"it's the very nature of this thread is what I object to. The purpose of this thread is to point how how "hilarious" (which is in the title) it is when a theater patron makes a mistake or doesn't know something that the geniuses on this board think they know about theater. As long as it exists, I'll complain."
Jane2, Yes. It is hilarious. Why complain? The thread is targeted to the "geniuses on this board" with a knowledge that tourists do not. I don't find anything wrong with that.
"No, but you are most definitely saying things like "I can't believe how stupid people are", or how "unbelievable the ignorance is", etc.
Don't be making value judgments of people because they pronounced a stage actor's name wrong. Perhaps the personal insults could be left out of the posts."
I do agree with you there. It was never my intent when I created this thread to refer to the tourists who make these comments as "stupid." The humor comes from them being uninformed or thinking they know something but they don't. It doesn't make them "stupid"...just uninformed.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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