The Unsaavy Broadway People In Our Lives...

Since most of us on this board consider ourselves pretty knowledgeable about broadway and it's stars, I'm assuming that the normal (AKA nonobsessive) people in our lives just aren't quite up to speed. Example: Tonight, as my friend and I headed over to the mall, she wanted to get a CD. When I was waiting for her to pay, I stopped at the "Showtunes" section, listening to some clips of songs from cast recordings I wanted to get. All of a sudden my friend RUNS over saying as loud as possible "OMG GET THE BROOKLYN SOUNDTRACK!" (she only knows about it since we are going in October).

So to the normal person, this isn't such a bad statement, but I couldn't stop laughing as I was trying to explain that there is no way that a Brooklyn cast recording would be out this early.

Does anyone else have any funny stories from friends/family trying to be in the in-crowd, cultish society of broadway, but failing miserably?

omg i cant talk about broadway stuff to any of my friends without blank stares and "huh?"s. thats why i have this board. :)

I was walking with a friend in my English class in Times Square. I was excited to see Susan Egan, and had her take a picture of me and Susan. I was so happy. Anyways, after, she says, "Who's that?" with a confused look on her face.

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Hahaha I know how this feels. My grandmother always gets all the stars from all the shows messed up and I just dont have the heart to tell her she's wrong because she's always so proud that she knows lol. Its cute. Also Ive made the mistake of talking to some big athletes in my school about Wonderful Town...if you're happy getting weird looks go for it lol!

"but it's the ones who think they know everything about theater that really drive me up the wall!"

YES! I have friends like that too. And they drive me insane. One of them proclaimed to know more about musical theatre then me. And then I found out she didn't know who GENE KELLY or GINGER ROGERS were.

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I have jock protection considering the head or lead or ummm what are they called? I think it might be captain (sorry lol I am not a big sports person if you haven't noticed lately), but anyway he is dating my best friend! So, I am really pushing for that relationship hehe! But, actually there are alot of athletes in the arts in my school so, I get along lol, but it is like they are speaking some different language like with all of those terms as stuff lol! :?

lol.. this is a good thread since some of my friends arent up to what's going on in theatre. some of them do appreciate it but alot of them are really surprised that im into it the way that i am....but then again most of the people i hang with are into mary j. blige, snoop dog, nelly...more the hip/hop r&b crowd...which is cool because i love that music, but i dont consider myself narrow minded and ive given broadway music a chance. i guess u can say ever since i saw west side story i was hooked and little by little i started "self-educating" myself.

i can talk to some of my friends about it and theyre cool with it but some of them just dont get it, which is all good because i really dont care, its what i like and i consider myself a pretty well rounded person. i love all types of music, movies, etc....

i used to hide my cast recordings cuz i didnt want to get teased but now i dont care....i took my best friend derek to see phantom of the opera and he wound up liking it......

but i have alot of unsaavy broadway people in my life....

Your friend called it a "soundtrack?" She should be punched in the face.

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My entire family thinks I'm nuts. Whenever my grandparents come to see me in a show they say, "Well Jill that was very good--but couldn't you play a sport or something else like other kids?"

My family isn't into the arts...

I've gotten my friends hooked on mainstream, really popular Broadway like Hairspray and Wicked. It's the best I could do, but hey, its better than nothing.

I did a project in Social Studies on Bernadette Peters. It was like, pick a person or band and relate them to the society they lived in. So I pick Bernadette and talk about how she she started Broadway barks and everything with the Gay and Lesbian community. Well, my principal loves Broadway and saw my Bernadette collage and knew right away it was mine.

Anyway, when I did my presentation in front of the class everyone was just staring at me. I was like well Bernadette is on Broadway and she has two Tony's. First question:"What's a Tony?" I almost died. Then I played a clip from AGYG. I wanted to show people how amazing she was so I played the part when she says something like "Any note you can hold I can hold longer" and when she holds it. Someone asked me if my CD was skipping lol. I was just amazed they didn't know who she was.

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My teacher was trying to discuss a possible trip to NYC to see a show (which happened - we saw POTO). This was back in May of this year. She was asking us if we were interested, because if we weren't, she wouldn't bother doing research. A person in my class blurted out, "Why can't we just go see Cats?" A few minutes later, my teacher included Cats in a list of possible shows we could see. Keep in mind that this happened this year and Cats closed four years ago. Lol.

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My brother told me he wouldn't be able to pick Liza Minnelli out of a room full of people. I've also attempted to take him to see a Broadway show and when I asked him what he wants to see he'll say "Seussical". He can't get it through his head that closed a few years ago.

My father, to this day, believes Hugh Jackman was in "Tommy", "Titanic", and "Assassins". I'm not sure how someone can confuse Michael Cerveris with Hugh Jackman but so be it. As a matter of fact, anytime I talk about a musical, he thinks Hugh Jackman was in it.

My friend believed that during "Urinetown", the audience would see the actors actually peeing. Don't ask me why because that's what I've been trying to figure out.

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Updated On: 8/29/04 at 04:05 PM

chinkie azn jai, my father is the same exact way, although he saw "Rent" with me. Actually my father doesn't know of some of these smaller shows. When I bought the "Caroline, or Change" recording he asked me when it was opening, same with "The Last Five Years".

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