Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 82

I remember when I was really little that I thought shows only ran for one performance. Granted, all of the kiddie shows I was in at the time did, but I was shocked when I heard how many of my relatives and teachers and stuff had seen "Phantom of the Opera"-- I remember saying things like, 'oh, did you see my mom there?'

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When I was little I thought the cast never left the show until it closed. I wasn't the smartest kid.



-Musicalmaster703

My sister went to a showing of the final Rent in Orlando yesterday and she gave me permission to share these two gems from the teen girls who sat behind her.

First: When Angel dies, one turns to the other and loudly whispered "that's when he died"

Then: Also the idiot said "I can't believe they put this on Broadway after the movie came out!" She also said the movie was WAY better than the show.

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(Psst... Do you mean he plays Flounder?)

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I was walking in Times Square:
Stupid girl: Where is Times Square?

At Xanadu the other night two girls talking about the on-stage seating.

Girl #1- How did they get up there? (Meaning physically onto the stage)

Girl #2- They bought tickets. (In the biggest "duh" way)

I'm going to the Rent screening tomorrow so expect some good material. I don't understand the stupidity of some of the people who live in my town...

BTW, at school the other day I was wearing my GYPSY shirt and some kid walks up to me:
Kid: "So do you like stand on the side walks and beg for money?"
Me: "What?"
Kid: "Cause your shirt says you're a gypsy. Thats what gypsies do. But I've never seen a shirt thats like "I'm a gypsy!"
Me: *bangs head into wall*

The ignorance of some people...

when i was little this woman in central park kept calling me "Barbie" because I was wearing a Barbie shirt, it was really strange.

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LOL. :)

Oooo I totally forgot the comment made my friend at my house yesterday!!

Matt, looking at all the GYPSY stuff in my room: So do they change the playbill every time someone new plays Gypsy?

Me: What do you mean?

Matt: Like Patti LuPone plays Gypsy now but when she leaves it'll be someone else right?

Me: Matt, Patti LuPone doesn't play Gypsy. She plays the mother, Rose. And Gypsy isn't like this never ending run. There's something called a revival. Ethel Merman was the original. Then there were REVIVALS where other actresses played Rose like Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone.

Matt: Oh. Ok I think I get it.

How I'm friends with him... Oh yes and my friend and I also had to explain to him who Bernadette Peters was. Go figure...

1. I teched a production of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at a community theatre near my home. Near the end of the show there's the scene where Prince Charming finds Cinderella. In our production he kisses her and we go to blackout. One night as i wet onstage to grab the bench he was sitting on i hear this little girl's voice go "Ewwwwww!!! Mommy, why did he DO that?"

2. I was sitting in the audience at Patti Lupone Gypsy.
Woman 1: Oh, I'm so excited for this!
Woman 2: Me too! I hope it's good. We saw a very disappointing show earlier this year.
Woman 1: What was it?
Woman 2: Oh dear, let me see. I think it was called Q Street? So inappropriate.

3. My friend kept giving me quizzical looks all through dance class.
Me: What's wrong?
Peter: Why does your shirt say "Gypsy"?
Me: Oh, it's a musical. I saw it on broadway earlier this summer.
Peter: Ohhh. That makes sense. *beat* So it's about gypsies?
Me: No, it's about a stripper.
Peter: Wait, gypsy strippers? Who writes this stuff?
Me: No, there are no stripping gypsies in the show!!
Peter: Really? Why'd you go see it then?
As you can see, he really didn't quite get the concept of Gypsy.

^Aw that’s adorable, and that reminds me of something my 6-year-old cousin said at Wicked.
After sorta understanding how Elphaba “pretended” to melt and be dead, during the finale he asked,
“So Glinda and the witch never see again?”
Me: “No.”
Him: “Aww……… that’s sad.”
It was really cute, but then at curtain call he got a little confused… As the (Elphie/Glinda) actresses came out to bow and hugged, he went, “Look! They saw each other again!”