Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 51

Overheard on 44th Street on December 30, walking past the Majestic:

Guy on the street (I'm assuming a tourist): "I thought this show closed awhile ago -- Phantom."

Me: It'll never close....

Same day, 8th Avenue. I'm walking south, and an older woman and her husband pass me going north. As she passes she says:

"Why does this always happen?!" (In reference to the crowd on the street)

Well, it is New Year's weekend after all...

Updated On: 12/31/06 at 10:57 AM

While trying to get to Port Authority a while ago a young boy clearly not from the States said to his mother:

"Wow, these Americans sure love their New Years!"

YAY! First one of '07:

Friend who has no idea who Jay Johnson is and never saw his show: Yeah, I heard that closed cause it sucked! It said so in all of the reviews!

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When I saw the DREAMGIRLS movie at the Ziegfeld Theatre last week:
Alright, so Beyonce had just had her final note in "Listen" and she is standing there
And this woman behind me says "Yeah, Effie!"

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This is a totally true story. You seriously would hope someone would not be that stupid, but then again, you can only hope...

Overheard during intermission at this evening's performance of "Spring Awakening" (1/6/06)

Teenage Daughter: Mom, get with it. The show takes place in the 1930's. Can't you tell by the costumes?

Mother: Oh. Well why haven't they mentioned Hitler?

Teenage Daughter: They probably will in the 2nd Act.

Needless to say, Hitler wasn't mentioned. At all. Doesn't anybody read their G_D_ program?

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Updated On: 1/7/07 at 11:57 PM

During a performance of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I happened to be seated next to a group of uber-conservative, republican high school students from Texas on their Senior trip...

Lawrence: The Bush's of Tex were nervous wrecks because their son was dim...but look what happened to him!

Students: :::unamused, cricket-chirping silence:::

"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. "
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No joke, one time after Rocky Horror I saw a guy get approached by two people who thought he was Lea DeLaria. He smiled and took a picture with them. Probably signed their playbills, too, but I can't confirm that.

Yesterday at the Drowsy Chaperone stage door when Joey Sorge, the understudy for Aldolpho came out, this kid next to me said, "You have no idea how fast I want this show to close." Joey kind of laughed and looked at him puzzled, and the kid said, "I want to play Aldolpho." ...Awkward.

When Patrick Wetzel came out after just performing as Man in Chair, the same kid said, "I wish I had enough money to stalk people because you'd be like third on my list." Patrick laughed a little bit as well.

Too creepy!

Updated On: 1/7/07 at 12:16 PM

"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."

okay, when I saw Wicked my friend's mom had done Cabaret with Joel Grey so he told us to come back stage and after, we walked out through the stage door and all of these screaming fans are like, "OMG OMG OMG IT'S IDINA AND KRISTIN!!!!! AHHHHHH!" b/c I have blonde hair and my friend actually does kind of look like Idina. so they were shoving playbills at us and taking pictures. I signed about 20 playbills it was the funniest thing ever!

but the best part was that we had come down in the elevator backstage with Idina and she slipped out un-recognized.

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This afternoon (1/7/07) at GREY GARDENS was a bonanza of overheard hilarity.

1. Waiting on line to pick up our tickets at will call. An elderly man and wife come in all flustered and see that there is only one window open. The woman comes up to my partner and me and says quite imperiously "Excuse me, but we have tickets to this afternoon's show." My partner just looked at her and said "So do we." The husband said "But I'm 72 - you're going to make me go to the end of the line?" And before we could say anything to him, the woman behind us said, quite loudly, "If you want to make it to 73."

2. Going into the theatre, a couple of elderly women talking.
Woman 1: "I saw SPRING AWAKENING a couple of weeks ago. At this same theatre."
Woman 2: "Oh, did that close already?"
Woman 1: "I don't think so, I think they moved it. Just like they moved this one. They do that a lot. It get's confusing."
Woman 2: "That's probably why tickets are so expensive. When Mary moved to Tampa last year it cost her a bundle."

3: Our seats were in the third row of the orchestra. A few minutes before the show began, a woman came rushing in to her seat in front of me in the second row. She looked at the person next to her and said "Wow, could we get any closer?" The gentleman looked at her like she was out of her mind and said "Yes. The first row."

4: On our way out of the theatre, a 30-something gay couple were arguing.
Man 1: "You said this was going to be like WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? It wasn't at all like that. First of all, they weren't sisters, and in the second act the crazy one didn't have blonde hair. She didn't have any hair!"
Man 2: "Shut up."

I'm so glad my own crazy mother taught me to eavesdrop. Sometimes it's more entertaining than the show.

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Updated On: 1/7/07 at 07:59 PM

To MrsLovett7: Hahahahahaha, that's incredible.
A bit selfish and underhanded for my taste, but Brava!!!!

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Sheesh. They wouldn't shut up.


Neither will you.