Have You Ever Been a Rude Audience Member?- Page 2

[MissElphie]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:28pm

I have, and I felt really bad about it. During Jane Eyre, I got into a giggle fit and couldn't get out. As Rochester was singing "Jaaaannee....." I burst out laughing. I don't know why, and being a performer I felt terrible. It had nothing to do with the actor or the show. Just one of those things.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:30pm

I got shooshed once when I was about 7 because I was talking too much during A Christmas Carol. But I think that's it. Other than giggling during Lestat (not that others weren't doing the same).

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:33pm

Well actually I do have another but it was in a movie and i got ejected lol. Me and overthemoon6 (megan) well i think megan was there. W/e anyways so we kept laughing during this stupid movie that we had hopped to. So the "dramatic" parts made all of us laugh and then we had a fight with pennies lol and paper that I had in my purse. Before you know it some lady gets up and then comes back with a theater attendant who tells us we must leave. LoL. Then when we are walking out the lady who called on us says, "Didn't your mommy tell you not talk to in a moive theater"
Oh wow I must say that was a fun afternoon. lol

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:57pm

Ummmm, whenever I see dance shows at my school with my best friend (well, whenever we watch them together - I'm in most of the dance shows, but sometimes I get to go out to the audience and watch the second act) we talk the entire time because we're horrible people. But I would never talk through something that costs more than, like, $10!

Okay, and I talked with my same friend all the way through my school's Once on This Island, but honestly? If you hear one song from that show, you've heard the whole show. And we were in the back row.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:59pm

Ummmm, whenever I see dance shows at my school with my best friend (well, whenever we watch them together - I'm in most of the dance shows, but sometimes I get to go out to the audience and watch the second act) we talk the entire time because we're horrible people. But I would never talk through something that costs more than, like, $10!

Wow.

I've been to several HS and college dance shows, and if I were sitting by you, I'd clock you one.

Just because it costs less than $10 doesn't mean you get to gab through it.

But congrats on realizing how horrible you are.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 10:21pm

my mom managed to disrupt a matinee of thoroughly modern millie without moving or saying a word. When Graydon (kevin earley) made his entrance my mom somehow caught his eye, and he kinda stared at her smiling for like 15 seconds before he caught himself and started talking. At the stage door afterwards he saw her yelled "hi!" blushed a little and gave her a hug.

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 10:44pm

Oh my god that is so cute!
I wish that would happen with me, only if it were Jesse L. Martin filming law&order lol.

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 11:04pm

at hairspray once me and 2 of my friends were cheering pretty loud for most of the show.but we were just rooting on our friend who was leaving the show that day. most of the people understood since they knew it was her last show. but the people in front of us were annoyed. besides that i used to fall asleep when i was younger.

[Brokenlizard14]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 11:10pm

I hate to admit this but yes. Last year, my junior year in high school, our choir field trip to Chicago was to see Peter Pan (we go to a different show every year). My friends and I were really bored with it, but we LOVED the man playing Captain Hook. We got sick of everyone booing when he came onstage (I know it's good natured, but c'mon. lol) so we decided that next time he came on we'd all stand up and cheer. I couldn't help it. It had to be done. lol. so we did it (there were about 6 of us in the front Mezz.) and he looked up and said "You only encourage me." completely in character. It was great, but I'm sure a lot of people were really upset with us. lol

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 11:44pm

I was today during Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

We arrived late and I kinda made noise with my jacket, but the guy next to me was laughing obnixously.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 11:47pm

Brokenlizard, I know what you mean. I always felt bad when people booed for Kevin Cahoon during the curtain call for Chitty. I mean, he plays the bad guy, but he plays the bad guy very well. At least give him credit for that.

[Overthemoon6]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 12:50am

Lol, no Hil, I wasn't there, I was in either New York or New Hampshire. Anyway, I don't really think it's that rude, just really embarassing. When my friend and I went to see Rent, and Maureen was asking everyone to moo, we were mooing really loudly, and doing different things, like cracking our voices as we mooed. I didn't see Maureen cut off, so everyone else is silent, and I let out a HUGE moo where my voice is cracked. People turned around and stared at me. It was soooo embarassing.

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 2:03am

When I was about 13, I went with my parents and sister to see "Judas Kiss" (We were used to seeing theater since we were very young, and I had already become interested in Oscar Wilde. So this play was a must see for me)

So, the very first scene of the play is a completely naked woman, who's standing up, receiving oral pleasure from a man. Full male and female frontal nudity followed.

So, of course, my sister and I got a HUGE case of the giggles. And we could NOT stop laughing. We annoyed everyone around us.

But, we were 12 and 13! Can you blame us?!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 10:36am

Brokenlizard, funny that you mention Peter Pan. My daughter and I might have seen the same production last year when the tour rolled through Madison Square Garden. Which brings me to my confession: we were running late (it was a 7 PM curtain) so we grabbed some McNuggets-to-go in Penn Station and hid them in the pockets of my winter coat.

Never mind that I smelled like processed chicken (we got the 10-piece) or that I looked like the Michelin Man with my binoculars in one pocket and my dinner in the other. After all, even though it was Cathy Rigby, this wasn't exactly the Lunt-Fontanne. It was the old Felt Forum, where everyone from Mott the Hoople to Bruno Sammartino have filled the ring, I mean, um, stage.

So here we are, worried that we'll be caught eating. And there are the ushers, selling popcorn and those twirlie whirlie lights you see at the circus. And oh yeah, as we sat down mere minutes before the overture, less than half the audience were in their seats. Meanwhile, the people still streaming in were chatting like they were at a ball game upstairs.

Then one of the kids in the middle of the aisle had to make a wee wee. Then the people a few rows in back of us were loudly complaining to the ushers that their kids couldn't see. Well, my kid can't hear, so shut up! And the kids to the left are busy trying to find out how long the batteries in their cursed twirlie whirlie lights will last.

But anyway, that's only half my Peter Pan story. My daughter goes to a typical outer boro New York City public school, one that's not so tough it needs metal detectors, but it's nothing like the happy camp that I remember school being when I was a kid.

Last week, the after school program presented a one-night-only production of Peter Pan (the play, not the musical). So of course all of the kids not in the show had to watch the show, whether they wanted to or not. They filled up the first five rows, with all the parents behind them. And while the kids didn't boo for Hook, they wouldn't clap for Tinkerbell either.

So here's poor Tinkerbell, splayed out on the stage, poisoned by Hook, and here's Peter Pan telling us that if only we believed in fairies and clapped our hands, she'd be OK. And here's these city kids, hissing and jeering, screaming that there's no such thing as fairies, shouting at the girl playing Peter to just let the bitch die.

And no clapping...

Poor kid, she looked like she was gonna cry. At first, the parents were laughing at the ruckus. But as Peter's pleadings edged closer to tears, and even Tinkerbell looked worried, the parents began to clap. Then some of the kids joined in. Then more. And Peter was beaming -- like she'd just made the 'you like me' speech at the Oscars. Then Tink stood up, healed by the magic of our hands.

[Esparzafan]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 12:01pm

OK, this is a really embarassing one...

My husband and I had press tickets to see BUG (off Broadway) at a really tiny theater / community center in the village. It was August and 90+ degrees that evening, one of those brutal summer heatwave nights. Apparently, trying to save money on running the air conditioner, the theater teased the audience with a little AC before the show started but abruptly stopped the air flow when the show started. At intermission, they kicked the air on again for a few minutes. People were complaining about how hot it was and about 20 minutes into Act 2 (if anyone has seen it, it was during the self-dental surgery gory part) I started to feel a little dizzy. I reached down to grab my playbill from the knapsack under my feet (there was a sea of playbills being used as fans in the audience it was so hot) and from the combo of heat and the visual of blood on stage, I passed out. My husband thought I was bent over, laughing and did his best to wake me up quietly. When I woke up, I thought I was talking in an "inside voice", barely a whisper, but in reality, I was stage whispering loudly. Picture this: HIM: Are you ok? ME: I'M OK! HIM: You fainted. ME: WHAT?! FAINTED?! We laugh about it now at least!

[HoshiForever]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 1:24pm

These amuse me to no end.

The closest I've ever had was one time seeing Rent in the movie theatre. It was my fifth time and my friend's third so we were chatting softly through a couple parts and this couple in front of us got up and moved. We felt kind of bad but at the same time were like "...We mad them move...ROCK ON!"

[Anakela]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:09pm

Wicked tour in L.A.: friend and I are sitting close to the aisle. In the 'dark' between the end of the show and the start of the curtain call these two women are trying to rush and beat the crowd out. We think it's incredibly rude to duck out before the curtain call like that, so (the rude me part:) we refuse to stand and they have to climb over us to get out of the row. And yes, we were making comments to each other about how it's so rude to leave before the curtain call.

I know, it's very sixth grade to be all fighting rudeness with rudeness, but if even the nine year old child that I brought to a different performance knows that there's "the part where they bow and we get to clap for them," for two grown folks to be rushing out like that... That may just be my biggest pet peeve right there- folks that try and 'beat the crowd' so that they can get their car out first, or get the best stage door spot, or whatever their excuse.

Not saying you must stand, or even you must clap, but to just blow off the curtain call altogether? Lame.

[children&art]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:17pm

sad to admit, but i walked out of a show that friends were in because, well it stank. it was "violet" at plano rep and i literally fell asleep during act 1.

[RENThead414]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 4:16pm

well, this wasn't *exactly* rude, as I wasn't blocking anyone's vision, but the last time I was at Wicked I was sitting on top of my backpack so that I could see over the people in front of me. But, the way the seats are angled in the Oriental, there was no one directly behind me so I wasn't blocking anybody. The people in FRONT of me kind of found it rude, though, because this woman and her (shorter-than-me) daughter were also having a hard time seeing. I can't help it if I'm resourceful

[kate2]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 5:28pm

When i saw DRS, this guy asked the usher if he could record it... so before the usher could respond i yelled out "WHAT DO YOU THINK, MORON!?"

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 6:41pm

He ASKED if he could record it?! What is this, Mrs. Brown's 2nd grade class's production of The Three Little Pigs? The warning in the playbill and the announced warning they make didn't already give him a hint?

[kate2]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 6:48pm

so i guess my outburst wasnt really rude... it was just necessary!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 6:49pm

I am very guilty of inappropriate laughter. Not often, but I've done it. I laughed my way through my entire first viewing of Chitty. At Raúl.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 6:54pm

Exactly kate. Someone that dense needs to be yelled at to get the point across.

I laughed at all the ad-libs in Chitty. It was just probably annoying because no one around me was laughing, but I knew that it was different, so I laughed.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/1/06 at 6:56pm

Oh, no. I just stifled giggles the ENTIRE time. I felt kind of bad, at least for my mom, who was right next to me. I kept pretty quiet, but still. hee.