Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

[Weez]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 2:10pm

Confession time: I only just realised John Cullum was in 'Urinetown'. I feel like a bad bad musical theatre fan. XP In my defence, I bought 'Urinetown' many moons ago, but it's pretty poor, as defences go.

Anyone else want to own up to anything?

[Cordelia Fitzgerald]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 6:11pm

Well it doesn't really pertain to Broadway, But I always thought that Katharine Hepburn was Audrey Hepburn's mother....Now I feel really stupid about that...

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 6:16pm

Haha mine is REALLY dumb!

I have owned the OBCR of Hairspray for many years now, but i just recently realized that Kerry Butler played Penny!!!

I was listening to a clip from Xanadu and I was like, "I have heard that voice before!" Yeah.. I am really dumb like that :)

[thelastmidnight]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:33pm

For the longest time, I thought Sondheim wrote Wicked.

Yes, I really did. I have a good excuse for it, though. Back then, I knew little about musical theatre, so it was easy for me to confuse people by their names. Of course, I know better now - considering how Sondheim and Schwartz have completely different styles, it's impossible to not tell them apart.

[A Fleur De Toi]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:55am

kerry butler was in hairspray obc!!!!!!! well i didnt know that.

ok NOW i feel dumb

"Sondheim wrote Wicked." - Heehee. Can those two words even be used in a sentence together ? :) :)

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 2:01am

sodnheim writeing wicked wow.

[Ella_17]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 2:46am

That Patti LuPone was in Candide. I saw Candide having no idea who Patti LuPone was, and then I saw Gypsy and I first noticed her. Then I saw a youtube video of a scene from Candide and I realized it. Also when me and my sis were discussing Gypsy, Sofie brought to my attention that it was written by Sondheim. After having my sister be in it in a local community theater production and seeing it on Broadway you think I would have figured it out. But no. What would I do without her.

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 6:15am

...that the Phantom was written for a tenor! =I
I never gave that much thought...thought a baritone would be fine as well.

[canmark]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 6:42am

I once thought that "Let Me Entertain You" came from Gilligan's Island (it was sung by Ginger) and not Gypsy.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 7:58am

Not Broadway, but the other day I was watching Friends and was like "Oh, I always knew it was a play on Central Park, but I just now got that perk relates to coffee!"

[Princeton2]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 8:06am

oh my god i never picked up on the Central Perk thing!!

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 8:41am

Somehow in all the hullaballo, loud singing and emotion, the first time I saw Les Mis I completely missed the fact that Eponine is the the Thénardier's daughter. My confusion on my second viewing at having missed something quite that blatant was immense...

Until the age of about 16, I thought that Into the Woods was childrens musical - I had been taken to see it when I was little and couldn't remember anything except that it had a witch in it. It wasn't until I got the CD that the penny dropped...

[heathurrr]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 10:10am

There's an episode of Friends were Phoebe does the same thing!

[zepka102]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 10:39am

Eastwickian, when I first saw Into the Woods, it was on a field trip. I was in 6th grade and still wasn't into Broadway. I thought it was a great ending with the witch becoming beautiful, the Baker's wife being pregnant... I found out late in high school I had only seen Act One! I was mad!

[jordangirl]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 10:55am

Wait. An entire class left a show at intermission???

[zepka102]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:18am

No, they only showed us Act One... and I don't remember any announcements that we were seeing ONLY half of it.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:26am

there is alot of people that think when a song froma is on a T.V show or movie and then they finaly see the musical and think they the director had stolen the song from that T.V show or Movie I hate it when people think that.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:44am

I had no idea during Sunday in the Park With George, that the reason Dot has trouble fitting into things, is because she's pregnant.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:51am

When I took my Grandma to Into the Woods she was ready to leave after act 1 because she thought it was over and I told her it was only Intermission and she said whats supposed to happen next and then when my friend saw it he stood up and gave a standing ovation after act 1 because he thought the show was over. Act 1 of Into the woods could basicly be counted as a full length Musical i'm sure
some theatre have got away with it.

Updated On: 7/4/08 at 11:51 AM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:54am

gyspy4-
There is a liscenced version called Into the Woods, Jr. That is ONLY Act 1. It's trimmed a bit for some things, but is otherwise the full thing.

[vfd88]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:24pm

husk - I never realized that about Dot either. Now I feel stupid.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:31pm

vfd-
Don't worry, I didn't pick up on it until someone said it to me as well.

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:38pm

I could never hear what Miss Dorothy was saying during "How The Other Half Lives". I always thought she said "I'll turn my dial to radiant vile"

This puzzled me for months about that lyric, until one day a very dear friend who loved the musical as well, was singing it in the car with me, and when it got to that part I sang "to radiant vile" and she looked at me and just started laughing her ass off. After she explained, I lost it too so we had to pull the car over.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:56pm

I just found out that Sondheim is a homosexual.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:58pm

I know that there is a Jr. version but they even cut down act 1.