Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 75

An interesting phone call I had with one of my incredibly ignorant friends in December:

Her: "I'm in the city and I wanna see a show tonight."
Me: "Okaaaaay..."
Her: "What should I see? I was thinking Wicked, The Lion King, or Cinderella."

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At the Tony Awards rehearsals today I was sitting in front of a pair of vapid teen girls, (apologies to the non vapid teen girls on here) who, I honestly thought they might be doing schtick for a bit, but no, this is seriously what they sounded like for the *entire* three and a half hours...

"but I don't get it, why are they holding rehearsals so early, don't the Tonys come on in like two weeks or something?"

"Do they only use this place for the Tonys?"

"Oh Matthew Broderick!" (he was in a video package)
"Who is that?"
"Duh- he's married to Carrie Bradshaw!"

and, my favorite-
"...so then when Rent started off Broadway, in the 80s..."
"Oh it started in the 80s? I thought it started in the 00s."
"Yeah, it started off Broadway in the 80s. But then the guy who wrote it died."
"Of AIDS?"
"No, he died of a heart attack."
"Oh cause I was gonna say that would've been funny, if he'd died of AIDS after he wrote that."

..and there was much chatter of Zac Efron and the Jonas Brothers and whatnot that I tuned out.

That's not fair. Many "tweens" are like that, but not all are. I know many "tweens" who are perfectly respectful of theatre.

Totally forgot I meant to tell this one also:

On the train on my way to the Tony rehearsals on Sunday, listening to two random girls have a conversation which included:
"...oh yeah I saw In the Heights, and, I mean I guess it was ok, but I'm just more a fan of the more traditional musical theatre, like Rent."
"oh?"
"yeah, I need my songs to have a verse, chorus, verse, like the traditional musicals like Rent do it. And the music in In the Heights isn't like that, so when I left the theatre I didn't know any of the songs..."

More traditional musicals, like Rent- I almost *died* laughing. And then proceeded to repeat this to everyone I saw on Sunday. :)

During "No Good Deed"

Daughter: Why is she chanting?

Mother: Oh she's trying to save that boy that they put out on the stick by turning him into a flying monkey.

Daughter. Oh.

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Updated On: 6/17/08 at 03:55 PM

And at what point did they say, "Who the hell is Stephen Sondheim?"

lol I am sure that came later, during Lin-Manuel's speech that night, can you even imagine- "Why is he talking about a hat? That's not a hat, it's a Tony. And who is Mr. Sondheim? And when is Harry Potter gonna be presenting? OMG he is so cute- like not Zac Efron cute, but..."

At In the Heights a couple weeks ago

Man to wife: Oh, these are the dancers (points to something in playbill)
Wife: Where?
Man: Here, where it says swings.

I mean, I know most people don't know what a swing is unless they see theatre a lot, but it still amused me.

This one isn't talking about how ill informed an audience member is but it had me cracking up.

Tonight at Hairspray during "Timeless to Me" a little girl behind me leaned over to her mom and said "Mommy, what does timeless mean?" Her mom replied "It means never gets old". Then the little girl said "Mommy, you're not timeless." I nearly burst out laughing it was so funny.

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There was these two women I was walking behind and we were walking past someone who was handing out flyers and they said no thank you and walked away. Then one of the women said, "Why didn't we take them? I think that guy is a contestant on the Apprentice!”

Not excatly related to Broadway but it still amused me.

Overheard at a preview of BOEING-BOEING

woman: "How do you like it? I think it stinks."
man: "it's so unrealistic."
woman: "yeah! it's hard to believe, all those doors in one apartment.."

I wanted to say: "IT'S A FARCE!" but I just chuckled instead.

Haha, that made me laugh hard.

dramagirl487, THAT is tooo much.

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