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Post by aingidh on Mar 14, 2022 8:29:56 GMT
At Frozen a few weeks ago, a dad behind me said to his kids
"I think Anna's in love with Elsa"
Made my friends and I giggle a bit.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 14, 2022 11:50:16 GMT
At Frozen a few weeks ago, a dad behind me said to his kids "I think Anna's in love with Elsa" Made my friends and I giggle a bit. Based on the recent posts he should take them to see Wicked next!
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Post by theatremiss on Mar 14, 2022 22:23:13 GMT
Walking away from the Les Mis tour, which has Katie Hall as Fantine. Two women behind me said “she was OK but Susan Boyle sang it better”. I can only assume they meant Boyle was better than Hall singing I Dreamed a Dream.
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Post by Peter on Mar 14, 2022 22:38:33 GMT
UK tour of Sunset Boulevard in Bristol - the lights go down, the orchestra strikes up . . . and the man sitting in front of us turns to his wife and loudly complains “oh god, you didn’t tell me it was a musical!!” (I assume he wasn’t won over as they disappeared during the interval and never returned)
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Post by longinthetooth on Mar 14, 2022 22:53:47 GMT
UK tour of Sunset Boulevard in Bristol - the lights go down, the orchestra strikes up . . . and the man sitting in front of us turns to his wife and loudly complains “oh god, you didn’t tell me it was a musical!!” (I assume he wasn’t won over as they disappeared during the interval and never returned) That reminds me of an incident at the National, a musical (the name of which escapes me). Posh lady saying to her friends, "I'm so sorry, I had no idea it was a musical. I knew I should have booked for Henry V" !!
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Post by marob on Mar 14, 2022 23:44:42 GMT
It’s so odd how often you overhear people who don’t have any idea what they’re going to see, and don’t even seem to discus it until they’re in the seat waiting for it to start.
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Post by Jon on Mar 15, 2022 0:02:04 GMT
It’s so odd how often you overhear people who don’t have any idea what they’re going to see, and don’t even seem to discus it until they’re in the seat waiting for it to start. I know, don't these people do any research or read up on stuff they're going to see? I do even if it's something I'm familiar with.
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Post by Peter on Mar 15, 2022 0:26:30 GMT
It’s so odd how often you overhear people who don’t have any idea what they’re going to see, and don’t even seem to discus it until they’re in the seat waiting for it to start. And in this case, completely missed the sound of the orchestra tuning up for a good while before it started! I do recall that he was a bit flushed in the face and slightly over-loud, so assume he may also have been a little ‘tired and emotional’…
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 15, 2022 7:16:26 GMT
It’s so odd how often you overhear people who don’t have any idea what they’re going to see, and don’t even seem to discus it until they’re in the seat waiting for it to start. My friends do it all the time and after 20 odd years it still grates on me. On the plus side I book for the things I want to see
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Mar 15, 2022 10:57:59 GMT
Honestly, I get invited to so much theatre I sometimes don’t even know the name of what I’m going to see when I sit down.
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Post by bimse on Mar 15, 2022 14:38:26 GMT
Coming out of a performance of Piaf, a few years ago, I overheard someone ask the people he was with “so which one was Piaf then?”
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 15, 2022 16:31:45 GMT
One of the women in front of me at Rags (who commented on things to each other all the way through) asked an usher at the interval on her way out "is this the interval?" I assume she meant it in the sense of "...or is it over?" When I first started going to the theater, I used to worry about this. Then it dawned on me there's no curtain call at the interval. (There have honestly been times that's the only way I could tell...)
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Post by grannyjx6 on Mar 15, 2022 22:27:47 GMT
Walking away from the Les Mis tour, which has Katie Hall as Fantine. Two women behind me said “she was OK but Susan Boyle sang it better”. I can only assume they meant Boyle was better than Hall singing I Dreamed a Dream. I actually heard the same thing (loudly) in the theatre in Manchester, whilst Fantine was singing I dreamed a dream (just after Susan Boyle was in Britain’s Got Talent).
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Post by inthenose on Mar 15, 2022 22:37:35 GMT
I've heard one couple talking about the "next showing" of Les Mis and how they wish they caught a later one because they ran out of time at the pub. (It was an evening performance).
Later on, at the interval, the same couple (two seats down from me) asked an usher if they could leave now and watch the second half "in about an hour".
Everyone around was laughing to be fair - they didn't understand why. They left after an expensive ice cream each before the lights went down - and didn't come back.
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Post by Jon on Mar 16, 2022 1:39:13 GMT
I've heard one couple talking about the "next showing" of Les Mis and how they wish they caught a later one because they ran out of time at the pub. (It was an evening performance). Later on, at the interval, the same couple (two seats down from me) asked an usher if they could leave now and watch the second half "in about an hour". Everyone around was laughing to be fair - they didn't understand why. They left after an expensive ice cream each before the lights went down - and didn't come back. I hope someone explained it's a live performance and not a film.
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Post by inthenose on Mar 16, 2022 4:19:58 GMT
I've heard one couple talking about the "next showing" of Les Mis and how they wish they caught a later one because they ran out of time at the pub. (It was an evening performance). Later on, at the interval, the same couple (two seats down from me) asked an usher if they could leave now and watch the second half "in about an hour". Everyone around was laughing to be fair - they didn't understand why. They left after an expensive ice cream each before the lights went down - and didn't come back. I hope someone explained it's a live performance and not a film. I am adverse to getting my head caved in, so I wasn't going to volunteer!
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Post by bimse on Mar 16, 2022 8:43:00 GMT
Overheard, about theatre, on a train from Manchester to Leeds, during 2021. I was sitting near a group of students , a young man and three girls. The young man informed the others that on arrival in Leeds they were going to a matinee at the theatre , which starts at 2.30. (I wondered to myself why they hadn’t got an earlier train, as the train was due to arrive in Leeds at 2.15, and that would mean a rush over to the Grand Theatre). One of the girls enquired what they’d be seeing . The young man replied “a musical”. “Oh lovely , will there be songs? What is it called?” “Yes, and It’s called “Waitress” Silence , while that information was processed, followed by … “What’s it about?” “A Waitress” More silence , then …. “Will we have time to grab a burger first?” “Oh yes, bags of time” I got the distinct impression that there wasn’t much interest in the theatre visit, and their arrival for curtain up (if at all) was not guaranteed.
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Post by jojo on Mar 19, 2022 11:42:51 GMT
It won't help that cinemas have advertised start times that actually mean the start of twenty minutes of adverts and trailers, and the tickets for a lot of pop and rock music concerts tell you when the doors open, but not when the support acts starts (never mind the headline). Music venues in particular seem hesitant to let you know when the bit you are paying for starts, because they want you to come early enough to make at least a couple of trips to the bar.
I recently saw a very well intentioned person on social media alerting friends that a particular production started 'sharp' at 7:35pm with almost no messing about. They had been under the impression that 7:30pm was when doors opened.
I understand theatres are wary of giving precise timings, especially for new productions, but if at all possible I appreciate it when they advertise the usual times start and end times for each half (and length of interval).
Some theatres seem to have abandoned the bell to alert people the interval is coming to an end and a couple of times lately we've just made it back to our seats as the house lights went down again, because one of us interrupted the conversation to say 'surely the interval must be almost over, shall we just head back now?'
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Post by Dr Tom on Mar 21, 2022 22:52:50 GMT
“It’s really small” - not what you want to hear from men gathered around when you’re using the urinal at the New Wimbledon Theatre!
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Post by katykate on Mar 22, 2022 8:59:21 GMT
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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 22, 2022 22:31:58 GMT
Intervals can be tricky things — a friend and I got caught out by Coppélia having two of them. We were a bit upset that they'd stopped selling ice creams when we came back to the loo and said to each other we thought it seemed a very short break. Still, all's well that ends well, we had our ice cream in the second one!
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Post by Dr Tom on Aug 3, 2022 19:52:10 GMT
“Didn’t want to book flights this year as they get cancelled, so asked my daughter what she wanted to do instead. She asked to visit the world’s biggest Primark, so we’re going for a night in Birmingham.”
Audience member at Sister Act (also rather enthusiastic).
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Post by crabtree on Aug 4, 2022 8:19:49 GMT
I think i posted this years ago, but it still makes me laugh. A mother and daughter next to me at the RSC Merry Wives musical, got up and left complaining loudly that they'd booked expecting Simon Cowell as a singing Falstaff....not Simon Callow. But there's an image to deal with.
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Post by bimse on Aug 4, 2022 18:05:42 GMT
I think i posted this years ago, but it still makes me laugh. A mother and daughter next to me at the RSC Merry Wives musical, got up and left complaining loudly that they'd booked expecting Simon Cowell as a singing Falstaff....not Simon Callow. But there's an image to deal with. Love it ! I’ve posted before that my elderly auntie and friend went to see the superb veteran performer Ronne Coyles in Morecambe , thinking they were seeing Ronnie Corbett . My auntie complained bitterly for years after, saying they’d been “done” and he didn’t even look or sound like Ronnie Corbett , in fact she was sure it wasn’t Ronnie Corbett, and they should have demanded their money back .
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Post by inthenose on Aug 4, 2022 18:18:26 GMT
Another one from the Wicked dayseat queue…
“I really hated Idina, Kerry is so much better. I think Kerry is the best performer ever in musicals”…
later on, same person…
“this is my first ever musical, but I’ve got the CD and my friend says Kerry is amazing and much better than Idina”.
later on, same person…
“My friend said Idina didn’t remember her (from stagedooring a few days prior) when she was signing her programme but Kerry did, so she prefers her because they are better friends”.
I had to bite my lip, sip my extra strong Starbucks Americano from the station opposite, and plug my headphones in before my head exploded.
Edit: I’m pretty sure there was no friend
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Post by emsworthian on Aug 18, 2022 8:20:13 GMT
Overheard at Chichester Theatre during the interval of "Crazy for You": Woman to friend: "Rather than musicals set in America, I prefer to see musicals set in England, like "Phantom of the Opera"."
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 22, 2022 10:36:15 GMT
Overheard at Chichester Theatre during the interval of "Crazy for You": Woman to friend: "Rather than musicals set in America, I prefer to see musicals set in England, like "Phantom of the Opera"." Or Les Miserables, I assume?
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Post by LaLuPone on Aug 22, 2022 10:45:56 GMT
At the final Waitress show on Saturday, two ladies, presumably talking about Chelsea Halfpenny. 1: I think I’ve seen her before? 2: In Corrie (obviously it was Emmerdale she was in but easily mixed up) 1: Oh yes. She’s changed her accent… Well yes I don’t think a Geordie Jenna would quite work! Then at Frozen yesterday, as the opening chords of Let it Go began, a five year old girl said in the most deadpan voice I’ve ever heard “I hate this song.”
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Post by emsworthian on Aug 22, 2022 11:31:09 GMT
Overheard at Chichester Theatre during the interval of "Crazy for You": Woman to friend: "Rather than musicals set in America, I prefer to see musicals set in England, like "Phantom of the Opera"." Or Les Miserables, I assume? I don't get people who go to see an American musical and then complain about it being "too American". Some years back I heard someone voice this complaint, again at Chi, during the interval of "Guys and Dolls." I felt like saying: "The clue is in the title. It's "Guys and Dolls", not "Blokes and Birds"."
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Post by sfsusan on Aug 22, 2022 15:26:13 GMT
I felt like saying: "The clue is in the title. It's "Guys and Dolls", not "Blokes and Birds"." I wonder if someone could do a Peaky Blinders-era rewrite. Or the Kray twins. (Boy, that would be creepy....)
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