#126
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:00pm
I love pugs.
Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 6
#127
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:15pm
Good job, Mrs. Lovett. Patti will have none of that trash from the gutter hanging around her establishment.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
#128
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:16pm
The "Color Purple" story is totally the pride and joy of Broadway New York but we always laugh at the several people who used to come in everyday looking for the "Fiddler" CD with Harvey and Rosie on it. When someone would explain that there's a CD of this production but it has Alfred Molina and Randy Graff on it, they get all offended. When someone explains that the CD isn't re-done everytime there is a cast replacement, they inevitably say, "They don't have it here. Let's check at the theatre." Every. Single. Time. Someone once asked for a CD of the current touring cast of "Chicago" too. We've also had to explain a lot that there aren't DVDs for most shows. People come in looking for movies of "Wicked" all the time.
#129
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:22pm
DivaBrigader- That is the funniest story ever. period.
#130
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:24pm
I love re-telling that one because there's an exact moment in time - when she asked what theatre "Purple" is playing in - that I suddenly realized that I was completely doomed.
#131
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:24pm
Yeah.. She get's my vote.
#132
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:28pm
Girl sitting behind me at SF's Spelling Bee on Wednesday Night: Oh My god, there's SINGING in this?????
Some people come into our lives and quietly go, others stay a while, and leave footprints on our heart, and we are never the same.
#133
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:30pm
hahah. That's why they call it a musical.
#134
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:32pm
Last week at Sweeney:
(Old man opens his playbill and the Tony playbill is in the middle. He must have opened to the best actress nominee page and thought it was the Sweeney playbill.)
Old man: Oh wow Kelli O'Hara is in this? She's in everything!
Old man #2: And Chita Rivera! What an amazing cast!
(Old man opens his playbill and the Tony playbill is in the middle. He must have opened to the best actress nominee page and thought it was the Sweeney playbill.)
Old man: Oh wow Kelli O'Hara is in this? She's in everything!
Old man #2: And Chita Rivera! What an amazing cast!
#135
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:36pm
How sad for them.
#136
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:40pm
DivaBrigader---That's as classic as the Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First" routine. Good. Lord.
This thread has had me in stitches & tears, the whole way through.
Thanks for the laughs, everyone!
This thread has had me in stitches & tears, the whole way through.
Thanks for the laughs, everyone!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#137
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:41pm
We went to a see local theater production that a friend of my cousin's was in. There was this little kid nearby who talked back to the actors and at one point said pretty loud "I've got to pee." It was so frickin hilarious... even though I hate when little kids talk during the show. I would have lost it if I was on stage.
As for Broadway... nothing much I can think of except one guy yelled out at Rent when Angel and COllins kiss during I'll Cover You "That's two guys" At a different performance I saw two women pushing 80 sitting bythemselves.
Oh and at Jersey Boys this old lady asked one of the ensemble members (Donnie Kehr) if he was in the show and which one was he.
As for Broadway... nothing much I can think of except one guy yelled out at Rent when Angel and COllins kiss during I'll Cover You "That's two guys" At a different performance I saw two women pushing 80 sitting bythemselves.
Oh and at Jersey Boys this old lady asked one of the ensemble members (Donnie Kehr) if he was in the show and which one was he.
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
#138
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:41pm
When I saw Lestat in SF there was a slip in the front of the Playbill that explained the casting change w/Drew Sarich taking over the role of Armand then his biography on the same page. Then everyone around me exclaimed after reading the paper front and back "wow! we're getting an understudy for Armand!"
During the WICKED tour, after Fiyero said "It's just--you've been galinda-fied" then my friend next to me began to laugh hysterically "hahah! Thats not a real word!"
During the WICKED tour, after Fiyero said "It's just--you've been galinda-fied" then my friend next to me began to laugh hysterically "hahah! Thats not a real word!"
#139
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:49pm
Half of the words in WICKED are made up. "Striven" comes to mind.
I will confess something. I saw LESTAT in San Francisco and I didn't recognize Jim at the stage door. I asked him who he was.
Zach and I don't work well in nice clothes, so we go back to our hotel as fast as we could to change, and by the time we got back, we missed everyone. Jim and Beth were the last out of the theatre. I felt really stupid for asking who he was, but I can never tell who people are outside costume and makeup.
But we kind of had an early morning breakfast at that little joint on the corner together.. just not at the same table.
I will confess something. I saw LESTAT in San Francisco and I didn't recognize Jim at the stage door. I asked him who he was.
Zach and I don't work well in nice clothes, so we go back to our hotel as fast as we could to change, and by the time we got back, we missed everyone. Jim and Beth were the last out of the theatre. I felt really stupid for asking who he was, but I can never tell who people are outside costume and makeup.
But we kind of had an early morning breakfast at that little joint on the corner together.. just not at the same table.
#140
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:55pm
Oh god. This thread is AMAZING. 
I have had the, erm, honor(?) of having those "Who did you play in the show?" questioners be people I came to the show with. It's understandable for something like "Cats" or "The Lion King" where the costumes and makeup were concealing, but for a suit-and-tie show like "Jersey Boys" it's harder to take.
I have had the, erm, honor(?) of having those "Who did you play in the show?" questioners be people I came to the show with. It's understandable for something like "Cats" or "The Lion King" where the costumes and makeup were concealing, but for a suit-and-tie show like "Jersey Boys" it's harder to take.
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Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
"... chasin' the music. Trying to get home."
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#141
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:01pm
Oh my gosh. You just reminded me of one from The Lion King in SF. This lady was talking to the person playing Rafiki and she said:
Woman:Oh the music was so beautiful and what were those words and the beginning?
Rafiki actress: It's it my native language
Woman: Oh really? What is it?
Rafiki: Swahili
Woman: oh!
She totally didn't know that they were actually speaking another language, not some random words. I was so embarrased listening to her.
Woman:Oh the music was so beautiful and what were those words and the beginning?
Rafiki actress: It's it my native language
Woman: Oh really? What is it?
Rafiki: Swahili
Woman: oh!
She totally didn't know that they were actually speaking another language, not some random words. I was so embarrased listening to her.
2008 European Tour
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
#142
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:11pm
Walking out of a HAIRSPRAY matinee (said by an elderly tourist to her husband:
"That woman who played the mother was a horrible singer"
Husband: "I agree, and her bust size was too big to be a mother"
...whatever that means.
"That woman who played the mother was a horrible singer"
Husband: "I agree, and her bust size was too big to be a mother"
...whatever that means.
#143
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:15pm
I like how people think Harvey is a woman. They obviously don't read anything.
#144
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:15pm
Uh, striven is a word.
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
#145
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:22pm
Overheard this as the lights came up at the beginning of A CHORUS LINE:
"Uh-Oh!! They're still rehearsing. Don't they know the curtain is up??!?!"
"Uh-Oh!! They're still rehearsing. Don't they know the curtain is up??!?!"
#146
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:23pm
personal favorite- thoroughly modern millie matinee
old woman 1: that harriet harris is great on frasier
old woman 2: yeah i know, when she is on that show you would never know she was asian.
old woman 1: I KNOW! why do they make her cover up her accent.
wicked tour stage door: victoria matlock (elphaba standby) comes out and there is obvious leftover green makeup all over her hands and neck, she is standing next to emily rozek who played glinda
girl: Which one of you was the like green one?
old woman 1: that harriet harris is great on frasier
old woman 2: yeah i know, when she is on that show you would never know she was asian.
old woman 1: I KNOW! why do they make her cover up her accent.
wicked tour stage door: victoria matlock (elphaba standby) comes out and there is obvious leftover green makeup all over her hands and neck, she is standing next to emily rozek who played glinda
girl: Which one of you was the like green one?
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#147
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:27pm
"Patti will have none of that trash from the gutter hanging around her establishment."
Amen!
Amen!
~H*
"I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!"
-Michael Cerveris
#148
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:29pm
Strive is a word. Strived is a word. Striven, I don't think so. Atleast, I would never use it.
#149
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:32pm
Haven't I striven, striven with all my strength, to find something to give meaning to my life?
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo
To the best of my power I have striven to give the reader a glimpse of a man's secret dwelling when it is shared with John Barleycorn.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack
The heritage of a kingly mind, And a proud spirit which hath striven Triumphantly with human kind.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo
To the best of my power I have striven to give the reader a glimpse of a man's secret dwelling when it is shared with John Barleycorn.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack
The heritage of a kingly mind, And a proud spirit which hath striven Triumphantly with human kind.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan
#150
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:33pm
At The Drowsy Chaperone, there was a group of several older women sitting in front of us. At some point, Beth Leavel has a line "Champagne make me..." . The woman sitting in front of my husband says in a loud whisper "tired." Beth finishes her line "...drowsy." Audience woman: "Oh... drowsy."
Gingerbread houses along golden, frothy canals. Like Venice... only different?
