Have you ever overheard funny comments in the audience?- Page 6

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/1/04 at 4:56pm

At "Titanic", some lady said "So who plays Leonardo DiCaprios part?" I was eight and I knew his character wasnt in it. LOL.

Posted: 8/1/04 at 5:27pm

Les Miserables

A husband and wife argued throughout intermission over whether Fantine had died or not. At the end of the second act when her ghost appears the husband turned to the wife and gloats "See I told you she wasn't dead!" I had to fight the urge to turn around and correct him and tell him to shut up. LOL

[showmethetony]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 2:01pm

Let me preface this story by saying I am the WORST when it comes to giggling - once you get me started I have a hard time stopping. Sooooooo...

I went with some friends to see my cousin Rob play Judas in a community production of GODSPELL. The show was in a VERY small theater - kind of like a barn with a set of double doors at the back that led into the lobby and then a set of double doors from the lobby to the outside. There was apparently very little back stage or wing space and no way to get out of the theater besides the lobby.

Anyway, we are near the end and Judas(Rob) decides he is going to do his thing and betray Jesus and then he jumps off stage and runs through the theater and out both sets of double doors - you can hear each of them slamming...It is completely silent and then suddenly - a motorcycle goes by VERY loudly...My friend next to me says "Was that Rob?"

I almost DIED from laughter and could not regain control...I laughed through them hanging Jesus up on the fence (I'm a bad Catholic huh?) I felt so terrible I had to pretend like I was crying...

[Madame X]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 2:52pm

A little late but BalletGirl85:

:When I saw Millie, during the Speed Test, someone behind me was singing...

"Amy Heggins doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter"

Amy Heggins was an Ensemble member in the show and I had no idea who was behind me or WHY they were singing that, lmao, but it was funny. I laughed. "


I cracked up when I read this b/c I know this person. She's character all right. LOL. Big Millie fan. Long story short - she loves Amy Heggins b/c she is tall and you always notice her plus she has a very creative mind. And voila - Amy Heggins doesn't matter matter matter....

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 3:35pm

Only because I'm a science geek and understood the physics in it, but during intermission of Copehagen, I overheard patrons "It's very good, but I don't understand it at all."

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 8/6/04 at 3:48pm

This one isn't funny- it's just sad (in the RENT audience, a girl probably around 18 or 19 years old):

"Why do Mimi and Roger have AIDS? Only gay people get AIDS!"

[NLiotta]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 2:27am

Anyone who saw Rocky Horror on broadway can probaly list about 5 funny things that people in the audiance screamed out to the people on stage.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 2:39am

"Let me preface this story by saying I am the WORST when it comes to giggling - once you get me started I have a hard time stopping..."

Me too! That happened at Phantom of the Opera when a student in our group yelled out "Boner" during applause...luckily we were in the mezz, so the actors couldn't hear. By the way, showmethetony, I laughed at your story. Guess he rode off on a motercycle, huh?

[LuvUrBatBoy]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 2:43am

A few years back I did a production of Into the Woods where I played Jack.

On our final dress the theatre invited the local Association for Retarded Citizens to view the show. Throughout the show the audience was somewhat vocal but we couldnt really make out anything they were saying.

That is until the finale in Act 2. The tender moment comes when the Baker reveals to Jack that his mother is dead and the following happens:

Jack: Wait til my mother hear's of this!
Baker: Jack, your mother is dead
Audience member: (LOUDLY) HA HA! (like Nelson from the Simpsons)

Needless to say I broke character so it looked like Jack was laughing at the news of his mother's death...ahh wonderful.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 2:48am

This didn't happen in a theater, but I am going to post anyways...

I was at a zoo, and there was a group of "slow" kids. One of them randomly yells out, "Say hi to the ladies!"

[SuperSchubert]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:03am

This wasn't during a show, but I was once trying (in vain) to get some last-minute cancellations for Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In front of me was an older woman who happened to be a season subscriber, picking up her tickets at Will-Call. I told her how badly I wanted to see this production because I was so much in love with Die Zauberflöte. The woman came off to me as one of those old ladies that go to the opera simply because they CAN, but aren't very "opera cultured" when it comes to even the simplest details...

....One of these details was pronunciation. Before going into the house, she absolutely insulted the German language by saying, "Well, here I go to see DYE ZEEBERFLOAT!" I wanted to just take her tickets from her...you know...as a matter of principle.

-SuperSchubert Updated On: 8/7/04 at 03:03 AM

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:17am

I saw a family leaving Big River (the tour of the Deaf West revival), and the kids and wife were all very excited and had obviously really liked the show.

The dad still seemed puzzled.

He asked his family, "How'd they learn their lines?"

(Yes, sir, deaf people can read too.)

[wickedkiwi]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 4:12am

LMAO at all of these, they're great!!

i never watch the audience while i'm at a show, i tend to reserve it for when i'm performing (i guess it's a matter of where i'm facing or something)

anyway i was in this production of the music man at my high school once, and i guess we were short on guys or something cause a girl played the train conductor. the actress made cameos everywhere, changing costumes but always playing this teenage male hick, cause it was funny - and all the time this crowd of 5 or 6 people kept clapping for her. anyway when we were done this friend from out of town came to congratulate me with all her friends and she was like "by the way, that train conductor is SOOO cute, my friends and i clapped for him the whole show, we really want to meet him" in a really loud voice so he (she) would hear. when i told them the truth they nearly peed in their pants from the embarrasment.

BETTER STORY:
this has nothing to do with the audience, but it is soooo funny, i remembered it cause of the guy who played jack's incident with the death of the mother news. anyway i played the bakers wife in some run of into the woods, and the idiot at the costumes went all out cause we just about had fake body parts put on us. so im in this one scene with the witch and the baker when she tells us what she needs, and then pointed "into the woods" ordering us to get it. well right when she points her finger SHOOTS off and lands on the feet of somebody in the front row. you could see our faces just sort of follow it, almost in slo mo. there's this beat of silence and we cant HELP but crack up. we tried to cover it up (the baker and me by pretending to be mortified at the thought of going into the woods, the witch by turning her back to the audience) but we just COULDNT! the audience had to clap while we gained composture and finished the scene.

unprofessional, i know. but hey, it happens to the best of them!! (i saw something similar 2 weeks ago @ sly fox, which is a MUST see, even tho its not a musical - its hillarious!!)


keep these up! urs are SO much better!

[wickedkiwi]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 4:15am

ooopp! another one!!!

show: godspell
i'm in the band, and john the baptist is giving his speech, and jesus is walking up to him from behind. i look at the actors, who are sitting in the aisles (like literally on the floor "paying attention"), sortof childishly, and this one kid on an aisle seat grabs one of the actors and goes "LOOK! THERE'S JESUS!!!"

jajaja thnx for the help, kid!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:03pm

Anyone who saw Rocky Horror on broadway can probaly list about 5 funny things that people in the audiance screamed out to the people on stage.

Yes, Rocky Horror was just non-stop hilarious debauchery from the audience. For example:

I saw the show with Luke Perry as Brad. During one scene, realizing that he's "lost" Janet, he laments:
BRAD: "It's over. It's over. (sniff) It's over!"
NARRATOR: "But what was over?"
AUDIENCE MEMBER (yelling out): "90210!"

[QueenMuppet]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 6:28pm

I had a good one yesterday whilst being in line to get tickets for LSOH (yes, there was a LINE!!!).
Two ladies in front of me just got their tickets when one said:
No 1. 'We still have to see to Aida before it closes. I love Elton John'
No 2. 'Yes! We have to! Which part is he playing again?'

Well, it certainly amused me.

QM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 7:00pm

I didn't over hear anything, but I;ve said pretty funny stuff. I was at a matinee of Boy From Oz with a few people. Act one had just ended, the lights came on, and I screamed out for everyone to hear, proudly, "this s**t sucks!" Everyone turned around and started laughing. It was pretty funny. i believe i said the same thing at the preview of Nine i saw, but I heard a lot of people saying that, too.

[secret-soul]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 7:19pm

yankee, i ALMOST did at at TBFO :)

One of the recent times I went to see POTO I was sitting about 6th row orch on the inside aisle (so you can easily see the covered set onstage...i.e. the chandelier covered by tarp with the word "chandelier" on it) and right next to me were two woman (mid-late 20s) chatting about the story. The one next to me turns to me:

#1: so have you seen this before
me: a number of times
#2: oh, good maybe you can answer our question!
#1: Yeah, we were wondering...isn't there supposed to be a chandelier?
Me: There is, it just doesn't fly up to the ceiling until the overture.
#2: It goes UP? Where does it come from?
Me: *points to stage*
#1: *Sees the ghost light, also sitting onstage* THAT's the chandelier? Geez, these people are CHEAP

That's when the no cell phones message came on :)

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 8/8/04 at 8:09pm

When I saw Thoroughly Modern Millie, there was a little 5 or 6 year old girl, and you know how young girls don't know how to whisper. So, between her kicking my seat and clapping at quiet parts and laughing when it wasn't funny, she kept asking her "daddy" so many questions, speaking VERY loud. My grandma and I kept turning around and telling her to be quiet. At intermission my grandma got so fed up with her, she stood up, turned around, and bitched at the girl. When she was done, the little girl started crying! It was insane! The guy bitched at my grandma after. But she just kept asking dumb things. During the speakeasy, she was like "IT'S A MAGIC DRINK!" I really think children should be a certain age before they can go see shows. Some of them can be quiet, but the ones that can't ruin it for everyone.