Snoring At The Theatre

No one else around her bothered trying to wake her up? Ushers? Sheesh....

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If someone is completely ruining your experience, confront them or get an usher/security involved. Never just accept that kind of behavior. I hope Once is still great!

She was two rows behind me and not right behind me. I did speak to an usher at intermission but the usher was afraid to bother her.

Official: Once the Lullaby of Broadway.

The usher didn't want to bother her? Is that the first responsibility here?

Really you don't have to be rude..you can just go over and see if the person is ok since she appears to have conked out. There are polite ways to get someone to stop snoring and if the usher can't cut it, perhaps a new job is in order.

I would imagine in most cases people don't CHOOSE to fall asleep = it's not like someone says I am going to buy a $100 seat so I can take a nap. It happens..people doze off. I don't think they would be mad to be awakened.

Updated On: 10/1/14 at 08:13 PM

I had a person next to me fall asleep at a show. I was horrified because we were in the 2nd row (rush seats). She didn't fall into a deep enough slumber to snore though, because as soon as I realized that she was asleep, I bumped the arm she had on the arm rest, which was also holding her head up. I did it a few more times during the first act and she got the point-- though she complained very loudly at intermission to the person who she was actually with saying something like: "I don't know why people are staring at me. I'm tired. I've been shopping all day and just want some sleep."

"I don't know why people are staring at me. I'm tired. I've been shopping all day and just want some sleep."

What a clueless bitch. Get a hotel room for that!

I fell asleep watching the naughty version.

If you really want sleep inducing, watch the movie version the show was based on. Big snore fest.

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Don't cheat her out of her superhero ability to wake someone up just by looking at them.

The woman next to her was wide awake I turned around and made a face to her like can you control this and nothing happened. If I spoke it would have been worse because not everyone heard her. Seems I was surrounded by an elderly crowd.

I will no longer go to matinees. I must tell you I almost started cracking up between thinking about the hilarious skit on ONCE from Forbidden Broadway and the snores. It was funny but something that would make an amazing sitcom script for a TV show if only SMASH was still on.

I have never slept in a show and I would never pay dollars for a ticket and sleep. If my guest did that I would elbow them hard!

Things happen. I have never ever slept in the theater but I did have a mistake once. Many years ago I got a new cell phone which was different then the one before. I turned it off but if it hit a button in my bag it would turn on. That happened. It was in the middle of Spring Awakening in the very end of act 1 when Michele was about to have sex. My cell phone hit something in my bag and turned on. Of course I got a call and to make matters even worse it was a Spring Awakening ring tone.

I have never been more horrified in my entire life. That does not happen with my current phone but I used to have to remove the battery every time I went to theater after that with the Blackberry. So embarrassing.

Updated On: 10/1/14 at 11:32 PM

"An old lady behind me was not only sleeping but snoring very loudly."

Blame the show. The woman seated beside me at the performance I had the misfortune to attend also drifted off to dreamland soon after the show began. I started counting sheep to try to follow her example. Alas, the non-stop wailing and whining kept me awake throughout the whole damn thing, as did the stomach-turning odor of beer being imbibed by the twenty somethings in the row ahead of me.