Sweeney Todd, NOT AS SCAREY AS THE USHERS! — Page 2

It's the middle-aged and older Ushers who can be asshats. Clearly Wanna-Be actors that just didn't make it. Now they get money seating people at shows, probably feeling it should be them up on the stage.
The younger ushers are usually nice.

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Rath, I totally understand about the stupidity of box office personnel. I stood behind Karmine Alers at the Nederlander box office as she was trying to make sure there were tickets reserved for her family for her last show. The guy was an idiot, he kept asking her what her name was and how to spell it (he still got it wrong). I mean, the woman has been in the show for 3 years, her face is on the poster five feet from the box office and her name is up on the board- you'd think he could pull his head out of his ass long enough to notice at least one of those.

I haven't had an exceptionally bad usher experience. When I saw Chitty once, the woman was ridiculously friendly and chatty with me, she talked to me the entire time she led me to my seat.

Of course, another usher there told me that I should have better taste than to like Raúl Esparza. I'm sorry, but regardless of your personal opinions on the man, bashing the lead actor in the show you work for is not only tacky, but it's just poor business practice.

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Only Dudes are allowed to usher at the Music Box.

That's HOT!

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i can see it now. micheal cerevis, in attempts to upstage the ushers, turns to patti lupone and says "i'll eat your disgusting pies if you'll spend the profit on some decent fishnets."

sorry some people had a bad time. i don't live in new york and the ushers at the theatre i see tours in are always very sweet people.

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I've only had one bad experience with an usher, it was at CHICAGO a few months ago. I was standing in in the aisle, waiting to be seated. I got tired of waiting so I just found my seat myself. I mean, it's not like it's that hard, right? Well, the usher comes over to me and totally started ripping me a new one. "You can't just sit wherever you want, it's MY job to seat you!" She was seriously yelling. I told her I was just trying to speed up the process a little bit so she could seta the people that actually needed help. She demanded to see my ticket, so I showed it to her and she saw that I had gotten to the correct seat all by myself. That just seemed to piss her off even more so she practically threw my ticket back at me and went back to ushing.

I was a little mad, but then right before the show started another usher (who now works at THE COLOR PURPLE, by the way) came up to me and asked if I wanted a better seat (I was in the last row of the front mezzanine, all the way over on the side). I said I would love that and she put me in the first row of the rear mezzanine in the very center.

Rath--I wouldn't leave notes for actors at the box office anymore. Just take it to the backstage doorman. :)

Matt, yes, there is a need for unions for ushers to set all pay issues, scheduling, responsibilities, etc. And you can either be a full time usher or a sub.

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"My favorite usher was perhaps the one at CATS. During the opening number she kepts saying, 'What are they saying?? What are those damn cats saying??? What's a Jellicle cat????' You could tell she worked there since it opened and still hadn't figured out what the show was about. "

I love people like that, Expecially when they are older, They just make me laugh.

I apologize in advance for being a grammar bitch, but...


Is it bothering anyone else that "scary" is spelled incorrectly in the title of this post?

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The ushers at the Ambassador are indeed very scary..

But the Box Office guys there have been very good to me.

And the O'Neil's Box Office is VERY nice. well atleast the day I went.