Rude People in Theatres — Page 4

"You would think that at a "highbrow" show like The Pillowman would filter out the riff-raff but you would be wrong."

Seriously, like the guy sitting behind me who called out "I am Jesus," during "The Little Jesus." It's called pausing for dramatic effect, dumb*ss

Yeah, that's the **** that John Simon junior was pulling--like he was offended by the show's conceit and wanted to make sure we all knew how smart he was...thank god he didn't return after intermission--i just wish he had taken the Curtain Call Bandit with him...I expect bootleg audiences at something like The Donkey Show or Tony n Tina's, but this?

Actually I've come across more inconsiderate behavior at The Pillowman than any other show I've seen this season. A lot of times it's people muttering away to each other about how horrible this is or how sick and shocking, etc. Then of course there was the Darth Vader-like breathing and snoring at Doubt. I just assume I hear more of this at plays because there isn't any loud music to cover it up.

Actually I don't think this guy was really asleep even though he was making snoring sounds, or at least not the whole time coz people kept looking over at him and he was really obnoxious about it. Saying really loudly "What's your problem?" or "Why do you keep turning around?". Since I sat right in front of him, I could even hear when his companion whispered to him to keep it down and he got annoyed with her and said "Stop poking me!".

lol. So, it's more like he needs to lay off the desserts and join WW. I say that with love.

I love when people are in the wrong and they get indignant. Ain't it fun?

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I watched the 'Man of la Mancha' revival with my school group. Majority of the kids made fun of the merchendise and decided to add commentary for a scene, to make it less boring. I was very tempted to tell them to shut up. The plus side was, Stokes' singing "The Impossible Dream" made them shut up.

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Middle school groups should be limited to Disney shows on Broadway. I'm serious; a group of 13 year old boys is basically on on the same maturity level as a 6 year old, so they should be treated as such. At least at those shows, the audience members are already assuming they're going to have to deal with children.

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Forget the show ON STAGE, sometimes the best one is in the audience (there are some entertaining idiots there)!

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I've had two experiences worth sharing. When I saw the recent revival of Oklahoma, I sat next to a five-year-old who squirmed and asked questions during the whole show. I spoke to the mother, who basically said that they paid all this money for these tickets and she didn't say anything to her child at all or do anything about it.

When I saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the back edges of the orchestra were empty. Two young women sat in empty seats at intermission, and the guy behind them had a fit. One of the women was somewhat overweight but not obese, but not especially tall, and he made loud nasty comments about how he didn't want to sit behind this fat girl who came down from the mezzanine and made a huge fuss. It was mortifying -- he kept making comments about how big and fat she was and was practically yelling at them. He got the usher, and the usher came over and asked the girls to go back to their original seats upstairs.

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Updated On: 9/13/05 at 09:58 PM

"When I saw the recent revival of Oklahoma, I sat next to a five-year-old who squirmed and asked questions during the whole show. I spoke to the mother, who basically said that they paid all this money for these tickets and she didn't say anything to her child at all or do anything about it. "

And you paid all your money to sit and listen to her child talk? I hate when people take that attitude. As though the fact they spent all that money entitles them to be as rude as they want.

OK guys....this has BY FAR been the most entertaining thread in the history of the message board. I have to give you my story...it might top everything.

My best friend and I are avid theatre goers. We live in North Carolina but go up to NYC quite often for a week of solid show-seeing. Keep in mind this story takes place in WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA at a national tour of Fiddler on the Roof in Asheville, NC....

My friend and I bought student tickets as we always do. We were in rear mezz of course and right after the show started this lady walked in with two kids...my first thought is whatttt...ok so about twenty minutes goes by and of course the children are restless. Well, the baby started crying and all of us back there are like shhhhhhhh! So, what does she do? SHE FLOPS OUT HER BOOB AND STARTS FEEDING THE CHILD. My first thought was like OMG! So she stands up and goes to the side of the theater and stands there with her little boy swinging on the rails and stuff. I was LITERALLY laughing about how rude it was and how CLASSLESS! (I won't even go into the man behind me at the same performance who was on a VENTILATOR that made sounds every 10 seconds!). THANKFULLY, at intermission we got to move to 7th or 8th row orchestra!

THought you guys would enjoy that!

hahah Ghostlight .. I was thinking the same thing.

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I think you are missing my point...the ventilator didnt bother me...i just threw that in to show what a disasterous seating arrangement i had. nothing against handicapped people at all. neither of you responded to the woman...i just thought that was totally uncall for. (especially having 2 children at the theatre)