Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 22

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:38am

"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. "


LOL How... disturbing?

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:54am

easily one of my favorite threads...thanks everyone! I am just unlucky or lucky depending on how you look at it and haven't heard anything too bad. I've heard people at RENT wondering why it wasn't like the movie and the people who don't get that the people in the show aren't always the people on the CD. What I do with this thread though, is wait a week and then read a bunch at once and have a huge laugh fest. Thanks everyone

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 1:06am

Me too gusto777!

I don't have any good stories except that my "theater major" friends think that a show can't be running on Broadway and touring at the same time. Nor do they understand that shows run for years and not just weekends lol.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:58am

Outside The Producers:

Man: That's that new Mel Brooks show! I heard it got horrible reviews!
Woman: Yes! And it's closing soon because it's not making any money!
Man: Let's go see it anyway! Nathan Lane and Sarah Jessica Parker is in it!!!
Women: Yeah! *they walk into the theatre*

Oh...my...god.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 12:08pm

An American couple at the intermission of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE in London:

He: Are you getting all the expressionistic symbolism?

She: Yes, dear, of course I am. You're the one who wanted to see SINATRA.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:22pm

Needs to beo n the first page

[prayerforaduck]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:29pm

A few weeks ago, I was at the Muny production of Aida, and the couple behind me was reading the synopsis in the playbill, and all of a sudden the woman gasps really loudly and says: "Okay, wait. This guy is supposed to marry a PRINCESS and then falls in love with a SLAVE GIRL?! Is he really stupid?!" The man with her sighs and says "Obviously."

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:38pm

I attended a performance of POTO for the third time today. This woman next to me said to her daughter (We were sitting in the mezzanine): "You know, this used to be called the balcony, but they changed it, and that I thought front section is the mezzanine."

Well, at least she said, "I thought."

[zzannahk]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 8:40pm

wasn't the rear of what we now call orchestra, considered mezzanine? that's what my grandma said.

[maybe1day]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:56pm

first off, i was a nyc tourist when this incident occured but not a stupid one like this woman.
at the color purple stage door where i was getting my window card signed:
woman: where did you get that poster
me: i bought it at the merchandise stand
woman: did you take that off the wall?
me: no, i bought it
woman: how much did you pay for it?
me: i don't remember. i bought a lot of things. i didn't really pay attention to how much they cost
woman turning to my mother (she didn't know it was my mother):she knows how much she paid for that. she just don't wanna tell anybody.
that woman had bought her program from the same stand i bought my window card from and still proceded to argue with me...

[maybe1day]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:56pm

don't know where that double post came from. it wasn't there yesterday... Updated On: 7/15/06 at 09:56 PM

[Broadwaygal2]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:34am

Bumping this thread because it is sooo hillarious.

[SamIAm]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 3:19pm

OK, since this got bumped, I'll add another one. Attended the Odd Couple about a week before it closed and well after Brad Garrett left the show in January. Everyone was standing outside the usual entrance to the theater (which is not the same as the one that leads to the box office) and a man next to us asked "why is everyone standing over there?". To which his companion answered "that's where the actors come out before the show to sign autographs". As if that didn't reveal enough ignorance on the part of this hapless couple, the gentleman then saw someone holding up a camera to try to get a quick shot of Rob Bartlett as he scurried toward the stage door. The woman asked "who is that?" and the man said with great authority "that's the guy from Everybody Loves Raymond. Didn't you hear he's in the show?"

Posted: 7/14/06 at 4:58pm

Last year, my friend got a new boyfriend and introduced him to Wicked. She went and saw it in Chicago and when she got back he was all, "Did you meet Idina and that Kristin girl? Were they nice-- did you get their autograph?"

Also, every summer my parents and I go to our beach house in South Carolina. On our way down, we listened to the Jersey Boys cast recording. Later on in the trip my dad says, "So... this is a musical about the Four Seasons?' I said "Yes." He replies with, "Are there any other groups in this like the Four Tops?"

My mother and I didn't stop laughing.

Other things my father has said:

"He looks gay..."
Regarding Manoel Felciano at the beginning of Sweeney's performance at the Tonys.

Like any good Sweeney fan, I threw a pillow at his face.
Updated On: 7/14/06 at 04:58 PM

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 5:08pm

"He looks gay..."
Regarding Manoel Felciano at the beginning of Sweeney's performance at the Tonys.

Like any good Sweeney fan, I threw a pillow at his face.

Brava!!

I wonder how he decided Manoel was gay from seeing him for 5 seconds in costume. Weird, weird, weird.

Posted: 7/14/06 at 5:13pm

^My father graduated from Oxford, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's smart.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 5:18pm

LOL.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 5:33pm

"You know, this used to be called the balcony, but they changed it, and that I thought front section is the mezzanine."
Psh. The mezzanine is a glorified balcony. They just give it a fancy name to get away with charging you orchestra prices for worse seats.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 10:05pm

When I was younger, I would confuse the Orchestra with the Orchestra pit, and wonder how they fit so many people into that small space.

[nibbleme]

Posted: 7/14/06 at 11:26pm

I just saw Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.
Drew Sarich,who is in the show, has two tattoos that are visible at one point during the show. They are rather sexy.

While exiting the show, I heard a lady say "Honey, you should think of getting a tattoo like that. Maybe I would find you half as acctacitve as I found that fellow"
His response "I'll think about it".

I had to trun around and see what person said this. She clearly could have been my grandmother! And she said that statment very matter of factly. No laughing.

[prayerforaduck]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 11:38am

My sister saw her first Broadway show at fifteen. We were sitting in the fourth row, and when the actors came on stage, she smacked me so hard and said, rather loudly...

"Oh my god they're LIFE-SIZED!"

I don't know what she was expecting, but apparently not real people on stage.

[queenbee2]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 12:11pm

I came out of a breathtaking production of Carousel once and heard these little blue haired ladies talking. One said "Wow, wasn't that show amazing?" and her friend replied very loudly "I loved their shoes!"

Their shoes?

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 2:36pm

My sister saw her first Broadway show at fifteen. We were sitting in the fourth row, and when the actors came on stage, she smacked me so hard and said, rather loudly...

"Oh my god they're LIFE-SIZED!"

That is SO FUNNY! That makes my day.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 3:33pm

Did she think it was a puppet show!?! wait.....did you go to see Avenue Q, Little Shop, or The Lion King?

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 3:55pm

"I came out of a breathtaking production of Carousel once and heard these little blue haired ladies talking. One said "Wow, wasn't that show amazing?" and her friend replied very loudly "I loved their shoes!"

Their shoes?"


Shoes hahaha