Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 10

So, I'm in the hallway at school and here this two random kids talking to each other.

Kid 1: Man, why do all the black kids have to be getting into these gang wars and bring guns and knives to school.
Kid 2: Hey, that's racist!
Kid 1: Yeah, well we're all sorta racist.
Kid 2: Hey, that's the name of a musical!
Kid 1: Really?
Kid 2: Yeah, I was listening to my friend's Ipod and it went to a song about rascism and said it was from a musical called "Everyone's a little bit racist."
Kid 1: What was it about?
Kid 2: Racism, I think, but it was really funny, I remember that.
Kid 1: Cool, maybe we should go see it one day.
Kid 2: Yeah, it sounded really good!

Updated On: 6/18/06 at 11:17 PM

Along the same line as the Passion/Passions thing, I was at Wonderful Town and the lady behind me says, "Donna Murphy was Fosca in Passions?! I watch that every day, and I don't remember any character by that name! She probably was an extra once - either that or they killed her off real quick. I can't imagine she's any good."

Oy.

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My friends at Godspell at a regional theatre...
Friend 1: Hey, whats GODSPELL about anyways?
Friend 2: Maybe God.
Friend 1: What about the spell?
Me: Oh my God...
Friend 2: We've already figured that one out, Mackenzie!

Oy vey and I actually knew them...

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This wasn't by a tourist, but I had brough "Broadway: The American Musical" into my musical theater class at school... So we get up to the part where they show clips from the Tony Awards for La Cage.

When they show the red Tony logo onstage, this kid in my class turns to me and says: "Oh Tony! That's a good show!"

I just about died! I hate it when people act as if they know everything when they're clueless.

Updated On: 6/18/06 at 12:10 AM

My friend Alex is ridiculously dumb. We just saw Wicked last week, and after the show was over:

Alex: "The sound system was really bad. I mean, I could only understand what Glinda and Elphaba and that guy whose name starts with F, and the Wizard and that old lady and the sister and the munchkin dude and the teacher were saying, I never heard the other people's lines. Their mikes must not have been on."
Me: "WHAT?"
Alex: "The people who sang in the beginning, and danced and everything, I never heard them say their lines!"
Me: "Alex, that's the ensemble. They don't have individual lines."
Alex: "Well, God, what's the point of having a bunch of people up there if they aren't going to say anything? Oh, I know, are they just the people who really wanted the main parts and didn't get them, so they snuck on stage?"

I kid you not.

And this was after the conversation in which he asked me if the list of songs in the playbill were the different acts. I told him those were the names of the songs in the show, and he said "Wait, they SING in this? They don't sing in the Wizard of Oz movie! Wait, this isn't the same story?"

I'm really proud of myself that I didn't kill him. Never, ever again.

Sweeney Todd with my mom. To her credit it was a matinee after a long night...but she pretty much was asleep for the whole first act, and woke up right before A Little Priest, and I made her stay up for the 2nd act. Considering she had never seen the show before she had absolutely NO idea what was going on. I just found it funny. But this is the woman who HATED Light in the Piazza and absolutely loved Wicked.

I was standing outside the Broadway Theatre a couple months ago, looking at the marquee and photos, and these two women tourists (one was wearing a fanny pack) were walking by. One of them stops, looks up at the marquee and says to the other, "Oh, look, it's Oprah Winfrey Presents The Colored People." The other one stops, looks up and says "Oh wow" or something to that effect, nods, then continued to walk on by.

Now obviously the woman misread the marquee. I can understand misreading a marquee, but to not recognize the name of the American classic novel or, in their case, the movie, "The Color Purple", or to think that Oprah Winfrey would produce a show called "The Colored People"? Oh dear. That was quite a moment.

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Updated On: 6/18/06 at 12:01 PM

Calvin, it was MGM. Superstar television. I miss that attraction.

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sitting behind us at the original production of Les Miz..
Man: Does this show have a happy ending?
Woman: I am sure It does..after all, it's on Broadway!

during piazza, referring to clara, during a tender moment of the show

(in a thick new york dialect)

elderly woman #1: What's going oooon!
elderly woman #2: She's retaaaaaaaaaaarded.

end scene.

I don't have many good ones, but this thread is amazing.

I was in a community production of "Peter Pan", and there is a point where Cpt. Hook had just discovered Peter's glass of milk and was planning to poison it. Hook lifted the glass and said, "What's this?" and a little boy in the audience called out, "It's milk!" "I think you're right," Hook replied. "It's milk!" Cute moment.

It seems "Rent" has caused more than its fair share of confusions - a friend of mine went to see it with her mother and they didn't realize that the characters had AIDS until almost the end, so they were pretty confused as to why they all had such a downer outlook on life.

When I saw "Rent" in NY with my high school drama group, one girl was heard to loudly inquire at the end of "Contact": "Where did Angel go? Why did she just randomly walk offstage?"

This isn't so much as show...but this group called Pastimes does faires at Hammond Castle, this little castle in my town. Like, they do a Robin Hood Faire and so on. A while back, they did a faire for Christmas...I forget what it was called, but throughout the day they did the story of A Christmas Carol. The little boy who played Tiny Tim was the director's son, and he was itsy bitsy. He must've been two or three.

So at the end of the day, the story was over, and it was time for the line "God bless us, everyone!" So they hauled little Tiny Tim up on their shoulders and gave him his cue...

...and he said, "My bum hurts."