You know you're a Broadway musical fan when...

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 5:59pm

Thought I'd start a fun thread we could all have fun with Come on, everyone- we all know most of us do these sorts of things

--- Everytime you see President Bush on the news or see his picture or hear his name, you say or think to yourself (depending on the situation) "The Bushs' of Tex were nervous wrecks because their son was dim... But look what happened to him!" (DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS)

--- You sing "SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME, LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY!" as you hold your broom above your head while cleaning your house on Sunday morning (WICKED)

--- When you are asked if you can do something, you sing-song "I CAN DO THAT!... I CAN DO THAT!" ... or when someone says "Again", you think "AGAIN. STEP, KICK, KICK, LEAP, KICK TOUCH..." (both from A CHORUS LINE)

--- Each time your primping for work or to go out or simply looking in the mirror, you sing "LOOK AT YOUR FACE IN THE MIRROR, I AM THERE INSIDE!" (THE PHANTOM OF THE OEPRA)

--- When you go on a walk on a path through the woods, you happily sing "INTO THE WOODS..."

--- You buy tickets for any production of any musical of any kind within an hour of your home just to go the theatre

--- Every time you hear the word 'producer,' you start singing "I WANNA BE A PRODUCER..."

--- You go to the zoo and look at the meerkats and lions and sing "HAKUNA MATATA..."

--- The date for the Tony Awards is a Holiday to you

[Weez]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:01pm

Any time anyone mentions ANYTHING from 'La Vie Boheme', you start singing. (Apologies to the Italian couple trying to find a Pablo Neruda book in my store today. XP) - RENT

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:08pm

*blushes in shame and raises hand* I do that one, too, Weez

[morosco]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:11pm

Your ringtone is "God I hope I get it".

[Dabadoll]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:14pm

When every mundane sentence triggers a performance of various Show Tunes.

When your ringer for your overbearing relative is “Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now".

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:15pm

There are five seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Love.

[achancetofly]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:15pm

Hahhaah Weez, I do the EXACT same thing. All the time.

You know you're a Broadway musical fan when...


--You just turned 19 (which I did), and whenever someone asks you what year you just turned, you proudly start singing "I'm nineteen, but I'm old for my age, I'm just born to be bad!" (RENT)--Which I totally have been doing.

--You freak out every time you see the colors pink and green even remotely close to each other (WICKED--okay, maybe that's more of just a Gelphie fan thing. XDD)

--When at camp and you're making paper mache masks of your face for arts and crafts, you insist on making one of the Phantom's mask. (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA)--and to think, this was me at 13! Yay!

--You have one musical's cast recording stuck in your head, and as soon as the entire track list has finished, it automatically moves on to the next musical's cast recording on your iTunes playlist.

--You have refused to take any birthday gifts from people, but have instead asked them to just give you money to buy tickets to see shows.

--You have an entire iPod that has nothing but musical cast recordings and solo albums by broadway actors on it.

--You have a friend who went to Miss Porter's, and all you can think of when you see her is "With the French ambassador's daughter, in her dorm room at Miss Porter's. And you?" (RENT)

--Every ringtone on your cell phone is a song from a musical.

And this one is more personal but I thought it was extremely funny:

--It was my grandma's birthday last night, and we went out to dinner. When the wait staff came out with her little birthday cake and was singing 'Happy Birthday', I found it extremely ironic and funny that I had "30/90" from Tick, Tick...BOOM! stuck in my head at the time ("They're singing 'Happy Birthday', you just wanna lay down and cry...")


Annnd that's all I have for now, but there shall be more, I can guarantee it.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:18pm

DEFYING GRAVITY, SEASONS OF LOVE and songs from PHANTOM are my ringtones Forgot about that.

And yes the colors pink and green together make me smile

Updated On: 7/23/06 at 06:18 PM

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:27pm

"--You freak out every time you see the colors pink and green even remotely close to each other (WICKED--okay, maybe that's more of just a Gelphie fan thing. XDD)"

It's not so much that for me as it is always saying out loud "OOOO, pink goes good with greeeeeen!"!

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:30pm

Aha these are great. I do alot of them.

You know you're a Broadway musical fan when...

You are taking a tough test and you find yourself humming "I'm not that smart"
you mark down the dates of every broadway milestone or anniversary on your calander.
you haven't hung out with your friends for months because you always had a ticket to a show when they wanted to get together.
When the telephone rings you answer it "What's the story morning glory?"

[Weez]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:32pm

I do the pink and green thing a lot as well. People tell me they don't think the two colours go together, and I always reply "pink goes good with green!!!". *hugs her green-with-pink-bits Converse*

You crave meat pie. O_O - SWEENEY TODD
(Srsly, couldn't stop eating pork pies for about a fortnight after my CD came. Good job I'm veggie now.....)

Updated On: 7/23/06 at 06:32 PM

[DancingInTheSand]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:33pm

whenever you hear birds and 6am you want to shoot them (TTB)



...and you're reading all of these while smiling and nodding your head

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:36pm

When you can give directions to every theatre on Broadway but you can't give directions to the CVS near your house.

When you've seriously considered changing your name to Maria so whenever you hear the song "Maria" from West Side Story you can imagine it being sung to you.

Same with Christene in Phantom of the Opera

When you're sitting in History class and you get "Springtime for Hitler" stuck in your head when you are learning about the Holocoust.

and the song "Normandy" stuck in your head when your learning about the battle at Normandy.

[pab]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:38pm

When you started a thread very similar to this one a year ago, almost to the day.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=859653#1258726

Updated On: 7/23/06 at 06:38 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:39pm

You see a show, especially a mediocre one, numerous times

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:40pm

When someone orders a Bloody Mary and you start singing "Bloody Mary is the girl I love."

When you know all the lyrics to a show AND the Forbidden Broadway lyrics to that show. Updated On: 7/23/06 at 06:40 PM

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:43pm

When you go to a carnival to get your face painted and you ask for them to paint a phantom mask on you. (aka me at 10)

Updated On: 7/23/06 at 06:43 PM

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:50pm

... you go to a restraunt and think "Where's the bar?"

... when someone mentions the "Hiltons" you think of Daisy and Violet, not Paris.

... you associate Oklahoma with malanoma.

... in order to tell a friend a story you need to make it clearer to them by using the plots of any broadway musical.

... you pick your outfit for the day by which Rent charecter you currently feel like.

[alicia_11212]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:13pm

Weez- I totally think of "La Vie Boheme" whenever I hear any random part of the song! Like for instance, my roommate has a Pablo Neruda book in her room, and at one point I just pointed at it and was like "Pablo Nerudo, tooooooo!" And she has NO idea what I'm doing, it's kinda embarassing.

eponineamneris- I just can't help it, but I am always buying green and pink stuff- and when I'm shopping with someone, I'm always keeping an eye out for that specific pink-green combo. I'll be looking at shirts or something, and my friends are like "what about this one?" and I snap at them, "it's not the right SHADE of pink/ green! God!" And they don't know why I have that obsession, 'cause if they knew it was musical-related, they'd just think I was (more) insane.

achancetofly- I think I love it 'cause of the Gelphie too!

Thankstophantom- ten years old? That's just adorable!

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:32pm

I knew we'd made a huge list of these somewhere -- found them!

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=871443&boardname=bway

Updated On: 7/23/06 at 07:32 PM

[singinswinga]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:34pm

I'm positive that these are all just me, but here I go...

When someone mentions how much they love Phantom/Wicked/RENT you start yelling at them about how mediocre they are in comparison to, say, A Little Night Music or Company. You then proceed to bash every single ALW or Jonathan Larson show ever composed.

You wrote a 10-page research paper on Stephen Sondheim's influence on contemporary music theatre.

Your favorite book is The Singers Musical Theatre Anthology for Mezzo-Soprano/Belter, Vol. 3

Stephen Sondheim's portrait is your Myspace background.

After listening to your favorite cast album, you are out of breath and in tears.

You have a Tshirt that says "Jerry Herman, give Stephen Sondheim his Tony back!" on the front and "Sunday in the Park with George, 1984" on the back.

When you go to dances you have never heard any of the songs that are played and ask the DJ to bust out some Gershwin or Bernstein, PLEEEEASE.

To you they are Jerry, Bebe, Betty, Bob, and Michael (Orbach, Neuwirth, Buckley, Fosse, and Bennet).

You celebrate Stephen Sondheim's birthday every year.

You have composed a choral arrangement of "Company" for your school choir to sing.

That is all... for now.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:34pm

When you are offended by someone refering to an original cast recording as a "soundtrack."

[I<3bway]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:36pm

When you think The Producers movie is a masterpiece.

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:38pm

And what's really funny - Pab, you put a link to a similar thread in that thread I linked...

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/23/06 at 7:41pm

"When you go to dances you have never heard any of the songs that are played and ask the DJ to bust out some Gershwin or Bernstein, PLEEEEASE."

Ha I do that all the time. The best they can give me is Grease. The soundrack. Not even the cast recording.