Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 11
Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
#250re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 5:53pm
I totally thought about this thread today- I'm walking along 57th Street behind tourist dad, tourist mom, and their two tourist kids.
Tourist dad to kids: ...and then over to the Plaza Hotel. Have you guys heard of the Plaza Hotel?
Tourist mom to kids: You know, like the books. Where Madeline lives.
Madeline. Eloise. I thought it was funny- I laughed all the way to the train.
#251re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 5:57pm
This thread is absolutely amazing.
Not only am I laughing HELLA hard, but I'm also raising my blood pressure because it's all I can do to keep from slapping my computer... I'm getting so angry at some of these things! I ALWAYS inform people, complete strangers, when I overhear them say something wrong.
Let us all make a vow to be more forth-coming and correct incorrect strangers! Please, for the betterment of our nation!
WALKING BY THE RODGERS
Boy: So this is a musical about the Disney movie?
Man: Yes.
Boy: What about all the gorillas?
Man: I'm sure they're in cages.
Boy: On stage? They can do that?
Man: Well this is Broadway, they can afford anything.
Updated On: 6/18/06 at 05:57 PM
#252re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 6:08pm
alrighty then:
walking PAST the Rodgers...
EDIT: Eug changed his post above this one! No fair! :P It used to say, "walking passed the Rodgers" muuuuhahahahahahahahaha! :P
Updated On: 6/18/06 at 06:08 PM
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#253re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 6:10pmOh, Jerby, how I love you.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#254re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 6:56pm
This is something I came across online- about the Wicked tour:
I'd love to see the tour cast again myself. I've essentially already seen the Broadway cast, because they were the ones on tour last year -- would love to see it again
What does that mean? The Broadway cast was on tour last year?
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#255re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:02pmAshley where did you see that?
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#256re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:08pm
Woman: What does the Q in Avenue Q stand for, I wonder?
Just kind of tickled me, and but not in an Elmo sort of way.
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#257re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:16pm
""3) Another one: "How can they have a show in L.A or Boston while it's in NY? They must be tired!""
I am pretty sure I interpreted that wrong.
Do they think that they travel from Boston/L.A. to NY in the same day?
Sorry for my stupidity... "
SWEETQINTHELIGHTS:
Yes, they do.
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#258re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:17pm
umm...
Wow.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
#259re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:24pm
Ashley: let's just presume they mean Jenna Leigh Green, Derrick Williams and Carol Kane. Currently on Broadway, previously on tour. :3
#260re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:26pmASHLEY1039: They could very well be right. On tour last year was Eden Espinosa (SF and 2 shows in LA), Derrick Williams, Jenna Leigh Green, Carol Kane, and David Garrison.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#261re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:29pmThis is not theatre related but I was on an uptown bound train next to a couple of tipsy ladies who reminded me of Eddy and Patsy from AbFab. As they stood up to depart the train at Times Square one lady looked at the other and said, "we're not drinking in mid-town".
#262re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:40pmI love ABFAB!
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#263re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:49pmI guess they could be mostly right. I just didn't think about the Broadway cast touring. And I was actually thinking of Megan and Shoshana more than Eden and Jenna and others.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
mrslovett7
Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#264re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 7:59pm
"a little boy in the audience called out, "It's milk!" "I think you're right," Hook replied. "It's milk!" Cute moment."
That is the most adorable thing!
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#266re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:11pm
Not Broadway...
I was in Through the Looking Glass last summer. We performed for camps. One day there was a camp that came with kids that were 4-7.
I was the white queen.
The red queen appeared on stage first and a kid yelled out "That's the queen!"
Then I came out and the same kid yelled "2 queens! O my Goodness. That's like 2 tooth fairies!"
At the end of the performance, the kids came down to meet us and one little girl stood there, stunned, her mouth wide opened. One of the counselors went over to her and asked what was wrong and the girl said "That's Alice, I've always wanted to meet her!"
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
#267re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:16pm
This was something I remember reading online a long time ago. I don't really remember the exact words. But someone had posted something along the lines of this:
"Some of the lyrics in Halloween don't make sense like when he sings "how did we get here, how the hell--Pam left.." who the heck is Pam and why did she leave?"
(from Rent)
Updated On: 6/18/06 at 08:16 PM
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#268re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:23pm
I forgot this one my friend told me over a year ago.
Teen girl: Did you know all male actors on Broadway are gay?
Mom: Of course! Otherwise they wouldn't be on Broadway- they'd be a lawyer or something.
If only I was there...
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Updated On: 6/18/06 at 08:23 PM
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#269re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:25pm^ Oh my!
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#270re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:40pm
As a straight, Broadway peformer...
Oh, what am I talking about? I'm neither.
arykahmarye
Stand-by Joined: 1/27/05
#271re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:48pm
Since i've only been to New York once, over the past spring, i can't make much comment on things i overheard. However, i think i should share the one faux pas i'm aware of making.
My school went with a tour group, and the rest of the group had voted to see Tarzan as one of our three shows, which i was not excited about. I hadn't liked the movie and i didn't want to sit through 3 hours of Phil Collins music. Well, at intermission i turned to my friend who'd also been against seeing the show, and this happened:
Me: Wow, this is so much better than i thought it was going to be!
Friend: Yeah, the visuals are amazing!
Me: The music is actually pretty good too.
Friend: I know! I think it's because it's not Phil Collins singing.
Me: True, that helps a lot.
I'm poked by the person on my right
Other Person: Uh, guys, Phil Collins is here.
Me: Are you serious?
Other Person: Yeah, he's right there.
He happened to be sitting about 7 rows down from us. I was quite embarassed.
"Umm...A1 is a steak sauce."
#272re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 8:58pm
Last year at Phantom when it was on tour. This happened during the first scene when the auction is going on.
Elderly Woman #1- What are they saying i don't understand?
Elderly Woman #2- I think they're auctioning something.
Elderly Woman #1- What dose this have to do with they story? This supposed to be about a phantom and an opera singer.
During Masquerade when the phantom comes down in his red death costume.
Elderly Woman #2 Is that the Phantom?
Elderly Woamn #1 I don't know.
MiniMary12
Swing Joined: 5/17/06
#273re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 10:05pm
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#274re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/18/06 at 11:30pm
Outtatown Girl: (to me, her amateur tour guide) Is this the Broadway all the songs are about?
carnimiriel
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/04
#275re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 6/19/06 at 12:01am
Just today as I was leaving after a performance of The Water's Edge, 2 elderly ladies (60s or 70s) were talking about the play, "... I don't know what happened! Suddenly there was a naked man in the bathtub!"
While this is probably more annoying than hilarious, there were 2 competing camps at the Faith Healer stage door: [Imagine screaming teens] "You were GREAT in Harry Potter!" vs "You were wonderful in Schindler's List!"
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