Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 55

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:02pm

Someone needs to go watch I Love the 90's

[alliez92092]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:03pm

My friend ran up to me yesterday and told me that John Travolta was playing Wilbur in the Hairspray movie.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:16pm

"Someone needs to go watch I Love the 90's"

Or 80's.

[Pippin]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:43pm

"Someone needs to go watch I Love the 90's"

Or 80's.


actually, They formed in 88, but got their grammy in 1990, and were caught lip-syncing in late 90, so the original poster was correct, but who's counting?
wikipedia.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 5:06pm

Well, it talks about Milli Vanilli in both volumes.
Updated On: 2/24/07 at 05:06 PM

[bonjourdevoe]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:02pm

I was in a production of "Tom Sawyer" the musical my sophomore year of high school. Towards the end of the cave scene, Injun Joe has Becky Thatcher by the arm, and throws her to the ground. Apparently our actress playing Becky had most of her family in the audience, because her cousin (who was maybe 2) screams "MOMMY I HATE THAT MAN" as soon as he threw Becky to the ground. It was funny because Injun Joe and Becky didn't know what to do as the audience burst into hysterics for about 3 minutes.

[lesmisforever]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 7:12pm

(Explaining at the stage door why Julia Murney was taking so long to come out from backstage): "She has to wash all the green off of her legs!"

[Elphie3]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:25pm

At one of the first preview performances of "Rabbit Hole" we were sitting next to this obnoxious woman who felt the need to state her opinions of the play very loudly during the performance. When Cynthia Nixon first entered she basically shouted to her husband "That's Cynthia Nixon!" (She was also in the fourth row center - and it was oubvious that the cast and entire audience heard her.) What was worse though was about 20 min. later she shouted "This play is horrible" during a moment of intense silence.

[D2]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:49pm

This afternoon in the lobby of the Abingdon Theater and elderly couple discussing one of the actor's biographies:

Husband: Oh look, he was in that movie with Cheryl Streep.

Wife: Her name's not Cheryl. It's Muriel.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:09pm

"*sits Matt up on his knee*

Comfy? Good. Once upon a time, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth and music came on these small plastic rectangles called casettes, there was a pop duo who were accused of lip-synching during live performances... Their names were... uh... hrm... Milli and Vanilli? No, prolly not but they were the most famous non-singing singers in the whole kingdom..."

Thanks, Daddy.

But what does Milli Vanilli have to do with the actors flying on the vines.

Updated On: 2/24/07 at 10:09 PM

[Jon]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:17pm

Milli Vanilli wore dreadlocks, similar to the apes in TARZAN.

[courtnyj]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:21pm

Yup! I definitely see the similarities! :)
Updated On: 2/24/07 at 10:21 PM

[Dre2387]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 11:08pm

^ HAHAHA! Too true!

[Broadwayfan120791]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:24am

so tonight I saw In The Heights for my second time & there were about 3 elderly people maybe not way up there about 60 something or so..i could not help but hear what they were saying (they were very loud anyways lol) but they seemed to be very into theatre.

There were actually a few comments they made that were very amusing...[maybe you had to be there for one or two of these because of the way they were said but i'll say them anyways]

1st lady: Wow, Usnavi, I've neva (never) heard of that name; neva (never)
[thats why in opening song he goes [you probably NEVER heard my name"]


another comment:

First Lady [to her husband?]: Well, tonight we won't be going home singing any of these songs
Husband: you can't even understand them, its so bad, worse than that what's it called on the radio
First Lady: Rap?
Husband: Yeah there you go.

then the last comment i heard, i was dying over this one, and i was like trying to cover my laugh:

Another lady with the husband & wife: So you know the show Naked Boys Singing; I saw it just a couple of weeks ago, it was ok, I mean I had front seats, but I was squished and all the penises were dangling in front of me the whole time

[kgallo]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:35am

courtnyj-

thanks for the visual...gave me a good laugh and brought back some memories. I vaguely remember seeing them in concert, although I can't seem to remember who they opened for.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 2/26/07 at 8:34am

A friend, after contemplating the Equus marquee for a few minutes:

"Oh, it's a horse! I thought he had a nipple deformity."

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 2/26/07 at 10:02am

A tourist walking past a poster of Hairspray in Eighth Avenue turns to his wife and says, "Oh honey, I didn't know Hairspray was a Neil Simon show!"

Apparently he misread Neil Simon THEATER.

[Anakela]

Posted: 2/26/07 at 10:35am

threadjack...

1st lady: Wow, Usnavi, I've neva (never) heard of that name; neva (never)
[thats why in opening song he goes [you probably NEVER heard my name"]

Sorry, haven't seen In the Heights yet- there's a character in the show called Usnavi? As in US Navy? Did his momma name him after a word she saw on the side of a ship? That naming your kid Usnavys is straight outta the novel The Dirty Girls Social Club, I'm totally curious that it's shown up somewhere else too.
Updated On: 2/26/07 at 10:35 AM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 2/28/07 at 6:57pm

"Milli Vanilli wore dreadlocks, similar to the apes in TARZAN."

I had a feeling. By the way, the picture's not working for me.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 3/1/07 at 9:33am

Not real funny, but before The Apple Tree, the couple next to me were talking about "The Drowsy Chaperone":

Wife: I didn't like that they left out my favorite song from the CD, "Love is lovely in the end"
Husband: No, I am pretty sure it was in there.
Wife: Well I was really drunk
Husband: Yes, you were.

Waiting for the car at the garage next to "Grey Gardens", four women from NJ.

The leader: Well, can you believe all those broadway virgins who stood up and cheered at the end before the star came out! Everyone knows you don't stand up before the star comes out!
The show couldn't figure out if it wanted to be a play or a musical. It would have been just as horrendous as a play though.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/2/07 at 8:19pm

I was bored and reading random quotes from OverheardinNewYork.com and I found this gem:

Man #1: He's put on some weight. I don't remember him being that fat in The Last Five Years.
Man #2: Well, having two kids'll do that to you.
--Imperial Theatre, West 45th Street

Oh, Norbert!

[AdamBritten]

Posted: 3/3/07 at 4:02am

First of all I must say I LOVE THIS THREAD - second, here's my story.

My school choir is taking a trip in April to sing in Carnagie Hall, and our Director got us tix for Spelling Bee and here is the convo I had after class with a non-theatre friend.

Me: I am SO EXCITED to see Spelling Bee!
Her: Well, me too, kinda. I already saw it though.
Me: Where?
Her: At the movies.
Me: Huh?
Her: You know, that movie...Akeelah and the Bee?

She was shocked to find out that not all musicals are based on movies...

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:15pm

That happened to me once about spelling bee.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:31pm

Adam, are you singing there in April or March? (I know you said April, I'm not a tard, but) My choirs going in March to sing there with a whole bunch of other schools. Are you doing that thing with David Brunner?

[JKlock]

Posted: 3/3/07 at 9:43pm

as my mom and I were waiting on w.44th st this afternoon, possibly the creepiest looking older black man passed us and said "yo you ladies listen to hip hop? i make my own music, and i havent shot anyone, havent killed no one"