Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 70

I found this funny. I was walking in Times Square and I overheard these 17 or so year olds talking about movie musicals. They said "Ohh, well Mamma Mia is next and then then they have to make Wicked. In October, it will have been running on Broadway for five years, which is of course the limit before a a movie is made!"

I was cracking up

That is so disgusting, mattonstage. I would've gagged.

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I was checking out this girl's Facebook photos (we used to be friends) and she had a picture of her outside the Palace Theatre and the caption said that she couldn't see Legally Blonde because of the Writer's Strike.

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Some stoner-looking hippie behind me the last time I caught the current Ted Neeley tour of JCS (may be a spoiler, as Jesus flies off the cross at the end): "I didn't know Jesus could fly!"

*facepalm*

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Oh, good Lord.

"I found this funny. I was walking in Times Square and I overheard these 17 or so year olds talking about movie musicals. They said "Ohh, well Mamma Mia is next and then then they have to make Wicked. In October, it will have been running on Broadway for five years, which is of course the limit before a a movie is made!"

I was cracking up"

Well, it looks like Evita, Chicago, Phantom, Rent, Dreamgirls and Sweeney Todd missed THEIR due dates.

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Updated On: 1/19/08 at 02:06 PM

That story is older than Richard Gere and the gerbil.

Older than Rod Stewart's stomach getting pumped.

Older than the Pia Zadora as Anne Frank "She's in the attic!" story.

Today at Spring Awakening there were like 5 understudies on (including ones for both Melchior and Wendla) and someone went up the box office and said "I think I deserve a refund. I here these two parts are the leads, and I want to see the normals!"

The box office man kindly explained since their names weren't above the title of the show there was nothing he could do.

The woman responded that if he didn't give her a refund she would call his manager. The box office man loudly yelled "NEXT!" and ignored the woman and begun working for the next person in line.

I thank you all for making this thread!
It gave me 2 hours of non-boredom today!

well, maybe he parents ust told her "we're going to see the The Lion King" and she assumed it was going to be the movie, especially if she was a really little girl...
ETA: grammar

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Updated On: 1/19/08 at 11:50 PM

SO FUNNY! I am from the Midwest but know enough about musicals to get these! This actually reminded me of some...
Me and my sister were in the car coming back from Borders. I had just bought the OBCR of Rent. My sister, who while not a fan enjoyed the movie and, to my knowledge has seen it quite some times, was "singing" "Light My Candle";
Sister: "Will you light my candle? Your shivering. They call me, Mimi!"
This continues for a little bit.
Me: You know, that isn't how the lyrics go at all?
Sister: I know... (Continues)

Another one happened while at Rent. The people next to me and my friend were looking through the program.
Person 1; Oh! La Vie Boheme is in here!
Person 2;(Excitedly) Really! Where?

Once I was watching the Phantom of the Opera movie with a group of friends, and when you see his little Christine shrine, one of them said, "Pervy Phantom!"

Last, when me and my family saw the Sweeney Todd movie, we all were closing our eyes during the killings and during Pretty Women(the first time), I was trying to tell my mom it was okay to look, but she wouldn't... She did get that Lucy=Begger Women before Sweeney does, which is pretty good for her first time seeing any adaptation of it...

I am going to see Wicked in Chicago next month, so I will have to keep my ears open!

I have another one! An example of people thinking they know more then they do. I found this on Overheard in NY...
Woman, about Hairspray: Harold, except for the finale number, I thought it wasn't anything special. All the screaming and the jumping and the music...
Man: You're right, Doris.
Woman: You know what was the golden era of the Broadway? The really good shows, Harold?
Man: What were they, Doris?
Woman: The Cats, The Les Mis, The Phantoms... That was the zenith, Harold. This one -- I don't know what it is.
Man: Me neither, Doris. Me neither.

I love Phantom of the Opera, and think the other two are okay, but they would hardly constitute Broadway's best or most classic shows...

When I saw Wicked, there was a young girl, probably about 5, in the row in front of me. During the part where Elphaba is screaming off stage to Dorothy, the girl whispers to her dad "Who's she talking to?" and her dad said "Dorothy." The girl hesitates for a second, and asks, "Dori? The fish?"

It was very cute.

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