Bad Theater Behavior — Page 15

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.

You know what they say, if the people around you aren't the ones misbehaving . . .

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.

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.

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?

Pretty sure I believe very little of what "petra" said.

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.

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.

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).

What is a 2 month old baby doing at a show?

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.

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.

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.