Bad audience behavior - revisited

I know this is talked about all the time, but I was witness to the rudest behavior that I have ever seen at any theater.

I attended that last performance of Christine Jorgenson Reveals at Dodger Stages. I was seated toward the rear of the theater. The couple that sat down next to me were there on papered tickets, and proceed to ask everyone around her how much they paid for their tickets, because as she not so quietly told her guest that she likes to keep track of how much she saved by being a part of a service. First, I know that one of the things you agree to in joining one fo the services is keeping your mouth shout. So that was how the first five minutes of my evening at the theater started.

The show began. The entrance video began. Then I heard an argument behind me. There was an usher trying to have a 2 ladies wait until an appropriate time to seat them. One of the ladies very loudly stated "well I feel now is an appropriate time" and barged through. The usher again said please wait, the lady then stated “see she (meaning the actor on the stage) has not sit down yet”, and this was true as he was making his entrance. It was definitely not the right time, but that did not matter to this lady. She barged through again and said to the usher, “honey, stop being so difficult, I am going to sit down now.” And she did, with her big paper shopping bag making a lot of noise. She was directly 2 rows in front of me. After getting settled, she pulled out and Burger King bag, proceed to open the bag and pull out two sandwiches. She opened the wrapper and gave one to her guest and then opened the other one for herself. They proceeded to eat their sandwiches and their fries from the bag. I was in shock. The person next to them asked them to be quite, they could care less. I blocked it out and watched the show, which I enjoyed. Once the show was over, the person next to them told them how rude they were. Both the person in front of me and I, told them that we agreed. They both said that they did not care what we thought. They left and left their trash in their seat.

I know it should not have surprised me because over the years, I have learned how truly rude people can be.

Updated On: 1/30/06 at 09:56 AM

Good reason for them to be ejected from the theatre.....

It amazes me that there are people in this world who see nothing wrong with this type of behavior. I am glad you got to enjoy the show despite this.

For these kind of people, there should be ejection seats in the theatre.
-Just a little suggestions

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Wow that is pretty bad. I hate it when people either don't hear a line or understand what just happened in a show and there friend/relative/etc. has to explain, very loudly, what was said or what happened.

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My dad, during Forbidden Broadway, started laughing really hard, which elevated into extremely heavy coughing, which turned into him choking. It was loud, and that theater's small. Eek.

My first time seeing RENT, there were 3 ladies in front of me, two that had seen the show multiple times, and they would tell the other friend what was going to happen next, loudly I might add. And then they complained because they had won the tickets, and didn't want to see RENT... it was so obnoxious.

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At Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance 2 weeks ago today here in Denver, we had a guy that talked on his cell phone for the entire second act. Thank goodness I was far enogh back not to hear him. But we could see him with the phone to his ear talking.

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Updated On: 1/30/06 at 04:29 PM

Argh, that happened to me too! Two times seeing the movie, people were laughing during Angel's funeral. Don't forget the teenyboppers screaming "EW!" at the top of their lungs whenever Angel and Collins or Maureen and Joanne kissed...

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People did that when I went to Rent, too. I was sitting there, crying, and these older teenagers, who think that they are cool, were laughing loudly. Ugh.

When I saw Wicked for the first time, a man had to have his own little chair off the aisle to the far left, and I was sitting right in front of him. During the second act, he had bought a bag of M&Ms from the concession counter and you could hear *crinkle crinkle* throughout the entire thing. During For Good, when I was getting really emotional, I heard *crinkle crinkle*. It was not fun. My mom and I glared at him after the show.

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