Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 77

"Wife: It's raining outside.
Husband: It isn't. They're playing storm sound effects.
Wife: I can see the street from here. It's raining.
Husband: Why do you go out of your way to prove me wrong every single moment?"

Sounds almost like my parents. Hmmmm.

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Wow.

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It's nice, when you have a couple of spare hours and literally nothing better to do, to just trawl through this thread from beginning to end and remind yourself of old gems. :3

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Fat woman #1, at intermission: Man, these seats are tight!

Fat woman #2: Oh my god, tell me about it! My butt is killing me!
Fat woman #1, to skinny guy sitting in between them: Was I spilling over into your seat?
Skinny guy: You both were.

--New Amsterdam Theatre

Overheard by: Ali
via Overheard in New York, Jul 18, 2008

Overheard in New York, Jul 18, 2008

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Updated On: 7/22/08 at 05:36 PM

This isn't tourist related really but, My French teacher was booking tickets to see Les Miz in APRIL of this year. SHE ALREADY BOOKED THE TICKETS. When I heard that I went to her room and told her it was closing before then she was shocked. She got Telecharge on the phone, their response was "We know we were going to ask you if their was another show you would like". How did that even happen? Telecharge has to have idiots behind the desk.

Unbelievable PocketsquaredFanadu! Well they knew matinee ladies weren't going to love it.

At intermission...

"Is it half-time?"
"Yeah, I think it is half-time."

Did they not get what they had just spent the afternoon watching??

Quite possibly not if lines were said under the "I'm so much cooler than thou" laughter I experienced Sunday night. There are so many inside jokes that it's VERY possible people don't get it. Forgive them for being mere mortals.

Now...as for my latest WTF overhearing...

Saturday night I finally saw Jersey Boys with a standing room ticket. I'd gone to the Times Square rest stop ~ um, the Marriott :) ~ and was going into the bathroom in front of an older (at least early 70s) woman who was talking on her cell phone. She said "Oh, we're going to Avenue Q."

Now, my first thought was "Does she know what she's in for?" and apparently her friend asked the same question because she then said "Oh, I don't really know what it's about but it won the Tony so it must be very good."

And it gets better. She proceeded to say (not making this up folks) "You know I love opera. And he loves opera. So it should be fine."

Avenue Q and opera used comparatively in the same breath.

The rest of the night I was humming "One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just isn't the same". I would have loved to see her and her opera-loving companion's faces when they realized it's about as far from opera as you can get.

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at spelling bee a year and a half ago (my sister and i still laugh about this)

there was a family sitting next to us. the sister was about 18 or 19 and the brother was about 12

Brother: "What's an Episcopalian?"
Sister: "It means someone who doesn't believe in God"

lol

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Some of my favorites:

-When I saw Young Frankenstien, there was this little girl sitting in front of me. Every time they swore, she gasped. In the scene where he locks himself in the room with the monster and says "F*CK." She flipped out, almost screaming "THEY CAN'T SAY THAT!!!!!!!!"

-I don't remember the exact dialogue, but when I saw RENT, I saw this lady and her daughter trying to figure out what the basic plot was at intermission.

-I saw Legally Blonde on a trip with a local theatre group, and afterwards, we got to talk to Laura Bell Bundy and some of the other cast members, and so did another group. We were asking legitimite questions, such as "Where did you go to college?", and "How did you get into theatre?", while the other group was asking--I kid you not--"Did you like your costumes?" and my personal favorite, to Laura Bell Bundy: "Who did you play?"

-This didn't happen during a preformance, but it's a great story nonetheless. I was in a local production of 42nd Street, and I'd posted some rehearsal photos on my faceboook. I had a picture from the scene where Peggy faints, appropriately captioned "Peggy fainted!". My friend, who isn't into theatre, feels like browsing my pictures, sees the caption, and comments "OMG really?!", thinking that an actual cast member had fainted.

Cello-dude, that story just cracked me up! That is SO disgusting!

I've got a few new stupid comments that i overheard at the Les Miz concert at the Hollywood Bowl. I of course ended up sitting in front of these girls who were possibly the STUPIDEST ditzy girls I've ever encountered in my life. I don't even know why they came to see the show. They pretty much just mocked the entire thing.
During the entire first act, the one girl was confused about what was happening, and the other girl kept a running commentary of what was going on. VERY LOUDLY. And some of her explanations were just great. This was her explanation of Fantine's death.
"Okay, so like, she's sick, but like, she needed a doctor and so did her kid and so she's decided NOT to see the doctor.... i think....yeah...yeah, that's right."
And then once Fantine died, the other girl said "Oh my god, is she really dead?" and her friend replies "No, she couldn't have died that fast. I think she's just napping."
This went on for about 15 minutes, until everyone around us got angry and so the girls finally quieted down.

Until Eponine's death, that is. When one of the girls felt the need to shout out "YEAHHHHHH EPONINEEEEEEEE!!!!"
And then at the end of the night, they were saying "O.M.G, LETS TRY OUT FOR A MUSICAL!!! We could be in things like this!! How hard can it be to get in stuff like this? I mean, there's probably not very many people who like doing this kind of stuff."

And their summary of the entire show?? "Well.... pretty much everyone died...and then more people died.....the end."

I saw In the Heights yesterday, and I was talking to Lin Manuel Miranda at the stage door. The girl next to me very rudely butted in and asked if anyone in the show played a Hasidic Jew. He just laughed a little, and said, "Um, nope, we're all Latino."

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at RENT lottery, I overheard these two people talking.

guy: what if we lose, what do we do?
girl: we could try [Title of Show] lottery
guy: what is that?
girl: its a show about two guys writing a musical about writing a musical.
guy: uh, no, i'm not into that kind of show.
girl: whats your kind of show?
guy: you know, Cats, Phantom, those good ones.
girl: (with visible cringe) Ew, you suck. You disgust me.
guy: *frowns*

the look on the guy's face was hilarious.