Biggest pet peeves in the theater
Biggest pet peeves in the theater
#1Biggest pet peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:23pm
haha I can not stand when people call a musical a "play." Is it just me?
jennafan
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/06
#2Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:26pm
I can't stand it when I am surrounded by people (front/behind) who all are wearing a different type of cologne/perfume which none of them smell good, especially mixed together.
Gross
#2Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:28pm
"Oh look, the sell the Soundtrack for the show!!!"
NO, they sell the CAST RECORDING, they are two COMPLETELY different things!!!
#4Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:31pmLately it's been people drinking at their seats and clinking the ice.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#6Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:36pmPeople who repeat punchlines in comedies, be it the old lady who has to repeat every joke for her hard-of-hearing husband or those people who just say it out loud to themselves as they laugh.
#7Biggest pet peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:39pm
The best is when you have a huge line outside of the stagedoor and of course you are behind the 8 year old girl with the 70 year old grandma.
gma- Omigod dollface look its was the star of the play!
8yrold- gramma can we get a picture and my program signed?
gma- of course!!!! lets just cut infront of these people...
excuse me! excuse me! HELLO?!? can we get a picture?!?
actor- sure!
gma- is this how the camera device works? oh thats the button! (camera takes picture) oh wait it got my finger! let me try again! (camera takes picture) oh thats nice but its too dark!! hon, lets go into the bathroom. i think the lighting is better in there...
TO BE CONTINUED :)
#8Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:41pm
"A musical IS a play. With music."
A Play is defined as a piece of drama, performed through dialogue. A Musical is a piece of drama performed through a combination of dialogue/music/movement. The two things ARE different!!
#9Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:42pm
Audience members who post new threads on topics being discussed at length just a scant few several inches down the page.
I think we all just HATE that.
#10Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:44pmi also hate when people call the playbill a program
#11Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:45pm
Bad spelling in thread titles.
Next comes bad spelling in posts.
#12Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:47pm
did i spell anything wrong? 
#13Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:52pmBiggest, has two g's, I would personally also argue theatre is spelt -re, not -er, but both are acceptable!
#14Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:52pm
My biggest annoyance is when I only click post once, do not refresh the page, yet this forum decides to post it twice!!!
Updated On: 3/23/11 at 04:52 PM
#15Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:55pmIf we're getting picky, "pet peeves" is not hyphenated, either.
#16Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:59pmis that better?
#17Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 5:06pmMy "bigest" pet peeve in the theatre is people who have insignificant pet peeves in the theatre.
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#18Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 5:40pmanother pet peeve is when othe people critize fast typers who miss letters every once and a while. lol
#19Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 5:46pmi also hate ungreatful kids in the house. when i went to elf, there was the maybe 6 or 7 year old girl sitting behind me. they were in the 3 to last row of the mezzanine. The girl started complaining about the seats. she said it was the worse christmas gift she ever got because the seats were terrible. she kept asking her mom why she didnt get her tickets for the front row. during intermission she said that it was the best christmas gift ever! i guess she changed her mind :p lol
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#20Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 6:08pm
Pet Peeve: Posters that don't think using uppercase letters is necessary.
People that clog the boards with useless threads.
Playbill is a brand name of a program. Both are correct.
But at the theater? (Theater is the building; theatre is the art form.) People that have no tolerance of other human beings.
#21Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 6:10pmAnd there are plenty of adults just as bad. At Billy Elliot last month, an elderly couple seated behind talked LOUDLY throughout the whole show about things completely unrelated to the show. Where they were going for dinner, etc. Very annoying.
#22Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 6:15pmPeople talking during Entr'actes. Especially when they say things to the effect of "Shouldn't something be happening now?"
#23Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 6:15pm
In American English, the spelling is "theater," which refers to the form, the building, and anything else that "theatre" might refer to. The "-re" spelling is a perfectly acceptable variant, but that's what it is -- a variant.
#24Bigest pet-peeves in the theater
Posted: 3/23/11 at 6:23pmPeople talking through overtures and other music when there is no action on stage.
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