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Post by mosiemo on Sept 22, 2017 9:19:59 GMT
A few years back watching Spamalot, two couples in their 70's sit in the row behind us, one of the men in a loud voice says 'of course I last saw Camelot with Burton years ago, so I'm intrigued by this updated production'. At the interval he said 'well, this is quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever seen......isn't it fun?'
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Post by Dawnstar on Sept 22, 2017 20:06:15 GMT
Audible gasps of shock tonight from more than one (adult) person tonight at The Phantom of the Opera, when the Phantom is "revealed" to be impersonating Piangi at the end of "Point of No Return". The fact that he'd lost at least five stone, grown 6 inches in height and sounded nothing like the actor playing Piangi obviously flew past their heads. I can never understand why Piangi is costumed in that massive padded doublet in Point of No Return, therefore making it incredibly obvious as soon as the Phantom appears that it's not the same man under the cloak. It makes Christine look like a total idiot for not realising for several minutes that it's the Phantom. |
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Post by ctas on Sept 22, 2017 20:22:48 GMT
Interval of Cabaret in the previous tour I heard someone muse out loud, "I'm not sure where they're going with the plot about the old Jewish man." Awkward.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 22, 2017 20:26:27 GMT
'I overheard someone saying I used to go to school with a Timberlake Wertenbaker, I wonder if it is the same one?. And they say theatre attracts an educated audience'
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Post by Jon on Sept 22, 2017 20:49:10 GMT
If we're going with wrong theatre stories, first time I saw Wicked there was a kerfuffle over a couple sat in someone's seats. They were adamant they had the right ones and it turned out they did...just in the wrong theatre. They should have been in the opera at Covent Garden. You'd think the marquee blazened with the name of the show would be the obvious clue. Do people not check their tickets which usually has the address of the theatre and even if they don't, a quick map search will do it. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 23, 2017 18:01:20 GMT
NT production of Angels in America. After the scene with Louis and Prior on the bench in Millennium Approaches the older woman behind me "whispered" to her husband: "I think they're gay!"
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 24, 2017 10:44:46 GMT
I remember being in the foyer of the New London when a couple walked in past all the Cats logos on the outside of the theatre, all the Cats signs on the doors, all the Cats posters in the foyer showing people dressed as cats, up to the box office desk with its Cats banner, to ask if this was where Miss Saigon was playing. I can only assume that they thought Miss Saigon had a heavy feline element and the show wanted to push it to bring in the cat lovers. Miss Saimese |
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Post by Backdrifter on Sept 29, 2017 13:37:02 GMT
Two pursed-lipped women behind us at the Patrick Stewart Macbeth a few years ago, before curtain up. "This is the sort of thing he should be doing, not all that sci-fi and fantasy nonsense." As opposed to, of course, what he chooses to do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 14:45:54 GMT
Daughter mid-20s with her Mother sat in the Circle of Palace Manchester earlier this week discussing shows they'd seen before. Mother brings the subject of "Les Misrables" (pronounces phonetically)...
Daughter "Was that the one Ben Forester was in off of the tv?"
Mother "Oh I don't remember, I switched off, it was all too doom and gloom for me"
Daughter "Well it is supposed to be like that, Its about war and stuff"
Mother "Well they all need to cheer up if you ask me".
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 29, 2017 14:47:55 GMT
^^ sounds like Preacher Man would be more to her taste.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 14:50:35 GMT
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Post by Jon on Sept 29, 2017 15:19:43 GMT
Good thing Patrick Stewart wasn't snobby when it came to doing The Emoji Movie! |
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Post by loureviews on Sept 29, 2017 17:42:24 GMT
Two pursed-lipped women behind us at the Patrick Stewart Macbeth a few years ago, before curtain up. "This is the sort of thing he should be doing, not all that sci-fi and fantasy nonsense." As opposed to, of course, what he chooses to do. Well given his latest gig was voicing a poo emoji he might want to take some advice! |
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Post by stuartmcd on Sept 29, 2017 19:37:04 GMT
The fact that people end up at the wrong theatre is funny enough but how on earth do they get past the theatre staff!?! Clearly the staff are paying as little attention to the tickets as the theatregoers are
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Post by longinthetooth on Sept 29, 2017 21:22:38 GMT
Woman to her friends at the Light Princess at the National:
"I'm so sorry, I had no idea it was a musical. I knew I should have booked Henry V."
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Post by sf on Sept 29, 2017 21:37:30 GMT
At the London Musical Theatre Orchestra concert of 'Candide' at Cadogan Hall in July, this gem from the gentleman sitting directly behind me:
"He always books the cheapest seats. I don't know what he thinks he's saving his money for, life expectancy in his family is generally quite short."
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Post by sondheimhats on Sept 30, 2017 6:23:28 GMT
This isn't quite "overheard," but rather a funny encounter with a stranger. It was during the interval of Bright Star on Broadway
**CONTAINS SPOILERS**, for those of you who may be visiting the states and planning to see one of the post-Broadway productions
At the end of act 1, a man throws a bag off a train, knowing that the bag contains a live human baby.
At the interval, a seemingly inebriated man addressed me out of the blue in the queue for the toilet, telling me "if you ever write a musical, don't end the first act with someone throwing a baby off a train, because now it's already been done."
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Post by Backdrifter on Oct 1, 2017 9:38:47 GMT
Two pursed-lipped women behind us at the Patrick Stewart Macbeth a few years ago, before curtain up. "This is the sort of thing he should be doing, not all that sci-fi and fantasy nonsense." As opposed to, of course, what he chooses to do. Well given his latest gig was voicing a poo emoji he might want to take some advice! Ha ha ha! His voice is going so maybe less theatre and more crappy but high-paying film roles ( jobs in this case?) is the way forward for him. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Feb 17, 2018 20:46:10 GMT
I won a contest when the Phantom movie came out and got two free tickets to see it about a week before its release. A guy in front of us said to his girlfriend, "I hope this isn't, like, a musical or something."
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Post by itsemily on Feb 17, 2018 21:55:54 GMT
This was a few years ago now, whilst in the queue for the toilets during the interval of Jersey Boys I heard someone say quite seriously something along the lines of; 'The Four Seasons look really good for their age don't they' to which the person they were with replied with something like 'they're actors not the real people' to which the first person replied with 'are you sure? I think your wrong'
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2018 0:07:30 GMT
Quite some time ago I saw a production of Pygmalion (I think it might have been at The National) and an American woman behind me said "That was very good, but whatever did they do with all those cute little songs?" I'm pretty sure it was a genuine question.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 16:42:29 GMT
How many times have we heard a couple of patrons watching a play with a well known performer in it debating what they have seen them in or what they are best know for. "He/She used to be in that series we watched with the guy who was in whatever"
Having watched the new John Cleese/Alison Steadman sitcom which Peter Egan co stars in. I could imagine a lot of theatre goers having that conversation about someone like Peter who has had a long and varied career but isn't quite a household name.
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Post by robertb213 on Feb 19, 2018 18:55:29 GMT
Did anyone else have people near them at The Woman In White saying how it wasn't 'as scary as the first one' and asking 'why have they made this one a musical'? Yes, some people really did think that it was a sequel to The Woman In Black 😕
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Post by daisy24601 on Feb 19, 2018 20:37:22 GMT
A cute exchange I heard between two young girls at Wicked in the interval:
"I want to do this when I grow up."
"It's called acting."
"I know, but they do it every day!"
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Post by loureviews on Feb 20, 2018 17:44:43 GMT
Two pursed-lipped women behind us at the Patrick Stewart Macbeth a few years ago, before curtain up. "This is the sort of thing he should be doing, not all that sci-fi and fantasy nonsense." As opposed to, of course, what he chooses to do. Indeed - if Sir Pat wants to play a poo emoji, who are we to judge ...?!  |
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