RUDE PEOPLE AT THE THEATER!

What shows?

Why do you ask questions for which the answer is unimportant and unrelated to the thread? Its quite annoying.

"punction marks"

LOL

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McDonalds? Haha, wow, some people are just really dumb when it comes to theatre etiquette.

Once had a kid sitting next to my husband eating SALAMI!!! He waved it around (smell and all!) and was wiggling so much he was, at one point, half-sitting on my husband's lap!

Another pet-peeve I have is when I'm sitting in the mezz---the people in the front row find it necessary to sit with their elbows on the half-wall in front of them, obscuring the view for those of us behind them!

Usually, tho', I find people in live program theaters better than in movie theaters (which is why I don't see movies any longer) :)

If anyone sitting next to me ate liverwurst, I would quite unrepentantly throw up in their lap.

Ugh. I was once at a show and this drunk woman was sitting next to me. She proceeded to ASK ME questions throughout the first act about what was going on! I didn't even know her! God wanted to bitchslap her upside the head. At least there was an empty seat to my right so I finally just moved over one. I think she spent the rest of the show giggling and asking questions to her boyfriend who was sitting on her other side. (Why she bothered to talk to me when she was with someone, I don't know. Like I said, she was drunk.)

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This happened to my mother about a decade ago at POTO. Watching the show, the lady behind her started singing. In the theatre. With all of the songs. At intermission she said, "I didn't pay to hear you sing, I paid to hear the actors." Her boyfriend said, "You're just jealous you can't sing like her."

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

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It was kind of funny, but when John McMartin first came onstage during GG, someone waited until it got pretty quiet, and went "Do you KNOW who that is?" It was rude, but still cute.

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At Mary Poppins, loud middle aged tourists found it necessary to be speaking while the show was starting. Actually, it felt like my whole section of the balcony thought that the opening scene was a swell time to yap their traps while the curtain was rising...

You know what I did? I emitted the shound
"SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" as loud as I could, and followed it with a softer "Cripe" (my personal minor explative)...not one of them spoke for the rest of the show...when they did, I shot them dirty looks of death. No problems after the first 2 minutes.

Oh, I am wicked.

At Wicked, two ladies were yapping their mouths all of the first act. They were sitting next to my friend. At the END of intermission, they opened a bag of Fritos and were talking at the beginng of Act II. I decided enough was enough. I reached over my friend, stared them straight in the eyes and said softly but firmly: "Can you PLEASE be quiet? People want to watch the show."

No more problems after that!

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I guess this is not really rude, becuase it was not really his fault. But when I was seeing Avenue q the guy next to me was really.....lets say overweight, so he took up his seat and half mine and was burping through out the while show. It was very annoying.

I saw a production of A Chorus Line in Chicago and the person sitting behind me was translating the show into Spanish! Very Loudly.

CINCO,SEIS,SEITE,OCHO!!