Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#0Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:35pm
Has anyone had this problem where you are in this really quiet emotional part (for example, right after Elphaba dies in Wicked) and someone tries to clear the throat REALLY LOUDLY and it just messes up the whole emotional scene? It's SOOO FRIGGIN ANNOYING. Share your experiences. 
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gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#1re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:38pm
Uh...
*SPOILER ALERT*
...Elphaba doesn't die.
*END SPOILER ALERT*
Okey dokey...well, I don't know. I think it's happened once, but I forget where.
What the puck?!
#2re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:39pmi think there's been threads on this before. and about candy wrappers.
#3re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:41pm
I wasn't clearing my throat I was trying to restrain my laughter ... sorry... 
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:55pm
I have post nasal drip so unfortunately I am always clearing my throat.
Sorry
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#5re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 6:56pmuhm nothing that comes to mind although i CANNOT stand popcorn in a movie theatre...i know its like a matching pair but...- AHHH THE MUNCHING!! CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH.... its drives me CRAZY!
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#6re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 7:15pm
Popcorn doesn't bother me anymore. I don't know where you live but they play movies so LOUD in most urban areas now, someone could bring in a sizzling plate of fajitas, and it wouldn't matter.
My least favorite recent experience during live theatre was having someone answer their cell phone and start talking... In a semi-loud voice, even! If I were up there on that stage I would have paused until they were finished.
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DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#7re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 7:28pmbest12bars: thats UNBELIEVABLE! Some people are so rude!
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#8re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 7:32pm
At the theatre where I did shows, during A Tale of The Allergists wife, someones phone rang one, they ignored it, then ti rang again, and they answered and started a whole convo. One of the actresses said
"I never break character, but I can't think so please get out of theatre Sorry ladies and gentleman, now to ther show!" She got a standing ovation.
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#9re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 7:39pm
I absolutely hate it when people talk during a performance (movie or theater). The worst situations I have experienced are when someone doesn't hear a line or get the punchline and the person next to them has to repeat it or explain what's going on. I almost clocked a couple of women sitting behind me who couldn't keep their traps shut during La Cage Aux Folles.
I also hate people who cannot laugh normally.. Some guy lady during the 40 Year Old Virgin was literally cackling.
I find it often helps to wear ear plugs because they close off background chatter and allow you to hear the performers.
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
#10re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 8:04pm
Talking is my pet peeve. I had a wonderful front/center seat for Phantom back in April. A woman with two pre-teen children sat behind me. And the three of them chatted for much of the show...the kids had too many questions and the mother was more than happy to give them long detailed answers...she prattled on for every second of "Music of the Night."
I'm not as harsh about throat clearing or coughing...provided it's a moment when it really is unavoidable.
#11re: Coughing/Clearing Throat... grrr
Posted: 9/8/05 at 8:21pm"Noisy audience members" .....phlegm at 11.
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