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#26

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/7/11 at 7:14pm

Never booed, pooed, or scrooed in a theater. I guess I am missing out.

Unless it is part of the show, I would never boo. Like many said, I would just simply withhold by applause.

Why would I spend $100+ on a ticket to miss a show and scroo someone? Unless I was lucky enough to be invited back stage after the show.

Pooing, well if you have to go...

Not to be confused with Dave19.

#27

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/7/11 at 7:48pm

Once in a great while I actually feel like standing up.

However, it's really impossible to go to see any show on Broadway and not end up standing during the curtain call, unless of course you want to spend the next 3 minutes looking at the standing butts sitting in the row in front of you.

#28

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/7/11 at 8:28pm

>> Unless I was lucky enough to be invited back stage after the show.

Not naming names, but let's just say it was a very pleasant surprise. The actor in question and I dated for a short while; it was very nice all around. Great guy.

And I had no idea dressing rooms were that small.

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#29

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/7/11 at 9:37pm

unless of course you want to spend the next 3 minutes looking at the standing butts sitting in the row in front of you.

Depends on who's sitting in the row in front of me.

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

#30

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 12:00am

I've never booed or walked out, but I will give standing ovations if the performance moved me.

Last week at Jerusalem, I've never seen so many people leave a theatre during intermission, but the people who stayed jumped to their feet and gave the longest bout of applause I've ever seen at a performance (not including openings, closings, etc).

"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

#31

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 9:44am

Not exactly the same thing, but I was never into applauding and/or yelling when the star makes his/her entrance. What is everyone cherring? That the star showed up to his/her job?

#32

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 9:58am

I neither boo nor clap in the theatre. It's so lower middle class. You don't boo or clap in the cinema, do you? The theatre is a temple where we go to view the human condition in all of its glory and all of its shame. It is a learning experience, much like church where we go to have our souls cleansed, not to be cheered or jeered as if rooting for one's favorite team at a sporting event.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#33

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 10:05am

"Not exactly the same thing, but I was never into applauding and/or yelling when the star makes his/her entrance."

I hate that too. It always messes up Rose's first entrance in Gypsy.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#34

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 10:07am

"You don't boo or clap in the cinema, do you?"

For those of us of a certain age, it was not uncommon to do that in the cinema not so long ago. "Star Wars" anyone? "Jaws?" "Indiana Jones"? "Apocalypse Now"? I think it was around the general timeframe of those examples that clapping in the movies died away. Having said that, I was at a movie about a month ago where, to my surprise, applause errupted at the end. It was the first time I'd experienced that in years. (And, yes, I go to the movies frquently, roughly 5-6 times a month.)

#35

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 10:50am

I neither boo nor clap in the theatre. It's so lower middle class.

How many lower middle class do you know who can afford $135 tickets? Also, what is it about Republicans equating everything they find gauche with the poor? I thought you guys were the party of the people...

You don't boo or clap in the cinema, do you?

The actors also don't bow to you at the end of a film.

It is a learning experience, much like church where we go to have our souls cleansed, not to be cheered or jeered

You've obviously never been to an AME church service on a Sunday morning. Not surprised, since your entire post is drenched in stick-up-the-ass N.E. protestantism.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that Goth won't be responding to any of his outrageous comments.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#36

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 11:02am

>> . What is everyone cherring?

Sometimes it gets way out of hand, but I do like the idea of the audience telling the star they're glad she's here. It's not just "oh, okay, do your job". The connection goes a little deeper than that.

Frankly, sometimes I dont think we interact enough with the performers. I'm not saying everything should be melodrama big, but when you have people out there throwing out tons of energy into a big black void, I can imagine that would get pretty exhausting.

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#37

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 11:11am

If a performance is bad enough to warrant a boo, I usually just walk out. I'm not going to stick around and subject myself to something I find unindurable, but I'm certainly not interested in creating a big noisy broo-ha-ha during something others may be enjoying. Well, there was that one Labute play in London, but I didn't boo. I was just trying to get out of there and accidentally told Neil what I thought of his awful play on the way out.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#38

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 11:28am

Do all of you stand on the sidewalk and applaud or boo the person that hauls away your garbage? Do you applaud or boo the cashier when they have scanned and bagged your groceries? When your scrambled eggs and crisp bacon arrive, do you applaud your server?

I suggest that once a year at Christmas, we give actors a card with a $20 tucked into it and let that be sufficient for them.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#39

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 11:30am

No, but I do stand outside my tax attorney's office and ask him for his autograph.

#40

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 11:44am

>> Do all of you stand on the sidewalk and applaud or boo the person that hauls away your garbage? Do you applaud or boo the cashier when they have scanned and bagged your groceries? When your scrambled eggs and crisp bacon arrive, do you applaud your server?

No, but I do make a point of telling them I appreciate their work. These people work damn hard for very little money, and it doesnt take much to say, "Hey, thanks." And isnt that what applause really is?

I gather you find that sort of thing beneath you. Pity.

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#41

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 1:00pm

"He's sharp in places and the Bb isn't perfect--but considering the fact that many tenors don't even attempt the Bb when singing this aria, I'm willing to cut him some slack."

Just to rekindle the Roberto Alagna thing for a moment... Have you really heard of tenors not singing the Bb in "Celeste Aida"? I have heard it done in a head voice - which got a very negative reaction - but never omitted altogether. I can't imagine any opera audience would stand for that.

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

#42

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 6:17pm

And to re-kindle the poo thing...

"I think the greater question for all of us is have you ever pooed in a theatre."

I sharted once.

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#43

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 7:46pm

To be entirely polite to Herr Gothampc:

"Would you kindly remove the stick up your ass, and stop being such a pretentious, snobby, little prick."

Ah-Thank-a you,Signor!

#44

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 7:54pm

Never. I have been a performer in the past so I understand what it is like to step out in front of people and try to make them feel something. I couldn't boo some one anymore than I could tell a woman she was ugly, tell a parent their child is stupid, or tell a religious zealot that they are wrong. I have been in the situation where any of those replies would have been accurate, but they were never appropriate. We are a society, and in this together, if you don't like something do what I do, slip away at intermission or stay till the end and give the production a polite round of applause to acknowledge the effort, if not the result. If you need to boo go find a nice melodrama and knock yourself out.

#45

Have you ever Booed in the theatre? Would you?

Posted: 8/8/11 at 8:42pm

Wow, Gothampc. You're so pretentious I almost makes me want to meet you. Bravo!!! (Or is that too lower middle class for you?)

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