Mofongo on Broadway! — Page 9

I work in a school and saw The Color Purple at least 5 times on Broadway because of field trips. I NEVER experienced any of the behavior mentioned here except enthusiastic applause. Could it be that people's expectations color their perception?

Not that it matters ten pages in, but I understand TheatreNut's original post perfectly.

The fact is that Ricky Martin will draw a heavily Latino crowd.

For economic reasons, among others, Latino crowds don't attend the theatre heavily unless there is a big Latino star in the show. For that, many of them will leave their television sets and hotfoot it to Broadway.

There, because of a lack of experience with attending the theatre, they will talk loudly, unwrap things loudly and maybe even talk back at the stage - like they are watching their television sets.

This has nothing to do with their race. This has to do with the fact that Ricky Martin will draw a large crowd of Latino theatregoers, and that a great many of them will be coming to see a theatre show for the first time.

Three such people in the audience is easy to not pay attention to. 100 such people in the audience can make for a very distracting evening of theatre for those who are experienced theatregoers and behave as such.

That's all. Similar could be said of the hundreds of pre-teen girls who would surely come out to see Taylor Lautner in a play - not that that will ever happen, thank goodness.

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""This has nothing to do with their race"

?? but according to your post, it has everything to do with their race. everything.

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Rudy, but you said "Latino crowds don't attend the theatre heavily unless there is a big Latino star in the show."

You're talking about Latinos.

"There, because of a lack of experience with attending the theatre, they will talk loudly, unwrap things loudly and maybe even talk back at the stage - like they are watching their television sets."

Above, you're talking about Latinos.

"This has nothing to do with their race. This has to do with the fact that Ricky Martin will draw a large crowd of Latino theatregoers, and that a great many of them will be coming to see a theatre show for the first time."

Latino theatregoers, you said.

Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but you worded it that way.

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NO, Dame, I did not. You are incorrect. I still do not know what he meant and that's fine. I've moved on from it.

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Updated On: 3/16/12 at 06:27 PM

Thank you Blaxx. That's what I inferred from that post, regardless of what Kreskin believes.

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Never knew the derivation of a churro. I've only had them at Costco.

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I see your point in a way, Dame. I admit to being literal to a fault so I took Rudy's post on face value.

This thread has outlived its relevance, I shouldn't have joined it again.

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...To me ( my opinion.. not anyone else's) the post was not offensive at all till others made it offensive....

And yet, there are those words "especially" and "Latin community" still in the title.

Just yesterday, the Kansas State pep squad chanted "GET A GREEN CARD!" at a Puerto Rican player for the opposing basketball team. Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich calls Obama the "food stamps president" and a Fox News commentator says the President looks "like a skinny, crackhead."

With such incidents on the rise, I don't think this is an apt time to tell people of color they are "too sensitive" or "too quick to take offense".

Yes, DAME, and the implication was that the show would be unwatchable because of Latino behavior in the audience. Or at least that seemed to be the point of the OP.

We don't have to go in circles and I'm not accusing you (or the OP) of being bad people. But broad statements about any minority group will attract attention.

And speaking for myself as a blond, blue-eyed, fair-skinned person, I assume that blaxx and I have at times faced varied sorts of treatment in life. In this case, I agreed with his understanding of the original post. But if I had not, I would still be very reluctant to judge him too easily offended.

Because I allow for the possibility that he has had a different experience of the world than I.

ok well I'm going off on a related but pleasant tangent of this topic.

Where I work, we once had a show about Celia Cruz, performed in Spanish for most of the shows. The patrons who came were almost all Hispanic. The difference between these patrons and the ones we see most of the time was........ They were DRESSED UP!!!!!

I know it dates me, but I'm from the era when going to the theater was a special occasion and we dressed up for it. Also, in those days, you were ready to be seated with a dollar in your hand, for the usher. It was automatic-the usher pointed to your seat, you handed them the dollar.

oy, ok, that's all.

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Really? I must not be reading those threads. Rude audience behavior sucks no matter what . And I think it comes from all races and backgrounds.

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