Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 73

[BrodyFosse123]

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

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 1:06pm

I 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.

[Parsley]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 1:08pm

"Broadway is so classy"

[jordangirl]

Posted: 2/24/08 at 3:40pm

When did Xanadu get an intermission?

[thevolleyballer]

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?"

[missyrose87]

Posted: 2/28/08 at 4:12pm

my 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."

[verynewyorkcurious]

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!'"

[hotjohn]

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)

[Steve2]

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.)

[Steve2]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:34pm

Double Post
Updated On: 3/21/08 at 04:34 PM

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:38pm

Updated On: 5/8/09 at 04:38 PM

[Steve2]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:46pm

Trust me, I couldn't make up a story like that!

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:56pm

Has Patti seriously kicked a playbill? I would too. But, is that true?

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 4:58pm

She did during Sweeney Todd, a patron in the front row left it on the stage.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 5:08pm

Oh really, Did she say anything?

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 5:10pm

Updated On: 5/8/09 at 05:10 PM

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 5:11pm

My 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.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

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!"

[jordangirl]

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.

[Steve2]

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?"

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 3/24/08 at 9:12pm

When I went to see White Christmas in Cardiff...there was an old dear behind me singing along! It amused me more than annoyed me :)

[bestinshow2]

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?"

"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"

[StarStruckGB]

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.

[thetinymagic2]

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)

[kate2]

Posted: 3/25/08 at 8:21am

I 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?"