Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
sdgold60
Swing Joined: 12/23/08
#1Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:17amI saw the performance a few weekends ago. I was more than upset at talking through the dialogue and potato chip eating and soda popping during the first act. I complained to the house manager and then to the Shubert Organization. There needs to be an announcement or playbill insert. Movie going audiences do not understand live theater. It ruined the play for me.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:19amThere was soda popping?
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#2Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:19am
I don't know about the cat... but I sure am enjoying it. 
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#3Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:21am
They at least could have eaten raisins.
They are quiet and appropriate.
....but the world goes 'round
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#4Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:12amSweet Brown must have been in the house. Eating and drinking in the theater is accepted nowadays. The greedy producers have vendors hawk snacks during intermission like in the circus, so they are ok with it. It is so wrong, but sadly that is our society now......nobody's got no class.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#5Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:18amThey should sell raisins and Sun Chips at the concession.
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#6Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:18amTheaters now sell Pringles. F*CKING PRINGLES. It's not just this show, it's all of them.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#7Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:29amAmericans can't not eat for more than an hour. We simply wither up and die.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#8Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:32pmIs it really just an American problem though? Weren't they hawking ice cream during the interval over in the West End well before Broadway theaters were allowing food and drink at your seats? (I feel as if I've read that before, please correct me if I'm wrong)
#9Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:35pmThey were at least as early as the the mid 90s--ice cream and drinks, from what I remember. I remember a friend said they'd done it for ages in London, so it seems to be part of the tradition there. Ice cream doesn't crunch, though I suppose.
#10Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:35pmThey've been selling ice cream as an interval treat since the dinosaurs on the West End, but the portions are tiny and ice cream is pretty freaking quiet.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:43pmAt a concession stand near you Raisin In The Sun raisins. Only $10 a box
Poster Emeritus
#12Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:46pm
I had the dude behind me eating chips and his wife chomping on nuts during The Realistic Joneses. It was very distracting and Toni Collette is soft-spoken-she was hard to hear at times. I was annoyed.
Who do I complain to? The theatre sold them that crap. It's disgraceful.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#13Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:06pmComplain to the director and have him tell Toni to talk louder!
#14Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:09pm"Can the actors please speak up so I can hear them over the chewing and bag rattling?"
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Simon Damon
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/14
#15Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:09pmI never understood buying food for a show. Why would you need to eat during a show. Its rude to the patrons who paid good money for the show.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#16Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:12pmIn all seriousness I would still say to complain to the theatre management and/or producers. If your experience is unsatisfactory due to a controllable factor like that then you should let them know. I would compare it to people who write bad reviews for hotels on sites like Tripadvisor. They had a horrible experience, but a large number of those people just sat there in their problem ridden hotel room rather than complain about it and give the hotel management a chance to actually fix it.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 7:06pmI would love to see Patti on stage when she sees this type of behavior in front of her. It would be an atom bomb going off.
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#18Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 7:15pmWhen I was still working at ticket scanning, occasionally people would ask me "where do we buy the hot dogs?" I used to get a good laugh out of that but now I'm sorry to say that hot dogs are probably next.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#19Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 7:35pmLuckily I think the changes they would have to implement to meet health regulations to serve hot foods would be impractical for a majority of the Broadway theaters to meet. A lot of them are on shaky grounds with the health department as it is in the storage and handling of their pre-packaged foods.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#20Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 8:06pm
Jane, I was at PIPPIN back in Feb (super bowl weekend). A large family, all wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys, sat directly in front of me and then pulled out a concealed bag of hot dogs to munch on. Chili cheese dogs to be specific. Does that count?
Nastiest, grossest sh*t ever.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#21Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/25/14 at 8:10pmSurprised they would even consider a Broadway show instead of the nearest bar.
Poster Emeritus
#22Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/26/14 at 2:02amBut Hotdogs aren't noisy are they?
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#23Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/26/14 at 2:05am
@ Borstalboy
That statement should read "SOME" Americans can't not eat for more than an hour. We simply wither up and die.
- Not ALL of us are like that. LOL
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brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#24Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips
Posted: 3/26/14 at 2:06amNo but they smell bad in the theater.
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