Rude Usher at Belasco Theatre

this evening after seeing an AMAZING performance of Hedwig, we were verbally abused and stared at threateningly by a rude usher named "Louis" who was dressed in shorts, Hawaiian shirt and an ill fitting ushers suit jacket. We've never experienced continued rudeness like this from an usher, he stared at us threateningly while we waited on the souvenir line to buy a sweatshirt, continually saying "the shows over". Several people left the line because of his abusive behavior and spoke to the manager. If you've experienced a similar incident please contact the theater at belascotm@shubertorg.com

You should definitely go on a public message board and bitch about it without letting him give his side of the story as to what you were doing that you needed to be treated the way you were.

Well than you should join in, baby!

But...But...They were doing something they thought they should be entitled to do when the big mean grown up used an outside voice to them in an inside place!

Ain't there no dignity left? A fella can't buy a sweatshirt in peace anymore... geez. And then, how the usher was dressed... what ever happened to dress codes in a Broadway theatre? Even the staff...I'm just shaking my head... I tell you, society's going to hell in a hand cart!

Were HEDWIG in some off-Broadway dump, you'd be on here all excited that even the ushers were into the spirit of the show... #firstworldproblems

^^ It was the tone of which he said it.

"^^ It was the tone of which he said it."

Here's what I hate - People can't even do their jobs anymore without kids like this having all the feelings hurt and then having to go on social media (I guarantee you it's all over this person's everything accounts) and complain and beg for sympathy about how they were so deeply wronged. Last night, I had an actor in my show come up to me backstage and ask me if I could see what was going on in the audience. I went out there and saw some girl on her phone in the front row playing Candy Crush, so I decided to just do something about it, myself. She proceeded to give me sh*t about disturbing her while she was trying to watch the show and started to raise her voice instead of just putting her phone away. And I actually stopped myself from doing what I SHOULD have done in that situation because I was "afraid" of her going all over Facebook, twitter, etc. and bitching about the show.

Sometimes I REALLY hate the world we live in now. If the usher used the bad-man-tone on you, you were doing something wrong. Get the f*ck over it. The world doesn't need to know about it. All it does is stop you from getting over something that would have otherwise taken you all of 1 minute to get over and you are probably still upset over it now.

Updated On: 8/2/14 at 10:08 AM

Sorry, but didn't the OP clearly state they were waiting in line to buy a sweatshirt? It's not his fault either there was a big line, people in front who couldn't make up their, understaffed merch people, or a combination of all three? The usher may have wanted to leave, but don't lay it on the people in line. How about the theatre manager try to work with the merch people to get the line moving, or at least get them out of the house and into the lobby?

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Taboo, I am positive the OP left out at least one major fact in his sob story.

Exactly. If all these people were waiting in line for purchases and doing nothing else, the usher would be at risk for losing his job. Something is missing from this story.

To those bothered in this thread: never teach high school.

We have to remember that this is a generation of people who grew up with padded playgrounds and bike helmets, kneepads, face gear and protective shoes before they were allowed to get on a bike. They've never been hurt, never been allowed to experience anything "un-sanitized " so whenever they get a dose of the real world, it's a shock to them and they immediately have to go online and get as much sympathy as they possibly can in order to prove to themselves that they're perfect.