Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 63

I was at Spring Awakening in January and during the intermission joined in on a conversation with some other teenagers standing around. They were talking about what would get nods for Best Revival and someone mentioned Les Miz. And I said, "I don't know if it will get a nod though, it was just a xerox revival". And the guy looks at me and said "Yeah, buts its Les Miz."

Apparently someone forgot to tell the Tony committee that.

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Today at Company, some old lady looking at a poster of Raul, reading a review blurb: It says he's the best Bobby ever. Oh! He's playing Bobby Kennedy!

are you serious? She thought the show was about Bobby Kennedy...?

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Just recently I saw The Full Monty at the Ogunquit Playhouse. I went with a friend of mine and we were at a matinee, so it was packed with little old ladies. And we all know that little old ladies can provide some wonderful insight to musical theatre.

When Jeanette [Sally Struthers] spoke her first line/was introduced, two ladies behind us said;
"She looks terrible!"
"I know, she's so FAT!"

And the other priceless jem of a comment;

"Yeah, they all got fired and now they have to strip!"

That was spoken to the lady sitting next to my friend, after she had left [missed a significant chunk of dialogue between Jerry and the other guys], and sat back down. Her friend tried explaining the situation, and I think this comment can definitely be the official tagline of the show.

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Well, here's a really funny one (or two)
My usual GG story:
I was at a bar last night and these three older tourist types had seen the show. When asked (not by me) how they liked it, they said they liked the first act. (that's not the funny part-I like it, too.) The funny line was when one of the women asked her husband: "Did you like it as much as Miss Saigon?" to which he responded, "Well, I liked Miss Saigon just a little better, but they're really very similar in theme, so I like both about the same".
(The themes are the same between Miss Saigon and Grey Gardens?! Huh?! Did I miss something?!)

Other story: There were these tourists in the same bar asking about getting TKTS for "Cats" because according to them it was not only the best show but it was still running, a fact which they could not be convinced was untrue.

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I just went to purchase tickets to Legally Blonde.

The guy in front of me, from England, asked the woman at one of the box office windows which part she played in the show.. and he was dead serious! He couldn't understand that people that aren't IN the show work there.

The little southern woman behind mme were arguing about dinner tonight at Carmine's. According to them, at a family style restaraunt, theyw on't let you eat unless you order a meatm, veggie, pasta, bread... etc etc. Apparently, you need to order every TYPE of food or they won't let you order!

Yesterday, on 46th Street, two girls say the sign for Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding at the Edison.. and the ticket podium.. and the giannt hearts advertising it at TKTS. They thought is was SO cool thaey those people had a sign outside advertising their wedding.. and other people at TKTS with signs for it. Someone said it was to buy tickets for it, and the girls were shocked that people sell tickets to their wedding.. and they do it at a place where you buy theatre tickets. But they couldn't understand why it said they were celebrating 18 years and why it had "like different times" for their wedding listed.

Yes ! You can ! You can do anything ! That you want !

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one of my faves was walking into Tarzan

Woman 1: Should we go to the bathroom now or later
Woman 2: I dont know probably now it will be hard during halftime...

Two from tonight at Xanadu:

While waiting in line to go in, the woman behind me said to her husband/date "Oh look honey! It's Sardi's." "What?" "You know. Sardi's. Where ALL the actors hang out before and after their shows!" "Oh."

Then while sitting down waiting for the show to start, the people who came in to occupy the row behind me. "Oh my God! Are those REAL seats down there?" (referring to the on stage seating) *headdesk*

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I was at Les Mis and a school group was sitting in front of me, with the two teachers directly in front. So we get our playbills and the ladies and this is the conversation that ensued:
teacher A: "I really hope she's here you know!"
teacher B: "Oh yeah it'd be ashame if she wasn't"
Me: (realizing they were talking about lea salonga) "If you mean Lea Salonga, she's definitely here! there would have been a paper in the playbill if she wasn't."
teachers: OH thank you
teacher A: " I really hope the menzel girl is in too, (insert student name) has been talking about her all week!"
teacher B: yeah me too!
Me: (looks at my friend with an expression of what the hell)

On the line for the ladies room at Company yesterday:

This guy was trying to get past me. The first time he said something I didn't hear him, so when he said "EXCUSE ME" louder, I apologized and moved out of his way. He went "I just needed to get through, I'm obviously not trying to skip you in the line.

He was behind me.

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I have one along the same lines as misschung's. Its happened at Rent probably 6 or 7 years ago. I was just leaving from doing lotto, and 3 women who had bought tickets were walking away. They turned around to look at the marquee and:

1: "Is this show off-broadway?"
2: "I think so, it's on 41st street"
1: "that must be why the tickets were so cheap"

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When the RENT movie came out, I had a conversation with a girl in my math class who enjoyed it, but seemed a little stuck as to the plot:

"No, Mimi didn't have AlDS."

"Yes, she did."

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah, she had AIDS -- remember during La Vie Boheme when she has to go take her medication? It's why she almost dies at the end."

"I don't think she had AIDS."

"Yes, she did."

My math teacher, a forty-something lady, was the one who said the last quote above and finally set her straight.

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Okay, this isn't so much funny as it is sad...

I was down in NYC for one day to see Raul Esparza in Company before it closed and unfortunately it was the one night he called in sick. I was kvetching about it to my friend and these two older ladies who were sitting next to us piped in:

"I don't even know who that is? I mean, what else has he done?"

My fellow b-way geek friend and I started rattling off his rather extensive resume... Taboo, Cabaret, Rocky Horror Show, tick, tick... BOOM, etc etc etc to which one of the women replied:

"Well, certainly nothing I'D ever see."

Seriously? Get out. Go see Phantom for the 30th time and leave me to my grief.

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