Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 3

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:18am

Oh this is too funny! I wish I had something to add to this.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:22am

Not necessarily overheard....but definitely felt! I was doing The Sound of Music at a local theatre about 13 years ago and I was in the chorus. As a matter of fact the actor who played Rolf in the movie played the Captain in our production...but I digress. As is the tradition at that theatre, after the show the cast members come out in costume and greet the audience. In my last scene I played one of the Nazi guards at the concert who then later is at the Abbey with Rolf...so I was still wearing the soldier garb when I came out. A kid (probably 6 or 7-ish)came up and kicked me in the shin. His mother apologized to me and said that during the show her son was afraid that I was going to harm Maria and the Von Trapp children.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:24am

During a performance of Wicked about a year ago, with Shoshana, a woman goes "I'm so glad Idina won. She was amazing tonight!"

Also, I had to explain to someone "why" Kristin was no longer in the show. They didn't get the contract part, or the having a life.

Updated On: 6/16/06 at 10:24 AM

[singtopher]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:38am

"It interferes with the sound equipment probably."

Actually, I've been to a couple theatres where that has been the case. At one of them the system actually picks up the conversation and it comes out of the speakers for everyone to hear. HA HA HA HA!

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:43am

Oh, this one was from my family, as reported by my mom. I'm not going to say the show, in the off-chance that the subject is lurking on this board and is able to put two and two together. But during a certain show I was doing, when the actress who was playing my wife walked on stage, my aunt turned to my mother and said (not sotto voce in the least):

"Good Lord! That's (character's name)? Couldn't they have found someone better looking than that to play Mike's wife?"

[Magdalene]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:45am

"Actually, I've been to a couple theatres where that has been the case. At one of them the system actually picks up the conversation and it comes out of the speakers for everyone to hear. HA HA HA HA!"

Richard Griffiths would LOVE that!

[Candleshoe2]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:09am

A girl and her mom were waiting by the "Wicked" Stage Door in St. Louis:

MOM: So, what else has the girl that played Elphaba been in?

GIRL: (Like she knew all about it) She was on Broadway in "The Boy from Oz"!

MOM: What's that?

GIRL: It's about the Wicked Witch's son!

I still wonder why I didn't but in and correct her! :~<

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:15am

Two funnies:

When a friend of mine met Betty Buckley at the stage door of Sunset Boulevard, he was waiting for her to autograph a Playbill next to 2 older women. The women told Betty Buckley, "Yes, we wanted to see Glenn Close. We thought she was still in it. But you were pretty good." Can you believe that????

The 60-something year old Southern woman next to me at Tarzan told her companion she was hoping for a wardrobe malfunction from Tarzan.

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:16am

It's always a temptation, isn't it Candleshoe? When I saw Sunset Boulevard, the couple behind me were talking about the movie. I don't remember who they were saying played Joe, but whoever it was, they were wrong. We had to bite our tongues to keep from turning around and screaming: "It was William Holden, you idiots!"

[milliemarch]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:18am

One time when we were walking by the Winter Garden Theatre I heard this conversation:
elderly woman 1: What's Mamma Mia about
elderly woman 2: an Italian family dealing with poverty...it's supposed to be wonderful.

[Nycboi23]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:26am

this a great thread!

So I'm at Hairspray and a woman stops and looks at me (we're in the middle of the theatre) and asks, "Is this Hairspray?"

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:29am

Haha.

[mijofly19]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:30am

Last year, in Brooklyn's final week, my friend and I were sitting in our seats when a woman sat next to us. We were sitting there for about five minutes when she looked at her Playbill cover and said "This is Brooklyn!?" She said that she thought it was the "other show." It took her about ten minutes to realize she wanted to see "The Pillowman." I don't understand how you can buy tickets to the wrong show.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:32am

somethingwicked-- My mom was convinced that it was a green light following her around on stage throughout Wicked. Then, when we were watching Broadway: the American Musical...

Mom: When did she fly?
Me: Uh.. it was kind of the highlight of the show
Mom: Oh.. that's probably when I fell asleep
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[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:36am

haha.

keep 'em coming.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:37am

"The women told Betty Buckley, "Yes, we wanted to see Glenn Close. We thought she was still in it. But you were pretty good." Can you believe that????"

Betty must have went ape ****.

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:42am

People at the Broadway performance of Aida:
Girl- I think I saw this show on National Tour.
Her mom- No, they don't tour shows that are still on Broadway.
Girl- But we saw Hairspray, that's still here.
Her mom- Yes, but Hairspray was a movie first.

After the show:
Her mom- You know, I think I saw this with you when it was on tour.

I love this thread.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:46am

Sometimes it takes a tourist to remind you that you're still not as FAMOUS as you should be.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:48am

Not Broadway related, but still my favorite.

I was in line to see a movie... I can't remember what the movie was that I saw, but it was in danger of being sold out. The other movie at the theatre was "Dead Calm" (yes, this was a whle ago). These two older ladies behind me:

#1: Well, what's the other choice?
#2: Dead CLAM? I don't want to see a movie about a dead clam!

[Crazy_for_the_Q]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:53am

Oh god, this thread is hilarious.

Well at The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Man 1: Oh my god these seats are amazing! I feel like I'm sitting in a throne!
Man 2: And look at that backdrop! It's a beautiful fence
Man 3: I bet it lights up, which is SO cool.
Man 2: Yah light up fences are awesome.


At The Wedding Singer

Man: What's this about?
Woman: It's based on that movie about that wedding singer
Man: Well how is that interesting!
Woman: I don't remember I think he gets a disease or something
Man: Wow, sounds depressing.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:55am

After Tryst, the woman behind me said to her male companion in a very Long Island Jewish accent (picture it if you can) said, "She didn't need to show her muffin. That was a bit off-putting." Her male companion said, "She was supposed to be in a bathtub. Wouldn't you see her muffin if she was in a bathtub." The woman became disgusted and said. "You know nothing about theatre. This is oppressive. How come he never showed his 'goodies'." I was cracking up!!!! GOODIES-was she a Ciara fan?

[txtheatregirl]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:40pm

I was sitting in the third row at History Boys with two old ladies sitting behind me. Clive Merrison (the headmaster) had just made a comment to Stephen Campbell Moore that learning didn't matter, as long as the boys got into the right schools. Then one of the ladies (who'd been rather chatty anyway) said rather loudly...

Woman: Sounds just like George W. Bush.
Me(turns and stares):?

It made me laugh.

And then there was a guy walking in front of me down 44th one afternoon as I was headed to the subway talking to his girlfriend about the shows. His girlfriend said...

G/F: What is the History Boys about?
Guy: It's about boys. And their history.
G/F: Oh. What's that Spamalot thing?
Guy: Oh, I don't know. I heard it was really crappy, though. We shouldn't see that.

I love weird people.

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:49pm

During intermission at Hairspray last May (when Bruce Vilanch was playing Edna), two elderly women in the row in front of me - center orchestra row D - were chatting, and I overheard one of them say:

"That's a man, isn't it?"

Updated On: 6/16/06 at 12:49 PM

[i<3jerseyboys]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:04pm

I went to see wicked in feburary and there was this little boy and his mother sitting behind us and after defying gravity the little boy said "is it over?"i guess he didn't like the show so far

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:09pm

G/F: What is the History Boys about?
Guy: It's about boys. And their history.

Haha! That's great!

A friend of mine, who is a big Patrick Wilson fan, and I were talking about shows to see in the future (this was in the wintertime), and on her list was "Barefoot in the Park With George".

At two separate performances of Rent, one girl asked her mother what an understudy was, and at intermission, a guy turned to his friends and asked, "So they're not going to pay Rent? Was that what that all was about?"

Nevermind the woman I sat beside at The Pillowman, who at intermission asked her friend which one was Jeff Goldblum. He was on the playbill afterall.