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Post by hadeswasking on Oct 21, 2022 23:36:20 GMT
My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican the other week:
People who bought dayseats next to me thought it was going to be the film with a live orchestra. Watching their amazement during the first act was fascinating.
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Post by digne on Oct 25, 2022 10:37:31 GMT
I was sitting next to someone who got the ticket as a gift from her father and also thought it was going to be the film with live orchestra - she was so excited when she saw what it was! That has to be the best surprise.
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Post by yokollama on Oct 25, 2022 15:07:29 GMT
Wasn't overheard at the theatre, but coincidental as I was on the train after seeing Cursed Child: Isn't Meghan Markle the one who died in Harry Potter? The one in the bathroom?
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Post by frappuccino on Oct 26, 2022 2:22:49 GMT
Wasn't overheard at the theatre, but coincidental as I was on the train after seeing Cursed Child: Isn't Meghan Markle the one who died in Harry Potter? The one in the bathroom? Hahaha!! Omg...moaning myrtle! Was the person who said it very young/old? |
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Post by deej4life on Oct 28, 2022 6:25:46 GMT
At my first time seeing Wicked in Dublin in 2013, a man in front of me was discussing how "Idina must be off today".
I loved the idea that Idina has been performing as Elphaba non-stop across multiple continents since 2003!
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Post by inthenose on Oct 28, 2022 12:58:43 GMT
At my first time seeing Wicked in Dublin in 2013, a man in front of me was discussing how "Idina must be off today". I loved the idea that Idina has been performing as Elphaba non-stop across multiple continents since 2003! I heard similar at Phantom in 2001 - “I thought Michael Crawford was in this” |
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Post by yokollama on Oct 29, 2022 21:08:06 GMT
Wasn't overheard at the theatre, but coincidental as I was on the train after seeing Cursed Child: Isn't Meghan Markle the one who died in Harry Potter? The one in the bathroom? Hahaha!! Omg...moaning myrtle! Was the person who said it very young/old? Another thing I learned about them that night is that their mother is 16 years older, which would put them in their 20s. I almost choked on my drink. |
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Post by musicbox on Oct 29, 2022 23:22:44 GMT
At the Joseph tour in Edinburgh on Wednesday night -
Alexandra Burke - Literally walks onto the stage before saying or singing a word in the beginning seconds of the show
Woman in front of me - “She's a bit full of herself isn't she?”
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 30, 2022 6:19:15 GMT
On entering the Olivier theatre for the Crucible and the wonderful set with the sky raining a man announced quite loudly ‘that’s not real rain’. Was met with quite a few giggles from those near
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Post by marob on Oct 30, 2022 9:47:46 GMT
That reminds me of being in the Lyttleton at the end of Network, when they showed the various presidents in order up to today. Obama got loud cheers, Trump got even louder boos, then one man shouted ‘you’re a moron’ at the screen. I just sat there quietly, ‘cause it’s a video. 🤷🏻♂️
Stretching it a bit with this, as it wasn’t in a theatre, but when I was killing time before Mrs Doubtfire, wandering around the Arndale Centre. In WH Smith there was a young couple agonising over which books to buy. They weren’t interested in the content, just which ones would go with the coffee table. I know they’re called ‘coffee table books’ but still, never realised people actually bought them to just sit there.
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Post by longinthetooth on Nov 23, 2022 20:28:42 GMT
At From Here to Eternity this afternoon - on seeing a palm tree just inside the door of the auditorium, the lady next to me asked her friend, "I wonder where it's set? Must be somewhere in South America with that palm tree"!
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Post by theatreliker on Nov 25, 2022 19:56:09 GMT
Walking to the theatre last night there was a guy (presumably a producer) on the phone saying 'I think this show is good enough for an 8 week run at the Ambassadors'. Aim high.
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Post by Jon on Nov 25, 2022 21:07:56 GMT
Walking to the theatre last night there was a guy (presumably a producer) on the phone saying 'I think this show is good enough for an 8 week run at the Ambassadors'. Aim high. I wonder what show they were talking about. |
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Post by david on Nov 26, 2022 21:13:20 GMT
At the start of Act 2 at tonight's performance of A Christmas Carol at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, one cast member says to the audience "I'm so glad you've all come back", with one lady in the audience replying - "We had to. They have locked the doors".
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Post by kyvai on Nov 29, 2022 8:07:36 GMT
Cute one for something different.
At Wicked this week at the start of the interval, I saw a very young little boy with his Dad getting up from their seats. He was 4 at the most. And he said in the cutest voice ever, “wow Daddy, that chapter was LONG!!”
He isn’t wrong.
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Post by hadeswasking on Dec 2, 2022 1:45:27 GMT
During the applause Lisa Lambe recieved a "Brava!" from a gentleman in the audience tonight after her big solo in Act 2 of Hex.
First time I've ever heard that in the theatre. It was very cute and well deserved though. That voice is breathtaking.
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Post by dm913 on Dec 16, 2022 0:04:36 GMT
Overheard at Wicked from some visitors across the pond:
"I like seeing understudies because they never get to go on"
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Post by Dr Tom on Jan 23, 2023 21:59:38 GMT
“I was more entertained by looking at your face”
One woman giving her verdict of Dirty Dancing to her friend tonight.
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 18, 2023 18:46:24 GMT
"This is really hard to follow, I thought they'd just be singing songs like when we saw Mamma Mia."
Woman in the row behind at the interval of Jersey Boys today.
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 25, 2023 15:49:22 GMT
“Wow, there’s actually a movie called Heathers!”
Overheard about a minute ago. I won’t say what show I’m at the interval of!
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Post by alece10 on Feb 25, 2023 16:04:05 GMT
“Wow, there’s actually a movie called Heathers!” Overheard about a minute ago. I won’t say what show I’m at the interval of! Mind you, in all fairness, I hadn't heard of the film Heathers either. |
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Post by richey on Mar 2, 2023 21:08:18 GMT
Just overheard in the queue for the ladies during the interval at Oklahoma
"Of course, I saw the original with Hugh whatsisname Jackson..and Maureen Lipman playing the old woman"
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Post by Dr Tom on Jun 19, 2023 18:27:28 GMT
“No, this is a play”
Overheard reply from the chap staffing the merchandise stand at Patriots just now. Wish I’d heard the previous line!
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Post by theatreian on Jun 19, 2023 21:40:23 GMT
Wish I’d heard the previous line! How much is the cd? |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Jun 20, 2023 9:18:04 GMT
"Is it a real Groundhog"? Followed by "If they use real children at Matilda it should be a real Groundhog".
Said several times to several people by a grown woman.
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