"Normal People" Just Don't Understand

[timote316]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:22pm

All called my local music store to see if they got the All Shook Up cast recording in today:

Me: Hello, can you tell me if you got the cast recording for "All Shook Up" today?
Girl at FYE: What is a cast recording?
(pause)
Me: The CD from the Original Broadway Cast.
(longer pause)
Girl: OH! A soundtrack.
Me: *sigh* Yeah, I guess.
(She goes to find it. 5 Minutes later...)
Girl: All we have is a bright yellow CD with Elvis songs on it.
Me: Alright, thank you.

[Raggy Q poo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:30pm

haha- thats funny. I wanna call and see waht happens...I'm an evil little monster

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:32pm

oh dear...lolz

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:46pm

I get varied mentalities when I call. I had a lovely 15 minute convo about musicals with a girl I called regarding Piazza and Bee. And then, I get into the horrible, uncomfortable convos with people who don't get musical theatre and never will.

[iRuvPrinceton]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:47pm

OH MY GOD I KNOW JUST HOW YOU FEEL.

Today in English class...

Me: Wait, you want me to play Thisbe for out Midsummer Night's Dream scene?
Friend: Uh, yeah.
Me: So, I'm a girl, playing a guy, playing a girl. Can you say Victor/Victoria?
Friends: *blinkblink*
Me: Um, yeah...

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:50pm

I had to explain who Ethel Merman is to a gay man. And there's a Mary Martin who works in our office, and nobody sees why that is hysterical.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:57pm

This is often a problem for me when I'm in LA; I had so much trouble with sales people when I was looking for the Piazza CD

"is it a movie?"
"YES...it's a movie but I'm not looking for the MOVIE."

[Madame X]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:00pm

I really don't get the obsession "we" have of calling the cast recording a cast recording to 'normal people.' It makes things alot faster and easier if you just say I'm looking for the cd of The Light in the Piazza. No offense is made by calling it a soundtrack and you get your point across.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:03pm

What's sad is that I did say, "The Light in the Piazza....a soundtrack" and there was still confusion! I suppose they really want their workers to be knowledgable about Rock/Pop, and I totally get that, but it's funny to see the confused look in their eyes...

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:13pm

I swear, the people at the Borders in the Chicago Loop barely know they have a movie/theatre recordings section. They stick it way in the back, and it's obviously never been in any sort of alphabetical order. Then you ask for something, they look at you like you're an idiot, spend twenty minutes trying to find it, and probably don't have it. Sorry, my vent.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:16pm

Best Buy online says the store near me doesn't have it...but I'm gonna go anyway and see.

If not, I'll go to a different store.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:31pm

I still remember when I called asking for ragtime once, I asked if they had the original Broadway cast recording and she came back and said "yes, we have the... ummm... it says here 1981 film soundtrack. is that what you want?" it makes it twice as confusing for them when there really is an actual "soundtrack"... Updated On: 5/31/05 at 02:31 PM

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 3:59pm

My friend Jael was in school one day watching Fiddler and some kid yelled out "they stole that from Gwen Stefani" so it just shows that normal people know nothing.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:01pm

"I had to explain who Ethel Merman is to a gay man."

I spit my beverage on the screen upon reading that, Bobby. Thanks a bunch!

[Forester]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:02pm

"My friend Jael was in school one day watching Fiddler and some kid yelled out "they stole that from Gwen Stefani" so it just shows that normal people know nothing."

Whoa!!!! Next thing you know, there are punks who think Hard Knock Life was originally written by Jay-Z.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:05pm

ahhh!!! yes. austin powers in Goldmember was the highlight of Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life"...

[jaded_october]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:24pm

"I had to explain who Ethel Merman is to a gay man"

oh dear god.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:29pm

Idina Menzel was once Adidas Men's Hell.



No joke.

[jaded_october]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:32pm

LMAO

[romanov]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:37pm

Whoever the gay man is that needed to be told who Ethel Merman was needs to turn in his Old Friend of Dorothy's union card.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 10:50pm

That Ethel Merman thing is ridiculous.

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:00pm

My god....I hate normal people. Well.....most of them.

I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't know what a cast recording is.

[shira467]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:08pm

Last night, I was driving and put in the Company Revival CD -- and my friend asked to put on Light In The Piazza (because she knows I'm obsessed) -- I swear, I gave the biggest smile of my life!

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:18am

Sadly, I can deal with people who know nothing about Broadway. It's simply not their field of interest. My problem is people who pretend to love and adore Broadway, and then cannot pronounce any names (if they can even remember names) correctly.

That whole cast recording thing. I live on Staten Island. It IS a part of NYC. You would think the stores would carry a good variety of cast recordings. I gave up on trying. Now I just do any Broadway-related shopping in Manhattan. It keeps me sane.

[Icbanannie]

Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:26am

Yesterday I went to the Virgin Megastore in TIMES SQUARE and asked for "Spelling Bee". First, they didnt know what I was saying, and then when they figured out that it was a musical, they told me their shipment had not come in yet!! WHAT!!! A musical's cd now avalible the day it comes out in TIMES SQUARE!!!!