Hilarious Comments Overheard By Tourists and Audience Members — Page 96

I think it's the ignorance of the poster in what makes it so funny... They believe their knowledge is superior than an audience member who use an alternative word.

Updated On: 1/13/11 at 01:16 PM

"That made me so mad, I wanted to correct them both, but I was afraid if I did, then I would do it rather loudly and embarrass everyone around me. It just pisses me off when igorant theatre goers think that movie-musicals are original, and they the actual stage plays were made years later."

I actually DID think that The Sound of Music was a stage adaptation of the movie when I first heard about it. I had no idea when I was nine that there was a revival playing Broadway!

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I'm with the old man.

i've worked in ticketing and have had NUMEROUS tourists butcher show names, like "jersey girls", "the king of the lions", "q street" or "vicks" (wicked); but the worst i ever came across was the germans who, for some bizarre reason, who would mess up "the color purple" by calling it "ze colored people". this happened on more than one occasion. all i could say was, "wow, really?"

people will never cease to amaze me...

Are you making fun of people's accents? Are you aware that W is pronounced as a V in some countries? Many tourists are from non-English speaking countries and their grasp of our language isn't always very good. It's the same as if you went to Spain or France and made a mistake while trying to speak the language. Could be that some person will be talking about you on a message board.

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the tone of this whole thread is sickening. Making fun of people who don't know as much as you do about theater. And you know why they don't? Because they DON'T CARE! you all have made it your business to try and know everything about the comparatively unimportant topic of broadway (yes, unimportant in the general scope of the world).

I'm sure you all know nothing about certain other aspects of life and make mistakes every day which could be considered stupid by others that are more in the know than you are.

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And of course add to that: not all words translate the same way in all languages.

Thank you, dramamama. I had meant to point that out but it just flew out of my head while I was typing.

As for the tone of the thread I think the pendulum swings both ways. Some of the posts in the thread do border on mean (like the one about the tourist misprouncing things) but those are the ones who show the stupidty of the poster not the people who are being spoken about. But some of them are genuinely funny and should be shared. I'll reiterate one that I posted in this thread almost two years ago. It was the second act of Hairspray during "Timeless to Me". A little girl sitting behind me whispered to her mother "Mommy, what does timeless mean?" The mom paused as if to consider how to describe the word before whispering back "never gets old". The girl digests this information before whispering "Mommy, you're not timeless". I just about lost it.

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jane...you've been around these boards often enough to know that THAT is never going to change. Some people just feel good about being nasty.

MOST of the posts here are innocent and fun. Berating all for a few that aren't isn't useful.

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"the only one that continually caught me by surprise was 'the colored people' usage. really, does no one else find the use of this term weird? this isn't like a mispronunciation, it's almost derogatory"

Tell that to the NAACP.