Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 93

Instead of writing 5 reviews cause I'm just that lazy...I shall give you other people's commentary from my NYC trip.

Next to Normal:
Mom says: "It was sad...and I don't like sad! Therefore, I didn't like this musical."

Hair:
Dad says: "There was a guy in clothes singing during 'Where Do I Go'? " Thanks, Dad!

Mary Poppins:
5 year old I was entertaining for the day says: "I want to go to Broadway EVERYDAY!"

Billy Elliot:
Mom says: "I figured coming into this he would've been gay."

9 to 5:
Special Guest Marc Kudisch says: "This show is more trouble than it's worth."

Thank you to the 5 year old for the most sensible comment of the bunch!

Southern woman #1: Oh look! 42nd Street! Like the song!

Southern woman #2: Oh really? I didn't know there really WAS a 42nd Street, I thought they just made it up for the song!

(true story, I *swear*)

Back when Burn The Floor was in previews.


Woman #1- Since Burn The Floor is in Previews we have an extra 20 minutes or so before we have to be at the theater.

Woman #2- Yeah, I always loved that about movies. You don't have to be there on time because of the previews.

The very first time I saw 9 to 5 a woman was telling her husband this as they both looked through there playbills.

"Dolly Parton doesnt do the show anymore I heard"

And this was more stupid than funny at the time this was my third time seeing Avenue Q

Myself and a friend were waiting on the ticket holder line and I heard a couple talking about the show. The wife/girlfriend/w.e was talking about how THE Gary Coleman was in the show in which I intervened very politley. The woman looked at me as if I was stupid and told me how she heard from a reliable friend who saw the show. I told her I saw the show twice already and she argued saying that maybe I saw a understudy and that (actual quote; I swear on my life) "If you do theater as much as myself you would know how to actually read the understudy slip"

I never ever intervened in a conversation again, dispite knowing I was right.

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This isn't really hilarious so much as it is humiliating. I saw Hair on a day when Will Swenson was out, and my fried (the same one who's never heard of Angela Lansbury) insisted upon going up to one of the ushers sobbing, demanding to know why he wasn't on that day. She thought that the usher would feel bad for her, call Will, and ask him to come in. I've never been so embarrassed in my life.

This girl has also chased Jonathan Groff down the block, Twitter-bashed Anthony Rapp because he wouldn't take a picture with her, and refuses to see Next to Normal now because Kyle Dean Massey isn't as "cute" as Aaron Tveit. Good Lord.

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Updated On: 8/28/09 at 12:54 AM

legally_popular- I looked all over trying to find her but I didnt see her. I wanted to see how stupid she felt lol.

I just hate people like that at shows who insist they know everything about a production/actor/etc. I have seen about 50 or so shows and I consider myself somewhat smart in the Broadway world (Not half as the majority of people here)
But people see me at shows and since I look relativly young (Im 19 turning 20 but some people have though I was 15/16) they think this is my first show and I have no idea what I am talking about.


Glindathegood- you need to start taking a new friend to shows lol

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When waiting in line to get into HAIR, a lady came up to me and asked...

'Excuse me, is this the line for Broadway?"

I had a tough time holding back laughter!

Final performance of 9 to 5, and the man behind me said to this teenage girl that was with him:

"Now, the Dolly Parton character speaks in a Southern American accent so you may not understand her. But don't worry, most of the show is in song anyway so you don't really have to follow the speaking."

(The girl was English. I can only assume he thinks us English folk cannot understand certain American accents.)

Updated On: 9/7/09 at 08:08 PM

Hmmm, I usually call English people English to differentiate between Scottish and Welsh and stuff... because there's a pretty big difference between the accents...

At the Kennedy Center (where the parking lot has Phantom of the Opera posters.)

Me: I have bad dreams about Colm Wilkinson's Phantom.
My Friend: Yeah, my favorite Phantom was Andy Warhol.
Me: (Double take) Wait, whaaaat?
My Friend: Andy Warhol?
Me: I think you're, uh, thinking of Anthony Warlow...

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No I definitely mean English. I'm English myself and I always use that term to differentiate between accents, just like I use Scottish, Irish and Welsh. British is far too generic when it comes to accents.

Updated On: 9/7/09 at 09:13 PM

The two guys sitting near me at In the Heights had some hilarious convos during intermission. I was trying to read my playbill, but I couldn't help smiling when I overheard some things they talked about regarding Broadway (I can't remember the exact words they used, but you'll get the gist)...

"The Marquis theater where 9 to 5 plays is in a hotel, just like Young Frankenstein was in a hotel and Legally Blonde."
(Ok, maybe I understand the confusion about YF being at the Hilton and the hotel is right there, but it still made me chuckle. And he said it like he knew everything, lol.)

And my favorite was their discussion on why In the Heights wasn't good. The reasons:
"It's pretty and nice to look at, but the story-line is so dumb. It's like that one chick gets with the guy and someone wins the lotto and that's it. Nothing happens. Wicked had an amazing story-line and so many things happened. And in Next to Normal so much happened too. Nowadays, shows are all about looking nice like this and they don't care about having a good story. This definitely shouldn't have won Best Musical."

I know there was something else they said, but I can't remember at the moment.

Updated On: 9/7/09 at 09:48 PM

GlindatheGood - I'm not gay (one of few on here), but everything you mention about your friend makes me wish I was. I agree - find someone else to see shows with.

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I'm an English girl myself, and it always weirds me out a little when you guys say "British". It's like calling a French person European, or a Japanese person Asian. Not strictly inaccurate, but you could definitely get closer. I'm relieved to hear there are some Americans who say "English"; thank heavens for the Amish, I guess! :P

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