"Normal People" Just Don't Understand
"Normal People" Just Don't Understand
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#0"Normal People" Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:22pm
All called my local music store to see if they got the All Shook Up cast recording in today:
Me: Hello, can you tell me if you got the cast recording for "All Shook Up" today?
Girl at FYE: What is a cast recording?
(pause)
Me: The CD from the Original Broadway Cast.
(longer pause)
Girl: OH! A soundtrack.
Me: *sigh* Yeah, I guess.
(She goes to find it. 5 Minutes later...)
Girl: All we have is a bright yellow CD with Elvis songs on it.
Me: Alright, thank you.
Raggy Q poo
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#1re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:30pm
haha- thats funny. I wanna call and see waht happens...I'm an evil little monster 
People like you are the reason I'm on medication.
#2re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:32pmoh dear...lolz
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:46pmI get varied mentalities when I call. I had a lovely 15 minute convo about musicals with a girl I called regarding Piazza and Bee. And then, I get into the horrible, uncomfortable convos with people who don't get musical theatre and never will.
#4re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:47pm
OH MY GOD I KNOW JUST HOW YOU FEEL.
Today in English class...
Me: Wait, you want me to play Thisbe for out Midsummer Night's Dream scene?
Friend: Uh, yeah.
Me: So, I'm a girl, playing a guy, playing a girl. Can you say Victor/Victoria?
Friends: *blinkblink*
Me: Um, yeah...
I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.
#5re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:50pmI had to explain who Ethel Merman is to a gay man. And there's a Mary Martin who works in our office, and nobody sees why that is hysterical.
#6re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:57pm
This is often a problem for me when I'm in LA; I had so much trouble with sales people when I was looking for the Piazza CD
"is it a movie?"
"YES...it's a movie but I'm not looking for the MOVIE."
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Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
#7re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:00pmI really don't get the obsession "we" have of calling the cast recording a cast recording to 'normal people.' It makes things alot faster and easier if you just say I'm looking for the cd of The Light in the Piazza. No offense is made by calling it a soundtrack and you get your point across.
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
#8re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:03pmWhat's sad is that I did say, "The Light in the Piazza....a soundtrack" and there was still confusion! I suppose they really want their workers to be knowledgable about Rock/Pop, and I totally get that, but it's funny to see the confused look in their eyes...
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????
#9re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:13pmI swear, the people at the Borders in the Chicago Loop barely know they have a movie/theatre recordings section. They stick it way in the back, and it's obviously never been in any sort of alphabetical order. Then you ask for something, they look at you like you're an idiot, spend twenty minutes trying to find it, and probably don't have it. Sorry, my vent.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#10re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:16pm
Best Buy online says the store near me doesn't have it...but I'm gonna go anyway and see.
If not, I'll go to a different store.
#11re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 2:31pmI still remember when I called asking for ragtime once, I asked if they had the original Broadway cast recording and she came back and said "yes, we have the... ummm... it says here 1981 film soundtrack. is that what you want?" it makes it twice as confusing for them when there really is an actual "soundtrack"... Updated On: 5/31/05 at 02:31 PM
#12re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 3:59pmMy friend Jael was in school one day watching Fiddler and some kid yelled out "they stole that from Gwen Stefani" so it just shows that normal people know nothing.
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"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#13re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:01pm
"I had to explain who Ethel Merman is to a gay man."
I spit my beverage on the screen upon reading that, Bobby. Thanks a bunch!
#14re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:02pm
"My friend Jael was in school one day watching Fiddler and some kid yelled out "they stole that from Gwen Stefani" so it just shows that normal people know nothing."
Whoa!!!! Next thing you know, there are punks who think Hard Knock Life was originally written by Jay-Z.
#15re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:05pmahhh!!! yes. austin powers in Goldmember was the highlight of Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life"...
#16re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:24pm
"I had to explain who Ethel Merman is to a gay man"
oh dear god.
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:29pm
Idina Menzel was once Adidas Men's Hell.
No joke.
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#18re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:32pmLMAO
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romanov
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/05
#19re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 4:37pmWhoever the gay man is that needed to be told who Ethel Merman was needs to turn in his Old Friend of Dorothy's union card.
#20re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 10:50pmThat Ethel Merman thing is ridiculous.
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gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#21re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:00pm
My god....I hate normal people. Well.....most of them.
I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't know what a cast recording is.
What the puck?!
#22re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 5/31/05 at 11:08pmLast night, I was driving and put in the Company Revival CD -- and my friend asked to put on Light In The Piazza (because she knows I'm obsessed) -- I swear, I gave the biggest smile of my life!
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#23re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:18am
Sadly, I can deal with people who know nothing about Broadway. It's simply not their field of interest. My problem is people who pretend to love and adore Broadway, and then cannot pronounce any names (if they can even remember names) correctly.
That whole cast recording thing. I live on Staten Island. It IS a part of NYC. You would think the stores would carry a good variety of cast recordings. I gave up on trying. Now I just do any Broadway-related shopping in Manhattan. It keeps me sane.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
#24re: 'Normal People' Just Don't Understand
Posted: 6/1/05 at 10:26amYesterday I went to the Virgin Megastore in TIMES SQUARE and asked for "Spelling Bee". First, they didnt know what I was saying, and then when they figured out that it was a musical, they told me their shipment had not come in yet!! WHAT!!! A musical's cd now avalible the day it comes out in TIMES SQUARE!!!!
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