Embarrassed by "fans"

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:35am

If there's a thread like this, my apologies ahead of time.

What shows have you either:
Been embarrassed to be a fan of BECAUSE of their fan base? OR
Have had fans in any way KEEP you from enjoying a show?

Some obvious ones seeme to be:
Spring Awakening, Wicked, [tos], & Xanadu

Thoughts?

[boonanas]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:41am

I was sitting behind a superfan when I saw Gypsy and I could smell her awful stalker-like breath from my seat. I could barely keep my attention on Patti LuPone due to her fat self bouncing around at every movement of Patti. It was irritating.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:46am

I got my friend tickets to see HSM2 on stage... because she wanted them lol and we just wanted some fun, and so we got box seats

Well, this little girl sat below us in the orchestra and kept poking us, and her mother did nothing about it, and she was so annoying asking us if we were robbers and she was just being obnoxious

and I don't know why, but i THOUGHT that the parents might teach their kids to behave at a theatre.. nope
They were singing the WHOLE TIME!

[jordangirl]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 10:33am

How did someone from the orchestra REACH a box to poke you? I can't figure out that arrangement.

I would agree with Wicked for the first question and [title of show] for the second. I really wanted to like it, but the fans really made it impossible for me to.

[withoutyou08]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:30am

lmfao jordangirl i was thinking the same thing. im a big renthead but sometimes when i would go see the show some girls would really be out of control especailly at the stagedoor.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:35am

maybe she had a poking device made of chopsticks.

[mwill]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:13pm

Billy Elliot in London. After the show I went for a drink with a friend at the Stage Door bar which is aptly next to the stage door for Billy Elliot. This show does seem to attract the oddest fans I have ever seen at the theatre. One place to avoid I think.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:17pm

Something embarrassing happened nearly every other time I saw Jersey Boys in San Francisco.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 12:55pm

All I will say is Spamalot. You can probably guess the rest. :) I just wanted to see the show because I had an interest, regardless of who was in it, but apparently not everyone thinks the same way.

[vagary66]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:37pm

I was embarrassed for myself when I sold something to George Hearn's assistant on ebay. I wrote practically a love letter. Afterwards I read it and realized how insane I sounded.

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:43pm

I was turned off of RENT for a while because of the rather annoying fanbase, but I started loving it again

[feline0favenueQ]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 2:54pm

I'm embarrassed to be a fan of almost all of my favorite shows. RENT,SA, LB, [tos], so on.

We have such a bad rep.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 3:07pm

lol well it was an orchestra box seat, so they were on the sides of the orchestra, elevated so that the floor we were on was about at the level of the top of the seats in the orchestra, plus, there was like a hole under the railing, so this little girl kept trying to poke us and we just tried to ignore her... then during intermission she somehow found out how to get to the box area and she proceeded to hug my friend.. omg she was so weird!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 3:51pm

Yeah, I love Little Mermaid. The fanbase is all five-year-old girls and idiotic tourists. (I fall into the second group, being slightly too old to fit the first one.)

Also, I quite like Phantom of the Opera, but it's not something I usually talk about, because most people think of angsty fangirls obsessed with the Phantom, whereas I just think the music is catchy and Raoul's adorably pouncy. And Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are not well-thought-of, which brings me to... my love for "CATS." It's waned considerably, but for a long time when I was in elementary school, "CATS" was my favourite thing. Two of my friends and I would do all of the songs and as much of the choreography as we could on the playground every day. When I was nine or ten, I kept running into creepy Jellicle porno fanfiction online and other disgusting stuff like that, which brought me down from that fandom cloud.

I'm a massive Spamalot fan, but no one's ever accused me of being a Claymate before. The two times I saw it were before he arrived, and most people who know me know that I'm just completely obsessed with Monty Python.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 3:52pm

[tos] fans are getting a little creepy.

[Yawper]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:03pm

The attention whores at Liza shows who insist on yelling out at inappropriate times, often interrupting the performer and breaking the mood she's establishing with her lead-in comments for a song. If they 'love' Liza so much why are they disrespecting her during her performance? I want to hunt them down and throttle them. Shut up and pay attention, jerks.

[sroderick2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:07pm

I've been embarrassed to be a fan of Wicked, Rent and SA, because of some behavior problems in the audience and at stage door (including at 9 to 5, which has SJB singing the line "no good deed goes unpunished"...oy, the cheers). Although, I find that this embarrassment often changes into relief that I'm not like that myself, and that helps me carry myself when I go to stage door.

I mostly just remember that I was that way myself when I was fourteen, but it's was because of Lord of the Rings, where there was considerably less access to the stars :P.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:20pm

"maybe she had a poking device made of chopsticks."

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!! Givesmevoice, that was hilarious!!!!!!!

[RoxieRose3]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:32pm

which brings me to... my love for "CATS." It's waned considerably, but for a long time when I was in elementary school, "CATS" was my favourite thing.

*Raises hand* Guilty.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 4:34pm

I'll "come out" in regards to Les Mis fandom.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:05pm

Ah, I'm out and proud in terms of the Les Miserables fandom. I'm not even embarrassed to be a rabid Mizzie. (But I do know people who've seen the show literally hundreds of times, which scares me a lot. I've only seen it twice live, and never on Broadway.) But yeah, I'm the 'type' who can sing the whole show from beginning to end with no mistakes, which is really scary, I guess.

[fizzthelibertine]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:44pm

Les Mis fangirl checking in. =] schuerg_the_impaler- I'm that type, too. I haven't seen the show dozens of times but I know the score really well.

I know they're not associated with a musicals, but Grobanites and Claymates can get really scary.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:47pm

But yeah, I'm the 'type' who can sing the whole show from beginning to end with no mistakes, which is really scary, I guess.

But which version?! With or without the overtime cuts? How about "Ten Little Bullets" and the stupid "eagle flies" lyric? And do you know the Barbican lyrics?! *froth froth*

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 5:54pm

I know you didn't want me to answer this question, but I'm such a dork, I'll go ahead.

Well, I know the full Complete Symphonic Recording, the complete school edition, and the complete revival version (with Ten Little Bullets and all of the cuts), but I don't know the original London stuff, and I don't know "I Saw Him Once," which I guess makes me a bad Mis fan. But I have read the novel more times than any sane person should, and I do know all the Forbidden Broadway versions of the songs.

There, I just embarrassed all of the other Mis fans on this site. But I think I'm sliiiiightly redeemed by the fact that I've always hated Eponine and that my favourite characters are Montparnasse and Thenardier.

Updated On: 12/1/08 at 05:54 PM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 7:01pm

Certain [tos]sers are way too creepy. Like wait outside their (the cast's) homes creepy.
Updated On: 12/1/08 at 07:01 PM