Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

From a post at All that Chat explaining the laughter captured in Tony Cenicola's candid photo accompanying the Patricia Cohen's Forget the Ingénues; Cue the Grown-Ups in the New York Times:

Harriet Walter told the group about a patron at Mary Stuart, who was apparently slightly bewildered and hard of hearing. As the show began, he was heard to loudly exclaim, "This isn't Blithe Spirit! Where the hell is Angela Lansbury?"


5 comments:

Sibyl said...

Used to work at San Diego's Old Globe Theater; during matinees (heavily patronized by the older crowd) stuff like that used to happen a LOT. Once during the murder scene in Othello a lady in her eighties shouted out, "Oh Mary! What's he gonna do?" We quoted that for years afterward.

Roxie said...

Ha! That's great - I think I'm going to yell that out at every show I see now...hahaa

Steve On Broadway (SOB) said...

Love it. And Sibyl's story's great, too.

chelsea said...

Roxie - Do you think Helen Mirren will be amused if you yell that at Phedre in September?

Roxie said...

Hahaa...she will love it! (I won't be laughing when some bad ass house manager kicks me the hell out...)