Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 71

OMG, I JUST REMEMBERED ONE!

Okay, so I'm sitting there, second row center, at the Barrymore on the evening of the 16th (last night of previews for NOVEMBER). There are these 2 couples seated behind me. One of the males is this loud-mouthed yuppie fella (or at least, that's how he came off - y'know, the ones with the fakest laugh ever? yeah, that kind!) This is one of those prime examples of 'WHEN TO SHUT THE HELL UP WHEN YOU THINK YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THEATRE 101" - Anyways, the conversation went a little something like this:

GUY: "These seats are fantastic, huh?"
GIRL: "Yeah, really!"
GUY: "I hear this is good, real good!"
GIRL: "Yeah?"
GUY: "Well, it's Mamet and Lane, how could it not be?"
GIRL: *giggles* "Yeah, really!"

*beat*

"...What's this thing called again?"
GUY: "...It should say it on the playbill."

( L M A O )
I almost died.

Speaking of dumbasses..... Why do so many people say "on line" when they mean "in line". I defy anyone to "stand on line".

New Yorkers say "on line" as opposed to "in line." I don't know if other places use it as well.

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From a classmate: "They shut down 'Jersey Boys' while they found a replacement for John Lloyd Young. Yeah, It was closed for a few weeks." Now, why didn't I hear about that?

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Leaving SALTIMBANCO (one of Cirque du Soleil's touring shows) last night:

Man: That was good! You know, I think Cirque du Soleil has another show...
Woman: Oh really? There are two? I wonder what the other one's like!

(Inlcuding both resident and touring shows, Cirque has 14 currently playing productions)

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Well, last night at Wicked my friend and I, who were very excited to see Annaleigh, gave her a loud applause on her entrance from the bubble. The lady next to us said, "Oh, is she your sister? That's so exciting for you! Tell her I said great job!" I never even responded to anything and she assumed.

Lady at Phantom (intermission): Is the Phantom the guy in the mask?



I'm serious.

I have another one. This one wasn't so much funny as really obnoxious. At the Sunday stagedoor the other night, I said something to my friend about hoping Jenna Russell stuck around (I was really impressed with her performance and wanted to say as much). All of a sudden I found myself getting lectured about letting her be with her friends, and how she had done two shows that day and only gets one day a week off. When it became apparent she was not sticking around, my friend and I left without so much as a word. The lecturer, on the other hand, stopped Jenna to talk.

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Ok, at a show in NY I was behind a little old man that shuffled up to the urinal. He started trying to work his zipper, shifted a little, kept trying and then finally zipped down..but then he could not find his johnny...so he kept shifting seconds turning into minutes while we all waited behind him...to that he turned around and looked at us and said, "you'll have problems finding it too, when you get as old as I am!" "But I know it's here somewhere!" We all laughed out loud!.

Walking by the Majestic, where Phantom is playing, during intermission:

There's a couple and another woman smoking outside and the lights start flashing (we all know what that means!). One woman turns to the man and says, "They really should check the electricity at these old theaters. The lights are flashing!

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I feel like people just started saying online...I've been saying in line forever and I feel like now everyone says online.

I know at my school we say "on line" because the kids are literally walking on a white line down the middle of the hallway. :)

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In the bathroom at Wicked... "the shows okay but it's no Cats!"

Um, technically this is another century. Of course, she probably was just being dumb, but you never know. Maybe she wanted to know his contemporary work.