Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 4

My friend Stef and her mother were coming into town from Florida to see Three Days of Rain.

Stef was worried that her mother might be a little confused with the three actors playing 2 different characters each, so she emailed her mother a description of the play.

The next day this phone conversation took place:

STEF: "So Mom, are you clear on what Three Days of Rain is about?"

HER MOTHER: "Yes, of course. It is about Hurricane Katrina victims."

Updated On: 6/16/06 at 01:26 PM

Ahaha. I love this thread.

At the Odd Couple, a lady was talking to her friend and she goes...
I saw this show last month when I was on business, and later I went to the stage door, and Ferris Buler's wife was there. What's her name? Ashley Olsen? No...Maybe it's Mary Kate.

Sitting in a Starbucks

Lady 1- So what's that show Wicked about?
Lady 2- It's about Wiccans and their way of life.


Edited to add the Wicked story

Updated On: 6/16/06 at 01:38 PM

One more I just remembered
At the TKTS booth....

Girl-Omg. Let's see Rent
friend-eww no. Isn't that like that emo show where everyone gets AIDS and dies?

this wasn't by tourist but its still kinda funny
I was going to rehearsal for a show at one of the theatres in my area, and there were some little girls getting out of a class. I was wearing my wicked shirt, and

First girl: are you in wicked?
2nd Girl: hows New York?
1st girl: why did you come back here?

I used to work at Broadway NY (the souvenir store on the ground floor of the Marriot Marquis building) and this woman calls the store. Here is a rough sample of the conversation:

Caller: Hi, is this Broadway New York?
Me: Yes it is.
Caller: I'd like to buy tickets to a Broadway show.
Me: Unfortunately we're a retail store. We sell the merchandise from the shows but not tickets. If you tell me which show you're interested in, I can give you the number for the box office.
Caller: So this isn't Broadway?
Me: Well, this is a store. It's located on Broadway. But we don't sell tickets here.
Caller: Well, I called the operator and told him I wanted to call Broadway, NY [author's note: note the comma] and this is what I got connected to.
Me: That is the name of our store.
Caller: But you don't sell tickets.
Me: No. Listen, if you tell me the name of the show you want to see, I can get you all the information you need and you can always order tickets online.
Caller: I don't have a computer.
Me: OK. That's fine. What show were you interested in seeing?
Caller: "The Color Purple."
Me: Great. If you hold one second, I can get you the # to the theatre's direct box office.
Caller: Wait...is has it's own theatre?
Me: Yes...
Caller: But there's so many shows playing. Where do they all fit?
Me: Each show plays in it's own theatre. It's not like a cineplex.
Caller: Wow. OK. So where is "Color Purple" playing?
Me: [realizing where this is heading and muttering "Oh ****" under my breath] It's playing at the Broadway Theatre.
Caller: I know it's on Broadway! What's the name of the theatre?

I couldn't have made that up if I tried.

Updated On: 6/16/06 at 02:19 PM

I was at a Broadway show and the woman next to me said, "can you believe it? Sarah Jessica is sitting two rows behind us. She's a doll. I loved her in the 80s." My first thought was 'why does Sarah Jessica Parker have worse seats than me?' I quickly turned around to discover it was Sally Jesse Raphael. Total celebrity buzzkill.

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Sweeney a few weeks ago.
You can't make this up.

There was a morbidly obese woman sitting in front of me with her husband. At intermission:

Morbidly Obese Woman: Wait..wait...I don't get it. Are the people playing the instruments also characters?

Mind you, this was at intermission.

"I was at a Broadway show and the woman next to me said, "can you believe it? Sarah Jessica is sitting two rows behind us. She's a doll. I loved her in the 80s." My first thought was 'why does Sarah Jessica Parker have worse seats than me?' I quickly turned around to discover it was Sally Jesse Raphael. Total celebrity buzzkill."

OMG! HA HA!!

This isn't excatly from an audience member, but we were listening to random music in Marine Bio class and "On My Own" from Les Mis started to play(It said this on the computer screen) one idoit said ; "I don't know who Less Mizz is ,but they really suck."

Edit: I forget the name of the poster ,but the one about "The Color Purple and The Broadway Theaters" is GREAT!

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Updated On: 6/16/06 at 02:45 PM

Divabrigader---That's classic! It reminds me of a story from the days I worked for a local symphony. We were presenting a concert on Valentine's Day...Hanson's Romantic Symphony, another "lovey" piece, and a group of Puccini arias, including Mimi and Rodolfo's arias and duet from Act I of La Boheme. Consequently, the evening had been entitled "Arias D'Amour" (Songs of Love, for you non-French speakers)

So, I send out the press release, and a few days later, our local newspaper calls to follow up. One of the other girls in the office answers the call, and I hear her say , "Please, hold" and then burst out laughing. Seems the reporter on the other end of the line wanted to do an article on the concert, and needed to know who this Arias D'amour person was since there was no biographical information about them in the press release.

The three of us who worked in the office then made a vow, that should any of us achieve any sort of fame, our stage name would be Arias D'amour!

Reminds me of freshman year Intro to Theatre class in high school. We were reading through Oedipus Rex, and EVERY FREAKING PERSON in my class pronounced it "Oh-di-pus." I wanted to scream out "IT's "Ed"! ED!!!"

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I had a customer who just tried to order a CD---he wanted the original cast, but not a Broadway show.

I spit Mountain Dew all over my computer screen!

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I have to add my own stupid moment.

About halfway hrough the second act of The Color Purple, I turn to C is for Company and say "I think they're gay."

. . . . ugh.

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