Ha ha, the spitting made the Times! I am glad the author pointed out that, even on stage, the audience members are still just spectators and no one is really looking at them. I liked the show so much more from onstage than from the audience, and it disappoints me a little when people say they don't want to sit on stage because most of the audience can see them. Having seen the show from the normal audience too, it's true, no one is looking at the stage seats. My friend was sitting in the stage seat closest to the orchestra, and he bumped into friends after the show who had not even noticed he was there and were surprised to hear he sat on stage.
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA