Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 14

[mominator]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:27pm

pop_elph.... Where the heck did they get that from?

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:40pm

Yesterday, at Phantom:

Tourist Woman to Me: When is Madonna going to be in this show? Tomorrow, right?

Well it's pretty obvious, isn't it? Since both Phantom and Evita are from ALW, and since Madonna was in the Evita movie, then of course that means she'll be in Phantom on Broadway the following night, right? And Phantom is actually being moved and it'll be held at MSG that night, so that all of her fans can watch her on stage. :)

[mominator]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:44pm

pardon me while I bang my head on the keyboard...
QWERT QWERT QWERT.
There that feels better.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:52pm

"I couldn't help but correct them. They were very disappointed after finding out the cast was made up of amazing dancers and amazing musicians. The husband asked me 'Why would people pay to see that?'"


I still ask myself that.

[LifeoftheParty227]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 4:02pm

During The Light in the Piazza

Woman: "I'm hungry, do they have a concession stand here?"
Other woman: "No, but I brought some snacks"
(As she brings out a bag of food)

Posted: 6/28/06 at 4:02pm

one thanks to my mommy... after Tarzan ends...

Mom: That was fabulous. Its gonna win everything!
Me: The tonys were 2 weeks ago, it was nominated for one thing and lost.
Mom: Oh. Well, next year.

[Bret]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 5:09pm

Taken from one of my friends.

Teen:I wonder what "Hairspray" is about?
Mother: I think its a sequel to "Hair".

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:54pm

This came from my friend last year:

Friend: We'll have to have a party when "Wicked" is on the Tonys!
Me: Is already been nominated, that was last season.
Friend:Oh....well when is "Movin' Out" going to be on?
Me: that was a few seasons ago.
Friend:What?
Then I went on to explain how Broadway works in seasons kind of like our community theatre. The only reason she knows about "Movin' Out" is because she is a dancer(and a great one at that) and its a dance show, and yes, "Wicked" is one of the VERY few musicals she knows.

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:21pm

I've got a few more I just thought of...

When I saw Wicked back in February 2005, the people in front of me were discussing JLT and swore she could not be Glinda because she wasn't blonde. They found Megan Hilty's headshot (back when she was the stand-by) and were convinced she was Glinda. I was sort of annoyed and wanted to lean in and correct them but I left well enough alone.

A non-theatre person asked me which shows were nominated for the Tonys this season, and when I told her, she asked, "No Phantom? Why not?" (I guess this is a kind of common mistake amongst non-theatre people.)

This one still makes me nuts, and this was exactly two years ago. During the intermission of The Boy From Oz, a friend of mine turned to my other friend and said, "Don't you think it's funny they wrote this story where Dorothy was Liza Minnelli's mother and then Liza married a gay guy?"

I was mortified.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:22pm

Lifeoftheparty i laughed out loud

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:34pm

I have a couple.

I used to be fairly aware of the broadway world, or so I thought until I came here and was thrown into a world of composers and performers. In March my roommate and I went to see our school's production of "Into the Woods", which I knew nothing about. We almost left the theatre after the end of the first act because we thought it was over. Sadly, we weren't the only ones, and ushers were standing at the doors telling us it wasn't over. We both turned red and went back to our seats.

When the Rent tour came to Toronto in May there were some overzealous highschool kids sitting behind us. They had I Luv Rent painted on their faces and clothes. They were really loud and obnoxious and one guy in particular was really irritating me. He was explaining to all his friends where everything was going to be staged in a know-it-all manner. I eventually tuned him out and later overheard "What?? You mean it's not the same as the movie?" This kid who was so in love with Rent didn't even realize that they were two separate things and he knew nothing about the show. I just burst out laughing.

[mominator]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:34pm

little sally, that second one made me cringe!

[goldenstate5]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:36pm

^^I personally cannot understand how people can't understand the concept of the Tony's when it is the same exact concept as the Academy Awards! Tonys: new year, new shows; Oscars: new year, new movies (both have their shows/movies needed to be open before the 'season' or consideration time limit is up) Do these people also think that Titanic is gonna be up for awards in the Oscars next year?! It's not exactly rocket science...
Updated On: 6/28/06 at 07:36 PM

[Bret]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:44pm

I can see where the confusion would stem from. Unlike the movies, where a film will play for a few weeks, Broadway shows run over many years. Therefore, the regular Joe Schmoe from the midwest would be very justified in believing that Phantom, Wicked, etc. could be nominated. It is running, so why not nominate it?

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 10:58pm

These are so funny

bump

[Jan2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 11:11pm

I was just at the RENT tour in Boston and before the show was about to go on, the girl behind me said to her mother, "You know, this theatre is the same size as the Gershwin! That's why Wicked always sells out you know!"

I started cracking up.

[mijofly19]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:26am

At the TKTS line yesterday:

WOMAN: If you can't get six seats together, just buy four. They'll let the kids in if we say they'll sit on our laps.

At Doubt yesterday:

2 Girls (about 13?) sit down at the other end of our row and ask the older couple next to them:

Do you know what this play is about? We just randomly bought tickets at TKTS.

[mominator]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:16am

"At Doubt yesterday:

2 Girls (about 13?) sit down at the other end of our row and ask the older couple next to them:

Do you know what this play is about? We just randomly bought tickets at TKTS."
Boy I bet they had a big surprise (and it wasn't a toaster)

[Katecab99]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:19am

at "sweeney" last night...

a middle aged couple with really strong (and VERY loud) long island accents:

man - okay, so patti lupone - how old do you think she is now?

woman - oh, she HAS to be in her late 60's...wasn't she 16 when she starred in that spanish show?


i just quietly giggled to myself...

[Katecab99]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:24am

and now i just went back and read a bunch of these that i missed and laughed out loud at work...and now i have co-workers reading them (although some of them would be the people making the comments, so they don't find them as funny...)

[Jyn326]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:24am

no good musical theatre anecdotes, but will a movie based on a musical work?

I was one of 9 people, all under 25, watching the movie "Rent". A group of teenagers behind me were talking the whole time. By the time the second song came on this guy goes "they're singing AGAIN?!" and you can imagine he wasn't cool with Angel and Collins' kiss. It was all I could do to keep from saying "seriously, what did you think you were watching?"

I did however ask him to be quiet when they wouldn't stop coughing. To which he continued to fake cough for the next five minutes.

/end rant

[ashley0139]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:17am

My favorite was my friend and I seeing RENT.
Her: "Wow they must be really tired."
Me: "I guess. Yeah it's tiring."
Her: "How do they learn all those lines and songs?"
Me: "Ummm... well they rehearse and do the show a lot."
Her: "Oh. So what show are they doing tomorrow night?"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Her: "What show are they doing tomorrow?"
Me: "What are you talking about? They're doing the same show."
Her: "What? No. They have to perform the other shows in this theatre tomorrow."
Me: "No they don't. All these people that were just in this show are in the same show again tomorrow. Other people are in different shows. There are more than one Broadway theatres."
Her: "You mean every show performs every night? In different theatres?"
Me: "YES."

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:02pm

Ashley, those stories never get old! I don't think I ever thought like that, but then again, I do have a Broadway actor in the family!

(I'm so proud!)

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:05pm

I can't help but get really mad when I read these stories about ppl not relizing that there are more Bway theatres than just one. URG!

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:34pm

Why do you get mad? They can't help their ignorance.