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Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:41pm
I forget which show it was, but when the "turn off your cell phone" announcement was made, I overheard this convo from a couple:
MAN: Why do we have to turn our cell phones off?
WOMAN: It interferes with the sound equipment probably.
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So then I was walking by 44th Street and a group of four in front of me with European accents had this convo:
MAN: What's that? Monty Python's Spamalot?
WOMAN 1: Is that a restaurant? Wanna eat there?
WOMAN 2: Ohh no, I saw people with caps, it's a store.
WOMAN 1: Wanna go in?
MAN: Let's go in.
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Then tonight at Lieutenant of Inishmore, a couple behind me were looking through their Playbill and had this convo:
MAN: Oh look! Julia Roberts! I didn't know she was in this.
WOMAN: What? She can't be in this? Someone tried to sell me a ticket for another show she's in. Is she in this, too?
MAN: It says "Three Days of Rain."
WOMAN: Oh, that's right. She's in that play. She won the Tony for it, too.
STRANGER NEXT TO HER: No, she didn't win.
WOMAN: She lost? Awww, that's awful. She's great - Julia Roberts.
STRANGER NEXT TO HER: She wasn't even nominated.
WOMAN: She wasn't nominated? What are you talking about? I saw her on the Tonys.
STRANGER NEXT TO HER: Nope. She was only there to present an award.
WOMAN: Oh. Good thing I didn't buy those tickets, then.
MAN: Why do we have to turn our cell phones off?
WOMAN: It interferes with the sound equipment probably.
---
So then I was walking by 44th Street and a group of four in front of me with European accents had this convo:
MAN: What's that? Monty Python's Spamalot?
WOMAN 1: Is that a restaurant? Wanna eat there?
WOMAN 2: Ohh no, I saw people with caps, it's a store.
WOMAN 1: Wanna go in?
MAN: Let's go in.
---
Then tonight at Lieutenant of Inishmore, a couple behind me were looking through their Playbill and had this convo:
MAN: Oh look! Julia Roberts! I didn't know she was in this.
WOMAN: What? She can't be in this? Someone tried to sell me a ticket for another show she's in. Is she in this, too?
MAN: It says "Three Days of Rain."
WOMAN: Oh, that's right. She's in that play. She won the Tony for it, too.
STRANGER NEXT TO HER: No, she didn't win.
WOMAN: She lost? Awww, that's awful. She's great - Julia Roberts.
STRANGER NEXT TO HER: She wasn't even nominated.
WOMAN: She wasn't nominated? What are you talking about? I saw her on the Tonys.
STRANGER NEXT TO HER: Nope. She was only there to present an award.
WOMAN: Oh. Good thing I didn't buy those tickets, then.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
