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All over the country, people are going to see theatre and saying absolutely ridiculous things. This isn't just on Broadway. No matter where you are, you can do this contest. Send in the FUNNIEST/CRAZIEST thing you've heard someone say at the theatre.
We have 4 guest judges each picking their favorite, I'll have an unbias person pick their favorite of those four.
I'll be editing this all weekend, submissions are due by Sunday. Here is what we have so far so you can all laugh along with me..
@talking_bird: at @RockOfAges when Constantine's understudy was on, "I haven't seen the Idol guy yet, is he only in act 2??"
@ryanbloomquist: when I was in line to get into Hair a lady asked, "Excuse me, where is the line for Broadway?"
@libookperson: Walking out of N2N, I overheard - "I cried, but I cried more at the Holocaust Museum."
@petradomingo: @ Xanadu, a couple, two men bickering whether it would be nominated for Best Musical @ Tonys before the show even started
@emilyfayeoakley: heard someone telling their friend Oprah produced the Raisin In The Sun revival with Diddy & every other black show ever
@sara73: At Hair, 10-yr-old girl reading playbill: "mom what's titillating mean"? Mom: "that you're prob too young to see this show"
@broadwaychick: "i cant talk on the phone right now..finnigan's island is about to start" (at finians rainbow)
@erinsk8: A family trying to decide if Avenue Q would be appropriate for their child: "it's about puppets, how bad can it be?"
And just last night, an older tourist couple at Next to Normal intermission: "well, it's no Mary Poppins."
@Kevindaly: Closing performance of Gypsy with Bernadette. Matinee ladies. "Oh my, she'll win the Tony for sure!!"
After Virginia Woolf revival woman next to me turns to me and asks 'So wait. Their son is dead?'
@betmcrazy: i was sayin how i was excited 2c BE again +person next to me asked"how many times have you seen it? ive seen it 30" "once."
@fronkensteen: some of our favs include some1 saying they wanted to see "Get It Up" instead of Give It Up; and another patron wanting to see "The Tommy
Show, the Negro, and Black Black Black" instead of The Who's Tommy, The
Good Negro, and Back Back Back
@spaltor: At "November" 2 years ago, "Why is that guy yelling all his lines?" I guess he'd never heard of Nathan Lane.
At "La Cage Aux Folles", I had NO idea this was so much like "The Birdcage"...
@logainne: "Oh, Anne Rice is in this!" - clueless couple behind me at Lestat in San Francisco
@kyleeverette: I went to the HD broadcast of "Tosca." Was a very racy scene, an elder lady leaned over and asked "Is she sucking him off?"
@vla13: "When Mary flies, that's an image right?" "...no, that's the actress." "NO WAY. HOW DOES SHE DO THAT?" "...Disney magic."
@betsyl9: YF with Megan Mullaly "Oh my gosh it's that lady from that show with the girl and the gay man!"
@sara_mahoney: At the Hair stage door a 14(ish)yr. old exclaimed "What do you mean Claude died?! He was on the stage at the end!!!"
@pataphysicalsci: At the Hair stage door a 14(ish)yr. old exclaimed "What do you mean Claude died?! He was on the stage at the end!!!"
After just seeing EVERYDAY RAPTURE, 1 woman said about SRS,"What was her name? So I guess she's been in Broadway shows?"
@kimmyyyyyyyyy: One time at the Stage Door at SA, Skylar was staring at my boobs, then asked me how how I was, then said I didn't look 15.
jryanreichel: During a regional production of Peter Pan in 2009, an older man asked me "So where's Mary Matrin? I paid to see Mary!"
@masb1987: At Rent: "Well, they do drugs in the show, so we should be able to smoke in the theatre."
At Studio 54. Lady: "It's nice to be leaving Studio 54 and actually remember the past few hours."
@jasonthinger: "Since Burn The Floor is in Previews we have an extra 20 minutes or so before we have to be at the theater."
@misshopenyc: At AmericanIdiot, I say "Billie Joe Armstrong is here!" Behind me I hear a man say to his wife “Billie Joel is here!!”
@songstresser: I was backstage for this one, but my friend was doing a monologue from "Runaways" (an old 70s musical) and the first thing said was "Do you have current events?" My dad's girlfriend's 3-year old son shouted out "Yes!" from the audience.
@eureekahug: Outside @RockOfAges 3 very drunk ladies convinced Constantine's understudy was Justin Timberlake..... they were waiting by his 'limo' to meet him. It was really funny.
@andsym9001: at stage door "who's in this?" me:"patti lupone" Person walking away "oh it's the one with patti labelle!" face palm
at n2n"isn't this where Lincoln got shot? That must be why the box seats are so expensive" the booth theatre peeps are dumb
@christinekh89: during intermission at Wicked.. "I saw the Rachel from Glee as Elphaba like a couple of years ago"
Also at Wicked, at the box office, "Excuse do you have tickets for Jersey Boys?". -____-
@brian_sheola: At Hair: a guy says to his girlfriend. "I had no clue they got naked. Can we go to more shows like this?"
At The Little Mermaid- a little girl to her mom: "Mom, how come none of the mermaids are swimming? Where's the water?"
@Broadwayjack: At intermission Hairspray: There is no Matron in this show! How can there be an understudy for her?
At South Pacific: "I wish I was the conductor for this show." (He then pretended to conduct the whole show from his seat.)
@kidstheatre: overheard at The Producer's two older ladies at intermission "I didn't know this show was about the Nazis"
@jduff816: overheard at "Promises, Promises": "that girl (Kristen Chenoweth) went from Glee to Broadway! good for her!"
@elysecorrina: At The Drowsy Chaperone stage door, Lisa Lambert came out and a "fan" approached her saying: "You were great in the show!!"
@codydaigle: in audience last night at a show in Lafayette, LA. "intermission? What's intermission?"
@susankhoffman: Pre-show @ White's Lies, overheard teenagers looking thru Playbill "OMG, there's STARS in this show!"
@StefanieAnnB: When I saw Promises Promises on May 1. This lady had be 70 yrs was saying that she was going to f*ck Sean after the show..
@girlpowermch: overheard a girl saying they should really make the musical "Lease" from Team America (it's a Rent parody)
@madsylvester: @ In The Heights @ intermission: "I can't understand what they're saying at some points." "That's because its in Spanish.."
Emailed from Linda Matson: I bonded with Kyle Riabko at the Hair stage door when we were nearly struck speechless. A sweet young thing was gushing over him and asked, "Wait, did you die at the end?" His shocked response, "Uhhhh, YEAH!!!" was priceless.
@thetedsaid: At intermission at Wicked, 2 old women talking: "Just wait for the big kicker-the green one turns into the tinman!"
@thecraptacular: The teenage girls in front of me after a local production of Romeo and Juliet. "That was awesome but the ending sucked."
studio_gal: at MidsumrNightsDream: "Well so far all I know is sm1 sprinkled fairy dust in sm1's eyes & a lady's in love with a horse."
ascottfalk: I heard a woman in a wheelchair w/a tracheotomy call her cane-bearing cousin "lame" at the Lortel.
12-yr-old at stage door while N. Lane signs autographs: "Does your hand ever hurt?" NL: "Not from doing this."(I was there)
@marebear2534: overheard at sd of Promises Promises "I bet Kristin Chenoweth's husband picks her up every night after each show?!" Hmmmm
@awolfe10: At N2N stage door... an old guy asked Adam Chanler-Berat why he played the music so loud
@aaron25e: "Stockard Channing was great in The Ritz. She played a gay man so well"
@sarahhh713: "I'd take him half naked now." - old lady talking about John Stamos in the Booth Theatre bathroom last July
@alexqsmith: girls behind me at HAIR talking about their high school production (you can do that...?), director caught having sex with their sheila backstage when she missed her cue. and these storytellers were NOT quiet, discussed whole ordeal. hilarious.
@eml358: After Jersey Boys. Lady speaking Spanish: "So Frankie Valli died of a Heroine overdose in the end?"
@kequalitym: Overheard at American Idiot: I think this might have been the theatre I saw Phantom at. Ohhh, look at the chandelier. This was DEFINITELY the theatre I saw Phantom at. It's the same chandelier!!
@phoeberowe: In line at LMAT rush: "Billly Elliot... that's where the boy gets stuck in a mine and has to sing so he can get rescued."
@stagemaven: "Do you sell tickets to Cat on a Dead Man's Lawn?" It was a good thing they couldn't see my face...
@crackmyribsopen: at in the heights some girl telling her friend she loves how they speak puerto rican
@MatthewAnthony: An usher who was trying to seat patrons just before Mary Stuart started: "What ever happened to civility?"
Family of 4 (2 young kids under 10) sitting next to me front row at Equus: "They were joking about the nudity, right?"
@alesandrak: in line for The Little Mermaid a dad says to his wife, "I'm really interested to see how they're gonna do this under water"
@nattalyee: While at the stage door of WICKED in St. Louis a "happy" 11 or 12 yr old boy says to his mom " When I grow up, I wanna be Glinda and ride
around in a bubble all day."
BroadwaySpace user Josh T. :Years back, before I was even born, my parents saw Phantom of the Opera, at intermission they heard a woman say "There sure is a lot of singin'
in this show."
BroadwaySpace user Kimmy: One time at Spring Awakening Skylar Astin gave me a prop from the show while sitting on-stage. My cousin yelled at the stage door "It was like a
drug deal, I feel like he was actually giving you drugs!"
Performer Brynn Williams: When I went to see Everyday Rapture, there were these two guys sitting behind me talking
about Me in Bye Bye Birdie. They were trying to figure out my ethnicity.
They thought was either Hispanic, or Indian. I turned around and said
"actually, I'm Black :)"
We have 4 guest judges each picking their favorite, I'll have an unbias person pick their favorite of those four.
I'll be editing this all weekend, submissions are due by Sunday. Here is what we have so far so you can all laugh along with me..
@talking_bird: at @RockOfAges when Constantine's understudy was on, "I haven't seen the Idol guy yet, is he only in act 2??"
@ryanbloomquist: when I was in line to get into Hair a lady asked, "Excuse me, where is the line for Broadway?"
@libookperson: Walking out of N2N, I overheard - "I cried, but I cried more at the Holocaust Museum."
@petradomingo: @ Xanadu, a couple, two men bickering whether it would be nominated for Best Musical @ Tonys before the show even started
@emilyfayeoakley: heard someone telling their friend Oprah produced the Raisin In The Sun revival with Diddy & every other black show ever
@sara73: At Hair, 10-yr-old girl reading playbill: "mom what's titillating mean"? Mom: "that you're prob too young to see this show"
@broadwaychick: "i cant talk on the phone right now..finnigan's island is about to start" (at finians rainbow)
@erinsk8: A family trying to decide if Avenue Q would be appropriate for their child: "it's about puppets, how bad can it be?"
And just last night, an older tourist couple at Next to Normal intermission: "well, it's no Mary Poppins."
@Kevindaly: Closing performance of Gypsy with Bernadette. Matinee ladies. "Oh my, she'll win the Tony for sure!!"
After Virginia Woolf revival woman next to me turns to me and asks 'So wait. Their son is dead?'
@betmcrazy: i was sayin how i was excited 2c BE again +person next to me asked"how many times have you seen it? ive seen it 30" "once."
@fronkensteen: some of our favs include some1 saying they wanted to see "Get It Up" instead of Give It Up; and another patron wanting to see "The Tommy
Show, the Negro, and Black Black Black" instead of The Who's Tommy, The
Good Negro, and Back Back Back
@spaltor: At "November" 2 years ago, "Why is that guy yelling all his lines?" I guess he'd never heard of Nathan Lane.
At "La Cage Aux Folles", I had NO idea this was so much like "The Birdcage"...
@logainne: "Oh, Anne Rice is in this!" - clueless couple behind me at Lestat in San Francisco
@kyleeverette: I went to the HD broadcast of "Tosca." Was a very racy scene, an elder lady leaned over and asked "Is she sucking him off?"
@vla13: "When Mary flies, that's an image right?" "...no, that's the actress." "NO WAY. HOW DOES SHE DO THAT?" "...Disney magic."
@betsyl9: YF with Megan Mullaly "Oh my gosh it's that lady from that show with the girl and the gay man!"
@sara_mahoney: At the Hair stage door a 14(ish)yr. old exclaimed "What do you mean Claude died?! He was on the stage at the end!!!"
@pataphysicalsci: At the Hair stage door a 14(ish)yr. old exclaimed "What do you mean Claude died?! He was on the stage at the end!!!"
After just seeing EVERYDAY RAPTURE, 1 woman said about SRS,"What was her name? So I guess she's been in Broadway shows?"
@kimmyyyyyyyyy: One time at the Stage Door at SA, Skylar was staring at my boobs, then asked me how how I was, then said I didn't look 15.
jryanreichel: During a regional production of Peter Pan in 2009, an older man asked me "So where's Mary Matrin? I paid to see Mary!"
@masb1987: At Rent: "Well, they do drugs in the show, so we should be able to smoke in the theatre."
At Studio 54. Lady: "It's nice to be leaving Studio 54 and actually remember the past few hours."
@jasonthinger: "Since Burn The Floor is in Previews we have an extra 20 minutes or so before we have to be at the theater."
@misshopenyc: At AmericanIdiot, I say "Billie Joe Armstrong is here!" Behind me I hear a man say to his wife “Billie Joel is here!!”
@songstresser: I was backstage for this one, but my friend was doing a monologue from "Runaways" (an old 70s musical) and the first thing said was "Do you have current events?" My dad's girlfriend's 3-year old son shouted out "Yes!" from the audience.
@eureekahug: Outside @RockOfAges 3 very drunk ladies convinced Constantine's understudy was Justin Timberlake..... they were waiting by his 'limo' to meet him. It was really funny.
@andsym9001: at stage door "who's in this?" me:"patti lupone" Person walking away "oh it's the one with patti labelle!" face palm
at n2n"isn't this where Lincoln got shot? That must be why the box seats are so expensive" the booth theatre peeps are dumb
@christinekh89: during intermission at Wicked.. "I saw the Rachel from Glee as Elphaba like a couple of years ago"
Also at Wicked, at the box office, "Excuse do you have tickets for Jersey Boys?". -____-
@brian_sheola: At Hair: a guy says to his girlfriend. "I had no clue they got naked. Can we go to more shows like this?"
At The Little Mermaid- a little girl to her mom: "Mom, how come none of the mermaids are swimming? Where's the water?"
@Broadwayjack: At intermission Hairspray: There is no Matron in this show! How can there be an understudy for her?
At South Pacific: "I wish I was the conductor for this show." (He then pretended to conduct the whole show from his seat.)
@kidstheatre: overheard at The Producer's two older ladies at intermission "I didn't know this show was about the Nazis"
@jduff816: overheard at "Promises, Promises": "that girl (Kristen Chenoweth) went from Glee to Broadway! good for her!"
@elysecorrina: At The Drowsy Chaperone stage door, Lisa Lambert came out and a "fan" approached her saying: "You were great in the show!!"
@codydaigle: in audience last night at a show in Lafayette, LA. "intermission? What's intermission?"
@susankhoffman: Pre-show @ White's Lies, overheard teenagers looking thru Playbill "OMG, there's STARS in this show!"
@StefanieAnnB: When I saw Promises Promises on May 1. This lady had be 70 yrs was saying that she was going to f*ck Sean after the show..
@girlpowermch: overheard a girl saying they should really make the musical "Lease" from Team America (it's a Rent parody)
@madsylvester: @ In The Heights @ intermission: "I can't understand what they're saying at some points." "That's because its in Spanish.."
Emailed from Linda Matson: I bonded with Kyle Riabko at the Hair stage door when we were nearly struck speechless. A sweet young thing was gushing over him and asked, "Wait, did you die at the end?" His shocked response, "Uhhhh, YEAH!!!" was priceless.
@thetedsaid: At intermission at Wicked, 2 old women talking: "Just wait for the big kicker-the green one turns into the tinman!"
@thecraptacular: The teenage girls in front of me after a local production of Romeo and Juliet. "That was awesome but the ending sucked."
studio_gal: at MidsumrNightsDream: "Well so far all I know is sm1 sprinkled fairy dust in sm1's eyes & a lady's in love with a horse."
ascottfalk: I heard a woman in a wheelchair w/a tracheotomy call her cane-bearing cousin "lame" at the Lortel.
12-yr-old at stage door while N. Lane signs autographs: "Does your hand ever hurt?" NL: "Not from doing this."(I was there)
@marebear2534: overheard at sd of Promises Promises "I bet Kristin Chenoweth's husband picks her up every night after each show?!" Hmmmm
@awolfe10: At N2N stage door... an old guy asked Adam Chanler-Berat why he played the music so loud
@aaron25e: "Stockard Channing was great in The Ritz. She played a gay man so well"
@sarahhh713: "I'd take him half naked now." - old lady talking about John Stamos in the Booth Theatre bathroom last July
@alexqsmith: girls behind me at HAIR talking about their high school production (you can do that...?), director caught having sex with their sheila backstage when she missed her cue. and these storytellers were NOT quiet, discussed whole ordeal. hilarious.
@eml358: After Jersey Boys. Lady speaking Spanish: "So Frankie Valli died of a Heroine overdose in the end?"
@kequalitym: Overheard at American Idiot: I think this might have been the theatre I saw Phantom at. Ohhh, look at the chandelier. This was DEFINITELY the theatre I saw Phantom at. It's the same chandelier!!
@phoeberowe: In line at LMAT rush: "Billly Elliot... that's where the boy gets stuck in a mine and has to sing so he can get rescued."
@stagemaven: "Do you sell tickets to Cat on a Dead Man's Lawn?" It was a good thing they couldn't see my face...
@crackmyribsopen: at in the heights some girl telling her friend she loves how they speak puerto rican
@MatthewAnthony: An usher who was trying to seat patrons just before Mary Stuart started: "What ever happened to civility?"
Family of 4 (2 young kids under 10) sitting next to me front row at Equus: "They were joking about the nudity, right?"
@alesandrak: in line for The Little Mermaid a dad says to his wife, "I'm really interested to see how they're gonna do this under water"
@nattalyee: While at the stage door of WICKED in St. Louis a "happy" 11 or 12 yr old boy says to his mom " When I grow up, I wanna be Glinda and ride
around in a bubble all day."
BroadwaySpace user Josh T. :Years back, before I was even born, my parents saw Phantom of the Opera, at intermission they heard a woman say "There sure is a lot of singin'
in this show."
BroadwaySpace user Kimmy: One time at Spring Awakening Skylar Astin gave me a prop from the show while sitting on-stage. My cousin yelled at the stage door "It was like a
drug deal, I feel like he was actually giving you drugs!"
Performer Brynn Williams: When I went to see Everyday Rapture, there were these two guys sitting behind me talking
about Me in Bye Bye Birdie. They were trying to figure out my ethnicity.
They thought was either Hispanic, or Indian. I turned around and said
"actually, I'm Black :)"
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Comment by Ashley Martin on August 30, 2010 at 10:27pm -
Favorites:
@erinsk8: A family trying to decide if Avenue Q would be appropriate for their child: "it's about puppets, how bad can it be?"
Family of 4 (2 young kids under 10) sitting next to me front row at Equus: "They were joking about the nudity, right?"
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Ahahaha. Poor, unsuspecting people. :]
I also love:
@jduff816: overheard at "Promises, Promises": "that girl (Kristen Chenoweth) went from Glee to Broadway! good for her!"
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Comment by Helena Marie Woods on August 24, 2010 at 11:53pm -
Finnigans Island xD hahaha this is funny
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Comment by Tamra Sheehan on August 2, 2010 at 3:09pm -
i forgot to submit in time since it is now monday but at Tarzan once i heard someone telling a friend they could go use the bathroom during halftime... yep that's the funniest i have heard :D
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Comment by Josh T. on July 31, 2010 at 11:42am -
Years back, before I was even born, my parents saw Phantom of the Opera, at intermission they heard a woman say "There sure is a lot of singin' in this show."
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Comment by Kimmy on July 30, 2010 at 3:48pm -
One time at Spring Awakening Skylar Astin gave me a prop from the show while sitting on-stage. My cousin yelled at the stage door "It was like a drug deal, I feel like he was actually giving you drugs!"
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