Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 62

Here's a LoveMusik story.
I was in the rear orchestra and this couple behind me thought the show was a sing-a-long. It was dreadful. They sang (off key) along with the actors when they knew a piece. They also put their feet up on my chair and the one next to me. They really were rude. Although, their lousy singing was really funny. (They were AWFUL.) I did shush them.

Last Fri. at GG-An obviously tourist couple is next to me. Now, the show starts and the man sitting next to me pokes me in the arm and says, "Which one is Christine? Which one?" I shushed him, to which he turned to his wife and said, "she doesn't know, either, I guess, or she's really rude. (I don't know which one she is?! Haha!) I only want to know which one Christine is." I can't believe he didn't read the playbill in the ten minutes before the show started.
Then, he proceeded to rifle through the playbill (we were way up front in the orchestra, mind you) and ask which song we were on. I was thoroughly annoyed.

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At the Pirate Queen stage door on Thursday, there was a mother there with her daughter and some of her daughter's friends. This woman was seriously the loudest and most effusive (bordering on obnoxious) mother/woman I have ever encountered. She was more annoying than the daughters, who were, mind you, annoying. But more about them later.
Everytime an actor would come out the woman would loudly compliment them, and when the little boy playing Eoin came out, she simply couldn't contain herself.
Woman: OH. MY. GAWD! You are SO ADORABLE!! Whatta ya gonna do afta the show ends? Are ya gonna go to the Bahamas and have beautiful ladies in bikini soyve (serve) ya drinks?!
Boy playing Eoin: Um....
Me and my sister:....WTF? *silent laughter*

The daughter and her friends decided that Hadley Fraser is HOTT, and they decided to tell him so. So, they ran up to him and told him, flat out, that he was hot, among other thing. I didn't catch what he said to them, but his face after they walked away was priceless. My sister and I were speechless.

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In the audience at DRS in Boston. Two elderly woman looking through the Broadway Across America season and their date books.

First elderly woman: What show do we have next?
Second elderly woman: Well, next we have Chiquita Rivera.

And there it was, written down clearly in her date book as "Chiquita"...

This is a while ago at the Drowsy Chaperone, but anyway, you have to understand that in the playbill it says next to Bob Martin's name "Man in Chair", "Book". and at the end of the show, a woman walked up to me and said, "did you ever see that man (points to Marin's headshot) play a book on stage," i said "no", and she said, "see, i told my daughter there are always errors in these playbills"

Ugh. I've seen it 4 times and have yet to see a reaction like that. I really want to! Though last time I finally spotted the (not so) elusive fangirl! It was pretty exciting to see one in its natural habitat.

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I love the show, but even I won't sing that song in public.

I sing it in public. O_o But then, I sing many inappropriate songs in public because it makes slow days go that little bit faster, and also it's a CATCHY mother! My co-workers are used to me singing showtunes so don't really care if I'm singing something a tad offensive, they just assume there's some plot-based reason behind it that they're not aware of or something. XD

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Yes-but I wouldn't walk around Manhattan singing that song. (It might get you in trouble in certain neighborhoods.)

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at spring awakening 2 weeks ago i was seated next to an elderly couple (im assuming they're married) and during intermission the husband asked the wife what that "dark i know well" song was about and the wife replied "well.. (as she points to her forearm)..the young lady is dark"

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I heard the lady beside me whisper to her companion this comment when Bruiser Woods runs out on stage during Legally Blonde: "Is that a real dog?"

"Legally Blonde won the best musical at the Tonys!!"

- one of my classmates in my theatre class...

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All witnessed at Wicked last night:

Teen Boy: Isn't Phantom of the Opera closing so Grease can go in its theatre?
His Mom: No, isn't it going where Beauty and the Beast is?
Boy: No, that's closing for Little Mermaid. I'm pretty sure Grease is going where Phantom is.

Pair of teen boys:
Boy 1: Where is Miss Saigon playing? Hey, it's not in the playbill!

Boy 2: Hmm... this theatre is a lot smaller than the RENT theatre.

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OH MY GAWDD!! STEPHEN SONHEIM WROTE THIS!!

-someone behind me at "Company" (and I spelled Sondheim wrong on purpose)

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