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Post by lynette on Apr 7, 2018 22:21:15 GMT
😂😂😂
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 9, 2018 19:46:10 GMT
I thought they had been given new urinals and tiling in the gents? Certainly stank a lot less last time I went than before - and I do remember the time before that signs explaining they were being done up.* *There may also have been signs up "Wet Paint (this is not an instruction)," but I digress. I think we need some sort of automatic reply system on this board that posts a reply saying "Filth!" after all of @theatremonkey 's posts! |
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Post by Dr Tom on Apr 12, 2018 8:30:58 GMT
Sunset Boulevard last year, set of regular theatre goes talking about all the different productions of the show they've seen.
One had been to a previous production with the band on stage (may have been actor-musician), sat in the front row. The actor playing Joe Gillis was off, the replacement was older and had lost his hair, the fan couldn't get into the show like that and promptly fell asleep for half an hour in full view of the cast.
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Post by lou105 on Apr 12, 2018 8:36:44 GMT
The baby in The Ferryman was very cute yesterday afternoon- grinning at the audience, playing with its foot when lying on the floor, very active. After its third appearance, with lots of cooing noises from the mainly elderly matinee audience, a voice in the third row asked "Do you think that's a real baby?"
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Post by longinthetooth on May 9, 2018 19:12:34 GMT
I've just remembered this thread!
The award for Greatest Deduction goes to the lady who wondered, "if the right stalls are here, and the left stalls are over there, then the centre stalls must be in the middle ...."
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Post by MrsCondomine on May 10, 2018 7:59:03 GMT
My absolute favourite (so far) was at Don Juan in Soho... little Australian lady who looked like a librarian, talking to someone she'd cornered at the interval: "Yes isn't it good! I've seen it three times, I've got another 8 times."
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I mean, I enjoyed the show, but once was enough.
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Post by dramallama on May 16, 2018 21:34:01 GMT
During the interval, the woman behind me turns to her friend and says, 'I wonder how he learns all those lines. There's just so many!' The friend, completely dead-pan just says 'Well, he /is/ an actor.'
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Post by mistressjojo on May 17, 2018 0:15:12 GMT
My absolute favourite (so far) was at Don Juan in Soho... little Australian lady who looked like a librarian, talking to someone she'd cornered at the interval: "Yes isn't it good! I've seen it three times, I've got another 8 times." !!! I mean, I enjoyed the show, but once was enough. I would just like to say that this wasn't me! I'm not little, and I don't *think* I look like a librarian. (I'm not commenting on the number of times I saw the show.) |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 8:38:12 GMT
'Mega-fans' at Hamilton broadcasting their (apparent) all encompassing LMM knowledge pre-show a few weeks back:
"Well he wrote and was in 'In The Heights' too but it only played off-broadway so no-one got to see it here"....
urrmmmm open your programme and you'll see some of the Ham cast, including some principals, were in the London production a couple of years ago. Ejit.
Whilst someone else wildly over-exaggerates trying impress their friend with Hamilton 'trivia'... "They had to delay the opening because... *forgets why*... so there were like fights, over tickets, because they didn't open on time, people were fighting because their tickets had to be cancelled". Blatantly not true. Needless to say the friend remained nonchalant.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2018 19:06:46 GMT
I've just remembered this thread! The award for Greatest Deduction goes to the lady who wondered, "if the right stalls are here, and the left stalls are over there, then the centre stalls must be in the middle ...." The Basil Fawlty quote "Name Sybil Fawlty. Specialist subject stating the bleeding obvious!". |
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Post by lynette on May 20, 2018 19:49:37 GMT
I've just remembered this thread! The award for Greatest Deduction goes to the lady who wondered, "if the right stalls are here, and the left stalls are over there, then the centre stalls must be in the middle ...." The Basil Fawlty quote "Name Sybil Fawlty. Specialist subject stating the bleeding obvious!". The Sybil Fawlty quote is my favourite put down and has had me teetered on the verge of divorce....well nearly. 😂 |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 21, 2018 12:13:34 GMT
The Basil Fawlty quote "Name Sybil Fawlty. Specialist subject stating the bleeding obvious!". The Sybil Fawlty quote is my favourite put down and has had me teetered on the verge of divorce....well nearly. 😂 My favourite is “Pretentious? Moi?” followed by that cackle. 😆 |
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Post by CG on the loose on Jun 7, 2018 7:56:38 GMT
“I’m not hating it but where are the jazz hands?”
At Titanic...
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Post by musicallady on Jun 7, 2018 15:27:23 GMT
A few years ago I took a friend to see Northern Ballets Dracula at Bradford where my brother was conducting.
At the interval my friend stood up and in a loud voice said “I had no idea Dracula was a vampire.”
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 15:38:21 GMT
When I saw JCS a month ago, the person next to me said "oh, wait, so Jesus dies?".
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 16:35:48 GMT
When I saw JCS a month ago, the person next to me said "oh, wait, so Jesus dies?". Ummmmm . . .  |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 7, 2018 17:15:07 GMT
At Stewart Lee's recent show at the Southbank Centre, somebody had the audacity to heckle him to 'hurry up', Now being that Stewart Lee is know for his laconic, self referential style, deconstructing his own routines, this did not go well. In fact, Stew went into the audience and sought out the punter, ironically extending the bit by a good ten minutes or so.
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Post by Dr Tom on Jun 12, 2018 18:24:24 GMT
“Now social media. If you don’t put it on there, how do people know that you’re there?”
Young Frankenstein, just now, neighbour as she sat down.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 18:55:34 GMT
“Now social media. If you don’t put it on there, how do people know that you’re there?” Young Frankenstein, just now, neighbour as she sat down. Assumedly said just after 'Checking in'. |
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Post by firefingers on Jun 12, 2018 21:32:37 GMT
Other night at Translations at The Nash:
(Person 1 is scanning the cast list in the programme)
Person 2: So who's in it?
Person 1. Umm... no one.
Obviously if they ain't been in Eastenders they ain't no one.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 4:27:38 GMT
I remember hearing a similar thing from a couple of continuous talkers at a panto, about the principal boy:
"Who's she?"
(Checks programme)
"Oh, she's nobody."
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Post by Dr Tom on Jun 13, 2018 6:00:48 GMT
Young Frankenstein yesterday, same girl mentioned above did have a long conversation with her friend about who the only cast member they recognised was.
They eventually resorted to buying a programme to fund out she was in Birds of a Feather.
(not yet heard about cast profiles on production web sites)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 6:15:28 GMT
Other night at Translations at The Nash: (Person 1 is scanning the cast list in the programme) Person 2: So who's in it? Person 1. Umm... no one. Obviously if they ain't been in Eastenders they ain't no one. My mum would always ask, when I’d told her that we’d been to the theatre, “Who was in it?” and I’d always be desperately trying to link someone, anyone that had been in it to something, anything that I thought she might have watched on the telly. On occasions this would lead to conversations like: “Do you remember Fiz’s nut-case boyfriend in Coronation Street?” “No.” ”He used to be a teacher.” ”I don’t remember him...” ”Yes, you do, he kidnapped Rosie.” ”When was that then?” ”Ages ago now, I can’t remember exactly...” “Who did he play then? One of the main parts?” ”No.” Sometimes I had to resort to “No-one.”  |
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Post by alece10 on Jun 13, 2018 7:01:20 GMT
Other night at Translations at The Nash: (Person 1 is scanning the cast list in the programme) Person 2: So who's in it? Person 1. Umm... no one. Obviously if they ain't been in Eastenders they ain't no one. My mum would always ask, when I’d told her that we’d been to the theatre, “Who was in it?” and I’d always be desperately trying to link someone, anyone that had been in it to something, anything that I thought she might have watched on the telly. On occasions this would lead to conversations like: “Do you remember Fiz’s nut-case boyfriend in Coronation Street?” “No.” ”He used to be a teacher.” ”I don’t remember him...” ”Yes, you do, he kidnapped Rosie.” ”When was that then?” ”Ages ago now, I can’t remember exactly...” “Who did he play then? One of the main parts?” ”No.” Sometimes I had to resort to “No-one.” My non theatre friends always ask the same question and unless the actor is off the telly I just say "no one you would have heard of" and I'm sure they then feel sorry for me thinking that the show must have been a bit rubbish. Or iF you tell them the actors in the show they say "so no one famous then " |
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Post by wickedgrin on Jun 13, 2018 8:23:51 GMT
I can't quite believe I heard this the other evening but I did!
On my up the stairs at the Savoy after a return visit to Dreamgirls a woman turned to her husband(?) and said "Her voice was incredible, (Marisha) I don't know how she does that every night".
Husband. "She doesn't, there are three of them"
Wife. "Oh that makes sense, having some nights off"
Husband. " No, we saw all three of them, they each do different songs each night"!!!!!!!!!!!!
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