Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 66

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 7/25/07 at 4:04pm

ErinDillyFan-Now that's funny.

(I have heard someone answer during a show and say they were at a Broadway show. Made me want to say "Then, what the hell are you doing on the phone?!")

[Sluggy]

Posted: 7/25/07 at 5:52pm

glimpseofstocking,
Love your post, because Vivian Vance (TV's Ethel) was actually Merman's understudy in Anything Goes!!!

[Anakela]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 4:05pm

Hee- The next time some dumbass walks by asking "what are y'all waiting in line for?" while I'm on the rush line front of the Palace, in front of the two foot high pink letters that spell out Legally Blonde, I am so doing this:


Lady: What are you all waiting for?
26th guy in line for iPhone: The new Harry Potter book.
27th guy in line: Shrek 4.
28th guy in line: Free crack. [Lady walks away.]

--AT&T store, Union Square
Overheard in NY: Cheap Sex! Cupcakes! The Guillotine!

[TapTapTapioca]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 5:40pm

I just wanted to say "put it away". lol.

Why? Was he reading it out loud? Was he reading it during the show? If he wasn't then why the hell does it matter?

[broadwayjavajunkie]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 6:44pm

My friend and I went to see the Spamalot tour when it was in Dallas. During the finale, she leans over and asks, "Kate! Is that Kristin Chenoweth dancing in the back of the group?"

Yes, because Kristin would be in the ensemble on tour when she could be in NY doing Young Frankinstein or in LA filming a movie.

*headondesk*

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 6:45pm

My favorite was at a matinee this Saturday, someone in a front row lottery seat was reading Harry Potter. during the show. Am I the only one not reading that friggin book? I walk onto the subway and EVERYONE has it out.. Ugh.

I sat in the front row lottery seat last Saturday reading the Harry Potter book. However, it was before the show started and I had it away in my bag before the lights went down.

[ben4]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 7:02pm

Okay, I'm not big on these (since I think it's mostly just a buncha stuck up new yorkers who think they know everything posting comments that really aren't that big of mistakes in the first place), but I do remember a semi funny/sad moment during the intermission of Company...

I was in line for the bathroom and 2 mid twenties frat-guy types walked past me...

1st Guy: So are we like GOING YET?
2nd Guy: DUDE, It's not THAT bad!

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 7:39pm

Vivian Vance (TV's Ethel) was actually Merman's understudy in Anything Goes!!!
I knew she had understudied The Merm at one point, but I couldn't remember for which show (and I was too lazy to look it up...) Thanks for clarifying that Sluggy :)

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 7:57pm

On my way into LB today, a family was like "In the last HARRY POTTER" Snape killed Dumbledore, but I don't think he did. I think the author was trying to work everyone up just to **** with us."

[Mythus]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 9:09pm

Before the show, at a production of High School Musical (so there was a high percentage of children and people who rarely go to the theatre):

Lady 1: Oh, hey, you came to see this too?
Lady 2: Yeah, (name of kid) loves the movie.
Lady 1: (as an usher tries to get her to move) Oh, I gotta go sit, I'll see you at halftime!

And then, a few minutes later, the nine-or-so year old girl of Lady 2, behind me, suddenly grew very talkative.

Girl: Where's the ork-ur-stra? I thought there was supposed to be an ork-ur-stra. I don't see no ork-ur-stra.
Me: (turns around and points to the orchestra pit) It's over there, see? It's under the stage.
Mother: It's called the pit, honey.
Girl: The pit? How do you get down there, is there a trapdoor? They open the trapdoor and you fall inside?
Mother: No, I don't know.
Girl: There's a pit in gymnastics, it's got a big mattress that we can fall on, is there a mattress in the pit? I wanna go in the pit, Ma, can I go in the pit?
Mother: No.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:49pm

"Who's the new Sutton Foster in this?"

- my mother, referring to "The Drowsy Chaperone"

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:55pm

My mom, regarding Gypsy...

How was LaFonzy? Who played Baby Jane?

[Anakela]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:22pm

ok so this one is an "Overheard on tv" I guess, but it cracked me up...

So I'm watching a Law & Order rerun, and the cops are looking at the credit card statement of their suspect (a tourist who has only been in NYC for a week), and it goes something like "United Airlines, TKTS, The Met, Grimaldi's..." and so I was all "wait a sec- you can't use a credit card at the TKTS booth!"

I know there's no way for someone to know everything Broadway or whatever, but for L&O, a show that so prides itself on being set in and filming in NYC, I was just laughing at TKTS appearing on the perp's credit card statement.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:36pm

"Legally Blonde, the musical... WHAT THE F**K?"

- a girl in front of the Palace theatre this morning

[LeadingDude]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 7:55pm

This is from Spring Awakening a while back...

An old couple was sitting behind me reading their playbill and I hear..."Look at the cast they are such babies. Oh this must be a nice wholesome teen show. What are all those people doing sitting on stage? Oh, they are all in the show dear."

The couple didn't come back after intermission.

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:05pm

I just saw the first post when I clicked this topic and I feel a bit stupid...I honestly thought mobile/cell phones did interfere with the equipment?

[Funny Face]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:15pm

Yay, I finally have one!!

When I came back from a recent trip to NYC I saw The Color Purple w/ La Fantasia, and my mother's friend was talking to me about it and she goes:

"Now Fantasia plays the role that Jennifer Hudson did, right?"

Me: "....Yeah"

Her: "Aww, wish I could've caught her. She was supposed to be really great"

I just didn't have the energy to correct her.

[Shirley Hemphill]

Posted: 8/6/07 at 8:48pm

yesterday on line for Jersey Boys, I overheard a couple directly behind me in line - they were looking across the street at Hairspray and the man says "What's that about? What's the big deal?" -- the woman responds: "Oh it's a silly show about a gay hairdresser... it's supposed to be REALLY funny though!"

oy.

[Salene]

Posted: 8/11/07 at 1:41am

From overheardinnewyork.com:

Tourist: We're going to the opera tonight!
Waitress: Wonderful! Which opera are you going to see?
Tourist: Phantom!
Waitress, after stunned silence: ... You're gonna love it!

--Del Frisco's, 6th Ave

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 8/11/07 at 1:50pm

This isn't a comment, and it was VERY rude, but now I find it kind of funny.

I worked at "7 Stories High" at the Fringe Festival yesterday, and was allwoed to watch the show. Two women came in even later than I did and sat next to me. Towards the end of the show I hear a dog barking (one of those little rat dogs). It was the woman's cell phone. She took it out and couldn't figure out what to do with it, so she decided just to answer it. IT was a rather small space so everyone could hear her,a dn she was getting evil eyes from all angles. Her friend decided that the best thing to do would be to take her jacket and throw it over the other woman's head. So she finished her conversation under the jacket, and they were both remarking on how everyone should mind their own business.

[Rymes_With_Witch]

Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:08pm

At the box office for "110 in the Shade": "Is Andrea McDaniel on tonight?"

Waiting in line for RENT rush tickets in Sarasota (we were all camped out on the sidewalk), a woman asked us: "Are you all in the cast?" We told her yes.

[Stewpot]

Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:16pm

guy1: Wow, unbelievable. A manger scene complete with live sheep and camels! Where in the world would you store camels in a big city like this?

guy2: In the camelot.

[Midoria]

Posted: 8/11/07 at 2:43pm

Mine isn't as funny as some other's, but here we go:

Me: I read in the playbill one of the main characters goes to NYU.
Former Roomie: Yeah, that's cool. It's a good job if you're in school. You only have to work, like twice a week.

........

Intermission at Mary Poppins:

Woman: Dad, how are you enjoying the show?
Old Man: WHAT?
Woman: HOW - ARE - YOU ENJOYING- THE SHOOOW?!
Old Man: I didn't understand what the HELL is going on, and what I did understand I DIDN'T LIKE!

The look on their poor woman's face. I'm sure it wasn't as bad as the poor POOR woman whose "friends" went to Macy's after Act 1. My heart bleeds.

........................

Not a tourist comment, but this was relayed through my mom who went to see Chicago last Xmas.

This happened during Roxie's solo (foxy Roxie Hart).

During one of her talking breaks the actress looks out into the audience and she see's a kid.

Roxie: Oh! Hello...
Kid: Hi!
Roxie: How old are you?
Kid: 9.
Roxie: Nine? And they let you IN? Wow...


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Updated On: 8/13/07 at 02:43 PM

[broadwaytourist]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:27pm

Another not a tourist comment

Today, I was at my Curves exercise session making an argument that we should have a Broadway show tunes CD to work out to. An employee stated she didn't like showtunes. I said you don't like what? She said, "Oh, you know all those showtunes sung by Liza Minnelli in the early 50's!"

[Steve2]

Posted: 8/19/07 at 11:54am

Not a tourist comment but Broadway related:

I was having dinner last night and a guest said that she was invited to see the new movie "Hairspray" but she didn't want to go because a long time ago she saw the John Waters' movie "Pink Flamingos" and thought "Hairspray" would be disgusting like that movie was. I assured her it wasn't!


Updated On: 8/19/07 at 11:54 AM