Raisin in the Sun- the audience eats potato chips

[sdgold60]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:17am

I saw the performance a few weekends ago. I was more than upset at talking through the dialogue and potato chip eating and soda popping during the first act. I complained to the house manager and then to the Shubert Organization. There needs to be an announcement or playbill insert. Movie going audiences do not understand live theater. It ruined the play for me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:19am

There was soda popping?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:19am

I don't know about the cat... but I sure am enjoying it.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 10:21am

They at least could have eaten raisins.

They are quiet and appropriate.

[evic]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:12am

Sweet Brown must have been in the house. Eating and drinking in the theater is accepted nowadays. The greedy producers have vendors hawk snacks during intermission like in the circus, so they are ok with it. It is so wrong, but sadly that is our society now......nobody's got no class.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:18am

They should sell raisins and Sun Chips at the concession.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:18am

Theaters now sell Pringles. F*CKING PRINGLES. It's not just this show, it's all of them.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 11:29am

Americans can't not eat for more than an hour. We simply wither up and die.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:32pm

Is it really just an American problem though? Weren't they hawking ice cream during the interval over in the West End well before Broadway theaters were allowing food and drink at your seats? (I feel as if I've read that before, please correct me if I'm wrong)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:35pm

They were at least as early as the the mid 90s--ice cream and drinks, from what I remember. I remember a friend said they'd done it for ages in London, so it seems to be part of the tradition there. Ice cream doesn't crunch, though I suppose.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:35pm

They've been selling ice cream as an interval treat since the dinosaurs on the West End, but the portions are tiny and ice cream is pretty freaking quiet.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:43pm

At a concession stand near you Raisin In The Sun raisins. Only $10 a box

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 5:46pm

I had the dude behind me eating chips and his wife chomping on nuts during The Realistic Joneses. It was very distracting and Toni Collette is soft-spoken-she was hard to hear at times. I was annoyed.

Who do I complain to? The theatre sold them that crap. It's disgraceful.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:06pm

Complain to the director and have him tell Toni to talk louder!

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:09pm

"Can the actors please speak up so I can hear them over the chewing and bag rattling?"

[Simon Damon]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:09pm

I never understood buying food for a show. Why would you need to eat during a show. Its rude to the patrons who paid good money for the show.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 6:12pm

In all seriousness I would still say to complain to the theatre management and/or producers. If your experience is unsatisfactory due to a controllable factor like that then you should let them know. I would compare it to people who write bad reviews for hotels on sites like Tripadvisor. They had a horrible experience, but a large number of those people just sat there in their problem ridden hotel room rather than complain about it and give the hotel management a chance to actually fix it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 7:06pm

I would love to see Patti on stage when she sees this type of behavior in front of her. It would be an atom bomb going off.

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 7:15pm

When I was still working at ticket scanning, occasionally people would ask me "where do we buy the hot dogs?" I used to get a good laugh out of that but now I'm sorry to say that hot dogs are probably next.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 7:35pm

Luckily I think the changes they would have to implement to meet health regulations to serve hot foods would be impractical for a majority of the Broadway theaters to meet. A lot of them are on shaky grounds with the health department as it is in the storage and handling of their pre-packaged foods.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 8:06pm

Jane, I was at PIPPIN back in Feb (super bowl weekend). A large family, all wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys, sat directly in front of me and then pulled out a concealed bag of hot dogs to munch on. Chili cheese dogs to be specific. Does that count?

Nastiest, grossest sh*t ever.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/25/14 at 8:10pm

Surprised they would even consider a Broadway show instead of the nearest bar.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 2:02am

But Hotdogs aren't noisy are they?

[darreyl102]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 2:05am

@ Borstalboy
That statement should read "SOME" Americans can't not eat for more than an hour. We simply wither up and die.
- Not ALL of us are like that. LOL

[brdway411]

Posted: 3/26/14 at 2:06am

No but they smell bad in the theater.