Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 43

[algy]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 5:23pm

"Her: California. It was either there, Ohio or New York State


.... Why in the WORLD would OHIO be on that list??? Two TOTALLT amazing states with FANTASTIC cities to visit.... and Ohio? I don't get it."

Why would anyone from California or NYState want to come to Preston? (Ugly Northern English town with rubbish weather and a problem with race hate crimes?)

Seriously, it's all about where your university has exchange agreements with.

It was bloody hilarious though.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 5:31pm

Girl 1: The university is putting on Twelfth Night tonight...I think I have to go for one of my classes.
Girl 2: That sucks. Isn't it Shakespeare?
Girl 1: It was written a couple years ago...is Shakespeare alive?


I died a little on the inside and brought that girl along for the ride

[algy]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 5:41pm

I've had a couple of people over the years that have blatantly claimed to have seen things that they haven't... unfortunately all the specifics have gone out of my head at the moment...

Posted: 10/16/06 at 8:16pm

These stories never cease to make me smile.

I'm going to New York on Wednesday for a long weekend, so on Monday, I'll have some stories!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:14pm

When I was seeing My Fair Lady this weekend, after the bet was placed between Higgins and Colonel Pickering, a girl sitting behind me goes "Oh! So it's like the movie She's All That! God, every plot nowadays rips off that movie."

Later, when I saw Schoolhouse Rock: Live, an older woman stood up in front of me at intermission and claimed that there are a lot of talented kids in the cast, perhaps they'll go onto Broadway and win a Grammy. It was cute.

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:22pm

at the wedding singer stage door saturday night:

one of the constantine fans saw felicia come out and said: "who is that? the main girl?"

i just laughed to myself. she did eventually figure out who it was though thanks to a man beside her.

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:32pm

just saw this:

"TWS on Saturday at intermission... a conversation between 2 50-60 year old women

Woman 1: The person playing Julia is not the one the program said.
Woman 2: Yea, if we had the girl it said, she'd have black hair.
Woman 1: Yep, I think we have this Tina girl, but I'm not sure

*women walk up to an usher*

Woman 1: Why wasn't anything announced that we didn't get this Laura person
Usher: Because that's her on stage
Woman 2: *opens playbill, points to her headshot* That's black hair...she has blonde hair, it must be Tina
Usher: Laura wears a wig
Woman 1: Obviously you're wrong. Whatever, go hand out some more information booklets.

Ha.Ha."

the first time i saw this show i was almost the same way. i was like i know its laura but it doesnt look like her at all! i was in denial! i thought that she must have cut and died her hair or something lol. man did i feel like an idiot! but i still knew that it was laura, sheesh, lol.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:32pm

I was sitting in Roxy's after seeing Grey Gardens. The program was on my table. A man sitting next to me goes:

"Where is that? In Central Park?"

[pants2]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:08pm

one time i heard a middle aged teacher telling her group of about 23 teen students "interesting facts about the gershwin" before they saw wicked.... one of them was "class, the most amazin thing about this show is that, it is in the heart of ground zero, and the workers put stabalizers on this building so the owers wouldnt kill the greatest show in history.... wicked" first of all, is she kidding, second of all, wicked wasnt even open, third of all, ground zero is like what, 50 blocks below that?

[Anakela]

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:08pm

When I was seeing My Fair Lady this weekend, after the bet was placed between Higgins and Colonel Pickering, a girl sitting behind me goes "Oh! So it's like the movie She's All That! God, every plot nowadays rips off that movie."

I just almost died laughing. Between this quote, and the Shakespeare one upthread, I am dead.

Then again, I just had to Google 'Ashley Tisdale'- I have heard of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, but not enough that I knew who this Tisdale was- and so I am sure that'll be just as funny to someone as I am finding these quotes.

But, 'ripping off' SHE'S ALL THAT? I seriously died.

[Jon]

Posted: 10/17/06 at 9:10am

The worst is that Shakespeare dude. He totally ripped off the plots of West Side Story, The Lion King, Ten Things I Hate About You and She's The Man.

Posted: 10/22/06 at 7:56pm

An elderly couple at Grey Gardens Thursday, right before curtain; orchestra is tuning.

Wife: We're not going to be able to hear anything, with this music playing.
Husband: We'll end up going to the chiropractors after *this* show.

At intermission of Jersey Boys, Friday:

Middle-aged man: (looking at the "Best of The Four Seasons" CD and the Jersey Boys OBCR at the souvenir stand) What's the difference?

In a cab with my mother, aunt, and 7-year-old cousin.
Cousin: (looking at glass separating driver from backseat) What's that for?
Aunt: His protection.
Cousin:... so he doesn't punch us?

Times Square, Saturday:

Ambiguously homeless man: (to me, for no reason) YOU F*CKING WHORE!

After stagedooring for The Drowsy Chaperone, at Junior's on Shubert Alley:

Dad: (getting mixed up between Lenny Wolpe and Jason Kravits) So... you got Lenny Kravitz's autograph?
Me: ... no.

I tried to keep my ears peeled for comments, but nothing terribly funny.

[Julian2]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 8:38pm

Last night, I had a dream that I was in the audience for something and some woman was getting Mary Poppins andd Chitty Chitty Bang Bang confused for some reason. I started to correct her, and then stopped when it became to much trouble. And I remember thinking to my self (in the dream), "I'll just post this on the Hillarious Comments Overheard by Tourists and Audience Members later."

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 8:59pm

pants2, i cant stop laughing about that wicked and ground zero one

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 9:02pm

Today at Wicked in T.O. I got one of the typical responses it seems. "I wonder if they'll have the DVD available. You know the girl who played Glinda isn't on the CD?"

[Candleshoe2]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 9:04pm

At the current Non-Equity "The Producers" National Tour:

Two women in their late 20s were flipping through the program during intermission and couldn't figure out that US stood for understudy.

WOMAN 1: (Looking at an ensemble member's biography) Gosh, it seems like all of the people in the ensemble have a US and a lead character's name after it next to their bio.

WOMAN 2: Hmm... What in the world does US mean?

WOMAN 1: Oh, I see! US probably mean they were in the Broadway show in the United States!

WOMAN 2: I guess! Hmm...

[Broadway Baby4]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:24pm

that thing about ground zero and wicked- i just died. :)

[ahmelie]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:25pm

*with my friend, in class*

Me: I got this DVD, it's called "Boadway: The Golden Age"
My Friend: So is Wicked on it?

And this kid knows me! he should've been expecting a slap... and he got one.

[musicalangel12]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:41pm

Not Broadway, but college theatre. Last week, my college theatre group staged "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. I was working house on Saturday night, selling something by the theatre door. This girl and her friend pay for their tickets and as they are going in, I hear her say, "Wait...I thought this was 'And Then There Were Nine'!" Imagine how interesting that play would be...

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:51pm

Wait.
Your school didn't do "Ten Little Indians"? Or did y'all stage the movie version?

[musicalangel12]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:58pm

No, we used the version Agatha Christie adapted herself. Consider "And Then There Were None" as a politically correct version. But that is also the title both the play and the book now go by.

Posted: 10/22/06 at 11:01pm

hahahaha, the US (understudy) one just killed me!! hahahah, wow! love it!

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 3:03pm

Last Night and Wedding Singer:

Dumb girl 1: It says here in this book that Steven Lynch does musical comedy. What's he doing on Broadway?
Dumb Girl 2: I guess he can sing.
DG1: I guess he has to. He's playing robbie Hart.
DG2: Well, I guess we'll have to wait and see.


a little later

Husband: Oh...it says here that Constantine is playing Sammy!
Wife: Really? I thought he was Robbie!!!!!

WTF

[alliez92092]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 5:35pm

I would shoot someone if Constantine played Robbie.

[hortonhearsasam]

Posted: 10/26/06 at 6:01pm

I was at the Drowsy Chaperone last week.

Early on in the show when we meet Trix, Man In Chair says that she was an aviatrix--"what we now call a lesbian." Then Trix doesn't come on stage for most of the show, until near the end when she finally comes on. When she does, the woman right behind me goes "Oh, there's the lesbian!!" really loudly.

My friend and I both started cracking up.