You know you're a Broadway musical fan when...- Page 4

[uncageg]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:27pm

When you walk up to the Eugene O'Neill Theatre and quietly tell Caroline you miss her! (I did that three times I was in New York after it closed!)

Updated On: 7/25/06 at 03:27 PM

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:46pm

"You find look-a-likes of actors on the street, and compare to find out if it's really them, because you are too shy to ask."

Aha! I do that one all the time. Once I thought I saw Jason Kravits at a Starbucks, so I was practicly breathing down his neck seeing how he signed his name on his receit, and then I kept hanging around to hear what name they called out when his coffee was ready. I never did find out it it was him or not...

and simialr to uncageg's...

When you pass by the street where your favorite show is and go "Hi (insert name of all the characters here)
Updated On: 7/25/06 at 03:46 PM

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 2:09am

When you refer to Buy Buy Baby to Bye Bye Birdie.
"How far til Bye Bye Birdie?... I mean Buy Buy Baby"

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 7:26am

I do the "Purpose" one too!

I'm glad I'm not a total dork. I have more "real" music on my iPod than showtunes.

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 7:36am

-When you turn down free tickets to see The Killers, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Who to See Wicked on Broadway. I did just that.

-When you would rather see The Wedding Singer on Broadway than The Rolling Stones at Giants Stadium. I am doing that on September 27.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 7:48am

I got 2 of these:

1. When you start moo...ing in a movie theatre because the character (Maureen) tells you too, and nobody else is mooing. Really funny stuff.

2. For the Rent Movie. The day before I ordered every showing for November 23rd in Pennsytucky. The night before I went to the city to catch the premiere at the Ziegfeld because I couldn't wait (and I wanted to catch the show in 2 states in a 24 hour period). Got the Ziegfeld 2 hours early and all the seats that were left were way up front. Tracy Tomms and Anthony Rapp showed up 5 minutes before the film started. Then drove back to Pennsytucky at 6 in the morning to catch the 8 am. showing of Rent. One of many that day. AND DAMNIT IT WAS WORTH IT. Saw the movie 14 times in the theatres like a nutcase.

Sorry guys all my real dedication stories involve Rent.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 8:47am

These are all great! Thank you for partipating and I am glad you are enjoying the thread.

I have a couple more.

--- When you're on the phone with a customer, getting their information so you can mail out their order, and they live in Amonte, VA... Zip code 24601. I smile and sing to myself "WHO AM I? 24601!!!! or "DO NOT FORGET ME... 24601" depending.

--- Each time you meet and/or see a cat, you bow and say "Oh cat" ... Then you try to think of the character the cute darling resembles. (CATS)

Updated On: 7/26/06 at 08:47 AM

[Stitch_Stalker]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 9:26am

Ha, I've got quite a few personal ones...

...When you go to Little Italy and when your friends ask you if you know any Italian, you break out into "Aiutami"

...When you write a 10 page paper on "The psycological impacts of Lev Vygotsky's Special Education Theory...As seen in the Light in the Piazza"

...When you write ANOTHER 10 page paper on philosophy in "Into the Woods"

...When you go to Friendlys and start singing "Free Refills... I just got a cup with Free Refills, and suddenly that drink, will never be the same to me... Free refills-I'm drinking a cup with free refills, and suddenly I've found, how wonderful a sound, can be!!!" (Yes, I sing that every time)

...You sing Suppertime at, when else, suppertime!

...You go to New York and look up the ending times of every Broadway show so that you can stage door hop and meet the actors

...You work at a movie theater and when the theater is empty you sing "Is Anybody there? Does Anybody care?"

[RentHead2]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 9:44am

Okay I got one classic one that doesn't involve Rent, haha

1. You know your a fantatic/diehard when you play "I love you Baltimore" from Hairspray while going through Baltimore's inner cities. HAHAHA! One of these days I am going to get killed doing this. Much Love to B-More!

[Kouji]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 10:01am

Okay, I've done 75% of the things that you guys have listed. And the others have just given me good ideas. :-P

Whenever anybody tells you that you're smart, you simply say "Apple juice, please!"

At late-night parties you'll stand up on the table and yell "Ooh look, it's tomorrow!"

Whenever anybody says something about modesty you simply say "I don't wanna show off no more"

You have a big box devoted to your broadway items (ex: confetti from "Thank goodness" or your playbills. i also got a japanese pamphlet from drs that i keep in there)

ooh yeah, i was also the first one mooing at rent, and i stood up and started mooing my head off and my mother just turned around to pretend that she didn't know me

you look at your annoying little brother and think about Ruprecht.

people start keeping lists of things not to say around you in fear that you'll burst into song

you're at a cast party with your local theater group and you just start singing la vie boheme and the people around you start covering their children's ears

also at cast parties, you sing songs to your waitresses

you worry about going on vacation because you may not get the chance to check broadwayworld for new updates!

also, you can only say "washington dc" with a lisp

you have a strange phobia of meat pies or barbershops Updated On: 7/26/06 at 10:01 AM

[Mills]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 11:22am

When you're doing a music degree and you've planned next years courses based on which ones should allow you to write about musicals (I've got two 3000 word essays, and a dissertation (10,000 words) planned already)

When about 75% of the academic books you own to help with said degree are books soley on musicals (and the rest you had to buy)

People's first memory of you is singing 'The Internet is for Porn' (or any other musical theatre song)

You quote musicals (intentionally or unintentionally) in exams (Quoting Jesus Christ Superstar instead of the Bible, adding in any random quotes in the normal prose, that kind of thing)

The only reason you could be bothered to write anything in an exam is because you found a way to relate it to musicals (bonus points depending on how remotely related the subject is)

You made an 18 hour round trip in a coach to spend 15 hours in a city purely so you could see JRB's Parade (or any similar)

You have been on your school's annual musicals trip 7 times. When you were only at the school for 5 years

You book all your holidays with the specific intention of seeing musicals

The box office staff know you by name

You have seen musicals you dislike more than once if the opportunity presents itself

[Rent-head730]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 11:50am

You know you're a musical fan when you log into Broadway World daily. : )

You know you're a fan when you can't name the 50 states but can name 50 musicals

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:29pm

When you write a speech on Stephen Sondheim and Into the Woods for your Speech Communication course. . . and no one knows who Stephen Sonhdheim is.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:43pm

You go to a Yankees game and think of Randall Keith in Les Miserables every time a pot-bellied beer-drinkin' fan shouts "BRING 'IM HOME!"

[maybe1day]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:47pm

ooh, ooh i've got some!
when you go to a show and ask to buy a window card, not a poster
when you stand out in the cold, dark of new york city just to get an autograph and take a picture
when you spend $150 on window cards at the triton gallery, in one visit
when you finally get around to reading the color purple, you get excited at the passages that are almost word for word like the lyrics "Who dis woman, say squeak, in this little teenouncy voice. You know who she is, say harpo. squeak turn to sofia. say, you better leave him alone. Sofia say, fine with me."
when you have no problem going see a show by yourself because your friends are either too broke to go or they just don't understand why they should want to

these are just me
when you shift your first trip to nyc up a week and loose $200 in already-purchased show tickets just to see your favorite broadway performer, who you've never actually seen live, sing 2 songs in a cabaret (i actually did that when i found out shoshana bean was doing a scott nevins show)
i'm a little ashamed at this one--when you think the coat maureen wears in the rent movie during take me or leave me is so cute, that you actually search the internet and buy one just like it---i'm sorry...

[HeartandMusic]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 1:17pm

Oh, I just remembered this one. You're at a restaurant w/ all of your friends celebrating you birthday and someone says "wine and beer!" and then everyone breaks into song and you go all the way through La Vie Boheme, and it's obnoxious but you don't give a damn because it's your birthday. : )

[Melodramatic5872]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 1:57pm

My ringtone is the Avenue Q theme. I won't eat meat pies. I have called every phone # that they've mentioned in RENT. I know, I'm a freak, and I admit it.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 1:58pm

Okay I got another good one...

A little over 2 years ago there was a huge snowstorm in new york - it was a little more than 2 feet of snow, well we had ordered are RENT tickets and me and my friend weren't going to let a little snow stand in the way. So I parked my car at my buddy's house in Jersey and took the train up, well it was snowing so hard the train was delayed 45 minutes and by the time we got up to NYC we had about 10 minutes to walk 8 blocks in 2 feet of snow. I hopped on my friends back and rode him like a horsey all the way to the NEDERLANDER theatre where there were literally 30 other idiots who did the same thing. Well we got out of the theatre and my program that I paid 10 bucks for went into the snow and I couldn't find it and I got back to jersey where my car was toed. WAS IT WORTH IT? HELL YES!

[Stitch_Stalker]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 2:03pm

Wait... 2 More!

...You do a little happy dance to yourself when the word "automaton" is on your SATs.

...You see someone walk by in a Red Sox shirt that says "Now I can die in peace" and the LEs Mis Finale immediately springs into your head!

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 2:22pm

While at buying a box of cookies at a local bakery, you have to restrain yourself from saying to the cashier "I sort of hate to ask it, but do you have a basket?"

You actually make a meat pie. And eat it. While singing "God That's Good."

When you see a picture of a young woman with curly blonde hair in an art museum on a photography website, you are immediately convinced that it's Lauren Molina.

When you see a Broadway performer on Law & Order, you scream out a line from one of their shows without even thinking.

You try to raise your right eyebrow in pictures so you can look a little more like Sutton.

You slip words like "chimerical" into your everyday vocabulary.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 2:32pm

You have a big box devoted to your broadway items (ex: confetti from "Thank goodness" or your playbills. i also got a japanese pamphlet from drs that i keep in there)

I have that! It has playbills, the books for the shows (pamphlets), the RENT bible and the Grimmerie, and all of my cast recordings.

Happened today: When getting your wisdom teeth out, you apparently sing along to the radio and laugh throughout the whole thing, but the only think you remember is that after the procedure while waking up from the seditive, you are singing 'Green Finch and Linnet Bird'.

[Cole2]

Posted: 7/26/06 at 11:57pm

how did you get these ringtones? Am dying to know - I think I did my first posting on here wrong. I was trying to ask you personally about this. I have Cingular. I really enjoyed your myspace site too. LOVE the footage of Wicked rehearsal. How did you get it? Was it still in rehearsals then? Anyway, whatever advice you could give me about the tones would be great :) thank you

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/27/06 at 12:01am

*clears throat*

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=905631&dt=3

[Cole2]

Posted: 7/27/06 at 12:13am

When you listen to the Wicked soundtrack so much in the "mommy" minvan that your two todders, ages 4 and 2yrs old, know EVERY WORD of the show. ADORABLE :)

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 7/27/06 at 12:18am

-people ask you if you have an enemy or someone you hate and you reffer to a tacky "star" or someone who snubbed you at the stage door.