Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members- Page 93

[Burgundy]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 11:31pm

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!

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 8/23/09 at 11:56pm

Aw, that Mary Poppins kid is cute.

[jess20882]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 10:49am

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*)

[legally_popular]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 7:56pm

An elderly couple next to me walking out of 9 to 5:
Wife (to the husband): "You should audition for Hart!" and then she went, "How would you like to be suspended?" (in the air I assume).

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:11pm

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.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:38pm

They probably had the seats next to me. I hate latecomers. They should NOT be seated. (Near me.)

[saveusmike]

Posted: 8/28/09 at 12:28am

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.

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 8/28/09 at 12:37am

Promises, Promises was playing at Barnes and Nobles on the Upper East Side and some woman says to her husband, "I don't think this is Cats."

Also am I really the only one who is bothered by the misplaced modifier in the title of this thread??

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/28/09 at 12:54am

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.

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

[legally_popular]

Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:55am

savesusmike - ugh! People like that are so annoying. What did she do when the show began and "Gary" came out? LOL.

[saveusmike]

Posted: 8/28/09 at 2:10am

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

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 8/29/09 at 10:44am

This wasn't a Broadway show, but I saw a local production of Evita last night. And I overheard two pretty funny comments.

(When the rocking chairs for "The Art of the Possible" were brought out)
Random elderly lady about seven rows in front of me: Rockin' chairs!

Of course it doesn't transfer well to writing, but she said it in this very introspective, observant kind of way. It wasn't "rockin' chairs?" or "ROCKIN' CHAIRS!"

Then, at intermission, some lady was poring through the playbill, and she said, "You know, they made a movie based on this. I don't remember if it was in Argentina or not, but it was starring Meryl Streep, and boy can she sing. Antonio Banderas was playing Chee." (That's how she pronounced his name)

[singer73192]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 2:32pm

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!

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 7:58pm

I entered the lottery for HAIR the other night with my boyfriend (who is a dancer and knows little to nothing about Broadway) and, when we lost, I got in line to see if there was any standing room available. He turned to me and goes "Is this the line for the other Broadway shows?"

I just gave him a kiss on the forehead and said "I love you."

[joleslie]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 8:08pm

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

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 8:22pm

I'm assuming you mean British? (Ive only heard of PEOPLE being called English by the Amish. [That's a lot of 'ish'.])

I can see why he might be concerned over the dialect messing her up....if you aren't use to hearing it.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 8:33pm

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...

[carriesparkle]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 9:10pm

It always makes me laugh when people talk about "British accents" as a generic thing (like on Mrs Doubtfire) because as Schmerg says, there's a pretty big difference between English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish accents (and even within those subdivisions).

My favourite comment when I visited Broadway earlier in the year was the woman behind me at Guys and Dolls to her friend, "I'm so worried about swine flu I've stopped eating bacon." Not DIRECTLY related to the show, admittedly, but it made me laugh.

[joleslie]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 9:13pm

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

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 9:26pm

I have a couple of friends who have seen Wicked in major cities near the small town that I live in and I have to explain to them that it was not 'Eye'dina and Kristen that they saw.

[legally_popular]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 9:48pm

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

[musicalmack]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 9:55pm

Outside of Next to Normal this weekend, two ladies walked by and saw Kyle Dean Massey signing autographs outside the stage door. One woman hit her other friend and yelled, "Look! It's Billy Elliot!!" while pointing at Kyle.

Luckily somebody that had overheard as well piped up and said "No, that's Kyle Dean Massey who plays Gabe in Next to Normal." The lady just stared blankly and said "Oh..."

[Rudy2]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 9:59pm

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.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/7/09 at 10:21pm

"
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 swear, I know people who would say something like that.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/8/09 at 8:18am

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