Bad audience behavior - revisited — Page 3

Thank you, that could not be and more true.

Kind of like how people brag about knowing a stage door man..I mean...

Updated On: 4/12/06 at 11:43 AM

Lol - the saddos dressing up. Really a cry for help. And then going backstage with total lack of self-awareness and social limitations: "do you like my costume. it took weeks to make. I can sing you a song from the show if you want"

what'much worse with these idiots is that when they sit in front of u, they just block away ur view of the stage. and if there bwhind u, they'll just throw stuff at u or poke u or something weird

Every time I go to the theatre, I am apalled at the behavior.

At THE DROWSY CHAPERONE the man next to me kept rooting through his plastic shopping bag, making that cringe worthy noise that can only be attributed to cheap grocery store bags.

The women behind me at AWAKE AND SING! kept saying "Gazzara sucks!" "Oh my GAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWD...just terrible!"

And to top it all off, the man behind me at LESTAT put his jacket on the back of my chair. Now, I was already pissed off because his daughter had the nerve to rest her bare feet on the seat next to me, nearly right in my face, and this wife kept taking three hours to open little candies throughout the entire show. Then, the jacket. I just turned around and looked at him and said "Okay, because that's REALLY necessary."

He acted like it was a mistake, and put his coat back on his lap. I wanted to decapitate him.

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i saw the color purple
the overture was playing and this large group of people come in and start talking it was not until the first act started then the group got sushed that is so rude

Updated On: 4/12/06 at 04:05 PM

When I saw Spelling Bee a couple weekends ago, two latecomers arrived in the rush seats sometime during (I think) "My Friend, the Dictionary." They were both young and drunk. The guy more than the girl. Basically, he just wanted to show off how loud he was, and they both picked Barfee as their favorite.

During Barfee's first word, they both cheered really obnoxiously, and the guy did one of those two-fingers-in-the-mouth whistles. Absolutely PIERCING.

Jared Gertner actually looked at him and thanked him (sarcastically), and of course, the two drunks were very vocal after Barfee got his first word right.

Luckily, before "Magic Foot," the guy had passed out, so except for the middle-aged couple behind me (who I successfully shushed sometime after Mitch's little monologue) there were minimal disturbances.

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Yeah, I was so glad he passed out. He didn't even snore!

I was also glad that by the end the gf was sobering up and legitimately enjoying the show. She had to nudge him awake at curtain call, I think.

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I've experienced a few of these....Costumed audience members at Wicked (Over the age of 10, actually over 40 I think, pathetic, if it's a young girl in a Glinda costume, OK). I have also seen the Mark Scarves at Rent (the tour and Broadway). I saw it 3 times in the movie theatre also(the first was an advance screening in a small theatre, mostly rent heads), and the second time there was a girl, maybe 15, in the Maureen rubber cat suit, WITH HER PARENTS. The third time an obese man in front of me was snoring LOUDLY from right after La Vie Boheme on. His seat was kicked appropriately.

At Spelling Bee 3 weeks ago a teenage boy was text messaging the whole time. Fortunately after the first one and many evil stares he turned off the sound, but the blue glow of his phone was on the whole time out of the corner of my eye. His parents should've smacked him. He dropped his phone near the end of Act 2 and had to wait till half the audience got up to get it from underneath the seat in front of him.

At White Christmas in December a girl was behind me singing along to EVERYTHING. She made it extremely unpleasant for those around her.

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I love, love, love Rent. However, I just am not into the whole dressing as the characters thing. To me it doesn't seem like that kind of musical. Of ccourse to each their own, but it isn't my favorite part of the Rent phenomenon.

It goes without saying that if you cannot go without communicating for two or three hours by any means, then maybe you aren't mature enough for the ttheater.

Last night the people who sat behind us came in late, sat down, took off their shoes and put their feet between our chairs. We turned around and gave them the death stare. Words were not necessary.

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Lea, I didn't realize I had sat next to you at RENT before?

Seriously, I don't think wearing a Mark scarf is a costume. It's a scarf that I regularly use because the ykee pme warm, is that so wrong?

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When I went to Chicago I noticed rude behavior in both the shows.

In Wicked of course were surrounded by kids luckily the youngest in front of us was very good even though she started to fall asleep on her mothers shoulder. The kids next to us were talking not really the entire time but seemed to mention every single song that was coming up (I don't think they saw the show before but they obviously owned the recording) I just love when the mothers simply ignore their children even though the're talking in the middle of a show. *Spoiler* not so big of a deal but in the end when Elphaba comes out of the trpa door I heard a kid say loudly "so she's still alive?

In Rent it was much worse, there were these teenagers behind us who were discussing the entire story before it began (plus they were annoying and obviously RentHeads), my cousin had never seen it although luckily she wasn't listening. (they also seemed to think one of the difference between the movie and the stage version is that in the movie Angel dies in the hospital but in the stage version he dies in an orgy...) Either wasy they were annoying but my cousin still had the plot spoiled for her since when she was waiting in line for the bathroom during intermission there was a mom and a girl in front of her, the mom told the girl to tell her what happens now since she thought she'd fall asleep (which is rude in its own right), so the girl gives away the entire ending to her mom and therefore my cousin too.

I know these are not as big of deals as some of the stuff you guys metioned but they managed to annoy me none the less.

(EDITED for grammer and spelling)

Updated On: 4/15/06 at 06:48 PM