Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 21
Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#500re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/8/06 at 3:01pmIt's a little sadder at Sweeney where all their names and pictures are on the stage door.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
MjwTtLvr29
Chorus Member Joined: 7/25/04
#501re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/8/06 at 3:46pm
A couple of months ago at Wicked before the show in the line for the bathroom.
Student-What show are we seeing Ms. (don't remember her name)?
Teacher-I don't know, but, I'm really excited.
Student-All I know is that there is something to do with green people. I've never heard of someone a green person, maybe an orange, but never green.
I lost it after what show are we seeing
"Everyone deserves the chance to fly!"
#502re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/8/06 at 4:39pmmaybe an orange?? what like an umpa lumpa? lol
#503re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/8/06 at 4:44pmmy thoughts exactly.
rosem7391
Chorus Member Joined: 5/24/06
#504re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/8/06 at 4:54pm
Not so much an audience comment, but still hilarious...
Today at my friend's house (a fairly big musical fan):
Friend 1: (listing movies she has) blah blah The Color Purple blah blah..
Me: Oh, The Color Purple...I really want to see that...
Friend 2: We could watch it..
Me: I meant the musical.
Friend 2: Oh yeah! I heard about that, Oprah's in it!
Me: Um, no, actually-
Friend 1: Oprah?
Friend 2: Yeah! Remember, she was in Ghost?
Me: *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*
#505re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:47pmHow is this on the third page? This stuff is hilarious.
#506re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:47pmHow is this on the third page? This stuff is hilarious.
#507re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:58pm
I heard this one yesterday walking through Times Square:
Person : (Looking at Hairspary billboard) Oh Hairspray, I heard that's good. Harvey Fierstein's in it.
Yeah, because perfromers normally stay three years after the show opens.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#508re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:06am
Heard outside Starbucks on 42nd street
woman 1: Wow, I could really go for some Italian food
Woman 2: Well, my niece said we have to check out Mamma Mia so maybe we should try there.
Heard at Lestat:
Woman: Wait, This musical is about vampires?
~Sami~
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#509re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:13am
two bitchy queens sitting behind me tonight @ Sandra Bernhard
queen 1:(in bitchy jaded tone) god, i hope she doesnt sing [note: the stage is set up with a multitude of different instruments...what does he *think* is gonna happen?]
queen 2: (in even bitchier tone)*i* hope she doesnt trash The President!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#510re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:21am
Okay, my mother is certainly more knowledgable about theatre than most of these posts, but this still was hilarious.
Earlier tonight we were discussing the last couple of weeks of Miss Saigon on Broadway.
Me: Lea came back to do it for the last couple of weeks, but Pryce didn't.
Ma: Oh, so who was it?
Me: Some As--
Ma: Ohh...was it. Oh, what's-his-name...who Jonathan replaced.
Me: John Lithgow??
Ma: Yes, was he in it then?
Me: Umm ma, he was never in Miss Saigon.
Ma: Sure he was. He played the engineer.
John Lithgow as the engineer...now there's an interesting thought...
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
JustChillin8908
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/06
#511re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:48am
"I just burst out laughing and made it seem like my mom had said something funny! I should have said something like, "it is paint you idiot! Look in the playbill, is Julia Murney really green?!?!?!" Like seriously why would someone think that!"
This is kind of random, but the Wicked in Detroit playbills (or Playgoer as they called them) didn't have pictures in them. I was actually kind of upset by it and ended up printing a cast list online to remember who the people were.
When I saw the Rent tour in Chicago there were three teens behind me (one of which hadn't seen the movie).
teen 1: you've only seen the movie right?
teen 2: yeah, are there any differences?
teen 1: yeah, there are a few new songs and Angel's death is different. In the movie he dies in the hospital, while in the stage version he dies in an orgy.
Also my friend (who I assumed was partially educated in theatre) asked me if I had seen Idina Menzel in Wicked, even though I told her I only saw it for the first time in Chicago (which was only back in April) and recently saw the same tour as her.
#512re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 7:46amMy uncle saw the OBC of "POTO". Fast forward to a few years ago when I visited NYC with him. "Oh, I didn't know there's a revival of Phantom!"
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#513re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 11:10am
"Yeah, because perfromers normally stay three years after the show opens."
Actually, it isn't abnormal either.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#514re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 11:43am
There was an actor that stayed on for the full run of Cats. If they can make it 18 years, 3 years isn't completely absurd.
Jonathan Pryce playing a Vietnamese man in the first place was "interesting".
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Updated On: 7/10/06 at 11:43 AM
Wanting life but never knowing how
jaybrrd
Understudy Joined: 4/9/05
#515re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:37pm
yay, dumb people!
RENT: "What happened to the nice girl in the red dress?"
HAIRSPRAY, intermission: "When does Harvey Fierstien make his entrance? I thought he was starring in this."
And, perhaps, to me...the be-all, end-all of audience confusion:
An elderly married couple seated on the front row of a local production of Hair. Pop obviously hadn't turned up the hearing aid enough, because he constantly had to ask his wife about what was going on. Hand to God, the exchange during Sodomy:
Actor: Sodomy....
Pop: What did he say?
Ma: (just above a whisper) He said Sodomy.
Actor: Fellatio....
Pop: What?
Ma: (getting irritated) Fellaaatio!
Actor: Masturbation can be fun....
Pop: (louder still) WHAT?
Ma: (near full shout) MASTURBATION CAN BE FUN!!!!
Stopped the show.
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#516re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 3:02pmYesterday at Hairspray, the woman next to me kept asking, "Is that a man? It can't be a man, though, because Edna's a woman's name and the mother. But she looks like a man!" so finally, to shut her up, I whispered, "It's a man, ok!?" and she just said "Oh" and stayed quiet for the rest of the show.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#517re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/10/06 at 3:20pm
My dad and I were walking past Spamalot......
(My dad looking at the marquee)
Him: Oh god!
Me: What?
Him: I always thought Monty Python movies didn't any taste....now I know I'm right!
Me: What do you mean?
Him: COME ON! It's a musical about SPAM for god's sake!!!!
Oh god is right. lol
"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
billygoatgirl300
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/04
#518re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:00pm
This thread needs to be on the first page because it's so funny.
The towel waving reminded me of a Per?nist rally. I kept chanting "Evita!" whenever they'd pan to the crowds. - SM2
Salad_Fingers85
Stand-by Joined: 8/30/05
#519re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:04pm
While walking down the streets of New York I overheard the married couple in front of me.
Man: Would you be interested in seeing Tarzan?
Woman: Oh, Yes! It got the best reviews
Man: I even heard that it won almost all the broadway awards this year, a new record!
*shutters*
bella cantato
Broadway Star Joined: 3/16/04
#520re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:08pm
My mom: "Well, I don't see why everyone's so upset. I think Shoshana looks and sounds exactly like Idina."
Me: *jawfloor* "Mom, no they don't..."
Mom: "STOP ARGUING WITH ME! I CAN THINK WHAT I WANT TO THINK! IT'S MY OPINION"
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!"
--Reefer Madness
#521re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:14pm*screech* CAT FIGHT!
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#522re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 7:59pm
Today I went into Starbucks wearing my Wicked t-shirt.
Woman behind counter: Oh, did you see Wicked?
Me: Yes.
Woman: Yeah, I saw it in London.
Really? Pretty impressive since it hasn't opened yet.
"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
faithanytwo
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/05
#523re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 11:15pmwow, how could they get that one messed up? i mean city and show...
#524re: Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Posted: 7/11/06 at 11:38pm
At Gypsy, the girl in front of me was crying through all of Rose's Turn because she thought Bernadette Peters was going to strip.
A girl walking past a sign for Les Mis: Oh, my school did that last year. It's some Spanish musical.
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