Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 75

[MrsVampyre]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 6:43pm

This was some time ago. But a woman trying to impress her out of town friends that The Producers was a historical drama about Nazis!!!!!

The same woman after the show (The Odd Couple)was over, and at the stage door... after having one too many at the bar during intermission... to Matthew Broderick... "Glory" is being used as training film at West Point!!!!!!"

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 11:33pm

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."

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 11:39pm

At Drowsy Chaperone, when Mrs. Tottendale pulls out her ukelele, someone behind me cried out OH MY GOD HAHA WHEREVER DID SHE FIND THAT?!

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 4:17pm

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.

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 6:57pm

That pretty says it all right there.
Ban TW/EENS from the TONY Awards Rehearsal.
Honestly, talk like that (more specifically, the bit about Jon) is beyond disrespectful and just ... wrong. It's disgusting.
Go see LEGALLY BLONDE for the umpteenth time, ladies!

[SirNotAppearing]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 6:59pm

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

[jordangirl]

Posted: 6/15/08 at 7:01pm

This one was after Emily Skinner's 6/8 Feinstein's performance...

She had finished and gone out of the room (I think...she *might* have been back in when this happened, I'm not sure because we couldn't see her entrance/exit door), and it got kind of quiet as people were finishing drinks/food or getting their stuff to pay the bills. This one guy who had been at one of the center tables, pretty much directly in front of her, said VERY LOUDLY "She's got a really good voice!" Everyone in the room lost it laughing. It's true...but it was just really funny the way it happened so everyone could hear him. Ross even stopped packing his music up for a moment and started laughing.

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 3:12pm

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. :)

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 3:16pm

At Rent while Adam and Anthony were there. "They added some songs"


I started cracking up!

[suicidalmickeymouse]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 3:55pm

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.

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

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 4:08pm

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

[Anakela]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 4:17pm

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..."

[Patash]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 4:23pm

An early performance of Hairspray, the woman next to me leaned over at intermission and said, "Who is the big woman playing the mother? Everyone cheered for her like they know her."

At the end of Proof, two matinee ladies were explaining it to each other, "You see they aren't sure if the father is really dead or not, so they're looking in his office upstairs for proof that he's really dead."

[viola13]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 4:51pm

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.

[into_the_woods2]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 5:41pm

i was watching sweeney todd with someone and she goes
"Mrs. Lovett's songs are so easy, I could play her."
I kind of wanted to slap her...

[Eris0303]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 2:09am

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.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 4:05am

At Port Authority the other day, I heard this group of girls talking about wanting to see The Little Mermaid and one of them said, "I hear it's supposed to be really good because they put a lot of money into it!"

[LittleEDIEfan595]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:13am

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.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:17am

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.


Love it.

[bobsyeruncle]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 10:55am

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.

[dramagirl487]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 1:44pm

During Adam and Anthony's RENT run:

After One Song Glory:

Stupid Girl 1: WOW that guy who plays Roger is SO hot
Stupid Girl 2: ALL of the Rogers are hot. if you like this one, wait til you see the one in the movie
Stupid Girl 1:He was hot too? Who played him?
Stupid Girl 2: No idea, but he was SO good looking. Much better than this guy.
Stupid Girl 1: wow i need to see that
Stupid Girl 2: Yeah totally, i actually prefer the movie guy's voice too. this one isn't bad though

(i wrote it down right after hearing it. so that was the original conversation)

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 1:55pm

Haha, that made me laugh hard.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 1:57pm

It's stuff like this that makes me lose faith in the human race.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 2:04pm

dramagirl487, THAT is tooo much.

[jennyish]

Posted: 6/21/08 at 2:06pm

My mother, walking past Jersey Boys at the August Wilson Theatre: Jersey Boys won Best Musical? Is that supposed to be any good?

Me: No. I mean, I've never seen it, but from what I've gathered it's kind of a laughingstock.

Mom: That's a shame, because August Wilson is so talented.