Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 85

This wasn't overheard, but I was standing inside the entryway of the Starbucks on 49th and 8th yesterday, and I was amazed at the amount of people trying to pull the door open, too stupid to realize the sign that said PUSH.

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Okay, so not a tourist (well, he is, but he's also my uncle), made some funny Jennifer Hope Wills/Phantom comments

At my uncle's house

Uncle: Phantom's coming to DC. This girl Jennifer Hope Wills went to Salisbury and there's a whole group of us going to see her.
Me: She's only in the Broadway production. You must be going to New York to see her.
Uncle: Well, it's in New York, but it's coming to DC this summer.
Me: No, that's the tour. There's the Broadway production in New York and then there's a tour. There are MANY other productions too, but the main US ones are New York, the tour, and Las Vegas.
Uncle: So, the Phantom coming to the Kennedy Centre isn't the same one that I saw in New York in the 80's.
Me: No, it's the exact same show, just different casts, and it's a different production.

It was funny for me, at least.

Overheard during Liza on Tuesday...

"I can't believe Patti is still doing GYPSY"
"Well, when she goes, the show goes"
"Oh, well she IS the whole show."

And my favorite of the night:
"Sutton Foster is a pretty big actress to be doing Shrek. Work must not be coming in."

Not really theater related, but I was sitting in the mezzanine and this usher was all tough:

Usher 1 to audience: Turn off all cell phones, blackberries and pagers. I can see everything from here and I see your lights flashing. So shut them off.
Usher 1 to Usher 2 loud so that everyone could hear him: These fancy people come in here with their Iphones flashing thinking they can record the whole show. Well they won't get by me. They think they are so sneaky and slick. But I can see them. I see those lights flashing so I stop them. I always have the last laugh. (i almost wanted to hear a wicked whoo hoo haha)

Umm yeah moron, Iphones don't have video recorders on them. Last laugh? And I was insulted that he was so rude to paying patrons 20 minutes before curtain. Most people know the drill and the phones go off.

This made me incredibly happy, and it was pretty funny...At Forbidden Broadway a few weeks ago they mentioned "High School Musical 3", and a 7 year old girl across the aisle from me yelled "EWWWWWWW!"

"This made me incredibly happy, and it was pretty funny...At Forbidden Broadway a few weeks ago they mentioned "High School Musical 3", and a 7 year old girl across the aisle from me yelled "EWWWWWWW!""

Haha, that is so funny!

Spring Awakining I sat next to two ladies over 65 in the like 3rd row:

Woman 1: I am so excited I love old germany
Woman 2: I lived in Germany for a long time and I know how it is to be young in Germany
Me: Do you know what this show is about?
Woman 2: Geramany during world war two

Show Starts

These women are out by the beginning of All Thats Known

Maybe the woman was talking about visiting CATSNYrevival?

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But, obviously now, there is no revival planned.

Speak for yourself! I put on a revival every Tuesday afternoon at 4 O'Clock in my back yard. I've been getting raves, check the Times.

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dg22894 ~ They MUST have been the same people I encountered at Arena a couple of weeks ago. (page 84) They were telling their friends there that Spring Awakening was about kids in Germany during WWII.

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"Spring Awakining I sat next to two ladies over 65 in the like 3rd row:

Woman 1: I am so excited I love old germany
Woman 2: I lived in Germany for a long time and I know how it is to be young in Germany
Me: Do you know what this show is about?
Woman 2: Geramany during world war two

Show Starts

These women are out by the beginning of All Thats Known"

Ok now this made me LOL. You think that people would know what the show is about before going to see it.

When I saw it the first time there was a couple in their 70's, at least, in onstage seats. I thought that they were gonna be gone at the beginning but they loved it. Turns out they saw it like 13 times...LOL.

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I don’t remember the conversation exactly, but at the last show I was at I overheard two ladies talking about WSS...
“Did you hear that West Side Story is opening?”
“Yeah, did you hear that they’re gonna speak Spanish in it?”
“Oh… well I don’t have to see it then, I already know it.”

Meanwhile, we’re at IN THE HEIGHTS, lmao.