Oddest things you’ve heard from non theatre people- Page 4

[youwillbefound2]

Posted: 7/20/18 at 9:23am

I was walking past the Lunt-Fontanne yesterday and a woman walked by and said to herself, "Wow, Donna Summer is doing Broadway now?"

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/20/18 at 12:11pm

1.  Well, she sort of is,,,it's her music and story.

2.  And, perhaps, she assumed it was more like what Springsteen is doing.

 

 

 

[LxGstv]

Posted: 7/20/18 at 12:25pm

dianamorales said: "Another one is someone saying “I just saw a show ONBroadway!”and me saying, “You went to New York? Oh, how was it?” And they say “Oh no, I didn’t go to New York!! I saw it at the Fox in Atlanta!” And I’m like okay yes you saw a broadway show but you saw a national tour girl! Not on Broadway! I know it’s sounds so stupid and pretentious but it occurs so often!

This just might be my biggest pet peeve! I ALWAYS have friends that tell me they're going to see or saw a broadway show, when they actually saw it on tour.

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Kinda similar when I see people on Facebook going to off broadway shows and posting that they are at a broadway show... erm, no, trainspotting live isn’t broadway.

As for the cast recording/soundtrack, yes, there’s a difference, but if you are involved in a conversation about a show or something, it’s kind of an easy mistake to make... everyone knows what you mean though...

[smidge]

Posted: 7/20/18 at 12:36pm

dramamama611 said: "1. Well, she sort of is,,,it's her music and story.

2. And, perhaps, she assumed it was more like what Springsteen is doing.

And, 3, assumed Donna was still alive



"

 

[DeNada]

Posted: 7/20/18 at 12:44pm

SweetLips22 said: "Not quite the same thing, but....was in London for a very short visit and desperate to see Elaine Paige in Aspects of Love only to be told she was out for a time doing something else."

Elaine Paige has never been in Aspects of Love; not in its original London run, not in the Trevor Nunn small scale revival a few years back, not on tour, not ever.  It would have been impressive if you'd managed to see her!

 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/20/18 at 1:19pm

smidge said: "dramamama611 said: "1. Well, she sort of is,,,it's her music and story.

2. And, perhaps, she assumed it was more like what Springsteen is doing.

And, 3, assumed Donna was still alive
"

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Oh, $hit! I totally forgot she had passed! See? Its not that hard to make a faux pas!

[wish i were here2]

Posted: 7/29/18 at 12:32am

I recently met up with cousin and she told me she always ends up falling asleep at musicals. Anywho, she told me and I quote, “I fell asleep at the beginning of Act 1 of Les Mis and I woke up to that giant helicopter in Act 2.”

[Tateh]

Posted: 7/29/18 at 6:58am

At A chorus line finale:

So finally they were all cast!!!! 

 

[brendasugarbaker]

Posted: 7/30/18 at 2:03pm

During intermission at the non-Equity tour of The Addams Family, overheard a young man telling his family that the cast we were seeing was the original Broadway cast, all while looking at their bios in his program. 

[springwillcome]

Posted: 7/30/18 at 2:33pm

I've heard plenty of hot takes from non theater people, but then sometimes I remember some of my OWN before I knew more about theater, and they're so much worse, so I'll embarrass myself instead:

1). When I saw Wicked on a high school field trip, I found out our seats were in the orchestra. I assumed this meant we were sitting WITH the pit - in my defense, I was going with our school's concert band, but how I had never heard of "orchestra seating" before freshmen year astounds me.

2). I will never stop being mad at myself for missing Sunday in the Park with George - I never looked into it or even considered going because I had read a short story back in middle school titled "Sunday in the Park", which I didn't like at all, and assumed the production was a play based on it, as I mis-remembered a character named George being in the story. 

[kelsey1389]

Posted: 7/30/18 at 2:44pm

Not necessarily odd, just stupid. Talking with a friend who saw Wicked in 2011. I ask who her who was in the show, and she answers Idina. I say, Idina was not in Wicked in 2011, so you saw someone else. I start rattling off names of possibilities, and she goes "but she looked so much like Idina.... I don't get it"

Like no crap she looks like Idina from a distance!!! She's painted green and wearing a black wig! Hell, I'd probably look kind of like Idina from a distance if I was dressed like that.