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Bad Theater Behavior
c0113g3b0y
Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#350Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/17/15 at 1:43am
When I watched Wicked in Singapore, this little girl sitting right n front of me was complaining in a volume just above a whisper to her mother about needing water. just when the overture was starting. And her mother ignored her and never told her to keep quiet. So I kicked both their seats and glared at both of them, prompting the mother to tell her daughter to shut her trap.
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
Broadway Joe
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/10
#351Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/17/15 at 6:30am
I must have better luck then the vast majority of you because thankfully almost every time I go to a show the crowd is well behaved and I go to a ton of shows. I just saw kinky boots, finding neverland and mamma Mia in the last two weeks and I had no issues with anyone around me. I also tend to only go on Tuesdays if I have a choice.
#352Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/17/15 at 7:58am
You know what they say, if the people around you aren't the ones misbehaving . . .
#353Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/22/15 at 4:48pm
I saw the Beautiful tour last Friday night in Providence (which I really enjoyed) and the people in front of us were singing, talking and crinkling candy wrappers the entire show... ugh. (I've seen the show twice in NYC and have never heard anyone singing along during the show, except at the end when it's encouraged.) Also the two teenage girls behind me were hyperventilating every time Ben Fankhauser walked on stage. There's always a bit of an interesting crowd at PPAC, as I seem to remember lots of talking during Cinderella last year and about 10 years ago the drunk couple in the row in front of my family at Lion King was kicked out at intermission for their obnoxious behavior. Interestingly enough, I saw Waitress on Sunday and the crowd was wonderful - no obnoxious behavior whatsoever.
#354Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/22/15 at 4:53pm
I've seen Beautiful twice on Broadway as well, but there was almost always someone singing! I saw it once in London and the man next to me was singing until his wife hit him.
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Phantom4ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
#355Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/22/15 at 9:11pm
The first time I ever encountered singing by an audience member was this summer at Jersey Boys on Broadway. A group of middle-aged women from NJ went "awwwwwwww!" at the beginning of every song and then sang the first few lyrics. I shushed them the very first time out and they bellowed with laughter at me.
It would have ruined the show for me, but there was another middle-aged woman in front of me who delighted--silently-- in the songs so much and bopped her head and it was such a joy for me to see her joy of live theater that her positive and QUIET energy made me forget about the loud women behind me.
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#356Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/28/15 at 3:08pm
Phones going off at Il Trovatore with Anna Netrebko. And just a ridiculous amount of coughing.
A woman put her feet up on the seat in front of her at Carnegie Hall. I get that there's no a lot of leg room in the Dress Circle and the house wasn't packed but come on. Also, lots of filming and photos and people leaving early. Though I don't blame them too much for the last part as it was a pretty tedious and poorly programmed evening.
#357Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 9/29/15 at 8:15am
I still think the physical brawls are the worst. When the patron punched the other patron in the face last year at one of our beloved theatres I thought now I have seen everything.
#358Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 8:56am
I had an amazing and crappy night at the theater last night.
Amazing was the show, Thereza Raquin. the acting, sets, music and story. I highly recommend.
The Behaviour of the auidence was crappy. Is it sick season? constant coughing by many different people throughout the show, always it seems during the quiet times. The old man behind me was angry that my hair was in his view, so I took it down. Then later his wife(?) started snoring during one of the most intense scenes. At Intermission (thank goodness) some jerk grabbed a seat that was occupied (apparently he was sitting in the back and couldnt hear because he got beat up over the weekend and was "deaf" in one ear) he screamed at the people and the usher who was asking him to move. They just let him sit there instead of throwing his ass out. Then other audience yelled at him to shut up and how they can understand why he got beat up. A few text message pings during the show, and of course a cell phone rang. So frustrating, if the show was not so good. I would have had a bad time.
Last but not least, many times during the show we heard car horns honking, once even sirens. Cant they make the theater district a quiet zone like by hospitals?
When They Go Low, I Go High
#359Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 9:12am
There's a fire station on 48th and 8th. Good luck with that. That's more of an issue with insulation in the theatre.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#360Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 9:16am
Pretty sure I believe very little of what "petra" said.
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#361Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 9:23am
I saw the Newsies tour about two weeks ago in Providence and I have now seen it all. Again, lots of talking and coughing (it's a recurring theme at PPAC....), but this time there was an infant in the front row of the mezzanine. It had to have been about 2 or 3 months old and the was no way the baby had its own seat, so I'm still not sure how the mother got him/her in the theater. (Under a coat in a carrier maybe?) The baby only fussed once, at the very beginning of the show, and the mother fed him/her, but it was something I have NEVER seen before and was quite odd.
#362Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 9:34am
LizzieCurry said: "There's a fire station on 48th and 8th. Good luck with that. That's more of an issue with insulation in the theatre.
" I have heard the honking and sirens in other theaters too but never this bad. but you make a good point LizzieCurry. I feel bad for the actors, they of course hear it too.
allyk said: I saw the Newsies tour about two weeks ago in Providence and I have now seen it all. Again, lots of talking and coughing (it's a recurring theme at PPAC....), but this time there was an infant in the front row of the mezzanine. It had to have been about 2 or 3 months old and the was no way the baby had its own seat, so I'm still not sure how the mother got him/her in the theater. (Under a coat in a carrier maybe?) The baby only fussed once, at the very beginning of the show, and the mother fed him/her, but it was something I have NEVER seen before and was quite odd.
The coughing is the worst. take some syrup or cough drops. A 2 month old baby aALLYK? How ridiculous and rude to not only audience but the poor baby herself. I am sure it did not want to be there and was hungry, tired and had to poop during the show.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#363Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 3:57pm
the two month old had no problem with it, I assure you. The child WAS fed, and they poop whenever they need to and sleep anywhere, anytime. If it were too loud, the baby would have cried.
That, however, it totally beside the point. The theater should not have allowed it as it COULD have created quite the nuisance.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#364Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 4:10pm
dramamama611 said: The theater should not have allowed it as it COULD have created quite the nuisance.
"Yes you are right. The Theaters themselves are to blame, especially with the candy wrappers and the drinks with ice in them. i know they make a lot of money on that, and I have no problem with that, but why can they not do like they do at concerts. empty the drinks (and snacks) into paper cuts.
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Theatre dweeb
Chorus Member Joined: 10/3/15
#365Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 6:03pm
I hate when people use "I payed money to see this I can do whatever I want" as an excuse. These actors have worked so hard, and your completely ignoring what their doing and saying what you're doing is more important than a show they've spent years working on. UGH
mailhandler777
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/15
#366Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 6:13pm
Petralicious said: "Can't they make the theater district a quiet zone like by hospitals?"
You do realize you hear more sirens at or near a hospital then you do anywhere else(except a firehouse).
Hi, I'm Val. Formerly DefyGravity777(I believe)
#367Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 6:47pm
Concerning "babes in arms" with Disney Newsies on tour. It is Disney's policy for the tour to allow children of any age into the theatre with a ticket. It sucks but its their policy and theatres have to allow it.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#368Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 7:15pm
What is a 2 month old baby doing at a show?
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VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#369Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 11/4/15 at 11:00pm
"Is it sick season? constant coughing by many different people throughout the show, always it seems during the quiet times."
Oh, no. Please don't tell me it's starting again.
Some people in the boxes started shouting at each other rather loudly and dramatically at an intermission of Tosca.
A cell phone went off at Sylvia tonight but it was a relatively quiet ringtone. Small blessings.
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#370Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 12/12/15 at 9:48pm
I've been pretty lucky in terms of theater behavior but not today at the matinee of Therese Raquin. This woman in the mid-rear orchestra kept talking at full volume just to make mundane comments or ask questions. Like at the beginning she said "are they brother and sister?" Then she said "she hasn't even opened her mouth since they got there" or something. After 3 times nearly the entire orchestra went "shhhhhhh!!!!" In unison. She then stopped talking DURING the scenes but still felt it appropriate to talk whenever there was a blackout... Including a blackout after a fairly intense scene. People kept shushing her. She was very loud because I was several rows ahead f her and in the left orchestra and could still understand everything she said. Finally I guess she got it and I didn't hear her during the second act. Or she left at intermission.
Im sure the actors could hear both her talking and the shushing.
#371Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 12/15/15 at 3:16am
I was recently at Book of Mormon and it was a nightmare of the worst tourist behavior. In both acts, people were still coming in (often in large groups) and taking their seats fifteen minutes in, and throughout the show people kept getting up to get food and drinks or to empty their bladders, surely a dismaying distraction to the performers. Everybody talked freely at conversational levels, and in general acted just so pleased with themselves for being at a famous Broadway show with hard-to-get expensive tickets--the kind of people that have to clap their hands whenever they laugh (with unnatural self-congratulatory loudness) at a joke to show us all how hip to the humor they are. It was by a good margin the worst Broadway audience I've ever experienced, just a circus.
Sorry if that sounds snobbish and grouchy, but with my insomnia I'm sitting here in the middle of the night reading through the stories in this thread and getting angry at theaters for allowing food and drink during shows. It encourages people to behave like this, like they're in their own den. Are grown-ups in America really unable to forgo shoving food in their face for two hours? Is being tipsy a necessary part of the Broadway experience now? What happened to the rule of not seating latecomers? What the heck is going on???
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#372Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 12/15/15 at 6:08am
People have been drinking at the theater forever. Late seating is at the discretion of the theater.
BOM is hardly a difficult ticket to get anymore.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#373Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 12/15/15 at 7:34am
When I was at wicked a couple years ago there was this guy in the row behind me we was kicked out for drinking and having alcohol in his possession. Like it came from outside the theatre not from the bar in the theatre. And then last week there was a woman who was filming the show and taking pictures with the flash. And the ushers didn't do a thing I was whispering to her to stop it and she just mumbled and kept filming.
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VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#374Bad Theater Behavior
Posted: 3/23/16 at 3:27am
I am resurrecting this thread because things were a little ridiculous at Bright Star. I'm non-confrontational because I think it can make things awkward for the person doing the reprimanding and the person being reprimanded for the rest of the show depending on what the response is. Still, I have been calling people out more. But I think it helps when they do it really frequently and they must know it or if you can stop them when they're doing it. Tonight there was so much whispering but they were short comments so to call them out would have probably been more disruptive. What do you do in that situation? I didn't want to say something at intermission but then it resumed in act 2 and it was too late.
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