Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 68

[supersam1026]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 7:41pm

A couple nights ago at YF a I heard a couple behind me saying:
Women: Didn't we see Spamalot here?
Man:No, it was Les Miserables, I remember the helicopter.
Women: Yeah you're right.
I wanted to turn around and tell them that they had it totally wrong, but I was laughing too much.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 7:59pm

I'm trying to think of a good helicopter in Les Mis joke but I can't.

[staticradar]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 8:25pm

Because 19th Century France had such an abundance of helicopters...

[supersam1026]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 9:36pm

I was thinking that they were thinking of the helicopter from Miss Saigon.

[JKlock]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 9:44pm

obviously they were haha

[alliez92092]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 9:58pm

Maybe some joke with Lea considering she was in Les Miz and Saigon?

[delucad15]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 11:43pm

at Avenue Q before ths how, people looking at the playbill:

Now her there, she plays Christmas Eve. Shes the stripper.

[vfd88]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 8:50pm

When I saw Spring Awakening, during the Hanschen/Ernst seduction scene in Act 2, a Southern lady behind me asked her husband "Are they brothers?"

[D2]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 9:01pm

This afternoon, while leaving the theatre after a performance of PYGMALION:

"Of course I can tape this - it's not a musical. You can't record musicals, but you can straight plays."

I hope he has a good attorney.

[Steve2]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 9:19pm

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Thanks for posting that, D2. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time!

[mominator]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 9:47pm

"I hope he has a good attorney."
A REALLY good lawyer and lots of $$$ to pay for said REALLY good lawyer!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 9:50pm

Lea was never in Miss Saigon, was she?

[Baiseur82]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 9:58pm

I was at a performance of Lez Miz earlier this year and the conversation behind me went like this.
Old Lady 1 "Is this a musical or a play?"
Old Lady 2 "I think its a play. Its about the French Revolution"
Old Lady 1 "So its a play about France in the 80's"
Old Lady 2 "Yeah but the tickets were cheap"

After the show started

Old Lady 2 "Well I guess I was wrong it is a musical"
Old Lady 1 "Is this really what France was like in the 80's"

[alastor]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 11:29pm

"Is this really what France was like in the 80's"

wow. haha that's hilarious:)

[JKlock]

Posted: 11/25/07 at 11:40pm

Mattbrain...really? haha Lea originated the role Kim

[maninchair.com]

Posted: 11/26/07 at 8:09am

Two elderly New Yawk women, overheard in the TKTS ticket line:

“Hmmm…Cats. That sound intuhresting. What’s that about?”

“WELL, there are awl these cats, see, and they awl sing and dance. But one of the cats is VERY depressed. So…to cheeyuh [cheer] huh, they put huh in a tiyuh and blowh huh through the ceiling. And that’s Cats…”

Updated On: 11/26/07 at 08:09 AM

[henryt]

Posted: 11/26/07 at 8:20am

Cat's in a nutshell. Why see the show when there are such genius tourists to summarize it!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:04am

"Mattbrain...really? haha Lea originated the role Kim"

Yeah, Allie cleared that up for me. For some inexplicable reason, I thought she was talking about Lea Michele when she really meant Lea Salonga. I have no idea why that happened. Maybe it's premature senility (and I'm only 18 -).

Updated On: 12/3/07 at 11:04 AM

[Jon]

Posted: 11/26/07 at 2:23pm

maninchair - that Cats quote has been around for at least five years. If you actually heard someone say that, than I actually saw them pull the gerbil out of Richard Gere's ass.

[maninchair.com]

Posted: 11/26/07 at 3:42pm

I did not overhear the Cats comment myself. I don't even remember who told it to me originally, but it still makes me laugh.

I DID hear this a couple of days ago online at TKTS from a brassy sassy loud Midwestern touristy-type woman:

"She was, like, a size one with boobs out to here. I don't even know how she could balance on those skates."

Hmmmm...I wonder what show SHE had seen...??

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 11/26/07 at 4:44pm

Something like this has happened to me numerous times when I have seen Spring Awakening, however my favorite is the one below...

At the beginning of Act Two when Melchior and Wendla starting having sex, again...

Son (30 years old, however): Oh god! They're doing it again!!
Mom: Well I'll tell you when its over, just cover your eyes for now.
Son: Okay...
*A minute later when they are still doing it*
Son: Are they done yet?
Mom: Nope, they're still going at it.

[MimiJudith]

Posted: 12/3/07 at 9:59am

Overheard at "Is He Dead?" on Saturday afternoon, 12/1/07:

"This play is starring that guy from 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,' Norman Leo Buntz. Remember John Lithgow there? It's not him, it's the other one."

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/3/07 at 11:03am

At the Broadway's Back concert, this woman was sitting behind me watching Joanne Worley wander around the audience and pose for pictures.

Woman: "She looks JUST like Joanne Worley! I wonder if anyone's ever told her that."

[mauriposa]

Posted: 12/3/07 at 11:17am

Ha! Dancingthru, that's a great one.

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/3/07 at 12:01pm

At a chorale concert, the mother of a girl in the concert complained about the German titles of the pieces, then announced this gem:

Mother: I could never go to opera because I can't understand it and anything I can't understand isn't fun.