Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 49

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 2:42pm

Oh man D2 that is hilarious.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:12pm

"very young boy: Mommy, mom that was awesome!
distracted mother: where's the car?
very young boy: mom, I'm totally f***** mommy (giggles) I'm totally f***** (proceeds to jump around and dance)
distracted mother: yes dear, ok, where's your playbill."

Broadway needs a ratings system!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 1200th post to my favorite thread on this site.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:19pm

"But I was at the Stagedoor for Mary Poppins and the lady goes. Oh! Can I have your autograph? You were wonderful! And I was like. Oh, I wasn't in the show.

Haha she thought I was Kathryn Faughnan. "

Hah, that is pretty funny.

I remember when I was working on Cinderella and this one girl thought I was Cinderella [the girl who actually played Cinderella looks nothing like me and vice-versa]. It was a cute moment though.

[HollyImposter]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 3:44pm

Perfectly Marvelous: I had a moment when I was at The Wedding Singer (dressed up in normal everyday clothes) and I was standing by the Stage Door and this lady who was selling Wedding Singer stuff you could get sent to your phone came over to me and said "there's a group of people over there who think you're Felicia" and I said, "oh, really?" not really knowing how to react and she said "could you go over to them?"

I kind of paused like.. "uhh, and... do what?" And she said "tell them yourself that you're not Felicia, they don't believe me." Your story reminded me of that.

But one I have is outside the Wedding Singer, a couple of people, possibly foreign tourists, they had accents that I couldn't really distinguish, but they were saying:

Woman: The Wedding Singer? It's just being released now? Wow, that movie came out way later in the U.S.

Man: Hasn't it been a decade?

Woman: Yeah, and the U.S. is supposed to be ahead of the times with movies.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 12/23/06 at 10:14pm

During my advisory (homeroom) period...
Teacher:Ok, auditions for [insert proper name of Scottish Play here] will be next week, and they really want people to try out...
Student: Wait, is that by Shakespear?

I died after that...

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/24/06 at 9:48am

Heard at Drama Book Shop: "I'm looking for a play, I don't know who wrote it, it's called Twelfth Night."

Overheard at THE VERTICAL HOUR, after the play: "Well, I didn't hate it as much as you did..."

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 3:36am

"Perfectly Marvelous: I had a moment when I was at The Wedding Singer (dressed up in normal everyday clothes) and I was standing by the Stage Door and this lady who was selling Wedding Singer stuff you could get sent to your phone came over to me and said "there's a group of people over there who think you're Felicia" and I said, "oh, really?" not really knowing how to react and she said "could you go over to them?"

I kind of paused like.. "uhh, and... do what?" And she said "tell them yourself that you're not Felicia, they don't believe me." Your story reminded me of that."


Ah well, it's good to know I'm useful for something. =D

That is pretty funny though, I'd probably have the same reaction.

[D2]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 11:42am

I remember another one, at an early preview of Take Me Out a few years back. It was a Saturday night, and the place was packed. The gentleman behind me, out with a group of his friends, was not enjoying himself and kept kicking the back of my seat as he squirmed. At the intermission he got up and opined:

"Well this stinks. I just saw Mamma Mia last week, and all shows should be like that. I'm going home."

And he did. I presume. He wasn't back for the second act.

Updated On: 12/25/06 at 11:42 AM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 11:49am

Yeesh, how close minded can you get.

[D2]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 11:53am

Scary, huh?

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 12:05pm

I was wearing my Wedding Singer t-shirt and sunglasses one day, and this guy stopped me on 5th avenue (after following me for a few seconds). He went "I loved your show. You were wonderful," and he walked off. It was more than a little odd.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 1:39pm

"Yeesh, how close minded can you get."

Nothing beats the reaction to Cabaret... we had easily the first and second rows gone by intermission. Then again, these were older folk who were probably expecting well, the non-risque version of the show. Instead, they got the sex-behind-a-curtain, guy-kissing-guy, cigarette usage galore version.

Oh well.


The little old ladies during intermission bickering about the cigarettes were quite funny. To this day it still boggles me how everything else seem to whiz by them... and the worst thing to happen was those damn cigarettes!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/25/06 at 3:07pm

Let us not forget Sally snorting blow.

[LcoB]

Posted: 12/26/06 at 2:38pm

Matt, I know you commented on my experience a while ago, but I agree! This kid was young...but he was just in his own world, so it was pretty hilarious. I'm sure he fell asleep in the car ride home and forgot the whole thing anyway.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 12/26/06 at 10:00pm

LcoB- It is the made up stories like the one you just made up about a young kid at Spring Awakening singing Totally F*CKed that takes away from what is funny about this thread.

[smilinggiggle]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 1:43pm

Not quite overheard...or a tourist...but I found it really funny
My sister talking about my music...
"I don't like you Idina Menzel and stuff but I like the boy in the coffe shop and Mama I'm a Big Girl Now"

hahaha the boy in the coffe shop is the song "Taylor the Latte Boy" I just found that really funny

[MimiJudith]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 1:56pm

Overheard in Ollie's Times Square: A a family of four was sitting at a table. The 10-year-old boy looked bored so the father tried to cheer him up by telling him: "Hey, we're going to see 'Hairspray' right after lunch. It's about a hair salon!"

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 8:09pm

Sitting in the orchestra at The Drowsy Chaperone last week, a woman near me answered her ringing cell phone just as the lights were dimming and the audience was quieting down and she was climbing over people to get to her seat, and her side of the conversation went like this, as she hissed, "Hello? I'm at a show, can I call you back? Yeah, yeah a show. The Drowsy Chaplain. What? No, no, The Drowsy Chaplain! Chaplain. No, I haven't heard of it, but Ken bought the tickets. It's Canadian."

[Horton]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 8:26pm

Girl one: Where do you think the Wicked Lotto line starts
Girl two: Who cares, omg look theres a Jamba Juice
Girl one: OMG OMG OMG I love Jamba Juice
Girl two: I do too!! JAMBA JUICE

(I threw up in my mouth)

[Broadway Baby4]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:31pm

Yesterday, I was attempting to educate my friend about different broadway shows, because she knows absolutely nothing about broadway. I was showing her different clips of things like les mis, hairspray, a chorus line, etc. Then I showed her wicked. As we watched the clips our conversation went something like this:

Her: Wait...isn't dorothy in the wizard of oz?
Me: Yes, but this isn't the wizard of oz. That was a movie. This is different.
Her: Oh. That sucks...so its about the witches, right? How did the bad witch get green?
Me: Well-
Her: Wait don't tell me! Someone told me once...wasn't it some sort of chemical reaction or something?? (completely serious)
Me: (laughing hysterically) what are you talking about?? You are such an idiot!!
Her: Oh...why did I think there was a chemical explosion?
Me: (still laughing)I have no clue.
Her: So then what's the real reason?
Me: She was born like that.
Her: Wow, I feel dumb.

One day I'll take her to the show, then hopefully she'll get it. lol.

[D2]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:37pm

Or she could read the book.

[Broadway Baby4]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:40pm

^^ Actually thats a good idea. She reads all the time.

*Edited for spelling
Updated On: 12/27/06 at 09:40 PM

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:52pm

Also, if you read the book, random people will start conversing with you.

It works.

Over the summer, I was finishing reading it [I started it last March]. This one time, the artistic director came into the room [where I was reading] and started talking with me for a few minutes about Macguire's other novels and about the basic ideas of Wicked. Needless to say, he never conversed with any of the crew... so I felt a little special.

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:49am

Here's one:

While walking to Grand Central Station a few years ago, after having just seen Avenue Q, we began walking toward a sign I haven't noticed before. My group and I had been talking about how much better Avenue Q was than Wicked, and I looked at the sign and exclaimed, "I have never seen that sign before."

"Which one?" one of my friends asked.

"The one that says 'Emerald City'"

They all looked at me strangely. Realizing what I'd said, I quickly restated with "I mean 'Empire State Building'". It was a complete flub on my part.

Updated On: 12/28/06 at 12:49 AM

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:49am

Damn automatic double-clicking laptop!

Updated On: 12/28/06 at 12:49 AM