You know you're a B'way geek when... — Page 8

"You wait for your roommate to go to class so you can blast showtunes and do the blocking along with it."

YUP!!!


When you go to Adelphi and recruit people by telling them Jonathan Larson came here when they ask about famous alumni.

When you go through every hall in the Earle Hall at Adelphi (because that's where most of the Perf Arts students dorm due to its proximity to the theater) so you can walk past the door to the room Jonathan lived in.

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The only way you can remember names and faces is by casting them into Broadway roles or associating them with showtunes.

When asked to do a biography paper in your Civil War Era class, you don't select Abraham Lincoln, but instead John Wilkes Booth. Then you proceed to make most of the paper about how Booth was a main character in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.



You are depressed when going to classes...until you realize your next one is Musical theatre History and you watch videos of shows and talk about Musical Comedies...


the teachers in such classes aske questions in this form "Does anyone know who was the original in such a such show---someone besides Stephanie?"

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19 year-old!? good...I didn't start the *obsessive* show seeing until I hit 20! Good for you!!!

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When you become a Broadway Legend on Broadworld.com.

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-When sweeping the floor, or if you ever see a community broom you have "Elphaba moments".

- You own the score to "Merrily We Roll Along" but don't like sharing it because people are always amazed by your performaces of songs from the one Sondheim musical they never herd of.

- You have taught someone how to pronounce 'Chenoweth'

-You understand every single reference to b'way on 'Will and Grace'

-You're so cool that you call it b'way

-You sing songs from unpopular musicals like 'Golden Boy' and 'Civil War' but you think they were some of the best shows ever.

-You have had debates like 'Sondheim vs. Webber' or 'Peters vs. Andrews'

-You not only know all the melodies from your OBCRs but often harmonize with them.

-You think it's weird when Broadway stars only have one name like LaChanze and Orfeh.

-You realize that you just wasted a significant amount of time reading all the posts on this message board so you wouldn't piss anyone off with repeats.

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you immediately associate just about any phrase with an entire song
-you've seen the new new york times weekender commercial and have asked someone "hey was that michael reidel?"

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Today in my Women's Studies class, my teacher was talking about how women are considered posessions of men and i thought of "Is gratitude enough for giving me Cosette?" - Les Mis

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When you wear show shirts to your musical rehearsals and even the other cast members don't know what the show is. (Granted this could be because I go to a school of engineers, lol) And then one of your cast mates asks you if you have any shirts that aren't from a show.

When for Spring Break you go to NYC rather than a beach and all you do is go to shows.

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When you listen to 102.7 in NY and hear a Broadway ad, you start shrieking.

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You watch American Idol and are jealous of the girl Simon Cowell said had a Broadway voice.

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1. You find yourself reciting Shakespeare often. You know bits of it by heart.
2. You forego your homework to read a depressing play cover to cover at night (which I did recently with Buried Child and Waiting for Godot, both of which are spectacular)
3. You don't read books anymore. You read plays and acting theory.
4. You arrive at rehersal 40 minutes early just to watch the director work with other people.
5. Your friends come over and you practice crying on cue in your bedroom, listening to really sad songs and describing what it would be like to die, and pushing each others sad buttons.
6. You spend two hours practicing your lines and it feels like 20 minutes.
7. You know every line of "Your Fault" from Into the Woods, and recite it often for your friends and peers.
8. You own many Broadway recordings, and still listen to them although you know them by heart.
9. You liked Rent BEFORE the movie came out.
10. You liked Phantom of the Opera BEFORE the movie came out.
11. You're stoked when you find F. Murray Abraham might be coming to Berkeley (only two hours away from my house!! Yippee!)
12. You can think of this many reasons why you are a Broadway geek.

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When you attempt to read all of the thousands/millions of results on Google about your favorite Broadway actor/actress, and get angry when you discover google only allows you to view the first 1000 results. (Yes, I read 1000 results. And also got very angry when I couldn't read any more. What's the point of telling us there are 30 billion results if we can't read all of them? False advertising! /rant)

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