When you understand what the people on this board are talking about!!!
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
Every year on Dec 24th I sit and stare at a clock until it strikes 8:59PM. I do Marks opening monologue and at 9 on the dot sing "December 24th 9PM Eastern Standard Time...Then I 10 I sing "December 24th 10PM EST I can't believe a year went by so fast."
My family thinks I'm a whack job.
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
When you bet your friends that you can associate any random word with a musical in under 30 seconds. And you can. ("Swimming pool" and Aida, anybody?)
OH GEEZE! I can't believe you said that. That is TOO perfect!
Okay, so. I got my Aida cast recording from my friend, and when she gave it to me it had a scratch on it in the middle of "A Step Too Far", right during Adam's lovely solo. So it goes something like: "I'm in every kind of trouble, can't you tell? Just look at me. [terrible hissing scratching noise that makes my skin crawl] All in all, I'm all at sea..." My friend and I both have the CD with the scratch. So one day we were swimming in my pool with the little poolcleaning vacuum in the water, and when my friend went under she heard the poolcleaner make this terrible squeaky noise . She came up and was like, "NAYA! Listen! Your pool cleaner sings like Adam Pascal!" And it's true, it does sound just like the scratch. So we affectionately named my pool cleaner Adam Pascal and greet it as such every time we go swimming. (End of slightly threadjacking narrative. I just had to tell that story, it was too perfect.)
I am a Wicked fanatic and darn proud. It's my favorite musical and has been for 2 1/2 years.My favorites of the musical world are Stephanie J. Block and Adam Pascal <3.
Haha, the one about saying Hi to all the characters reminded me of something my friend Jessica does.
---When you're in Jamba Juice/Starbucks and they ask for your name, you give them "Elphaba", just to see how they spell it. (Record holder for worst spelling: "Elkava", Starbucks)
EDITED BECAUSE FRIEND GOT UPSET: Sorry, sorry. I didn't get my story straight. It was "Alkava", and it was at the Coffee Bean. My mistake.
I am a Wicked fanatic and darn proud. It's my favorite musical and has been for 2 1/2 years.My favorites of the musical world are Stephanie J. Block and Adam Pascal <3.
Yeah. It was Alkava. Until that moment I did not know people could be that thick headed...wow.
but yes, yes, you know you're a true Broadway fan when: You're caucasion and blonde, but you would absolutely without a complaint get a fake tan, dye your hair brown, and get a perm to play Mimi.
You're reading your history books and you're doing something on The Civil War and Lincoln and you hear or read John Wilkes Booth and you start singing/thinking of "The Ballad Of Booth"(Assassins)
You go to a pet shop and ask if they have any Green Finches and Linnet Birds(Sweeney Todd)
You have a cousin named Kevin(The Who's Tommy)
You know the choreograhpy for just about every song in just about every musical you've seen
You are at the arcade and you're playing pinball or watching someone play and you start thinking/singing "Pinball Wizard"(The Who's Tommy)
When you make a promise to someone or tell someone somthing that makes no sense but is true you raise your hand to the air and say "My hand to God"(Jersey Boys)
You're walking around on a cat walk or something similar to that and you burst into Silhouettes in a falsetto(Jersey Boys)
In a accounting class, you try to apply all you've learned from The Producers or ask to bring in your Producers cast album
Someone asks you what the internet is for and you start singing "The Internet Is For Porn"(Avenue Q)
You want people to call you or you wish you're name was Sherry, Dawn, or Marianne(Jersey Boys)
You purchase a shubbery or a swallow either African or European(SpamAlot) ________________________________________________________________ Bob Crewe:"You're not hearing it right. I hear it in sky blue and you're giving me brown." Tommy Devito:"That's cause you're paying us s***."
<<--Every ringtone on your cell phone is a song from a musical. >>
YESSS! Or clips from a Broadway performer's other appearances. I have "Never Never Land," a couple things from FUNNY GIRL ("Hello gorgeous!" and "How many girls become a sinner...I feel the feeling down to my toes" from "You Are Woman"), four lines from "I Dreamed a Dream" ("But the tigers come at night...As they turn the dreams to shame"), and clips from "Buenos Aires" and "Rainbow High" (I mean, come on, it's PATTI). At least I always know when it's my phone that's ringing (and so does everyone else)! By the way...I made these by signing up at freeringers.net because I could never find any decent ringtones from musicals (but will check out the links posted here)
-When you accidentally forget to sign in before posting to your favorite musical's message boards and immediately post a (logged-in) follow-up that says only "It's meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
-When you listen to a recording of a musical and you immediately not only recognize the voices of the leads (and understudies) but know when one of them is having an "off" night or is ill.
-When you refer not just to musicals in performance, or to specific casts, but to specific PERFORMANCES by specific casts of those musicals, by date (ex: "The 10/20/05" Tour of WICKED and so forth).
-When you find yourself growing disdainful toward people who think musical theatre is defined by Andrew Lloyd Webber, especially because you know there is no way they'll ever "get" Sondheim.
-When your conversations are peppered with references to "her" and your family/friends know who this is without your even using a name (for me, Stephanie J. Block)
-When you think of the message boards you frequent/moderate/administrate as being the "official" boards for that musical (yes, I feel a little bad about this one...PQM is currently my "home"!) Updated On: 8/19/06 at 09:24 PM
"When you find yourself growing disdainful toward people who think musical theatre is defined by Andrew Lloyd Webber, especially because you know there is no way they'll ever "get" Sondheim. "
this may just be me, but... when the oklahoma football team is playing and you root for them even though you don't care about sports, just because of the musical.
Zepka can feel free to make fun of it, since he saw me do this... Yesterday when we were coming down to the Eugene O'Neill, we passed a church. Outside it on the board it said "Bach Vespers". At first glance I saw "Ben Vereen" and I got really excited. Awesome, I know.
-When you find yourself growing disdainful toward people who think musical theatre is defined by Andrew Lloyd Webber, especially because you know there is no way they'll ever "get" Sondheim. True that.
I have some more.
-When you get pissed at people on these boards who are obsessed with Wicked and/or RENT because you know they're not "real" musicals.
-When you list your pet peeves as "Andrew Lloyd Webber, stage musical movie adaptations, jukebox musicals, and modern Broadway"
-When you literally cry over the state of the theatre today, and blame it all on Andrew Lloyd Webber to make yourself feel better.
-When you are boycotting the Tonys because Jerry Herman won "Best Score" in 1984 with La Cage Aux Folles over Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George... and you weren't even born then.
-Your LEAST favorite Sondheim score is Into the Woods.
You get upset by iTunes because there is no appropriate genre to categorize your music under. It's not rap, pop, or gospel, and it's certainly not "soundtrack."
"You get upset by iTunes because there is no appropriate genre to categorize your music under. It's not rap, pop, or gospel, and it's certainly not "soundtrack.""