Bad audience behavior - revisited- Page 5

[kate2]

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:12pm

Well, if everyone else on the board can type words, I'm sure this person can!

[JustChillin8908]

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:16pm

Don't be too mean to him or he'll send you a "BASTARD!" PM.

[kate2]

Posted: 4/20/06 at 5:31pm

oooh sounds offensive!
Updated On: 4/20/06 at 05:31 PM

[mikeyb16]

Posted: 4/24/06 at 11:28am

look, ive had enough of u making fun of me. just stop it now because this is getting ridiculus

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 2:08pm

Once when I was at the movie's to see "Fever Pitch" we had this horrible group of teenagers. Like once when they one the game they took their shirt off and threw it up. And then kept yelling at the screen. It was not until a number of people yelling shut up, and a number of complaints they were removed from the theatre.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 2:10pm

the movies have gotten AWFUL. i rarely go anymore, unless it's to an art house to see an Indie film

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 3:00pm

I was in the third row during Lion King and this girl (around 8, with a cake of make-up) starts rating all these male performers on their "hotness". The worst part was when young simba appears in the beginning, she said "EW! Ugliest boy I've ever seen!" And I heard others gasp.

During intermission, I told her to watch the show without commenting on anyone (kindly) and she starts crying! Geez!! And the mother was like "Hello? You DO NOT have my permission to talk to my daughter!" My friend started cracking up and I just said, "retards..." and I think they heard me, but they just walked away.

Updated On: 4/29/06 at 03:00 PM

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 3:58pm

That is a hilarious story.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 4:15pm

I saw Piazza again on Wednesday. The people behind me could not figure out that Margaret was not Victoria Clark. When they asked to see my souvenir program to figure out who that was, i told them it wa sPatti Cohenour. Once they found that out, she went from being amazing to awful. They actually booed.

[WhenURScrap]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 4:40pm

My biggest pet peeve is when someone actually doesn't allow me to laugh my ass off as much as I can. I go see a Broadway show to enjoy it. If I find something extremely funny and I feel I need to laugh loudly, I feel I should be able to. I did laugh as much as my heart desired during Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and during Spelling Bee, which I didn't like as much as Scoundrels, but what can ya do...?

As for eating in a theatre, during the show, maybe a bottle of water, bag of M&Ms, you can eat them before the first or second act starts. I know when I saw I Love You, Perfect, Change, I got yelled at for sitting with my family eating a bag of M&Ms BEFORE the second act started. Man that House Manager needs a wife!

[WiiCKED x3]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 5:57pm

same. i was laughing soo hard during DRS and this girl who was 2 seats away from me kept looking at me. i was like 'WHAT?' she just started laughing. i started mocking her and i did this really high pitched laugh and she got really pissed off.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 7:59pm

I guess I should add that those same peopple who were disgusted when the found out they were seeing Patti Cohenour talked through the WHOLE show to figure that out. (They didn't ask me until the very end)

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 9:30pm

During Phantom two elderly woman were sitting behind us and "whispered" loudly through-out Act 1. I think they both had hearing problems and were talking louder than they thought. Then when we came back for Act 2 they started talking and making remarks about the show again,my moter was getting fed up with it so turned around and asked them politely to be a little quiter. They didn't talk again for the whole show. Also, a man a few seats down from me was breathing through his mouth.
Updated On: 4/29/06 at 09:30 PM

[mrslovett7]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 11:00pm

"i started mocking her and i did this really high pitched laugh and she got really pissed off."

HAHAHAHA omg that is awesome. I totally commend you for doing that.

[BluCat500]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 11:10pm

The mocking sounds a bit inappropriate actually...


Especially since the people around you are there to enjoy the show as well and have every right to actually be able to hear it. Its not a comedy club, I think a polite volume of laughter should be observed in a theater...

[mrslovett7]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 11:47pm

I think people go to the theatre to have a good time. and considering that you pay 100 bucks a ticket, you should be able to laugh and enjoy yourself.

[WiiCKED x3]

Posted: 4/29/06 at 11:53pm

it wasnt a loud mock. but you should have heard these girls they were like scream-laughing. i was like is anyone else in the theatre now require an ear check up besides me?

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 12:17am

Here in Pittsburgh, we get your talkers/whisperers, coughers, candy wrappers, late comers, but we have something else that I'm surprised none of you have mentioned: people who leave during the curtain call. As if they're going to get out of the parking garage any earlier than anyone else because they left five minutes earlier. I've seen them do it when performers make speeches at the curtain call (o.k., it was Lana Turner when she toured with "Murder Among Friends" and I'm sure it was as impromptu as the Normandy Invasion, but still...)

My favorite story about this happened to a guy I know who also hates this happening. It was at a performance of "Peter Pan" when these three ladies in his row get up during curtain call (this was before the days of the obligatory standing ovation) and start stepping over the feet of everyone and they had their backs to the stage. This guy was there with his kids and he's seen the show on one of Cathy Rigby's previous tours and he gets an idea. When they get to him, he digs his knees into the seat in front of him (and he's about 6'5") and doesn't budge. As they're glaring at him, Cathy Rigby takes her bow swinging out over the audience. The audience gasps and the three old ladies turn to the stage to see what happened and don't see anything. They turn back and they still don't see what the commotion was about because Cathy has swung back. The guy then stood up and ushered the ladies out of the row with an "after you" gesture.

[SpellRENT777]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 12:21am

Oh gosh, dont get me started! I just came back from RENT.we got there and sat down. Behind us, there is a nice, theater-going family. The daughter says "Is today the 10th anniversary? It hasn't been on for 10 years! They are lieing!" to which the son says, "Is it 10 years to the date or year?" A few minutes go by and the girl says, " I want to see Mamma Mia. (singing) MAMMA MIA, HERE I GO AGAIN, MY MY, DADADADADADADA! Is Mamma Mia a musical? Wait, is RENT a musical?" So the show starts and then at intermission the son says, " I really hate this show. My friend told me some stupid song comes up now about the seasons. And then there is one about sex." He goes on to question that 525,600 minute is not a year and does the math. So, it is act 2. After Maureen and Joanne kiss, the mother says, "Is Maureen a lesbian?" I thought about slapping them all! Plus, before the show started a man fell asleep. Then, a man in front of us was reading something during La Vie Boheme and him and his wife left halfway into the second act. Some theatergoers amaze me!

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:06am

When I saw "Big Momas House 2" they had this guy two rows behined us who kept on snoring. I mean he was even snoring during the previews. He finally woke up when everybody in the theatre started yelling STOP SNORING!!!!!!!!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:19am

the key is, if you see inappropriate theater behavior........call the peron on it IMMEDIATELY......usually they will stop. If not, get an usher.

I find most people uninformed about appropriate behavior. My all-time example is the two women next to us at Little Women in San Diego, who came back from intermission with hot dogs and nachos they had purchased outside of the theater.

Politely I asked which team they were rooting for, and then said I didn't want to smell chili and mustard the entire second half of the show.....

To which one answered that it was their lunch, to which I answered most people have lunch BEFORE a matinee.........and then I told them to get rid of them....which they did.

Apparently the San Diego Civic Theater sells candy, or allows it in, as people were opening things the entire time......like a damn movie.

I swore I'd never go there again, but we are seeing Joseph there in June......

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:20am

I'm currently in a production of The Winter's Tale. Last night during the trial scene a man in the front row shouted "OPA!" for no apparent reason.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:41am

That's annoying yet hilarious, Necro.

The other day when I saw Caine Mutiny, I was sitting next to two elderly couples, all of whom were wearing assisted hearing devices. During Zeljko's (BRILLIANT) monologue in Act 2, the man next to me put his down and it started blasting with static. Quickly, I reached over and tapped him, making gestures to indicate it was making noise. After a few confused minutes, he put it back on, thankfully, and the noise stopped. Gr....

[LeaGirl]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:55am

I had a rough experience in "Caine Mutiny" last night as well.

We were in the front row, and I was seated next to two people (a 30-something couple) who were clearly there to see David Schwimmer - which is fine. Heck, that interested me too. But the constant whispering, shifting, and nervous giggling when things would get emotional onstage coming from them was VERY distracting.

However, I did find it rewarding to hear them comment as I followed them out the exit doors "we should see more shows, it's way more like acting when they're in front of you than when its on TV"

Which sort of endeared me to them a bit - I like when people discover theater... perhaps it was their first time.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 4/30/06 at 11:59am

They probably couldn't quite believe he was there in front of them and wasn't on a TV screen.