You know you're a Broadway musical fan when...- Page 6

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 4:53pm

When you understand what the people on this board are talking about!!!

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 8/16/06 at 11:36pm

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.

[Elphie_Fae]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:11pm

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.)

[Elphie_Fae]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:16pm

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.

Updated On: 8/19/06 at 02:16 PM

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:31pm

When in your English book, it said something about Langston Hughes and you automatically thought of La Vie Boheme.

[Lindy4]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:39pm

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.

[Lindy4]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:40pm

Updated On: 8/19/06 at 02:40 PM

[worrell4077]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:46pm

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)
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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***."

[Julian2]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 2:53pm

When you can not only spell-sing supercalifragilisticexpialidociuos, but also say it backwards in two different ways. The movie, and the show.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 3:24pm

i definitely do that with anything i hear from "La Vie Boheme"

um, my sister and I went parasailing together, and we're singing "Defying Gravity" and "I'm Flying" while we were up there

anything that is purple makes me start singing "The Color Purple" and whenever I'm on an elevator I always sing "Push Da Button"

weddings automatically make me think of anything WEDDING SINGER

and a BUNCH of other random things...

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 6:38pm

"When the telephone rings you answer it "What's the story morning glory?"

Ha ha I totally do this one because my friend's name is Nancy - so I always sing it and she does it back!

Ok some more -

You're ina bar and you're wasting and you start singing showtunes and making it fit with the club music.

You carry a sharpie in your purse at all times.

And a camera.

You don't know what music is currently hip or popular bacuse all you play are musicals.

When you hear the word popular, you automatically echo it with "Pop Ua Lar"

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 6:54pm

When at weddings you take a picture of Table # 9.

[kaboodles041]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 8:26pm

When you grew up knowing that your mother loved you "a bushel and a peck." And yes, she still sings that to me.

[bardolator]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 9:24pm

<<--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

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

Posted: 8/19/06 at 10:38pm

kaboodles041, my father sang that to me from birth on!

[Julian2]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 3:15am

When you have more then once been surronded by trucks at a red light and you are currently engaged in high octave vocal somersalts, and you are a guy.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 9:50am

"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. "

so true! that is me all the time
:P

[WiiCKED x3]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 10:49am

When you miss out on your BEST FRIENDS bat-mitzvah to see Wicked for the 2nd time.
I really had to see it again.

[heartscarts]

Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:54pm

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.

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 8/23/06 at 1:06pm

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.

[singinswinga]

Posted: 9/3/06 at 4:58pm

-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.

[bwaymizfit2]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 2:14pm

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."

[modeldiva]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 3:15pm

~When you and your brother greet each with: "How's life?" "Disappointing" ~ Avenue Q

~When you listen to a cast recording so often your dad starts humming along or requesting certain songs.

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 3:18pm

"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.""

AMEN!!!

[Broadway Baby4]

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:12pm

defyingravity11, it's sad, I know... I had to make my own category for Broadway! haha...