- You know who Kristin Chenoweth and Jonathan Larson are...
- You say "merde" whenever someone says "Macbeth"...
- Words like "intermission," "scrim," and "cue" hold a special place in your vocabulary...
- To you, a facial is a clean pack of baby wipes after a performance...
- You own more stage make-up than regular make-up...
- Even when you're not in your school's production everyone automatically assumes that you are...
- When someone calls a show CD a soundtrack, you immediately snap back that it's an "original cast recording"!
- You work out to Rent music at the gym...
- You can relate anything to a showtune...i.e. someone mentions a shooting and "Cell Block Tango" comes to mind...
- You're more concerned with the Tonys than the Emmys...
- You know what that last one means...
- Your coworkers/classmates, in a moment of pure boredom, ask you what you collect. you reply "Playbills" then you have to explain WHAT a playbill is. idiots.
- When your friends asks "what do you want to do?" You can't just say "I don't know." You have to sing it, a la "little shop".
- You actually sing all your favourite songs in the correct key because it just sounds wrong anyway else.
- When you get in a fight with another MT fan you start naming the randomest shows possible to see who has better knowledge of off- Broadway, off-off-broadway and workshop only shows. You win, of course, with your triumphant declaration "No, Douglas Sills turned down DRS for rehearsal in New Jersey of The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T!" or something of the sort...
- When you have to write a paragraph about the music you like in spanish class, and you raise your hand and say: "Senora, como se dice showtunes en espanol?"
- You know that Gwen Stefani totally gets it.
- When you use part of "La Vie Boheme" as part of your graduation speech.
- When you're out past curfew, your mom calls the theater before any of your friends' houses.
- You get stared at in the street when you and your friend are walking along sharing one iPod and singing Wicked at the top of your voices!
- In your school production you are asked to lead the rehearsals as you know all the songs already and can pick up the dance moves in seconds.
- When your music assessment is to write a review of your favourite album in 500+ words, and you pick a show album. And when you're barely started, it's already 870 words...
- You know exactly how many minutes there are in a year...
- Family friends buy you Broadway soundtracks for your birthday...
- You keep ALL your programs from any show you've seen whether it was on Broadway or a local show with your friends in it...
- You can convince your parents to let you stay home from school and still perform that night in your show.
- When you and a friend got so excited just because it was Broadway week on American Idol...
- You know anything can be fixed with gaff tape, Mortite, sculpt-er-coat, a sharpie, tie-line, a safety pin or enough staples.
- "Practical" and "flat" are nouns.
- You now hate Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz for making Elphie look so bad all these years
- You know all the La Vie Boheme references, who they are, what they mean...
- Your favorite 5 numbered code is 24601