You know you're a B'way geek when...- Page 2

[jacobp]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 2:50pm

When you spend all day on the Broadwayworld.com blog

when you have a nervous breakdown and showtunes start puring out of you.

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 3:09pm

When you refuse to say "I'm sorry" because you finaly snapped and yelled at your friends that can recite by heart the whole Rent movie, but don't know a word of "Christmas Bells", and who insist that "Seasons of Love" has always been at the begining of the show, and who say that everyone should sing "Love Heals" at the school talent show.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 3:19pm

. . . you find out that your classes are cancelled for the afternoon, so you decide to get tickets for a show.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 4:23pm

When someone at dinner says "I would like to propose a toast" and you immediately start singing La Vie Boheme and your friend starts singing Ladies Who Lunch.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 4:55pm

"-- You can think of a showtune that is applicable for any situation or occasion.

-- You can always find a character from a show to relate to with your problems or other people's problems."

Those are the 2 I was going to say! I can't even tell you how many times a day I say either: "It sucks to be me" or "It sucks to be you."

[WickedForever2]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 4:57pm

when you can reply in song to any question anyone ever asks you.


and i too am guilty of having mostly OBC's or solo albums by broadway stars on my iPod.

[Bwayfan4]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 5:01pm

...when you criticize people for not being "geeky" enough...

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 5:03pm

I have a La Vie Boheme thing too. If I eveer see Huevos Rancheros on the menu, I start mouthing the whole song. And I won't stop.
If someone says "I can do that" then you start going "Knew every step right off the bat..said I can do that."
When you see a bottle of alcohol you go "Champagne makes me DROWSY!"
You can think of more than fifteen shotunes with "love" in the title.
You got Sirius AND XM for their theatre channels.
Whenever any MINOR cast change happens in your favorite show, you have to see it. Again.
If your expenses were on a pie chart, it would be about 85% theater tickets, 15% other.
You can do the entire "I Hope I get it" routine in your sleep.
When you were little, you got up and danced to Eidelweis (or however you spell it) on your sound of music cast recording and danced.
I did this. I got choreography when I was like five for my ballet class and before I went to sleep, I had to do my routine at least once.
You know every ACL monologue,and have memorized every cue, dance move and actor's name from the tour, OBC and Revivals.
You have to compare all of your jukebox musical CRS to the actual CD.
You are on BroadwayWorld.com at school, at work, just waiting for someone to disapprove or approve of your latest review.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 5:09pm

I wrote a paper for class a few months ago and there was a quote in it, I don't remember what it was but...everytime I read it, all I could think of was "You can take the girl outta Hicksville but ya can't take the hickville outta the girl."
I couldn't read that part without saying that.

Also, if I'm asked the time, it's always "It's gotta be close to midnight" although usually people ask, "what time is it?"

There was a news story on TV about a teacher looking at porn while at school. "The internet is for porn!"

Anytime the word toilet is used, "My friend the dictionary" pops into my head.

I'm always using the quote "There's a fine, fine line..." [and it's been crossed]

In my multicultural education class we talk about racism often and my teacher asks if anyone thinks they are not racist. One day I'll pay attention to the responses instead of singing "Everyone's a little bit racist."

If someone mentions about wanting to die (as a joke) I'll sing "Somebody kill me"

Someone in my class thinks she's popular, I don't want to give her the satisfaction of singing it.

This girl always brings hairspray and a toothbrush to class. I sing, "I've got my hairspray and [toothbrush]"

Yea, ok...I think that's all for now.

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 5:36pm

When you're reading your religion book and it's the chapter about Christianity and the gospel of Matthew and everything you read you put in the context of Godspell and can't stop singing the songs... honestly that happened about 30 min ago.

[stephxmonster]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 5:57pm

-when in social studies your learning about immigration and cant help but hum the ragtime overture. "riches and rags and rythm and rhyme, and the people called it ragtime!"
-when you and your friends are talking about RENT and you mention johnathan larson and they all say "who's he?" [that get me so pissed!]
-while u listen to the lottery numbers you sing luck be a lady -every time it rains u sing stranger to the rain [yhona, so fun]
-in art you sing putting it together [im a thechie 4 sunday in the park.]
-at the beach you scream "by the sea, with the fishies splashin'" and everyone stares at you [i was at the last performance sept. 3rd]
my list goes on and on

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 6:12pm

Freckles1329, that happened to me when I read Plato's The Apology! "I honor and love you, but I shall obey god rather than you..."

[Freckles1329]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 6:17pm

defyingravity, it's really funny when it happens. Now I can't get the songs out of my head and I keep reliving the show over and over!

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 6:22pm

every time you get in a plane and you start singing "I'm Flying" and "Defying Gravity"...

:P

[actor]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 7:24pm

You say something, realize it was a direct line from a Broadway song, and burst into singing the song.

[moulinrougehk]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 7:34pm

"You say something, realize it was a direct line from a Broadway song, and burst into singing the song."

That's what I usually do...

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 8:12pm

Whenever you have a drink in hand you insist on saying I'd like to propose a toat... heres to the ladies who lunch.

That happens to me... often.

When you are most proud of your father for the fact that his voice was recorded on the Live A Stephen Sondheim Evening. ( The round of Bravas at the end of Being Alive)

You must find the painting from Sunday in the Park With George ( which you cant spell in french) for your apartment

You still cry that Sweeney Todd closed... alot

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 8:13pm

Double Post

Updated On: 11/9/06 at 08:13 PM

[moulinrougehk]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 8:15pm

^ Well that's actually a Sondheim geek, including me...

Posted: 11/9/06 at 8:28pm

When you go to a very small, private, hick school and you and a friend dress up as Roger and Mimi during spirit week (Dynamic Duo Day, it was either them or Angel and Collins and we couldn't find good Angel clothes at Goodwill) and get asked 100 times who you're supposed to be.

I guess it's not normal to wear snakeskin pants to school. Rats.

[alterego]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 9:34pm

Ha! Touche' millie_dillmount!

[broadwayjavajunkie]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 10:02pm

You get so frustrated with people who get excited because they think Eyedina Monzel and Kirsten Chinnyweth are coming with the Wicked tour. Ditto with my telling people I saw Rent on tour and they want to know how good Anthony Rapp was.

[Julian2]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 10:08pm

When it is quite plausible that your entire thursday evening's entertainment was derived from following deleted posts on BroadwayWorld.

[geekgirl06]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 10:48pm

Gosh, where do I begin!

- When your desktop is a collage you made yourself with pics of all the shows you saw on your last trip to NY

- When you have stood for an entire show just so you could see it (and it later won Best Play. Go History Boys!)

- When your graduation gift was a trip to New York.

- When you used to sing "It takes many men to make a gun..." in first grade.

- When your senior quotes were all from Broadway shows.

- When you start singing the opening notes of "Till We Reach That Day" everytime someone cries out "Noooo!"

- (Okay, this one happened to me today) When your friend tells you need to start groveling and you burst out into Joseph in the middle of the cafeteria.

- When you check Playbill.com everyday

- When your friends are telling riddles to each other and you ask "What's pink and green and flies all over?" and then cry because you don't know the answer to this one. (alright, so it never went to Broadway, but I guess you really are a geek if you know what I'm talking about here)

- When you were a speller in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and knew all the words as the cast sang them too you on stage. And knew that they cut out a song. (Which was too bad, because I like "Why We Like Spelling")

- When you were upset that Gemignani's rendition of "Parlor Songs" was not put on the New Broadway Cast Recording because he did such an amazing job at it in the show.

[Producer2]

Posted: 11/9/06 at 10:57pm

When you sing "PC, Richards and sons" to the tune of "Jacob, Jacob and sons."