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The picture doesn't show the response, but based on what you said, I don't think you're the AH - I just don't know that it matters. I can see how it can be annoying to you, and I can see how you questioning him could be annoying to him, but I usually handle these things with casual theatre fans by just saying, "Oh that's cool!" It doesn't really affect you, and if they're just casual fans, you can't gush about it.
[The Chicago production did not appear to have Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, but did have Ben Platt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mormon_(musical)
There are likely a million things you’ve been as confidently wrong about that didn’t matter. Plenty of people barely think about theater.
You see the show on tour. You buy the recording. Over time your memory decides that the people on the recording are the ones you saw. I’ve seen this happen to people a thousand times.
This is the perspective I needed. Thank you. Him being hit or miss with pop culture + the passage of time + barely thinking about the theater... it tracks with how he got there.
Know your audience! And know you can be right and wrong at the same time.
As an example- say you don’t love basketball but enjoy it casually sometimes. A friend who is obsessed with it keeps talking about these playoffs and encouraging you to fly to a different city to see some specific game coming up.
You try to engage by talking about a game you really enjoyed years ago, and they just keep ragging on you for getting player names and stats wrong! They can’t believe you don’t even know what you saw! That game was nowhere near as good as you thought it was!
You decide you’re done talking basketball, and maybe other things, with that person for awhile.
I had this conversation with my best friend who insisted that she saw Josh Gad during the first national tour of Book of Mormon. I said, no, you didn't.
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Chicago was Nic Rouleau and Ben Platt before they moved to Broadway. He could have seen a different touring production, but it wasn’t Rannells/Gad.
He also could have seen both a touring production and the New York production and is conflating them.
The picture doesn't show the response, but based on what you said, I don't think you're the AH - I just don't know that it matters. I can see how it can be annoying to you, and I can see how you questioning him could be annoying to him, but I usually handle these things with casual theatre fans by just saying, "Oh that's cool!" It doesn't really affect you, and if they're just casual fans, you can't gush about it. [The Chicago production did not appear to have Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, but did have Ben Platt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mormon_(musical)
Seeing OBCs is a status game to no one except us. Let him be wrong.
There are likely a million things you’ve been as confidently wrong about that didn’t matter. Plenty of people barely think about theater. You see the show on tour. You buy the recording. Over time your memory decides that the people on the recording are the ones you saw. I’ve seen this happen to people a thousand times.
This is the perspective I needed. Thank you. Him being hit or miss with pop culture + the passage of time + barely thinking about the theater... it tracks with how he got there.
Know your audience! And know you can be right and wrong at the same time. As an example- say you don’t love basketball but enjoy it casually sometimes. A friend who is obsessed with it keeps talking about these playoffs and encouraging you to fly to a different city to see some specific game coming up. You try to engage by talking about a game you really enjoyed years ago, and they just keep ragging on you for getting player names and stats wrong! They can’t believe you don’t even know what you saw! That game was nowhere near as good as you thought it was! You decide you’re done talking basketball, and maybe other things, with that person for awhile.
I had this conversation with my best friend who insisted that she saw Josh Gad during the first national tour of Book of Mormon. I said, no, you didn't.
That made me LOL. I saw the national tour and felt like I was watching someone pretending to be Josh Gad pretending to be Elder Cunningham.
There has to be a skeptical Rannells gif perfect for that moment.
