I was at Broadway in Bryant Park yesterday. And sometimes the sound was so quiet, I couldn't hear a single word or note! Very frustrating. Do I have to sit in the front row to hear anything? It's like they're playing to a sixty person theatre when in actuality there are two thousand people on a massive lawn.
I wasn't even in the back, I was somewhere in the middle. I know other people around me had this issue too because I saw people stop paying attention after a long stretch of silence. (Avenue Q especially was an issue)