What's the time?
What's the time?
#0What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:49pm
How many people always answer this question "Well, it's gotta be close to midnight!" every time they are asked this question? hihi...I sure do!
Was in shock when an actor I worked with in the West End did the same thing. Jinx!!!!
Popular...You're gonna be Popuular....;)
Updated On: 8/5/06 at 05:49 PM
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#1re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:50pm
I did once. I'm not a HUGE Rent fan...it's just ok.
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#2re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:52pmha ha, now that songs stuck in my head, ha ha. ive never done it before but i will now, lol.
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#3re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 5:52pm
haha I have! and people give me really weird looks. I remember once my Mom said "actually it's around four thirty" and didn't get my explanation and we've seen RENT like three times together.
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Updated On: 8/5/06 at 05:52 PM
#4re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 6:01pm
Horse party time!
I actually trained my seven year old niece to say this. When she's a bit older, we'll go the 'Rent' route. :3
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#5re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 6:04pmHonestly, I don't answer that way, but it goes through my head whenever I'm asked it. Crazy, crazy.
#6re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 6:21pm
When somebody asked me that I actually did respond "Well it's gotta be close to midnight." My friend isn't a musical theater fan and said " Yeah it is pretty close to midnight."
Updated On: 8/5/06 at 06:21 PM
#7re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 6:21pmI don't think people usually phrase it that way - it's way more common to hear "What time is it?"
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Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#8re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 6:25pmI've had to restrain myself when people tell me "You look familiar".
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
#9re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 7:39pmI do it all the time! Seriouly. People look at me like I am crazy or laugh at me or just think I am weird. I just love it.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#10re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 7:42pmIf they aren't farmiliar with RENT, I don't answer that way but I sure do think it!
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#11re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/5/06 at 11:38pmI do it and my friends and family give me weird looks. It's always fun to say :]
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#12re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 12:33am
That and when someone says, "I have to go out." I have to go-o-o lol
My friend is also constantly saying, "hey mister" to one of our patients (we work at a therapeutic riding center). I'm sure you can imagine where we go from there, but we have to restrain ourselves b/c our patients are all children!
"I wrote a book: "How to Be Popular". Now I've put together a top ten list of how to help you:
-Elphie, everyday... shower. I mean, who knows? Maybe some of that green is gonna come off!
-Deodorant Elphie. No body likes a stinky witch!
-I think we've covered the hair, we'll get to that.
-Clean underclothes. That's all I'm gonna say.
-Look at your posture. That's no way to be popular!
-Bed made, room straightened. We've done that.
-Colors blended. Oookay.
-But the most important thing to have, to make yourself popular, is to keep your beautiful smile."
~Kristin Chenoweth in her last performance of the song "Popular"
#13re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 12:45am
I do all these RENThead things 
LOVIN' this thread.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Updated On: 8/6/06 at 12:45 AM
donna_darko_23
Broadway Star Joined: 2/25/06
#14re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 1:51am
Now that song is stuck in my head! But, that's ok.
This year during my foods class we watched a video about how the color and lighting of foods affects if the food looks appetizing. We were talking about the video and I said (without intentionally saying it), "Well, it tastes the same if you close your eyes." However, there were no other RENTheads in the rooms.
#15re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 4:39am
Haha, the thought always runs through my head, and its many times when I have to restrain myself from actually saying it if I'm around people who will have NO idea what the heck I'm talking about.
However, I do tend to mutter it under my breath at every chance I get.
Same as when I turned 19 a few weeks ago, and when everyone asked me how old I was, I always said "I'm 19, but I'm old for my age, I'm just born to be bad". YESS.
There are so many RENT things you can just so very easily pop into conversation. My musical theatre friends and I find ourselves constantly falling into the trap, hah.
"Cages or wings, which do you prefer?"-- Tick, Tick...BOOM!
#16re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:22am
Whenever someone says (or I say) "Let's go eat," I constantly start singing, "I'll just get fat it's the one vice left!"
Updated On: 8/6/06 at 11:22 AM
#17re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 1:30pm
My boyfriend and I do that all the time. I introduced him to RENT last year and now we have our weird little Rent things that we do. When we're on the phone and one of asks "What's the time?" the other one always sings "Well it's gotta be close to midnight..." And then we'll just start singing.
It's weird to hear your boyfriend sing "I wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt with a stranger" though.
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show2n2
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#18re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 1:36pm
Talk about a catchy tune....I do it all the time :)
#19re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 2:27pm
"There are so many RENT things you can just so very easily pop into conversation. "
That's so true.
#20re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 2:56pmhaha. that's the exact line that ran through my head when I saw the title of this thread. brilliant
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#21re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 4:52pmHaha the other day my brother was like "Last night, I had a dream" I was like "I found myself in a desert called Cyberland"
#22re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 5:04pmI do all of these. It's just second nature for me
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#23re: What's the time?
Posted: 8/6/06 at 5:07pm
More the other way around for me. I'm more likely to ask "What's the time?" to someone else, in the hopes that they'll get it and respond properly. When I do it to my best friend, he enthusiastically responds "Well, it's gotta be close to midnight!" no matter what time it is. When I do it to like, my mother, she doesn't get it. When I do it to my boyfriend, who's a big theatre fan but HATES Rent, he recognizes the set-up, gives me an annoyed look, and then gives me the correct time. Heh. 
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