Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 69

When I saw WICKED
Before the show
MAN: Who is playing the witch?
WIFE: Who do you think? The actor who played her in the movie! Duh!
MAN: OOh!

(Intermission)
MAN: Wow, she has aged well.

WICKED later on (three days later with SJB)
WOMEN: (After reading SJB's bio) HEY!! LIZA MINELLI'S IN THIS!!!

Apprently she thought since SJB was in Boy From Oz she thought Liza would be in WICKED.

At Little Mermaid, a merchandise salesperson was holding up a windowcard, and some woman walked by:

Woman: What is that you're holding?
Salesperson: A poster.
Woman: Oh!! Wow!! (with a lot of perplexity and excitement)

The day after I show my dad the article I wrote on why I didn't like Andrew Lloyd Webber and how people think he wrote anything thats on in the West End

Me: Ooh, I hope Rosie gets me tickets for Les Miserables, I've wanted to see that for ages
Dad: But why would you want to see that, you said you hated Andrew Lloyd Webber
Me: Argh*Starts off on ALW rant*
Dad: Well I guess he won't be sending you a Christmas card

In a movie theater before Sweeney Todd:

My Mom: What movie are we seeing? Are we seeing "Todd's Sweeney"?

Me: Well, I don't think we're actually gonna get to see his Sweeney...but oh well.

This happened in the 90's. My friend and I were visiting NYC. He had never been before and was very excited. We were crossing a street in Midtown.

My friend: Wouldn't it be great if we saw a real Broadway star on the street? You know..like Ethel Merman.

Me: Ethel Merman's dead.

My friend: Nobody called me.

Mine's not from a tourist either, but it's still funny. My sister and I were talking last night about musicals that could work as movies. This is how our conversation went:

My sister: I think that The Lion King would make a good movie
Me: Um...Allie
My sister: *silence for a minute* Oh my God!

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Updated On: 12/31/07 at 02:13 PM

I was at Jersey Boys last week and a very annoying middle age couple came walking up the stairs(you could so tell the husband had had WAY to many drinks at dinner). So after the finally made there way to theser seats(after claiming to know everyone in the theatre I might add) they opened up there playbills and started reading Micheal Longoria's bio....

WOMEN: OH he's so cute!! He should've won the Tony.
MAN: GEEZ, they dont give out Tony's for being cute. Even I know that. Oh my Gosh....he looks exactly like Franki Valli! He should've won the Tony!

Then during the intermission they had this conversation:
MAN: GEEZ this is the best GD play I've ever seen. This whole play should've won the Tony.
WOMEN: Sweetie, they did.
MAN: No way! They couldn't have....they gave it to RENT.

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I have two said at the same theatre but years apart.

The Aida tour was coming to SF and a couple behind me said, "Hey, we should see Aida," but pronounced it ay-da.

The other time an older man was complimenting an actor who had played Radames a few years ago but was now in another show. But then the guy told him, "You were the best Aida!" and was totally serious. He didn't even correct himself, so I don't know what he was thinking...

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I love this thread! And I have a few...

My mom and I were at the Hairspray tour last month, and just after intermission, the overature had started but the curtain hadn't yet come up, and the fire alarm went off. They continued the music for a minute, and then stopped and brought the house lights back up. Everyone was sitting there unsure of what to do, and an older man behind me said "Oh, I've seen this before, it's part of the show!" Right...
A girl who was about my age (maybe 14 or 15) in front of us decided, "It's probably from all the smoke they use. You know, the hairspray and stuff."
We did have to evacuate, but it wasn't anything serious, so they finished up the show, with lot's of added lines such as "You're on fire tonight!' (You're Timeless to Me) and "Hey, evacuees, let's dance!" (You Can't Stop the Beat) It was very funny!

Ok, so this was overheard in my head, but it was still quite... stupid. When we were in NY over the summer, we were walking past the Eugine O'Neil, and a girl walks by me and I think "Gee, she looks like Lea Michelle! ... ... wait, that was Lea Michelle."

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This isn't really 'funny', but more-so 'touching': I was doing a performance of ZOMBIE PROM at WBT this psat May, and we were doing the scene where 'Eddie' (me) and 'Jo(h)nny' are in the televison studio before "Come Join Us", there was this fella in the front row who was mentally challenged, and I improvised a line at one point - garnering a decent pop from the crowd - and this one guy turns to his buddy smiling and says, "I like him!" and having caught what he said ... I was moved a great deal. It's one of those instances where you're performing for the sake of performing, where unbeknownst to you, folks in the house could very well be experiencing their very first theatrical moments with you and your show... It stayed with me. I dunno, I just thought I'd share that with you guys.

I was waiting outside the stage door at the Hilton after Young Frankenstein and these girls behind me were really hoping to meet Sutton Foster. Eventually this tall woman comes out (wearing a winter coat and a hat with the ear flaps, so it was hard to tell who she was) and she's signing everyone's Playbill and people are taking pictures with her, so I turn to the girls behind me and say, "That might be Sutton up there". As soon as she gets closer, it becomes very clear that this is not Sutton Foster, but a member of the ensemble who also happens to be on the tall side. Of course, it's too late to say anything to the girls behind me, who by now all have their cameras out. They hand her their Playbills and start telling her how great she was. Then they tell her they loved her in The Drowsy Chaperone and that Little Women was the first show they ever saw and the cast member looks at them and says, "Oh...that would be Sutton. I'm Jennifer." (Jennifer Lee Crowl) I felt so bad for telling them it might've been Sutton, but I couldn't see her when I said that, and all the people she was talking to seemed excited...I mean, it wasn't my fault they didn't recognize her up close. I felt even worse for Jennifer, who seemed rather disappointed that they weren't complimenting her on HER performance, but someone else's.

I went back to the stage door that night (still waiting to meet Megan) and Jennifer came out again. This reminded me of what happened earlier and I told the story to the girl next to me that I'd been chatting with. Jennifer passed us just as I got the part of the story where she said "that would be Sutton". Jennifer must've thought I was telling this girl that she was Sutton Foster, because she stopped, turned around and said (with the air of someone who'd said it many times before), "Oh, no. I'm Jennifer." I said, "No, I know! We were talking about...earlier. Something different."

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Updated On: 1/6/08 at 12:16 AM

Here's a few (all from St. Louis)

In the Fox lobby before Wicked
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Woman: What a gorgeous theatre
Woman's Friend: Where's the stage?

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Before Spelling Bee
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Elderly Man: You said we were seeing a Broadway show. Not a group of SNOT NOSED CHILDREN SPELLINGS WOIDS.
Elderly Woman: It's a musical. Why else would they have a soundtrack? It's based at a Spelling Bee (as she skims through tracklisting on Cast recording). Well, from the looks of it, it's a pornographic musical. "My Unfortunate Erection". I can't believe I payed for this garbage
Elderly Man: I payed!!

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Before Wicked
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Girl behind me: This is such a beautiful theatre. And what a lovely before show set up.
Guy: What's the dragon got to do with it?
Girl: Supposedly it eats the witch during the song "Defying Gravity".

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