"While a marriage proposal is certainly special to the couple involved it is very common given the tens of thousands of people who see shows each week.
Do not make a theater audience sit thru your intimate life moments. They came and paid to see an actual rehearsed and well crafted Broadway show, not to be part of a strangers wedding announcement.
There are always audience members celebrating an anniversary or engagement or birthday every night. Let's hope management does not make us sit thru them unless their last name is Miranda."
What do you mean it is very common? I have seen practically every show on Broadway this century and I witnessed a proposal after only one Broadway show, Cinderella. I also saw one at a concert at Madison Square Garden and at a book signing, which held up the incredibly long lone. All three times the audience was super excited, as were the performers. A birthday or an anniversary, an annual thing, wouldn't be the same. This is a once in a life time moment. You know how people say if you don't want a gay marriage don't have one? Same thing applies. Who are you to judge?
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