Audience Members You Want to Kick!- Page 2

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 9:17am

Last night I was invited to see Millie.
I have not seen it in around nine months so I was happy to go.
The only problem the tourists sitting next to me talked during Jimmy Jimmy,opened noisy candy wrappers and answered a cell.
I actually went over to her and said can you please be quiet during the show. She apologized.
Why do people talk loudly in shows?
Updated On: 10/29/03 at 09:17 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 9:29am

Straight married couples! Well, not all of them. But I hate the ones who coo at each other and parade their relationships around during the best moments of a show. "You're the love of my life, coo, coo."

"Excuse me, I'm trying to watch this kid blind those horses." Kick.

[HotTicket]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 10:12am

Kicking the back of my seat. I actually turned and asked a young man if he was going to kick my seat through the whole show. He gained control of his foot after that.

[lc1965]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 10:42am

If someone does something stupid -- like use a light-up pen or talking or singing or eat out of crinkly packages or WHATEVER -- get an usher! We cannot hear or see everything that goes on in the audience & if we don't know, we can't help. Granted, some of my colleagues seem to think that their job is to sit & read a book for 2 1/2 hours, but this is not so. If one usher won't help, get another or better yet GET THE MANAGER! I have asked the DIRECTOR of a show to move to a seat where audience members cannot see his light-up pen; I have asked parents at children's shows to please take their kids out if the kid's babbling is overwhelming; I have asked people to simply stop eating from a particular bag. I was asked at Mamma Mia why a standee could not sing the songs during the show -- by the offending party. My answer was simple & straightforward: because the audience pays to hear the performers sing, not fellow audience members. We are not there to rain on your parade, but everyone has a right to enjoy the show they paid for. Your ticket of admission does not mean you can do whatever makes your toes tingle even if it disturbs those around you. That was okay in your pram, but not as of pre-school. Sorry to be so blunt, but I can't think of another effective way to say it.

[HotTicket]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 10:49am

Mamma Mia was my most exasperating experience. A woman in front of my seat with lots of hair wanted to stand and dance during the show. I couldn't see anything and I kept poking her on the back and asking her to please sit down. She was very nasty and sat down and continued to run her hands through her big hair and dance in her seat. I am too nervous to be with people sometimes.

[lc1965]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 11:50am

Arrrgghh! Sounds like a real winner. For people like that it should be perfectly legal to wrestle to the ground & shove a Playbill down their throats.

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 12:14pm

During Michael Crawford's last month in Phantom there was an audience member who was known as "The Lil'Phantom"..she would come to every performance wearing a half mask and a cape and she'd stalk about the Majestic like the title character, then she'd give the Christine's roses at the stage door as they left every night and it scared me Mommy, it scared me bad.

[logan30]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 1:37pm

During Mary and Edmond's big scene in LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, the cellphone of a G*DD*MN F**KING FAT C*NT sitting in the row in front of us starts ringing. It takes what seems like an eternity to reach down to the floor to grab her purse, open it, and dig for the phone. Then the insensitive b*tch starts doing a nervous giggle because she knew she had pissed everyone off. I've got to hand it to Vanessa Redgrave, she stopped mid-sentence and "acted" as though she were trying to gather her thoughts before finishing her speech. When the ringing and giggling stopped she continued brilliantly although I did wonder if the anger she later exhibited in the scene was directed at Edmond or at the "see you next tuesday" in the fifth row.

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 3:40pm

...this is why I refuse to see Rent. All the teeny-bopper people I know go to see that show and talk about it like they can relate, when they really can't. I have forever vowed to never see Rent. Mwuahaha! Gimme' Millie or Hairspray instead.

Well, try seeing it when Frenchie leaves. By then, hopefully the boy band teenyboppers and the american idol freaks will have vanished.

[WillParker]

Posted: 10/29/03 at 4:23pm

Hmmmmm---"The Lil'Phantom"??? This is just sick & wrong!! This individual had WAAAAAAY too much time on their hands. What else can you tell me about this person??