Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 52

[Gelfling]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:49am

from http://www.overheardinnewyork.com

Little girl pointing to a poster of The Phantom of the Opera: Look, Mommy! The Mask!
Mom: No, sweetheart, that's The Phantom of the Opera. Mask is a movie with Cher.

lol... it's all a question of generation, I guess...

[kec]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:57am

I wonder if the little girl was referring to the film with Jim Carrey.
Updated On: 1/10/07 at 04:57 AM

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 1/10/07 at 6:33am

I think she was. I was talking to a new friend and asked what his favorite broadway shows are. His list:

Annie
Wicked
Rent
42nd Street
"Skid Row" (he obviously meant Little Shop but I let it slide.)
Chorus Line
and HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!!!!!!.....WTF!?!

I then started to explain to him that it was just a cheesey disney channel movie and he insisted it was a broadway show turned movie.....I just walked away.

[FosseForever3]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 4:15pm

In the audience during intermission at "Summer In Smoke" Paper Mill Playhouse:


Guy: Wow, what a totally down to earth cast -
Girl: Yeah, they seem so earthy and real.
Guy: Yeah, earthy, exactly.
Girl: Yeah like they would hold hands before every show and sing Kum-bay-ya or something...

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 9:17am

During Avenue Q,

an elderly woman asking everyone around if the golden was where phantom played; i laughed and laughed. she said i saw it here a week ago! ah

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 9:17am

During Avenue Q,

an elderly woman asking everyone around if the golden was where phantom played; i laughed and laughed. she said i saw it here a week ago! ah

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 10:48am

At the Bristol Old Vic 14/01/07:

I don't know if you have them in the US, but in the UK it is a legal requirement for the safety curtain (an iron sheet which separates the stage and auditorium at the proscenium to contain fires) to be raised and lowered in the presence of the audience. It usually has SAFTY CURTAIN printed across it in big letters. In the interval, the girls behind me were contemplating it's function...

Girl 1: What's that for then?
Girl 2: Well, it's like, in olden times, if people didn't like an actor they used to throw fruit at them. I expect they brought it down if they were really bad and there was lots of fruit which could be really dangerous...

[Mooo]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 11:41am

Look honey it's the original Ray's Pizza.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 5:58pm

I was watching You're the One that I Want last night and my brother and his best friend entered the room. My brother turns to his friend and says, "This is such a dumb show. It's American Idol for people who like to sing Grease songs. What a bunch of F***ing losers! What's the point?" His best friend replies, "A starring role on Broadway, fool."

I just sat back and laughed.



Edited for a Typo

Updated On: 1/19/07 at 05:58 PM

[Millie315]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 6:19pm

I was standing out side the theatre after seeing Spring Awakening and one woman came out and said to her husband "why did Moretz kill himself? I don't get it!" HELLO...Did you watch the show? I almost died laughing.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 6:26pm

Did your brother actually say "rold," LyTeMyCanDyI, or was that a typo?

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 6:28pm

Well, this was said by my grandmother, but it was still funny. This was when we saw Lennon in September 2005, and she's referring to Marcy Harriell during one of the scenes where the girls played the Beatles.

Grandmother: "She'd better watch out. The way she's shaking, her wig is going to fly right off."
Me: "That's not a wig..."
Grandmother: "Bless her. Wow, I thought it was."

[ashley0139]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 6:54pm

Haha! I love Marcy's hair so much!

[Mythus]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 7:14pm

An old couple behind me in the line to get into Spamalot -

Husband: Did Rent go away?
Wife: What?
Husband: That show, you know, Rent, didn't it close?
Wife: What?
Husband: Yeah, Rent closed.

And then waiting at the stage door that night (keep in mind we're in New York) -

Teenage Girl: (to her father or possibly boyfriend) I think Tim Curry is gonna come out soon.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 1/19/07 at 8:58pm

One of my friend's parents:

"Man, the Times They Are-A Changin', it was such a good show. Completely different from the reviews, I thought it would run for years"

[Kelizascop]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 12:32am

Fort Lauderdale, Spamalot. Center Balcony, Row B. Pre-show. Elderly couple sitting next to me. Woman thumbs through Playbill, lands on feature article about Kristin Chenoweth.

The woman turns to her husband and bleats, "Honey, look, this Kristin girl is the star. That's who we're gonna see" The man looks it over and responds, "No, no, I don't think that's her." The woman--with that voice, oh, that voice, dear god, make it stop--nasals, "We'll see."

Intermission.

The woman again opens her Playbill. She reads the article about Chenoweth and _The Apple Tree_, stopping at the part about her vocal range. She again turns to her husband, certain she's vindicated, points to Kristin's picture, and says, 'See, I TOLD you it was her." She moves her finger down the page. "Yeah, it says right here that she hits the high notes, just like she just did on those songs."

[After intermission, Pia Glenn--Chenoweth's doppelganger, natch--returns to the stage as The Lady of the Lake].

[MrBundles]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 12:55am

I don't know if you have them in the US, but in the UK it is a legal requirement for the safety curtain...

The safety curtains in the U.S. do not have to be lowered in front of an audience. It took me a while to get used to it when I lived in London, but then I grew to really like it because so many of them are artistic, though the one at the Lyttelton scares me....I miss the safety curtains now that I'm back!

[PopularGalinda2]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:34am

After the 1/7 performance of Drowsy, I was waiting at the SD with my mom, my friend and her family. The woman next to me asked if I had any clue if Sutton was coming out. I told her most likely not, you have to catch her before the show. Then Kecia came out and she asked Kecia if Sutton was coming out. Kecia told her she wasn't and went off into a huge 4 minute explanation as to why she doesn't come out. Then Beth comes out, and while I'm talking to Beth, she asks Beth the same exact question. Beth told her she already left. So then a little later, she asks my mom if Sutton is coming out, and my mom told her that she normally doesn't come out after the show and you have to pre-show SD to talk to her. She said ok, and then Joey Sorge (the Aldolpho understudy for the night) came out, and she asked him the same exact question. After everyone in the cast had come out, I started walking away from the Stage door and I heard her say "Guess Sutton isn't coming out."

Also, not really touristy, but I was walking towards 45th street on 8th avenue from Port Authority, and I happened to pass some adult shops. I was standing with my mom on the corner waiting to cross, and the man looks at me and says "Filth, pure filth. Young lady, you should not be walking around here." For a split second, I thought he was talking about garbage but realized he was talking about the shops on the street. Apparently I had a weirded out look on my face and my mom and I started cracking up when we reached our destination. Oh, New York. :)

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:45am

Waiting to get into "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me"

Woman: *indistinctive chatter* ...Ben Vereen! I saw him in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway.
Husband: Oh yeah?
Woman: Yes, he was great. He's dead now. Died a couple of years ago.
Husband: Oh...
--
WHAT?!

[Corine2]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 10:50am

This is my favorite:
I was on 72nd and Broadway. Woman: I think we passed it. Man: No, we didn't. Me: Excuse me are you lost? Man: Lost? Woman: He refuses to ask for directions, just like a man. Can you tell us where the DAKOTA IS? The hotel where John Lennon lived?
Man: We want to see the hotel. Me: First, it is an apt building.
Man: No! It is a hotel. Woman: Where is the hotel?
Me: It is an apt building it is 3 blocks that way.
(I walked them to the Dakota)
Stuff like this cracks me up.
Updated On: 1/20/07 at 10:50 AM

[bwayfan4life]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 11:33am

I was at the Sunday matinee of Aida in Macon. The understudy for Amneris has a connection to the Atlanta area and it must have been planned for her to be on at this performance. Just before the show began, they announce that in this performance the role of Ameneris will be played by (understudy's name) and a lot of people in the audiance began to cheer and applaud. The lady next to me said to her husband: "the regular must really stink if everyone is that happy that the undersudy is going to be performing."

Updated On: 1/20/07 at 11:33 AM

[Gloryday225]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 12:02pm

First, these are all great. Second... I know you didn't mean to, but the person who posted the moment about Spring Awakening just gave away a huge spoiler that I wasn't aware of. You might want to be more careful about that.

[YessicaB]

Posted: 1/20/07 at 2:13pm

Took my sister to see her first show. I decided on Wicked, and as predicted she loved it. During intermission she commented: You know the green one, she's really good, she should become a singer. (About Idina Menzel, here in London).

[BobbyErikValjean]

Posted: 1/23/07 at 5:49pm

I asked my mom what Les Miz was about.

Mom: Well first there was this guy with a really big hat. Then he left.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 10:03am

At TKTS last night, a man was on his phone (buying tickets for him and a friend probably

"Dude, COMPANY's on here! It's only 50 bucks, even though Raul's out, who cares, its only 50!"

*pause for friend's reaction*

"What the hell is SPRING AWAKENING?"

(Which is what I got tickets for, lol)