Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 16
Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
#375re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 4:30pm
Not an overheard conversation but I found this to be ...amusing. While picking up my tux for this year's Tony Awards, the lady in the store that was helping me congratulated me on my nomination. I was wearing my Color Purple T-Shirt. I almost thanked her just for the heck of it!
<<<<(And yes, that is me in my tux just before going to the Awards last month.)
Just give the world Love.
#376re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 4:52pmWhen the tour of Rent came through the people in front of us could not figure out what guy with the squeegee was doing during the “honest living, honest living” part.
billygoatgirl300
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/04
#377re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 5:29pmI love this thread!
The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2
#378re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 6:59pm
people behind me at Sweeney: "Do you understand what's going on?"
a little later: "I like RENT"
teh usher while my friend and I and I are explaining the show: "He rapes her"
"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!"
~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be
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#379re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 7:12pm
somethingwicked- thats hysterical how the women spoke right to the conductor. Oh god, I would have cracked up laughing.
During ALL SHOOK UP, a week before it closed. At Intermission
Man Next To Me- This show is good
Wife- Where's Elvis? Its good, but where's Elvis. I mean its his music.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#380re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 7:24pm
Clumsy, you should have told her that dear Elvis has departed this earth and see what kind of reaction that would have got.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#381re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 7:29pm
HaHa. I would have loved to but I felt the shock might kill her.
Funny though, When Cheyenne does the "I've been with alot of women." and points to a women and goes "Alot" he did it to the women who said the Elvis thing and she got all exicted. Mysteriously, her husband and her disappeared before the 2nd act. I think he killed her out of a jealous rage.
I was ROW AA. It was awesome.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#382re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 7:31pmThe set for that was awesome!
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#383re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 7:46pm
While at the Pantages Theatre today picking up a Joseph ticket:
(While waiting in line, as we were making small talk.)
Woman Behind Me: So what show are you going to see [when you get your tickets]?
Me: Everything. Joseph, Little Women, and Rent.
Woman: Really? Is that so?
Me: Hah, yep.
Woman: How is Joseph?
Me: I don't know, I haven't seen it yet. That's why I'm buying tickets.
Woman: What about Little Women?
Me: What about it? I haven't seen that either.
Woman: Yeah, but it was on Broadway.
Me: Yeah.
Woman: So...?
Me: Um...
And then my phone rang. I was just... intrigued. Hah. And so uncomfortable.
#384re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 9:04pm
Sweeney Todd this afternoon-
While exiting the theatre, a girl said (regarding Tobias) "They should have adopted him." (They meaning Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett.) Perhaps they didn't notice that Mrs. Lovett's affection for Tobias was completely fake and the Todd and Mrs. Lovett refered to killing him once or twice.
#385re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 9:10pmI actually had a hard time following Sweeney Todd. I thought she loved Tobias until she locked him in the basement.
#386re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 11:49pmAt my local theater I was doing a production of "Cabaret" and in the News paper review of our show it talked about how our director chose take out songs from the movie and replace them with others that the director wrote, like "Don't Tell Mama" and "Why Should I Wake Up".
"You know just because you put a smiley face after it doesn't change the fact that it was an a-hole comment." ~ Sumofallthings
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#387re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 11:51pmHaha!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
ElphieDefiesGravity
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
#388re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/2/06 at 11:55pm
Oy.
I adore this thread with all my heart and soul. 
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
Wishes come true, not free.
Wishes come true, not free.
#389re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 12:03am
I heard this one outside the St. James Theatre. There was an elderly couple whom I think were looking for the entrance to the theatre. They were looking at where everyone else was going in and the woman said, "Is this it?" Um... Where do you think all the people are going in order to enter the theatre?
Not sure if that qualifies, but I had to post to support this wonderful thread. Long live the thread! 
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#390re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 12:10am
Oh, and sorry to make another post, but I don't like that ugly "updated on" thing at the bottom of an updated post, and I think by this post I am a Broadway Legend (!!!) but anyway:
This was at the last preview of FESTEN. A lot of people were obviously there to see Ali Macgraw. When Julianna Marguiles entered and was doing her first scene, a lady behind me said, "Is that Ali MacGraw?"
Also, at the beginning of that same performance, there was a sound of running water. A lady behind me was like, "That's not good if we can hear water," or something like that.
Then, at the end, as we were exiting the theatre, a man said to his wife, "Well, Ali MacGraw was a total waste."
*Sigh* Some people.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#391re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 11:17am
my supervisor just asked me if i was crying because all she can hear is these little quick gasps of air because i am HYSTERICAL over here and now i have tears running down my face.
god - this thread will keep me sane at work today!
SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#392re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 11:25amI laughed heartily for a good ten minutes at Kent's post with the quote about Cats. Hysterical. This thread rocks.
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
#393re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 11:34am
At Sweeney Yesterday:
Woman #1: Do you think they're actually playing the instruments? I'm pretty sure there's an underground orchestra.
Woman #2: Yeah. That sounds about right.
Bob Martin Online
MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#394re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 12:37pmThis thread is making me laugh so much. I don't have any funny anecdotes, but everyone else keep them coming. This is very amusing.
#395re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 12:44pm
This thread is sooooo fun 
Thanks everyone... and how in the world can anyone think the SWEENEY cast isn't playing the instruments?! *sigh*
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Broadwaygal2
Swing Joined: 7/6/04
#396re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 12:59pm
Ok I have to weigh in on this one. This thread justs keeps making me laugh. So here's mine. On the night that Broadway lowered the lights for Jerry Orbach I heard a tourist say
"Why is Broadway lowering it's lights for the guy on Law and Order?"
I nearly choked on the soda was drinking.
MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#397re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 1:18pm
Oh! I remembered one!
At Wicked intermission, a girl talking to her boyfriend:
"I like this show, but it reminds me a lot of The Wizard of Oz."
I almost lost it.
#398re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 7:40pmThis thread is so funny keep the stories coming!
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#399re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/3/06 at 10:40pmI'm using some of these anecdotes in my AIM away messages!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
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