Booing on Broadway-Ever Heard Any Boos?

Nope teach, can't say that I have ever witnessed any broadway boos. I do however know of quite a few broadway boozers.

yeppers, it kinda counts, i think :)

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If you want booing...

Try an opera house...

In Italy, it's as bad as it gets and they just don't yell boo..They yell things like:

“Bruta voce”

“Tu padre e’ manga grande cazzo”

“Disgraziata, porco”

and let us not forget what was shouted at Renee Fleming (America’s Opera Sweetheart) at La Scala in 1999..

“La stupido Americana putana”

Even at the Metropolitan Opera House, where it is frowned upon, it happens…. usually to designers or directors…very rarely to a singer…

I did it only once:

To Sharon Sweet after her unidiomatic singing of “Pace, Pace mio dio” in “La Forza del Destino”..

She followed none of Maestro Verdi’s markings and her Italian was unbelievably bad for a top-flight opera singer….

I let out one long loud booooooooooooooo….

No one did anything…in fact it sorta halted the applause… I think everyone agreed…

I agree that is must be heartbreaking to an artist to hear such a thing…but sometimes, it happens…

Hell, they booed Callas left and right…and she was a goddess..

Callas never lost her New York vocabulary and she would go offstage and say “Ugh, those stinkers!”…

Updated On: 8/20/03 at 03:36 PM

“Tu padre e’ manga grande cazzo"

Your father eats big..........................

Yep, its a bad one...

..and I left out the story about how in Sicily, a tenor was so bad..after the opera..the audience broke in backstage...took the tenor and escorted him to the train station...

literally THREW him out of town...

Us, Siciliani are a tough bunch !

It wasn't Broadway--but when Mandy Patinkin was going around about 10 years ago with one of those endless "one man" show tortures of his, I was dragged to the Shubert Theatre here on cold winter night.
After he sang for about 2 hours and forty five minutes straight -accompanied by that sad sack piano player he drags with him - and told an endless story about his aunt (He's from Chicago and felt entitled to be expansive about his roots) and literally read out loud her Noodle Kugle recipe - the lights dimmed to prepare for encores.
I was in the fifth row right side. As the lights went totally black, and the applause died down, I yelled out " HIDE THE PIANO!" A smattering of applause ensued in the dark.
When the lights came up - and he came back out - he scoured the audience for the offender; no one gave me up!
He sang one more screech and we left in peace!
Better then a boo...?

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I've never heard booing but I think the equivalent would be when people get up very *obviously* during the middle of a performance and leave. That, I've witnessed a few times. Most recently at Radiant Baby.

One person booed when I saw Dance of the Vampires...after one of the lame sponge jokes.

I've never gone to a show myself where I've heard boos...I don't think...

If I remember correctly, on the Into the Woods DVD of the original cast... after Cinderella's Prince leaves the Baker's Wife after having his "moment" with her, a guy in the audience booed. But I don't think this counts as I'm pretty sure he was booing the character, not Robert Westenberg himself.

Not on Bway either...but on the West End...Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...all of the kids booed when the sinister child catcher comes out.

I heard someone boo at Sebastian Bach while he did Rocky Horror one night. The girl was completely drunk...and proceeded to heckle the entire cast more so than usual.

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i had someone sit behind me in the graduate and snore really loud. which to me was worse than booing

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Someone laughed and yelled " how stupid" at her line at the end of the show " The slotted spoon can catch the potato." She definately wasn't good, but it was so rude and really pissed me off. By the way this was at the revival of Into the Woods.

I have seen very many walkouts.......and I have also heard laughter at things that were not supposed to be funny...

At the awful play WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM, the theater, audience, actors, etc. were being "held hostage" by thugs. It was difficult to suspend disbelief enough for the audience to believe there was real danger.

At one point two elderly people emerged from their seats at the back of the orchestra level and pleaded with the "thugs" to allow them to exchange themselves as getaway hostages in place of their daughter who had already been selected as a getaway hostage.

The audience just howled with laughter.

That play was almost as bad as Its A Hard Job Being God, the dreadful rock musical.

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