Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 26

[algy]

Posted: 7/22/06 at 4:18pm

At Rocky Horror (in the UK at least) you're likely to be in the minority if you're not dressed up - it's just the way it is.

Richard O'Brien (see my seemless link there?!) used to get huuuuuuuuuge boos at the end of Chitty in the West End - he was just so good at the role. I think in the UK it was kind of like panto - the baddie always gets booed, right to the bitter end - it's a sign that you've done it right!

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 12:48am

Ashley, listen to your friend and see Kiss Me, Kate. Although it's (as you said) not running anymore, you can watch the DVD of the London production (the same as the Broadway revival) with Brent Barrett and Rachel York. It's the best show ever!!!

[.LittleWing. 0224]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 2:29am

at spelling bee...

woman: is this a musical?

me: good. lord.

[kec]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:00am

"Richard O'Brien (see my seemless link there?!) used to get huuuuuuuuuge boos at the end of Chitty in the West End - he was just so good at the role. I think in the UK it was kind of like panto - the baddie always gets booed, right to the bitter end - it's a sign that you've done it right! "

The first time I saw Chitty in London, I was startled when the boos and hisses started when the Child Catcher made his first appearance. On subsequent visits, however, I joined in enthusiastically. By the time most of the original cast left the show in March of 2003, even the spies were getting boos and hisses!

I saw three Child Catchers in London, and they were all good -- Richard O'Brien, though was the absolute best of the three!

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:06am

To this day I find this hilarious....

During SWEENEY TODD intermission:

Woman: Pies? Do they plan on serving people in their pies?!
Man: No, honey, I think it's a metaphor.
Woman: Oh... So what do you think of it for now?
Man: [extremely long pause] I haven't understood one word that bald man has said.

[pattifan2]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:33am

Not sure if this counts, but I was standing in line at TKTS in Leicester Square behind two American ladies. When they reached the booth, they enquired about a play that was on at the Haymarket (can't remember what it was) and they asked if it was a comedy. The guy in the box office said, 'Yes, but the comedy is so subtle you probably wouldn't realise it was a comedy.' I thought that was marvellous.

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:21am

These are marvelous!

When I *finally* took my mom to see Sweeney Todd, she had already listened to all of the music, so I assumed that she wouldn't be completely lost.

At intermission, I asked her what she thought, and it turned out she thought Mrs. Lovett and Lucy were the same person, Mrs. Lovett was Tobias' mother, and that Johanna was Judge Turpin's actual daughter.

...

Posted: 7/23/06 at 1:44pm

at Tarzan, after the show had ended, a bunch of people swarmed the orchestra pit because wow, theres actual people in there. I was waiting for BG2 to bring me my wheelchair so I could leave. When he did, I said excuse me to the woman who basically had her butt in my face so I could get up and she turned around, looked at my wheelchair and said "oh, youre one of those high maintenance people." Erm, WHAT?!

[Phantom2]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 1:54pm

That wasn't a hilarious comment.

[singtopher]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 1:59pm

I forgot about this one. This was spoken by a friend's mother who is the epitome of New York Jewish woman (now living in the Mid-west).

"So we saw this musical CATS, and its about a bunch of people who dress up like kitty cats and they sing and they dance, and, well, thats not the story. The story is these cats get together once a year to pick a kitty to go to kitty heaven. So they pick this old cat who used to be a whore. At the end she sings this big song, and they blow her through the roof."

Posted: 7/23/06 at 2:36pm

maybe not but i didnt feel like starting a whole new topic for 'so stupid its funny'

Posted: 7/23/06 at 3:07pm

COOOOLkid, your post made me remember something.

It's not a hilarious comment, but it's an "I used to believe" thing.

I used to think Les Miserables's music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber up until last year.

*cringes*

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 5:28pm

"Man: [extremely long pause] I haven't understood one word that bald man has said."

I laughed out loud!

[WhenURScrap]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:44pm

I would just like to say how offended I am about some of these comments that degrade people who do not know theatre as well as most of you seem to know.

It has been most recent that I learned the ways of Broadway and realize that there are peopel who do not know as much as I do about certain shows and people who are in the shows.

I sometimes find myself mistaking other actors with other people.

I know what most shows are about or research shows I do not know about before I go see them, but I do not degreade people for going to see a show they are not sure they will like, or know nothing about.

I think some of you guys have your noses so far up your (uh huh) that you think just because you know everything, you can make fun of someone who doesn't know as much as you.

Anyways, I do think a lot of these instances are hilarius and I've enjoyed reading most of them. But some of them I have personal expereince with for myself and think you guys need to think back to when you did not know as much as you do now.

Am I right at all or does this not make sense?

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 11:50pm

Ah, I heard tons this week during my NY trip. But here's one that I specifically remember.

At Sweeney:

Woman Behind Me: Oh, this show is going to be so good. I can just feel it.
Usher: Excuse me, ma'am, you and your son are in the wrong row. You're one row back.
Woman: Ooh, now I'm not so sure.
Updated On: 7/24/06 at 11:50 PM

[prayerforaduck]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:52am

I just got home from the final Les Mis tour show.

After it was over, the middle aged man next to me turned to his wife and said:

"Well, it wasn't Mamma Mia!"

[justagirl2]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 1:24am

Oy. My friend, who isn't a theater person but generally enjoys the shows I drag her to, asked me today..."so, which city is bigger with theater? Chicago or New York?" A little piece of me died when she asked that.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:10pm

*bump*

I stole this from Overheard in New York and thought it was funny.

Little girl, holding Phantom Of The Opera playbill: Mommy, were those two people married?

Mother: What two people?

Little girl: Those two people who kissed.

Mother: No. Those were actors. They were just acting in a play.

Little girl: But then outside, I saw them hug.

Mother: I think they were just saying, "Good job." That's how they say, "Good job."

Little girl: Well, I saw them kiss so they better have been married!

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:18pm

Overheard at Les Mis final tour

Old man: *psst* Is the woman who plays the mother and the woman who plays the daughter the same person?
Old woman: Yes its so they both look similar
*fast forward to epilogue*
Old man: Wait a minute how are the mother and daughter onstage at the same time if they're the same person?
Old woman: I would assume they have someone else stand in for one of them

Fantine walks on for the epilogue
Woman: Oh my god that fatin (Yes that's how she pronounced it) She's still alive! Oh what a happy ending.

While leaving the theater
Man: Well that was depressing!

At stage door
Woman: Look its Jean Valjean!
Then the majority of the people swarm in on this poor man calling him Jean Valjean but its not the real thing. While that's going on the man who actually plays him walks out and I get to him first.

[zzannahk]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:24pm

WhenURScrap, I dont think it's a matter of making fun of people who don't know everything there is to know about the theatre, but more of making fun of people who talk and act like they absolutely know what they are talking about even when they have no idea.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:31pm

WhenURScrap- I can see why you're offended, but I think you're misunderstanding what in most of these posts we find funny. It's not funny that these people don't know what's going on. It's funny that they don't know what's going on but insist on acting like they do.

Oops, zzannahk, hadn't seen that you'd posted. Well, reiteration is good!
Updated On: 7/24/06 at 03:31 PM

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:53pm

This thread kept me busy for the past few hours at work, so I had to contribute a few of my own.

After I saw Spamalot for the first time and I was waiting by the stage door for autographs, this annoying guy next to me decided to jabber on and on to David Hyde Pierece while he was signing. Seriously, this guy wouldn't stop talking, and he thought he was being clever when he was actually being insulting. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was something like this (insert grunts and "uh huh"s from David periodically):
"Hey! You did great! But not as funny as that show, Frasier. You were the funniest thing on that show."
David: "No, we all know the dog was the funniest part."

He said some other stuff about how Tim Curry and Hank Azaria were better, but unfortunately I don't remember it all.

And then there were some from last year, with my poor theater-ignorant friend. He loves Law & Order, especially Jesse L. Martin, and he knew that I'm obsessed with RENT. When the movie was out, he kept telling me that I had to see it with him because he wanted to see Jesse sing. Then we had the following (approximate) conversation:
Him: Is it still playing in New York?
Me: Yeah.
Him: When does it play?
Me: Broadway shows play all year, six days and eight performances a week, until they close for good.
Him: Great! I should come visit you and we can go see Jesse in RENT.

Then, after we finally saw the movie together, in the first half hour or so:
Him: Wait, Jesse's friends with these guys????
Me: Yeah, what did you think?
Him: I thought the movie would be about a bunch of gay artists and drug addicts and Jesse goes all Law & Order on them and arrests them.
Me: ...

[Fosse76]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:59pm

"'So we saw this musical CATS, and its about a bunch of people who dress up like kitty cats and they sing and they dance, and, well, thats not the story. The story is these cats get together once a year to pick a kitty to go to kitty heaven. So they pick this old cat who used to be a whore. At the end she sings this big song, and they blow her through the roof.'"

I think that is how the show's synopsis should be printed now and forever! (Sorry, couldn't resist).

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 4:00pm

I have just about the same experience with a good friend that thought the same thing about Jesse L. Martin,Rent,and Law and Order as Yero My Hero's friend.
Updated On: 7/24/06 at 04:00 PM

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/24/06 at 4:03pm

The Jesse L. Martin ones are my favorite. I have had several people do something like that.