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#1

Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 1:41pm

a boy in class today made fun of Cabaret and I said "do not make fun of things you dont' know anything about...do you even know who wrote Cabaret?" and he matter-of-factly smiles and says "Sondheim."

I started laughing so hard. I think it was a great awakening knowing....wow, that shouldn't be THAT funny.

Anyone else have stories about encounters with non-theatre people who think they "know-all"?
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
#5

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 1:49pm

LOL!
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
#7

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 2:02pm

well you know Herman basically said anything with a nice melody he wrote, so I say yes if he wrote the nicest melodies that year he must have written SITPWG!
I still want to kick my TV when he comes out to give that speech on my DVD. re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#9

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 2:16pm

I was watching a rehearsal of "Annie Get Your Gun" one time. Annie had just finished singing "They Say It's Wonderful" and someone sitting next to me said "I love Rodgers & Hammerstein".

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#10

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 2:25pm

Perhaps he was referring to R&H producing "Annie"? Irving Berlin wouldn't have written it without R&H coming to him with the idea: "Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley."
#12

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 2:33pm

"Perhaps he was referring to R&H producing "Annie"? Irving Berlin wouldn't have written it without R&H coming to him with the idea: "Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley."

No, she wasn't savvy enough to know that. She just thought all beautiful ballads were written by R&H.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#13

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:25pm

someone tried to tell me Miss Saigon was set in America.... bless them!
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#14

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:34pm

This is not strictly about a theatre faux pas but is related. In an American literature class a fellow student was talking about The Grapes of Wrath and how the Joad family packed-up in the Midwest and moved to New York
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re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:38pm

A girl talking to me:
"Next time you are in NYC you should see Kiss Me, Kate."
Me- "Ummm.. what?"
Her-"Yeah, it's been playing there for like over 20 years."
Me- "Yeah, um, no it hasn't."
Her-"Yes it is still there."
Me-"No it's really not."
Her- "Really?"
Me- "Really."
Her- "Oh."

My other favorite:
Someone trying to convince me that there was no musical called "Hair". But there is one called "Hairspray". No kidding.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#17

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 3:41pm

Lol. Thenardier. So true.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#18

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:09pm

Also not theatre per-say, but the following conversation happened with a former English teacher of mine...

Teacher (explaining Les Miserables): Gene Val-Gene [spelled phoenetically] was arrested for 21 years for stealing a loaf of bread.
Me: [winces]
Girl in my class: All for stealing bread?
Teacher: Yes.
Me: Actually, most of those years were because he attempted to escape, while imprisoned for stealing the bread.
Teacher:... Right. He stole a loaf of bread.


Argh. I've had conversations with clueless friends that made me laugh/cry, but they never claimed to know anything about theatre, so...
#20

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:17pm

The first time I saw Wicked the people sitting behind me were telling a couple sitting near them about the show and went on and on about how when Fiyero broke his leg "the black guy in the chorus" took over for him and how he's also Idina's husband

Updated On: 5/19/05 at 04:17 PM

#21

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:27pm

My sister's friend runs a Bway radio station and he said on the air one time "We've got two Stephen Sondheim songs coming up, one from Into the Woods and the other Children of Eden." my sister happened to be there with him on the air and she was like "No, Children of Eden was by Stephen Schwartz." She said it right on the air too! hehe!
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#22

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:29pm

My friends and I LOVE theatre, and there's this one girl who used to be our friend but was a poser at the time like she'd say she loved theatre as much as us but it was obvious she was just saying that to be 'cool'. Anyway, we tried to catch her in a lie so we were like "Oh, so have you heard about the musical 'Laughing Time'?" and she jumps at the chance to answer and she's all "YES! OMG! I had tickets to that show but then uhh, my mom wouldn't let me go. I love that show" and I'm like "Ohh, I forgot..what was it about again?" and she's all "I dunno.." and I'm like "But I KNOW Matthew Broderick starred in it..He gave up his opportunity to star in How To Succeed... to join Laughing Time" and she's all "I know that, you don't need to tell me!" lol
Then about 2 months later my other friend finally told her there's no such musical as Laughing Time, and if there is, it's definately not the one she was 'thinking' about. lol
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#23

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:31pm

How about the women that CRACKED up in Wicked when Glinda said "You know I can't read this" refering to the grimmerie and I heard her comment that Glinda is too dumb to read...

IT'S THE GRIMMERIE..they made sooo many comments about how NO one could read it but Elphaba..

and while we're at let's talk loud in a theatre during the performance!


AND the same women during intermission was talking to a student of hers about how no goes to the theatre to see certain people exact words "no one is here to see Jenna whatsherface" (I actually WAS there to see Jenna Leigh Green) then they started talking about the Rent movie and the girl was talking about how they have the Original Cast, and then the Woman was like "Oh, Benjamin Bratt is in it?"


Swear to god...that's what she said..
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#24

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:36pm

GirlforTartaglia: I can't stand posers!!! Agh it's so annoying!! That's a pretty funny trick y'all pulled on her! lol so funny!
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#25

re: Sondheim wrote Cabaret --- theatre geeks

Posted: 5/19/05 at 4:49pm

A "Friend" and I talking about Broadway.

Friend: So, um, how do they fit all those shows into one theater?

ME: No, Broadway is a street.

Friend: Oh.

He thought when someone says "Blah blah blah is playing on B'way. It meant like this one particular theater."
----> I've actually had more than 1 "theater" friend ask me that.

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