Banning Food in Theatres- Page 2

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 3:08pm

They have guidelines on how to act everywhere including Broadway playbills, off broadway and many regional theaters. I remember the long list in the program I Can Get it For You Wholesale at The Signature. If only all places could be like Carnegie Hall that allows no bull*hit and offers Ricola cough drops (wrapped in paper) that has a sign about not unwrapping anything during the performances. Everyone is respectful there for some reason.

Take a goddamned note, Broadway. 

[Phil B]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 3:32pm

Funnily enough, at Scissorhandz in London this evening, someone in the front row was continually rustling their bag of Maltesers. One of the performers (Emma Williams) turned to another performer during one of the lighter moments of the show and said “sorry, I’m just so distracted by the sweets in the front row… it’s SO loud!” It was a great moment, and the bag of Maltesers was swiftly put away…

[denali.fire]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 3:36pm

Will Uber Eats deliveries become a norm ?

[Wick3]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 3:38pm

I'd imagine food/drink eaten in the front orchestra would distract the actors? If the theaters have a section where no food/drink is allowed (like front orchestra) then I'd gladly save up money and pay for those premium seats.

I tell friends that if they do have to unwrap something, do it while people are clapping or laughing. NEVER do it in the middle of a song or ballad or intense or quiet scene.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 4:25pm

How about the people who lazily flip through their playbills the whole entire show.

[Kad]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 4:33pm

We're really seeing the rise of the Nicki Cochrane audience mentality.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 4:41pm

Haven’t seen her since “Purlie”. Maybe she’s terrorizing other businesses, now. 

[Mark Waltz]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 4:56pm

I don't remember what actor commented on being overcome by the smell of someone's chicken dinner being passed around in the front row during a performance, but I was stunned by the fact that someone would have the audacity to do that. I went to an Off Broadway show right before covid, and the woman next to me had a big paper bag filled with fried chicken and greasy food, and I thought I was going to throw up. I had been working all week and was too tired to even deal with it, and if I hadn't been with a friend who needed the aisle seat he was in, I probably would have tried to get another seat. The fact that the ushers did nothing appalled me. It was a 3-hour play, and the smell never disappeared from the theater. 

I used to go to the theater at least once a week, and I'm so appalled by audience behavior in so many ways that I have not gone in a year and a half, and when I am tempted, and see things like this, it reminds me as to why I stopped. I've become pretty much a recluse since then because public behavior is out of control and I don't feel the need to police it when the people who should don't. I used to leave the theater feeling exhilarated by having escaped from the world, and that fantasy ended quickly as the reality snapped me back. I was looking at the tkts listing today and thought I might go when my retirement kicks in, but reading this, I doubt I'll ever go again. Maybe I just aged out of being able to fully enjoy the experience, or maybe a good portion of the world has just fallen into an ill-mannered, self-centered cesspool. At any rate, I save a ton of money in not going, not only in theater tickets, but in the therapeutic curing of a psychoanalyst or a bartender. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/23/25 at 5:39pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Haven’t seen her since “Purlie”. Maybe she’s terrorizing other businesses, now."

Oh I saw N.C. at a few shows this fall. She's still kickin!