how it happened in the MOVIE!" and the came the uncontroleable sobs.

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:10am

It was Sunset Blvd -- Norma just came out to sing Surrender to her chimp -- the paw falls....a few minutes later the real undertaker comes to take him away -- directly behind me an older woman says to her husband, in a thick Long Island accents...
"It's a monkey". My friends and I use that line now whenever something obvious has happened.

Not funny, but a good story, Octboer 2001, I had my long awaited night for the Producers -- 4th row dead center --the overture is about to start and I notice that directly behing me are four empty seats and two rows back another four empty seats. I start to get all indignant and huffy -- thinking "darn it, can't people have some basic courtesy and show up on time, hot tickets, impossible to get, balh, balh, blah..." THe lights come down and half way through the overture I hear the them coming in and some one in navigating to the seat sortof pushed down on my shoulders. I turn around to give them the evil eye and I am face to face with Bill and Hillary Clinton...I guess now I understand why they waited...immediatley after intermission, Bill leaned over and said he was sorry -- I got their autographs quickly before the rest of the audience ralized who was in the theater....

[Craig]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:29am

One of my favorites to share is when I was the Marketing Director for an Equity Dinner Theater in Florida. We were doing West Side Story and as often did, a tour bus of elderly men and women were at the matinee. Riff is lying on the ground having been stabbed and well above a whisper (but to be fair, not in a normal voice) the audience all heard one say "He's not really dead, Louise, I can see him still breathing"

After the performance, the actor playing Riff comes up to me and asked if I heard what she had said (the woman was in the first row of tables). I said pretty much everyone heard it.

He replied "I just wanted to look over and say "Honey - it's called ACTING... we don't really kill people on stage because, well that would be wrong"

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:36am

At AIDA, at least TWICE when "Written in the Stars" starts:

"Ooooooh! THIS IS THAT ELTON JOHN SONG!!!!!"

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:39am

"I think the best was an old lady who was sitting behind me in a horribly bad bad bad production of Diary of Anne Frank.... she leaned over to her seat mate and said "Thank God They Found Her.. what a whinny thing she was."


I was horrified and laughing the whole time."

I've heard some joke (my dad told it, but I heard it somewhere else) about a production of Anne Frank being so bad that at the end when the Nazis come, the audience started yelling, "SHE'S IN THE ATTIC!"

Awful :)

[Craig]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:45am

Overheard just outside the theater at the musical of TITANIC

"Ok.. so who plays the Leo role?"

[kec]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 9:51am

Thanks, everyone... this has had me in stitches! Craig, loved your story about the dinner theatre in Florida.

[LadyGuenevere]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:10am

My 2 favorites:

I went to see Avenue Q once a few months ago, and I heard two people in front of me, a husband and his wife. His wife had to absolutely repeat everything, and she seemed kind of reluctant to repeat anything that was extremely crude:

(End My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada)
Man: And I can't wait to eat her WHAT?

Woman: Never mind that, dear.
--------------
And before that, during The Internet is for Porn-

Man: The internet is for WHAT?

Woman: For porn.

Man: No, no it isn't!

Woman: That's what he said.

They did that during the entire show- I completely lost it.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:50am

At The Boy From Oz - about 2 months ago.

I was seated next to a "Dumb Blonde" - who was clueless about every aspect of the show (based on the non-stop chatter with her boyfriend - )

When the character of Judy Garland came on stage she blurted out "Oh my God! I though she was dead!"

A loud groan came from about 20 people in the area...

[broadwayfan24]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:02am

When I saw Wicked sometime in June this lady behind me started singing Defy Gravity. I really wanted her to SHUT UP! Then she kept commenting on every single scene. I hate people like that. When it was intermission she was like "this is my 3rd time seeing it" Then some of her friends from different seats came over and they were talking about other shows. Someone asked if any of them have seen The Lion King and asked if she liked it. She said it was "alright". I'm sorry but the Lion King is not just "alright" true it is almost word for word the movie but you can't say "alright" to something with those amazing sets and costumes.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:15am

I took a friend of mine (my boss at the time) to see the tour of Miss Saigon last year. She's a middle-aged black lady with bucketloads of personality. It was her first experience with a musical and she was all excited and had never set foot in a theatre before (other than cinematic). We were at the Oriental (Ford Center) in Chicago, which is one of the most gorgeous theatres I have ever seen. Anyway, she is just busting with excitement at every moment. At the point in the first act when Kim shoots Thuy, she says (quite loudly and uncontrollably), "OOOOOHWWEEE!! SHE IS DA BOMB!" Finally, in act two, when Kim shoots herself, my friend exclaimed, "I KNOW SHE DID!" After the show, I asked what she meant and she said, "OOOOOH! She is da bomb! She loves her child. She is the BEST mother! I KNEW she was gonna do that! I KNEW IT!"

That was such a fun night!

[Brodybaby03]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:26am

OK I hope this won't offend anyone...
I have an absolute HORROR and FEAR of Midgets...I can't help it. I KNOW they are people. I know I am terrible but they scare me to such a point of fear...I could die.
WELLLLLLL I went to LA Boheme when it was on Broadway. In one scene my friend gave me our binoculars (we were all the way at the top) and he said "Oh my god you gotta see this look stage right all the way down stage" and I did as I was told .....MIDGET RIGHT THERE....RUNNING NO LESS...I hate when they run....welll I screamed "OH GOD...OH GOD" and I threw the binoculars....and YES...I hit someone....This taught my friend a lesson...find out if midgets are in the show before purchase of tickets is made.

I also had someone answer..YES ANSWER their cell phone during Rocky Horror...they were sitting behind me so I stood up took it out of their hand and shut it, and said "thank you"...they werent to fond of me, but like I care.

Also witnessed a fight between Sebastian Bach's wife and some female fans he had known a little too well outside the theatre...ahhh drama.

[jayem1968]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:30am

The best had to be during intermission at Avenue Q.

Husband: It's cute - but why do they need the puppets?

Wife: I don't know, dear.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:31am

http://freakymartian.ihelix.net/millie/BrandonITurnedtheCorner.mp3

At that link, I was listening to Sutton Foster and Brandon Wardell sing "I Turned the Corner." If you listen towards the end, very closely, you can hear some lady say, "I don't like it." I wonder if Sutton and Brandon heard...

It was 2002 Broadway in Bryant Park.

Updated On: 7/30/04 at 11:31 AM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:31am

damn idiot rock stars.


the secind time I saw BARE, the show didn't start until 8:10. schedueled curtain was 8:00. I was sitting next to two men in their forties (or there abouts).. before the show started, they were talking about the delay. One asked why teh show hadn'ts tarted. The other said that "shows NEVER start on time at the Met". (apparently they have season tickets)I KNEW I was in trouble then.. they must've been expecting Pucinni or Verdi. When teh house lights came up for intermission, one said "I thought this was an opera". The other, "That is what the titale says, but this isn't an opera at all". They left and didn't return for Act Two.

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:34am

Mister Matt, that is adorable :)

[robbiej]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:44am

'I hate when they run'

Hands down, the most offensive, and funniest, thing I've read in a VERY long time.

robbie, who hates that he, too, has a fear of midgets!

And albinos.

I should have never watched FOUL PLAY when I was a kid.

[Mamie]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:49am

I overheard a convo between visitors - a father, mother, and son - in a restaurant just a couple of days ago. They were going to try and get tickets at TKTS and were discussing what shows they wanted to see. The mother asked if anyone knew anything about "The Boy From Oz"

Father - that's the Wizard of Oz one I think
Mother - is the Wizard the boy?
Son - no - he's a gay songwriter I think
M - the Wizard? Who is?
S - the boy
M - who is it?
S - some guy that everybody likes
F - oh yeah - I heard about that. It's got someone like Tom Cruise or one of those guys in it
S - no, it's someone else. I can't remember his name
F - (starts rattling off a lot of different actor's names - ending with Brad Pitt)
S - maybe that's who it is

The conversation ended here. I got up to leave and as I approached the door, I heard one more line:

M - I didn't know Brad Pitt was gay

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:50am

This isn't one I overheard, but one that was relayed to me:

A friend of mine went to see The Lion King on Broadway with her best friend and her friend's exceptionally rich parents. The mother wasn't the brightest spark and at intermission, turned to my friend and said "Have you noticed that everyone is black in this show?" and my friend somehow kept her expression neutral and inwardly chanted "don't be rude, don't be rude" before replying "well, it is set in Africa". At that point, the mother turned to her husband and said "oh, did you hear that, honey? Africa!"

[DBillyP]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:00pm

THE KING AND I tour in Dallas recently...

The King enters..."He has hair. He is supposed to be bald."

[tennis85]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:12pm

Several years ago waiting for Les Mis to begin at the Imperial:
"Honey, who did you say was this Gene Val Gene character?"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

[NightLaughs]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:12pm

Haa these are great!

My friend went to see Rent last year, he'd heard me raving about it for years. I asked him what he thought of it, and he said it was ok. "So the dude with the glasses and the guitar player used to date right?" I yelled no and he asked "So why were they all over eachother?" *sigh* Obviously he needed my guidance, should have gone with him.

Usually, I'm so self-involved I tend not to notice anyone else when I am seeing a show, so I've probably missed out on some great little incidents.