"Haha... it was a Thursday afternoon. It was during the holiday break, though. And the sad part is, most of them seemed to be a little older than me (I'll be 17 next week). Sad, no?"
I think that all 3 times I saw it at Union Square were Friday afternoons when school was in session. I'm 19, and most of the people in the theater looked like they were old enough to be my grandparents, which always made me worry that I had somehow wandered in to the wrong movie. I agree with you about the sad part - people my age tend to scare me with how immature many of them can be.
As for parents and Broadway, my mom is the one who got me interested in seeing shows - her father used to take her to see Broadway shows all the time when she was a little girl, so it made her want to do the same with me. She's not a huge Broadway fan, though - she still calls cast recordings "soundtracks" and only sees a few shows a year because tickets are so expensive (when we were at the TKTS booth the other day, she was going on and on about how when she was my age, orchestra seats were 20 bucks).
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms