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Theatre Lover cliches
#25re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 5:31pmwhen almost anything anyone says on tv or with your friends reminds you of a broadway song or line from a show. then you get all excited and start explaining, then you stop because you realize they're all looking at you like you're crazy. story of my life. :)
LET OTHERS RISE TO TAKE OUR PLACE UNTIL THE EARTH IS FREE!
#26re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 5:47pm
I will begin this by saying that Les Mis is not my favorite show BUT...
Your history unit on the French Revolution was so hard to get through it was almost painful...I missed the songs.
Everytime someone says "Thank you sir" You do a wierd Sweeney related double-take, and your friends think you're a freak.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#27re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 6:00pm
*secretly listens to cast recording and pretends he is Kristin Chenoweth. Does a mean impersonation*
haha I do a mean KC inpression! High notes and all, the only problem is that i have to close my mouth when i get to the really high stuff or just air comes out. Ahh men impersonating Glinda, gotta love it!
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#28re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 6:07pmThree words: Spontaneous dance breaks. Specifically the choreography of the show you're currently in/saw recently.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
BSoBW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/06
#29re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 6:39pm
"2. When you realize Jose Llana is in Hitch "
HA. I did.
Even worse, I recognized Nathan Lee Graham in that movie. He was Phil D'Armano in LaChiusa's THE WILD PARTY on Broadway and for the Blank Theatre Company.
The smallest stream is a valent river. It will drown me if it can.
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#30re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 7:29pm
You get joy out of slipping Stephen Sondheim lyrics into normal conversation whenever you can.
You write a term paper about "Assassins".
Stop looking at my charisma.
#31re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 7:46pmColor and Light: I did that!! For a history, we hand to write one on taking a stand in history.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
circusliz
Broadway Star Joined: 11/19/05
#32re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 7:50pmWhen the full-length muscial theater numbers in "Family Guy" don't annoy you....and you can sing along....and do the choreography ("Shipoopee" anyone?)
On the road of life, do not pause for suicidal chipmunks who freeze in your headlights, seeking death by your tires...
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#33re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 7:50pmKaturian - Neat! I was worried that maybe I was just sounding a little crazy for writing about a musical.
Stop looking at my charisma.
#34re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 7:54pmEvery one of my annual reflections I had to do for my job until I got tenured started with a musical reference. The first was "When you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught." The second was a reference to Phantom, how I have to wear a "teacher mask." The last one was about how after three years it was like "another openin', another show" -- same thing again, but that thrill of something new was still there.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#35re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:05pmJason... that's awesome. I love that.
"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
#36re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:15pmThanks - I don't know that my supervisors got my references, but whatever. I got tenure :)
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#37re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 8:24pmhaha- that's so great! Color~ I'd say for writing about musicals, we are the least crazy of them all! People writing on genocides are just setting themselves up for depression
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#38re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/1/06 at 11:46pm
i found it! there is a similar page to this called: "You know you are a degranged musical theatre fan when.." has a lot of really funny ones on it.
and I hope I'm not putting anyone down when I say that there is a similar post. cause I know when people do that, they are putting people down and I don't want to do that.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=871443
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#39re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 1:17am
Ooh...on the subject of papers:
For your English compare/contrast paper where you're contrasting things and showing that one is better than the other and it's a minimum of...2-3 pages?...you write about why Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is better than Spamalot and the essay is 15 pages.
Still remember the expression on my teacher's face when I handed that one into him...
"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
#40re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 6:53am
Whenever I couldn't think of a conclusion, I used a lyric from a song.
"Tommy had been changed for good."
"As they say, nothing is too wonderful to be true."
Etc. My teachers haven't caught on yet. 
Bob Martin Online
#41re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 7:18am
I've done about all of these, including analysing Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd for final year English.
But it worked!
#42re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 5:52pmWhen you pick up your friend for a night out, she turns off the CD player, looks at you, and goes, "This is *not* the Age of Aquarius. And I don't want to hear the Gospel according to St. Matthew, even if it is melodic. I don't care what happened over the last five years, I don't know where Dogpatch, USA, is, and I think the people should just shut up and pay the damn rent."
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
My avatar: Yummy, no?
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#43re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 6:37pm...When Assassins helped you pass the Ap United States History, but you had to sing through the show to remember who was who.
#44re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 8:56pmiwearshoes... That's a really good idea! I never even though of using it for that!
"Will the world remember you when you fall?" Les Miserables
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#45re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 9:53pm
HAHAH!!! I am LOVING these. I'm guilty of just about all of these. Overthemoon, I especially enjoy yours.
When you hear people talk about RENT and they start singing SOL and you automatically think, "You know that IS a great song, but there are other great if not better songs in the show."
When someone tells you your SOL and they mean "s**t out of luck" but you think of "Seasons Of Love"
When your in French and your teacher is giving you a sentence to traslate and she says, "...at the...". And you finish it by singing "at the ballet. Hey! I was happy at the ballet."
Also in French: When the teacher is talking about the singular form of a verb and you cant think of anything but "ONE. Singular sensation"
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#46re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 10:09pmHehehe that's like what I did today in my in-class 2 hour essay. I used the phrase "unadulterated loathing". Made my day.
"Electricity sparks inside of me... and I'm free, I'm free."
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#47re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 10:29pmHmm, keeping with the school theme, when you're exhausted and get things all confused, you end up writing a paragraph about the wonderful Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Bernstein.
"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
#48re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/2/06 at 11:27pm
When your english teacher, who is reading Wicked begins to tell you about the book, and is pronouncing Elphaba wrong, and just when you are at your wit's end with her error, she does it again and you shriek "It's Elphaba! Not Elphaba!"
And the whole class turns to stare at you. Following with you being sent to the office.
True story.
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#49re: Theatre Lover cliches
Posted: 3/3/06 at 2:19am
BAAHAHAh
It drives me insane when people pronounce things wrong.
"forget regret <3, I love your post.....you give me hope for the next generation!" -Elphaba
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