Things you never realised and now feel dumb about. — Page 2

#26

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 2:06pm

For some reason I thought for ages that Sutton Foster was in her 50s or 60s. I was shocked when I found out how young she is.

In Rent, I didn't realise Roger's HIV+ until the interval.

#27

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 2:15pm

Sunday In the Park with George... her name is Dot... he paints with dots....coincidence.... i don't think so

#28

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 2:19pm

jade you thik sutton looks that old? she looks young to me.

#29

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 2:20pm

I feel ridiculously stupid about this one, but in my defense, when I saw Rent, I was really pretty young and innocent, and I knew almost nothing at all about the show. I hadn't heard the score much and it was kind of tough to hear everything and I guess I didn't bother reading the playbill at all before the show. Well, at intermission, my mom said, "You know the one girl? I think that's actually a guy..."

Yeah, I had no idea that Angel was a guy in drag. I really was pretty young, if it makes it any less stupid...Haha.

#30

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:02pm

Also, Sondheim only wrote the lyrics for GYPSY... the music was written by Jule Styne.

Same with WEST SIDE STORY -- lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Leonard Bernstein.

#31

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:08pm

When I saw Chicago as a child I believed, during the Hungarian Rope trick sequence, that I'd seen someone genuinely be hung.

#32

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:15pm

I thought for the longest time that in Wicked, Ness Rose's name was Nessarone!

#33

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:27pm

gpysy4 - No, somehow I thought Sutton was that old before I saw any pictures of her. I think it was because I kept reading on the forums about how she's a Broadway legend, so I got the impression she'd been around a long time. I realised how young she is when I first saw a picture of her. Sorry, I should've made my post clearer!

#34

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 9:21pm

ok ok... dont look down on me.... you know how sometimes youre brain just completely turns completely off and you say the stupidest thing ever and tomorrow morning remember that and feel horrible? a couple shows ago i asked my friend- "Whats with the nuns in the back of the house?". Shoot me.

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#35

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 9:53pm

It took me a while of looking at A Sunday on La Grande Jette to realize that several SUNDAY characters are depicted more than once.

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#36

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/4/08 at 10:35pm

After seeing Feeling Electric at the 2005 NYMF, I went up to Anthony Rapp and told him that he has come a long way since Adventures in Babysitting.

At the time, I had no idea that he was in Rent (I hadn't even see the show yet).

I didn't feel as dumb when I made this same statement when meeting Bradley Whitford at the stage door after Boeing Boeing last month.

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#37

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:18am

When I was six or seven, before I saw "The Sound of Music" for the first time, my parents mentioned that it was a World War II story. Afterwards I said, "I didn't see any war!" I was expecting battle scenes or something.

#38

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:41am

Wow, most of you aren't just dumb, you're ****ing retarded.

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#39

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 2:58am

Kerry Butler being in Bat Boy. I had no idea for the longest time.

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"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim

#40

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:14am

It was more of an Aha moment for me, but all during In The Heights, I did not realize that the reason Nina's dad did not accept her relationship with Benny was because of his race. I just thought that he just was not up to his standards.

#41

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:18am

"Wow, most of you aren't just dumb, you're ****ing retarded."

That is the most intelligent post of this thread.

#42

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 4:53am

TooDarnHot: your dumb thing is on the "Billy Elliot Marquee" thread where you mock another poster for not being able to explain something and then fail to explain it adequately yourself.

#43

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 9:56am

who's afraid of virgina woolf... still confused about the ending lol, i just take it that she may have been pregnant and lost it? i'm not sure i only watched it once.

and then this one isn't related to broadway but on the season finale of Dh i didn't know the cabinet fell on the little girl, i didn't understand how she died at all until about 2 weeks later.

#44

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 10:56am

I knew Julie Andrews declined her Tony, but I assumed she a handful of them anyway...clearly not.

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#45

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 11:22am

The-Jackal......don't worry. I made exactly the same mistake about Angel in Rent, and I don't even have the excuse of being young!

#46

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:17pm

This wasn't me, but during the Rent movie when Angel first takes off his wig at the support meeting, my mom *Gasped* as if that were supossed to be a big plot twist/surprise.

#47

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:20pm

That realiZed is spelled with a "z", no s.


(I was waiting for someone to say this, but no one did!)

#48

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:23pm

jigblob, i cant stand rent but that post made my day!

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#49

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:28pm

"That realiZed is spelled with a "z", no s."

Um, you can spell it with an "s". The British spell a lot of words this way...

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#50

re: Things you never realised and now feel dumb about.

Posted: 7/5/08 at 12:33pm

Hey, you can spell your US English with Zs if you want, but over here in England, we spell it "realised". I am not bastardising my spelling because you don't understand that sometimes you're wrong. Glad I could help with your education. Next week: color vs colour! :P

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Updated On: 7/5/08 at 12:33 PM