Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 74

[folkyboy]

Hilarious Comments...#1825

Posted: 3/25/08 at 8:54am

when i went to the stage door for SOUTH PACIFIC two folks from Boston told Kelli O'Hara that they loved her in "THE SOUND OF MUSIC". i had to remind them that that was Rebecca Luker who was in that role.

then Rebecca Luker came out and they felt dumb!

although Rebecca's family she took to the show had to tell me she wasn't in SOUTH PACIFIC right now when i asked her for her autograph. i wanted moreso to just ask Rebecca why she wasn't at work while SOUTH PACIFIC was going on, but i digress...

[doodlenyc]

Hilarious Comments...#1826

Posted: 3/25/08 at 10:16am

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

Actually, Patti kicked the playbill off the stage during the Encore's run of "Gypsy", while she was changing the marquee board on stage left during a scene change. Supposedly it hit someone, but it didnt look intentional, but that's debateable. Several of us bww'ers were there that night.

She may have done the same during Sweeney, but i hadnt heard about that.

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[cello_dude]

Hilarious Comments...#1827

Posted: 3/25/08 at 11:05am

I work as an usher and hear some pretty bad things including.

Patron: "which way is the doctors circle?"
Me "where?"
Patron "the Doctor Circle"
Me "you mean the DRESS circle"
Patron "How would I know"

[cello_dude]

Hilarious Comments...#1828

Posted: 3/25/08 at 11:06am

While working the Color Purple

"which one does Oprah play?"

[ashbash1990]

Hilarious Comments...#1829

Posted: 3/25/08 at 11:09am

didn't someone get hit with a flute for being obnoxious with food in the first row at Sweeney Todd?

What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!

[stockmanjr]

Hilarious Comments...#1830

Posted: 4/29/08 at 5:28am

Thursday night I was at the westside theater to see My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy! Right before the show I was in the stall in the restroom when I suddenly hear "Oh My God I'm pissing next to Regis". I come out and see Regis walking out of the bathroom quite quickly!

[musicalmaster703]

Hilarious Comments...#1831

Posted: 4/29/08 at 7:38am

lol

[Roscoe]

Hilarious Comments...#1832

Posted: 4/29/08 at 11:38am

Overheard at the end of GLORY DAYS:

"What was this show called again?"

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[SirNotAppearing]

Hilarious Comments...#1833

Posted: 4/29/08 at 3:13pm

An old lady in back of me at Young Frankenstein:
"You know, Roger Bart is in this. He's the one who always acts like a nelly little queen".
I wanted to slap her.

[ashbash1990]

Hilarious Comments...#1834

Posted: 4/29/08 at 4:52pm

At Sweeney tour on 4.27, evening performance:
Guy reading playbill: How do you say this? it can't be "Tobias (pronounced correctly)," is it "Toby-us" or "Toby-ass?"

What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!

[SimplyDeLovely]

Hilarious Comments...#1835

Posted: 4/29/08 at 5:37pm

At a performance of an Evita non-equity tour, between two older ladies:

Woman 1: I thought it was him who died, and she went on to become president.
Woman 2: Well, they probably just interpreted it differently. It is a musical, you know.
Updated On: 4/29/08 at 05:37 PM

[oohshizz146]

Hilarious Comments...#1836

Posted: 4/29/08 at 6:52pm

"EW!"

during the Hanschen/Ernst kiss in Spring Awakening

"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson

[xoangel2789xo]

Hilarious Comments...#1837

Posted: 5/2/08 at 2:30am

I've definitely heard things but I can't remember them anymore.

Although...
When I went to see Hairspray the movie with my mom, about a half hour or more into the movie she whispered, "When is John Travolta coming in?"
Me: He's the mom.
Her: Whatttt? O.O

tee hee hee.

[canmark]

Hilarious Comments...#1838

Posted: 5/2/08 at 7:12am

While at Cat on a Hot Tin Roof this past Saturday evening I overheard this conversation between 2 gentlement sitting behind me.

Man 1: This play was written by Tennessee Williams.

Man 2: Wasn't he a country singer?

Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)

[Mattbrain]

Hilarious Comments...#1839

Posted: 5/2/08 at 8:17am

"Woman 1: I thought it was him who died, and she went on to become president.
Woman 2: Well, they probably just interpreted it differently. It is a musical, you know. "

That's actually what my mom said the show's about.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[Anakela]

Hilarious Comments...#1840

Posted: 5/4/08 at 1:32am

During the intermission of In the Heights tonight, the woman behind me is reading Lin-Manuel's Playbill bio aloud:
"wrote the first incarnation of In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan. Damn, I wasn't doing sh*t my sophomore year of college!!"

I laughed.

[justabwaybaby]

Hilarious Comments...#1841

Posted: 5/4/08 at 1:54am

At a "Sunday..." matinée a couple of months ago:

(Dot enters after "Lesson #8 )
Kid on school trip: Oh sh*t!

It wouldn't have been so amusing if I hadn't heard that from the other side of the mezzanine.

After "Xanadu" tonight:

Lady: ...'cause Patti LuPone Gypsy opened after the Xanadu film...
Updated On: 5/4/08 at 01:54 AM

[Eris0303]

Hilarious Comments...#1842

Posted: 5/4/08 at 2:04am

"During the intermission of In the Heights tonight, the woman behind me is reading Lin-Manuel's Playbill bio aloud:
"wrote the first incarnation of In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan. Damn, I wasn't doing sh*t my sophomore year of college!!"

I laughed."

I think I slept through my sophomore year of college lol

"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".

[Mealz1042]

Hilarious Comments...#1843

Posted: 5/4/08 at 2:05am

Tonight at Sweeney Todd
50ish year old woman to her husband: You don't think this is going to be morbid, do you?

<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

[osage08]

Hilarious Comments...#1844

Posted: 5/4/08 at 10:54am

Yesterday I was at a Juan Valdez coffee shop near Times Square waiting to use the bathroom. The man in front of me was waiting with his wife. He looked at the mens/womens symbol on the door and thought it meant that there were two stalls- one for a male and another for a female. He was a bit confused when he opened the door and only saw one toilet...

"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs." Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

[MadPhan]

Hilarious Comments...#1845

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:20pm

My mom talking about how annoying she found Galinda during "Popular"(while loving Wicked); "I wanted to smack her!"

[Trekkie2]

Hilarious Comments...#1846

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:36pm

After seeing the Billy Elliot poster in Shubert Alley (the one with no title), my mother said she wanted to see "Boy Jumping". It took me 10 minutes to realize what she meant.

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[Jon]

Hilarious Comments...#1847

Posted: 5/4/08 at 1:25pm

Isn't "Boy Jumping" an event at the Gay Games?

[Laviebohemeb]

Hilarious Comments...#1848

Posted: 5/4/08 at 1:32pm

haha another one
"why was that story so filthy?! the title is "Santaland Diaries"!!! what happened to the pleasent christmas stories weve come to know and love?!"

omg for the love of Jeff Bowen shut up about freakin jesus!!!!

[hollywearsprada]

Hilarious Comments...#1849

Posted: 5/4/08 at 3:33pm

I went to see Mamma Mia last night with friends.


At intermission

Suzi: "Holly, you said Meryl Streep was in this! Is she on in the 2nd half?"
Emma [laughing] "She's the one playing the mum, Suzi!"
Me: "Umm...Meryl's in the movie, not the show..."

Yeah...because a) Meryl Streep would really be performing in Mamma Mia in London! and b) I know we weren't front row, but how could she think, for the whole of the first half, that the actress playing Donna was Meryl Streep?! She had a programme and everything!


After the show

Emma: "So..like what is Sophie's name in real life?"
Me: "Umm...I'm not sure. I think the actress' name is Katie Brayben or something. Check the programme."
Emma: "No no, I mean they obviously changed her name to Sophie for the musical...but what's her name in real life?"
Me: "What?"
Emma [getting really frustrated]: "What's her real name?? Donna is the blonde one, right? Agnetha or something... So what's her daughter called in real life?!"
Me: "....it's not the story of the band, Emma! They wrote a random story around the songs!"
Emma: "Oh...oh right."


And this girl is at Oxford...

"That's my trouble! I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"