Theatre Lover cliches
Theatre Lover cliches
#0Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:18pm
OK- So I know most all of us have delt with being one of the few if not the only theatre buff/lover in a group of friends. So, for theatre geek pride, I thought it would be fun to make a list of some things people always expect of theatre nerds, which we take immense pride in. I hope you get it!
#1: Whenever you watch "Anger Management", and a character sings "I Feel Pretty", the friend can always expect a full lecture on the true brilliance of Stephen Sondheim.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#1re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:21pm
#2: Whenever someone new comes along and finds out you love theatre and immediately begins to shoot their head off about WICKED...the friend can expect you to chortle, sigh and turn and walk away from said person.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Updated On: 2/28/06 at 10:21 PM
#2re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:22pm
Whenever a non-theater lover who is a friend of the theater lover begins to sing Wicked, Rent, Phantom, etc., the theater lover will sigh and shake their head while inwardly bemoaning the fact that it's hard to have superior knowledge of theater.
Happens to me all all the time.
Edit: FOA, we had similar ones, but you beat me to it.
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#3re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:23pmOr, what I just said.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#4re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:24pmWhenever a non-theatre lover is in the car, you procede to play them one song from every show in attempts that they will adore one and magically turn into a theatre lover.
"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
#5re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:26pm
I'll go again (hehe)
~ You have seen Jersey Girl multiple times just for the final Sweeney Todd sequence
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#6re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:35pm
You squeal during the following moments of movies and get weird looks from not only your friend but the whole theatre who don't understand why you're squealing/laughing:
1. When you hear "Good Morning Starshine" in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2. When you realize Jose Llana is in Hitch
And many other broadway references/jokes in movies..76 trombones in the other sister, etc.
You cringe when your sister says things like:
1. Oh Patti Lupone...she was on a TV show!
2. No I don't want to watch the Hair movie with you; I don't like Harvey Fierstien.
And more cringing with conversations like:
Me: Do you want to see this show Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with me? It's really funny
Sister: Nah.
Me: John Lithgow's in it
Sister: Oh, I love him! Okay I'll see it(and similar convos)
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#7re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:38pm
Whenever I see a Broadway star on TV, film, commercials ect. I always say what show they are from and their name and occassionally if they won a Tony.
For example:
I was watching Never been kissed and mentioned John C. Reilly was in Streetcar and Marissa Joniker(sp??) was in Hairspray and won a Tony. Also, I mentioned to my parents that Marin mazzie, from Ragtime (they saw the show) is going to be on Still Standing.
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#8re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:43pmlol- Yes, I am sad to say the only reason I liked Princess Bride was Mandy Patinkin.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#9re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 10:57pm
*makes fun of Overthemoon, who has a Wicked icon, for making fun of people who really like Wicked and RENT*
:P
yr ronin,
joey
joey
#10re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 11:14pm
Ashley, I've converted a few 
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
#11re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 11:27pm
You hear someone call a cast recording a soundtrack and it makes your ears bleed. You just HAVE to correct them, too--even though they usually shrug and don't care.
It is also painful to hear people say "Rent Soundtrack" or "Chicago Soundtrack" and cringe because you know that they mean (or even could mean) the movie.......but it still sounds WRONG. So wrong! Like nails against a chalkboard....
Oh, and GYPSY1527--I completely agree! 
#12re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 2/28/06 at 11:53pm
Yes, but as I said, I have superior knowledge about Broadway than those people who are only familiar with Wicked, Phantom, and Rent.
And I have this icon because I love JLT, not Wicked.
*makes face at Roninjoy*
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#13re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:13am
Megan lies Wicked is like one of her favorite shows!!!
lol
Well one of my favorites is RENT, I really don't care what people think. It's my music--but I do love ACL, Gypsy, Evita and YAGMCA
Light in the Piazza with Megan and Emi
"Girl you got money runnin' in yo bloodline."-Carl the Bartender
#14re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:18amGypsy- its Look up Marissas name from Hairspray. Yes. you should be embarassed.
#15re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:20am
Yes, Hil, but I picked the icon because you know of my obsessive love for Jennifer Laura Thompson.
If this had been a Lestat icon (but w/ JLT) I would've taken it.
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#16re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:21am
Lol, Jaret Winokur not Jonikur.
When you see a Broadway performer in a movie or TV show, you squeal out how you've seen that person or know he/she is in a show, while your non-theatre loving friend is just like..."What?"
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#17re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:26am
*makes faces back* WICKED IS STEWPID
*secretly listens to cast recording and pretends he is Kristin Chenoweth. Does a mean impersonation*
yr ronin,
joey
joey
#18re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:27amI can't remember who I was with, but when I saw Spiderman 2 and when Donna Murphy was in it, I practically screamed in the theater.
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#19re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:40am
*moons roninjoey*
That should teach you. I don't obsess about Wicked.
*secretly listens to cast recording and pretends she is Idina Menzel. It doesn't work*
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#20re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:05amYou realize driving into work today that you're a 28 year old straight man and you're listening to Mary Poppins - and you don't care. You're actually sort of singing along....
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#21re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:24am
haha- jason that is so sweet! I'll go the other way
~You are a 16 year old female without any sexual experience whatsoever, but you always seem to get a kick out of the song "You Can be as Loud as the Hell You Want"
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#22re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 10:09amjasonf, that is classic! You are a model straight man. Be proud! The girls on this board are probably drooling over reading that.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#23re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 12:23pm
When you're reading Without You and someone sees the byline and asks who Anthony Rapp is. You precede to go into a whole tirade about his work (Dazed and Confused, Adventures in Babysitting, YAGMCB, LSoH, Rent, Hedwig, Open House...) and all the person says when you're done (about 8 minutes later) is "Oh. That's the Rent guy." And you want to cry.
Or maybe that's just me...
I completely agree with the soundtrack thing.
Me: With Broadway shows, it's a CAST RECORDING. With movies, then, it's a soundtrack. Get it right!
My friend: *holds up CD* this is the movie soundtrack.
Me: Well...yeah...but...no. It sounds wrong.
When a common exchange is
"Look, there's *insert theatre peson's name here*! I love him/her/it!"
"What? Who are you talking about?"
"But they're famous!"
"Only in New York."
And you begin to comtemplate how to get away with murder...
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#24re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 4:38pm
At parties with friends you make them watch the GODSPELL sequence of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and they just don't get it.
Too add to Jasonf's line... You are a 26yr old straight male who went to the store with friends who bought SAW II and STAR WARS III:REVENGE OF THE SITH on DVD and you're standing in line buying the cast recordings of STATE FAIR, SEE SAW, and THE COLOR PURPLE before you go see the tour of ANNIE that evening.
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
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