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[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:39pm

My friend told me this one:

She worked with an actress who claimed to have been the babysitter for Sondheim's three children

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:50pm

Sondheim has kids? Wow lol

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:52pm

Not just kids, THREE kids
2 boys and a girl
*rolls eyes*

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 5/19/05 at 11:57pm

"i luuuuvv EYE-deena men-ZUHL!!!!!!! she is the BEEESSTTTT actress EVA!!!!! byes!"

^ i hate those people.

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:03am

I had a music teacher that said "76 Trombones (Led the Big Parade)" was about a concert. I said no it's not, it's about a parade. He argued with me and I said, "Have you even heard the song?"

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:05am

Lol. It's not as bad as my story

Me: what do you think of 76 Trombones?
Friend: Bunch of brass if you ask me!
Me: I'm afraid I don't know what you mean
Friend: What's it about? Trombones??

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:09am

One time I asked someone who said they were into theatre who they thought played the Witch in Into the Woods after Bernadette (talking about Phylicia Rashad). I told them to think 80's pop culture.
Her: Oh I know! Cyndi Lauper!
Me: Oh. My. Gosh. You did not just say that.

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:09am

A surprising number of theatre students do not know what actor's equity is....

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:11am

The same music teacher also told us that Stephen Schwartz wrote "A Little Night Music." I just rolled my eyes and sighed.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:17am

I was once told that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Into the Woods
and Tim Webber composed Chess, not to mention Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim collaborating on a musical of Jurassic Park with Steve Spielberg and George Lucas. What the??

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:41am

i love when people explain how elphaba flies out over the audience in wicked.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:53am

In class discussing 'A Raisin in the Sun':

"It was performed by white people in black face. Sidney Poitier was white."

In class discussing Sondheim:

"Steppen Soundham wrote a musical called 'Into the Park with George'."

Those are highlights.

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:16am

Ah, the Follies of being in Company with Sweeney Todd in the Park with George with a Passion for Assassins on a Saturday Night. BOUNCE! I'm a Gypsy!

Updated On: 5/20/05 at 01:16 AM

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 9:16am

lol! I love it.


Her: What are you doing this weekend.
Me: I am doing a production of Les Miserables
Her:"Hey wasn't Idina in that?"
Me: Playing Cosette right?
Her: YEAH!
Me: no. not at all.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 9:45am

i was watching the tony awards and when bernadette peters came on i was like..."yay bernadette! i met her! i love her!" and one of my friend goes..."who's that?"

i wanted to die. how could you call yourself a lover of musical theatre and not know bernadette peters!!! oh, and he also thought that judy garland was still ALIVE!
but he loves wicked and knows everything about it...ugg...

[dano]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:05am

A friend of mine is a theatre-geek in training, so to speak. She watched the DVD of Into the Woods. She told me later "Wow! I didn't know Bernadette Peters could sing!" I told her to watch SITPWG.

It's really amazing how the general public has no idea that so many movie/TV stars are or were Broadway performers. This friend was blown away when I was explaining about Jerry Orbach and Angela Lansbury and others. We (on this board) hear those names and think of Broadway. Most people hear them and only think of Law & Order and Murder, She Wrote.

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 10:34am

It's all very distubing

[Bal]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:26pm

An audition, about six months after Millie closed on Broadway.

Director: So what will you be singing?
Me: Thoroughly Modern Millie!
D: Oh, what a great show. I saw it a couple of weeks ago.
Me: Oh, on tour?
D: No, on Broadway.
Me:...Two weeks ago?
D: Yes, I loved it.
Me: I, uh, think it closed. In June.
D: No, it didn't. I just saw it.
Me: No, I really think it did.
D: No, it didn't! (like I'm a total idiot).

I sill got into the show, though.

And then there's my infamous musical theatre teacher..

"What's this cat's name?"
"Munkustrap."
"What's that cat's name?"
"Demeter?"
"What's that cat's name?"
"Electra."
"What's that cat's name?"
"Cassandra."
"What's that cat's name?"
"Victoria."
"What's that cat's name?"
"Carbucketty. or, in the movie he's called Pouncival."

And so on.

And then there was the time she made me sing the songs to jesus Christ superstar to the people she was trying to teach them to because she didn't know them.

And there was always...

"Who's that?"
"Stephen Sondheim."
"Oh, an actor."
"...No."

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:41pm

None of my friends are really THAT stupid. However, I remember saying to one of my friends that I wanted to see Little Shop of Horrors with Hunter Foster. She said "Isn't that the girl who was in Millie?" Oy.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 12:45pm

I must have missed something with your CATS joke....

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:01pm

yeah I kind of missed the CATS joke too :: innocent smile ::

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 1:05pm

My absolute favorite tidbit of musical theatre misinformation:
George Gershwin wrote music to lyrics supplied by his wife, Ira.

[Bal]

Posted: 5/20/05 at 7:11pm

There's no real...joke... She decides to teach us CATS, puts the video in, and talks through the whole thing asking me who the characters are and what's going on. Just irksome.