Beauty and The Beast=Worst Audience in History!- Page 3

[ReNtHeAd04]

Posted: 1/8/07 at 8:56pm

yeah i saw the show back in september. throughout the WHOLE first entire act there was a noise that seemed like crickets or something like it. i had never seen the show before on broadway and at firt i thought it was part of the show. but then when it KEPT happening.. i knew it wasn't. it got to the point to where i couldn't concentrate on the show. the noise was driving me insane. i told an usher during intermission and they said they would try to figure out what it was. i later found out it was a kid with his watch going off! then..

later on.. a little boy decided he wanted to run up and down the aisle while the beast is singing his song.. when the usher asked him and his parent the first time, he was calm for a minute, then he started again. it seemed that the usher asked them to leave and she started flipping out with a little profanity during the show. - not whispering may i add.. i know it's disney shows. but i mean. come on!

[mattnyc2]

Posted: 1/8/07 at 9:02pm

Speaking of cell phones, I forgot to mention in my original post that during the performance this lady in my row cell phone went off. Normally this wouldn't be an unusual circumstance in a theater, however her ringtone was some ghetto gangsta rap song. So on stage you have Belle talking to Mrs. Potts, but in the audience you can loudly hear some rapper singing about bitches, crack and hos. The lady made it worse by fishing through her purse for two minutes before she was able to silence it. All I could do was roll my eyes and give her Matt's pattented "glare of death."

[Ariella]

Posted: 1/8/07 at 9:14pm

Yuck, that's awful. I took my friend to a show last summer, and for such a sophisticated person she had no experience with theater - as in turning her phone off. Right in the middle of the show, "Don't Funk With My Heart" went off. The whole thing was incredibly embarassing.

[stanton]

Posted: 1/8/07 at 10:07pm

I figured out that when a show apeals to a family audience you get an audience of people that don't know how to behave.

I had had a nightmare of an audience when I saw Mary Poppins
Kids crying kids saying "that song is yucky" myy favorite was "when will she sing do ray me"

[avab802]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 9:53am

I must have gotten lucky at Mary Poppins, I didn't have one noisy kid in the audience. It was a Saturday 8pm show, so maybe they were all asleep, LOL.

I do agree with Kevin and the others who said it's the parents fault, not the kids. Kids can behave well in just about any environment if they are taught how. And if a child does misbehave, it's the parent's job to deal with it. When my cousin's daughter was around 8, they took her to see 42nd Street. She had been to shows before and knew how she was supposed to behave, but for whatever reason she was just whining and complaining all through the first act. Her father took her out at intermission and they sat in the lobby for the whole second act (so her mother would not have to miss the rest of the show). They didn't take her to a show again until she BEGGED to see Wicked when she was 12, and she of course behaves fine now.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/12/07 at 1:50pm

"By the way, Xanadu is coming to Broadway next year, excited???"

Yes! Very much so. I hope it runs for decades.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 1/12/07 at 3:35pm

Bad news: Broadway would die without the tourists. I avoid the 'Annoying thins tourists...' thread because it smacks of a snobbishness most of us can't afford.

When I go to the theatre, I go to see the performance. If the lady next to me is wearing a baggy t-shirt and jeans it won't distract me.

In days of old, actors wore a shirt and tie in rehearsal. The fact that we now wear less formal clothes does not mean we have less class.