Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 57

Here's some conversations I had with my mom recently.

While looking through a flyer of Toledo's new season while seeing Chicago (before the show started):

ME: Hey look, Evita is coming here.
MOM: We already saw that one, didn't we?
ME: umm... no
MOM: Oh nevermind then
ME: No, I'd really like to know what show we saw that was even remotly related to Evita.
MOM: What's that one about the egyptian slave girl?
ME: Aida?
MOM: Yeah that's the one

That one wasn't too funny, but this one happened while listening to my Sweet Charity CD in the car:

CD: I chew my finger nails to the knuckle...
MOM: What is she, some kind of cannibal?

Updated On: 3/16/07 at 07:00 PM

My boss was telling me how excited he was to be seeing The Producers tour. He said he was going to take his grandmother, who apparently had seen the show years ago, "back when it was on Broadway with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder."

He was so excited that I decided not to correct him.

After convincing my friend to see a show with me. (It's his first show.)

Him: So where is it?
Me: 47th and Broadway.
Him: OMG, we have to go to the CITY!?
Me: Where did you think it was?
Him: (Probably covering) No, I just thought of traffic.


Cause Broadway isnt, you know, on Broadway. It's in Queens where we live...

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Not really hilarious, but...

My Drama Lit. teacher was describing to our class different theater terms and he was talking to us about swings and understudies. He has a whole bunch of musical posters on the wall of his room and he told us about how his one really good friend was a swing in Rent. He was in New York for one weekend and he had planned on seeing another show, but his friend called him and asked him to come see Rent because she was going on that night and she was very excited. Being the broadway-obsessed person I am:

Me: What part did she play?
Teacher: She was the soloist in "Seasons of Love"
Another kid in my class: So you mean she played the lesbian too?
Me: *rolls eyes and groans*
Teacher: No, the musical is different than the movie.


What actually made this funny, is that this kid claims to be a "theater geek"

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At the Wicked stage door, everyone was still waiting for "Elphaba" to come out. There was one little girl who kept asking her parents when Elphaba was going to come out and asked everyone if they were Elphaba. I leaned down to her and said, "You know how you're gonna be able to tell when Elphaba comes out? She's gonna be the last one out. Look for someone with long blonde hair and is probably wearing a hat." As I stand up, this was the conversation:

Father: Blonde hair, really?
Mother: So she wears a wig the whole time?
Me: Yes, she does.
*Father opens playbill*
Father: Oh yeah look at her hair. Julia Mmmm...
Me: Murney...
Father: Ah.

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Surely someone has posted this before, as I'm sure if it happened both times I went, it happens almost every time. During intermission at Grey Gardens:

Person 1: I think the lady who played the mother in the first act is playing the daughter in the second act.
Person 2: I think you're right.

(Absolutely verbatim. Both times. I thought I was experiencing deja vu.)

You don't... know that going in?

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At Spring Awakening yesterday:

Teenage girl: Whenever I sing along to the soundtrack, I make up different lyrics.

And:

Old Woman: Wasn't 'Don't Do Sadness' a dream?
Me: Um, no, it wasn't.
Old Woman: Yes it was, those two characters weren't facing each other during the whole scene, and I heard that guy, what's his name? Mort (not a spelling error) say something about a dream.
Me: Well, I'm positive it wasn't a dream.
Old Woman: I'm pretty sure it was.
Me:...right...

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Here's another. My two friends seeing "Rent". This took place during intermission.

Dani: I wanna see "Annie".
Mel: Why?
Dani: I dunno. I just wanna see it. You know, as a school play.
Mel: So you wanna see a school put on a production of "Annie"?
Dani: Either that or "Rent Jr."

Itz not THAT funny, I know.

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Updated On: 4/2/07 at 03:51 PM

"hairspray"

"that looks fun"

"im sure its just someone like suave or someone trying to tell their stuff musical wise"

GOTTA LOVE OLD WOMEN!!

or a old couple....

"honey wicked looks nice"

"i think its a burlesque show gary-i mean there is one girl whispering to the other girl-probably naughty stuff at that!"

TKTS line-

women 1 - "Have you seen Spring Awakening?"
woman 2- "Not a humable tune in the whole thing, I like shows with a good story like Mamma Mia and Jersey boys..."

(ok it was hilarious if you say that back with a heavy Jersey accent...)

Not sure if this accounts for anything, but I saw a production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying last night at my old high school.

(a couple sitting behind me, reading through the program as the show is going on):
Man: There seems to be a lot of tenth graders in this show. It says sophomore or tenth grade.

Woman: But it doesn't say what school they go to. Maybe they're from another school?



The school's name was clearly written on the front of the program, and only two towns go to the school.


I was using my phone to record my friend saying random stuff. (she's a Raul fan.)

Me: Say, "I hate Raul Ezparsa." (not a spelling error.)
Her: I hate Raul Ezparsa.
Me: Ha! Now it's recorded!
Her: No, I said I hated Raul Ezparsa, not Esparza.
Me: Oh.



Wow, how original are you?

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Updated On: 4/1/07 at 08:27 PM

Okay, you might not think these are funny. I might have posted a few of these, but I couldnt find my post anywhere.

When I went to Sweeney Todd last year with my mom, there was this young man behind us. During intermission, he said, "I'd rather see Little House on the Priarie the Musical!"

Then, when I saw LITP, there was this gay couple (I believe, don't quote me or anything) and there was the Statue of David. And Clara went over and touched the penis, or grabbed it (I think it's grabbed. Having a bad day with remembering.) and they started to giggle. No one else was laughing, but I started laughing too. I just thought it was really funny that two grow men began to giggle at it.

My friend went to see Hairspray when she was little and she got to go backstage. She went up to Harvey Fierstein and said, "you looked better as a woman." He said, "Thank you!" I guess he took it as a compliment!

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How could you listen to the Mamma Mia soundtrack when the movie hasn't been made yet?

Updated On: 4/2/07 at 08:04 AM