Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 73
Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
Hilarious Comments...#1800
Posted: 2/24/08 at 11:28am
My 23 year old niece went to see XANADU last night and overheard 2 girls after the show say:
"...I wish other shows wrote songs like this. They sound like they could be on the radio or something. They sound so 80's."
Oy!
UPDATE: misquoted my niece. 
Updated On: 2/24/08 at 11:28 AM
Hilarious Comments...#1801
Posted: 2/24/08 at 1:06pmI just realised that it took me over 2 hrs to read all 72 pages of this thread and I have nothing to add to it. LOL. I had some very good laughs though.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
Hilarious Comments...#1803
Posted: 2/24/08 at 3:40pmWhen did Xanadu get an intermission?
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
Hilarious Comments...#1804
Posted: 2/28/08 at 2:43pm
While listening to THE LITTLE MERMAID's recording in the dorm last night:
KID: "So are they gonna remake the movie with the new songs then?"
Hilarious Comments...#1805
Posted: 2/28/08 at 4:12pmmy friend was watching the little mermaid movie last night, and i told her they made it into a broadway musical. she said, "i know, I saw it at the pantages like 3 years ago."
Hilarious Comments...#1806
Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:56am
IN THE HEIGHTS Second Preview
The girl sitting behind me was flipping through her Playbill, and saw Lin-Manuel Miranda (Usnavi; Music and Lyrics; Original Concept)
"He was in 'Music & Lyrics!'"
Hilarious Comments...#1807
Posted: 3/14/08 at 7:43pm
While walking past In The Heights (at the Richard Rodgers Theatre) last weekend...
My other half: "What? How can that be a new musical if it's by Richard Rodgers?"
(At least he knew that Richard Rodgers was no longer with us, I guess)
Hilarious Comments...#1808
Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:33pm
Last night at Gypsy's intermission there were about 8 people arguing over who played Herbie in the movie. This one woman said "Jack Lemmon" and this other guy said "I don't think so" and she emphatically said it was him. After a few more minutes of arguing I couldn't take it anymore and said "Karl Malden". The one guy came up to me and said "Thank you, I knew it wasn't Jack Lemmon", but the other woman said "Who asked you? Why don't you just go see Young Frankenstein?" (Whatever that meant.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
Hilarious Comments...#1811
Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:46pmTrust me, I couldn't make up a story like that!
Hilarious Comments...#1812
Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:56pmHas Patti seriously kicked a playbill? I would too. But, is that true?
Hilarious Comments...#1813
Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:58pmShe did during Sweeney Todd, a patron in the front row left it on the stage.
Hilarious Comments...#1814
Posted: 3/21/08 at 5:08pmOh really, Did she say anything?
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/07
Hilarious Comments...#1816
Posted: 3/21/08 at 5:11pmMy mother told me a story that when she saw Show Boat revival in 1995, the woman behind her kept saying how she thought Rebecca Luker could pass as her identitical twin (and apparently, they were fairly similar looking) and proceeded to say that until an usher told her that they be true, but Rebecca is far less obnoxious and told her to be quiet because she was being disruptive.
Hilarious Comments...#1817
Posted: 3/21/08 at 5:16pm
Off topic
Nathan Lane supposdly saw a guy with a video camera and yelled at him and told him "YOU AND YOUR CAMERA GET OUT!"
Another momment
The audience wasn't going well so he jumped out the fake window and came back saying "It was only a floor drop." Then later he said "You in the front row, stop looking at your playbill and pay attention to us!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
Hilarious Comments...#1818
Posted: 3/22/08 at 10:09am
Last evening I'd gone up to Cafe Eurpoa across from the Broadway (less crowded than the one on 43rd). I was walking back down towards the Marquis and had crossed over to the west side of the street. As I walked by the Broadway, there were people peering in the lobby and reading the signs about The Color Purple. One of them stopped me and asked if I lived here. When I nodded, she said "Oh! Then you can help us! Where is this playing now?"
I asked, "The Color Purple?" and she nodded. I said "I think they have a tour out right now, but it's not playing in New York."
She shook her head and said "But this says it played its last performance at the Broadway Theater... So what theater is it at now?"
I explained again that the show had closed in New York, but there was a national tour out, so it might come close to wherever they lived.
She looked at me, very confused. I tried to smile sympathetically and just said "I'm sorry. It's closed." and headed on down the street when she turned back to read the sign again.
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
Hilarious Comments...#1819
Posted: 3/24/08 at 7:17pm
At South Pacific 3/23: An older woman to her gentleman friend "I don't know why you brought me here, you know I hate musicals. I mean come on, they just met and then they fall in love and want to get married? HELLO." The gentleman's son and wife then approached and were introduced. The daughter-in-law said she was enjoying herself and had never seen the movie. To which the older woman replied "And you call yourself an American? Do you even live in America?"
Hilarious Comments...#1820
Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:12pmWhen I went to see White Christmas in Cardiff...there was an old dear behind me singing along! It amused me more than annoyed me :)
Hilarious Comments...#1821
Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:44pm
While walking past In The Heights (at the Richard Rodgers Theatre) last weekend...
My other half: "What? How can that be a new musical if it's by Richard Rodgers?"
(At least he knew that Richard Rodgers was no longer with us, I guess)
Confession time: when I walked to the theater to see Spring Awakening yesterday, I saw the sign of the name of the theater and the SA marquee below it and my initial thought was "Eugene O'Neill wrote Spring Awakening?"
Hilarious Comments...#1822
Posted: 3/24/08 at 10:32pm
While going to see Pygmalion I overhead a man who considered that it might just be the musical My Fair Lady done in Latin.
W.T.F.
Hilarious Comments...#1823
Posted: 3/24/08 at 10:42pm
Theatregoer to infra red listening device guy (Passing Strange), laast Saturday night:
Theatregoer: Do you think I need these for the show? Is it LOUD?
Device Guy: Well, it's a very "FULL VOLUME" show. (ever so politely)
Hilarious Comments...#1824
Posted: 3/25/08 at 8:21amI was on the corner of 44th waiting to cross the street and this girl, pointing to the Majestic asked her family.. "Does the actual phantom live there? Like, does he stay there?"
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