Popcorn at "Hairspray"?! WTF?
Popcorn at "Hairspray"?! WTF?
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#0Popcorn at "Hairspray"?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:06pmWhy are they selling popcorn at the theatre? It is very annoying to hear someone crunching and munching, especially when they try to use their cell phone. No wonder audiences behave so badly these days.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#1re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:07pmThey have been selling it there for almost a year now
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#2re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:07pmyou jest! what have we been reduced to?
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#3re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:09pmNext up, Nachos and Hot Dogs!
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#4re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:09pm
COTTON CANDY!
OH PLEASE!! I'M ALWAYS CRAVING IT IN THE THEATRE!!
#5re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:10pm
Intermission will now be referred to as "half time."
The pit orchestra will now be called "the band."
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jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#6re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:11pmWon't it be great to have the smells of the AMC theatre in a Broadway house. Double Nachos with cheese, please!
#7re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:14pm
The cast will now be called "the starting line-up."
Understudies will be referred to as "second string"...
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DDdirector
Understudy Joined: 11/15/05
#8re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:19pmWhen I went and saw it last fall I couldn't believe it. I felt like I was at a movie.
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#9re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:24pmwell if there is any show to eat at, it would be hairspray.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#10re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 6:40pm
A little off the subject, but go to Patti's website and read her January ramble about candy wrappers in the theatre, guys drinking cans of beer in the first row and wanting to high-five Michael Cerveris. It's crazy out there...
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PalaceRent06
Understudy Joined: 1/18/06
#11re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 7:42pm
when i went to this one show a couple of kids brought popcorn and candy to the theatre and hid it in there pockets and i friends with them...i said "you cant have that in hear, its just wrong" and they denied it...so i had the usher make them throw it out
i hate when people disrespect that much, its so annoying
#12re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 7:44pmIt's almost as obnoxious as having people walk up and down the aisles of the Hilton yelling "Programs!" "Chiity cars and light up necklaces!"
To Kill A Mockingbird
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#13re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 8:31pm
And you all have perfect theater etiquitte?
playbillguy
Swing Joined: 5/18/06
#14re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 8:31pm
Besides the concessions........Can we talk about how they dress at the Theater?
Some people come looking like they were distributed free tickets to Broadway Shows from their local trailer parks.
EEEEK
The theater is a sacred place...People !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's respect it.
#15re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 8:33pm
Yankeefan007 --- Yes, I DO.
I hold MY farts until intermission.
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#16re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 8:36pmThe theater used to be a sacred place. It isn't anymore. Shows are now put on for the hell-of-it....let's combine the music of Clay Aiken and the lingustic talent of Paula Abdul (kidding, of course) and call it a show. It's about money.
#17re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 8:47pm
best12bars- Haha. Actually, a guy sitting next to me at Mame asked me whether the show had a half time or not. I stared at him blankly until he said, "ya know, the break in the middle of a show." Then I realized he meant intermission.
Could be worse though- he seemed to enjoy the performance and did not annoy me.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#18re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 9:34pm
And you all have perfect theater etiquitte?
I would bet many of the people on this board do have great theatre etiquitte. (Most) people here respect shows. I know I have great theatre etiquitte.
#19re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 9:36pm
no, nachos and hot dogs were at the San Diego Civic Theater for Little Women.
Last Sunday at Hairspray, was a woman two people away who insisted on eating candy and making noise with her wrapper as she did. She was not young, probably mid to late 60's and should know better
#20re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:51pmWhen I saw Q in Vegas, anyone who sat down next to me with popcorn I was going to pay them to throw it away.
#21re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:56pmThe world has gone man I tell you mad.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#22re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 10:57pm
I was hoping this thread was a joke.
WoW.
#24re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:15pmOH wait ... aren't they thinknig of doing PREVIEWS before shows...?
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#25re: Popcorn at 'Hairspray'?! WTF?
Posted: 6/9/06 at 11:26pmThis is a shame. It's too bad the theatre doesn't have the same class as it used to/should.
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