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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 19, 2020 2:48:34 GMT
I'll go and see anything, I never look up any info, I want to be surprised.
I haven't watched a movie trailer in about 10 years x
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2020 23:00:26 GMT
Yes, but it is strange to book something you don't know anything about if you aren't particularly open-minded and have certain sorts of shows that you definitely don't like. But the problem is that everyone thinks they are open-minded. |
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Post by sf on Feb 20, 2020 23:24:18 GMT
The woman sitting next to me, to no-one in particular, as we shuffled out of the Palace Theatre in Manchester after a performance of the dismal wonder.land during MIF:
"My brother saw this the other night. He said it was one of the best things he'd ever seen."
[Pause]
"He needs to get out more."
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Post by HereForTheatre on Feb 21, 2020 8:52:48 GMT
Lady at Prince of Egypt last night at the top of her voice as I was going to the bar at the interval
"IT'S CRAP!!!".
I'm so pleased I have her opinion on the show. I mean I and the hundreds of others around never asked for it, but still.
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 21, 2020 10:06:26 GMT
"The atmosphere was like Tonight at the London Palladium"
Elder gentleman leaving Cabaret in Wimbledon earlier this week.
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Feb 21, 2020 19:33:34 GMT
Two classics from behind me at a regional tour of a play: i. After we've sat for over an hour watching, the curtains close, lights go up. Voice from behind: Do you think this is the interval? ii. At the end, some earnest discussion between Persons A and B about how the play's title related to its plot (good question, I thought). Then A says "Well, I enjoyed it, whatever it was" 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?" as opposed to "where are all these people going, aren't they going to miss the songs?" but it made me smile all the same. |
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Post by wburns on Feb 23, 2020 0:17:57 GMT
Lady complaining to an usher at Chicago - "Why is Catherine Zeta Jones not in it anymore? You should have advertised that she was no longer in the show."
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Post by intoanewlife on Feb 23, 2020 21:03:29 GMT
Lady complaining to an usher at Chicago - "Why is Catherine Zeta Jones not in it anymore? You should have advertised that she was no longer in the show." omg |
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 29, 2020 21:17:10 GMT
People sat next to me at The Wedding Singer tonight, presumably on a date.
Him - You should book matinees, then we can go for dinner afterwards.
Her - I hate matinees, feels like you’ve wasted a whole day
Not sure if it will work out.
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Post by Dr Tom on Mar 13, 2022 22:22:59 GMT
"I always end up as a prostitute"
Young lady sat near me at Heather today.
I wasn't listening to the rest of the conversation, but I think she might have been an actor (or acting student).
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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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