Teen girl: Yeah, Rent isn’t my life or anything. It’s just, I have nothing else to do when I get my paycheck, y’know?
–Nederlander Theatre
Man recapping Cavalleria Rusticana on cell: Yes, and then this guy came on stage singing about his horses. Man, was he a twat!
–Metropolitan Opera House
Overheard by: amalthya
Dude: Katie is always saying stuff like, ‘If you shoot for the moon and miss you will still be part of the stars,’ or some shit like that. I just tell her, ‘Enough of your success-ories! You are too musical theater for me. You even do jazz hands all the time!’
–N 10th & Bedford Ave
Spoiled nine-year-old wearing Seven jeans: My favorite part was when Kevin Kline took off his pants!
—King Lear, public theater
Tourist girl to friend, looking at hall of fame pictures on wall: Leo-nard… Bern-stein… Oh, that’s the guy who wrote The Berenstain Bears.
–Gershwin Theatre
Overheard by: edwardDB
Lady, after Spring Awakening: All I got from that was, ‘Don’t have sex with a cute boy or you’ll die.’
–Eugene O’Neill Theatre
Overheard by: Elizabeth
