#76
Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:57pm
Okay, so I have two stories, both about Philadelphia audiences.
-When a tour of Mamma Mia stopped by about three years ago, a group of four of my friends went to see it. We sit down and the woman in the row in front of us turns around and starts smiling like a fool at us. She stutters out that her name is Wanda, her companion is Ted, and she is taking him out for his birthday and wants to embarass him. Her breath wreaked of alcohol, but as the show was starting, we couldn't say anything. Well, they sang (loudly) during every song, cheered the actors on during quiet parts, stood up with lighters and swayed back and forth....and this is all during the first act. During intermission, the woman leaves and as Ted goes to follow her, he falls over the row of seats in front of him, on a group of elderly women. It was pretty funny, and horribly rude.
-West Side Story was being performed at the Walnut Street theater recently, and we walked over to see it (7.50 for day-of tickets, can't beat it). So, it begins, and as late as 15 minutes into it, people are walking it. A woman walks in with her two children and sits in front of us. Her son is playing on his gameboy, and refuses to give it to her willingly - they have a ten minute game of him hiding it and her trying to get to it. Her daughter can't sit still and is standing upt he whole time, loses her shoe in the middle of the first act and starts digging under the chair in front of her to retrieve it. And thats just one case. There is crinkling everywhere, the air smells like food, and at the end, when Tony is shot, the entire audience laughs. I can understand that the blank being shot scares them, but they kept on laughing. And then as Maria is mourning Tonys death, two women in our row get up and walk out - gathering their immense collection of cheetos wrappers and crunching them into their purses as they go. It has to be one of the most disrespectful audiences I was ever in.
-When a tour of Mamma Mia stopped by about three years ago, a group of four of my friends went to see it. We sit down and the woman in the row in front of us turns around and starts smiling like a fool at us. She stutters out that her name is Wanda, her companion is Ted, and she is taking him out for his birthday and wants to embarass him. Her breath wreaked of alcohol, but as the show was starting, we couldn't say anything. Well, they sang (loudly) during every song, cheered the actors on during quiet parts, stood up with lighters and swayed back and forth....and this is all during the first act. During intermission, the woman leaves and as Ted goes to follow her, he falls over the row of seats in front of him, on a group of elderly women. It was pretty funny, and horribly rude.
-West Side Story was being performed at the Walnut Street theater recently, and we walked over to see it (7.50 for day-of tickets, can't beat it). So, it begins, and as late as 15 minutes into it, people are walking it. A woman walks in with her two children and sits in front of us. Her son is playing on his gameboy, and refuses to give it to her willingly - they have a ten minute game of him hiding it and her trying to get to it. Her daughter can't sit still and is standing upt he whole time, loses her shoe in the middle of the first act and starts digging under the chair in front of her to retrieve it. And thats just one case. There is crinkling everywhere, the air smells like food, and at the end, when Tony is shot, the entire audience laughs. I can understand that the blank being shot scares them, but they kept on laughing. And then as Maria is mourning Tonys death, two women in our row get up and walk out - gathering their immense collection of cheetos wrappers and crunching them into their purses as they go. It has to be one of the most disrespectful audiences I was ever in.
