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Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:00am
I know we have had posts where people had annoying theatre goers around them, little kids, people who like to sing along with the show. But has anyone ever felt uncomfortable sitting next to the person to your left or right? These are people we don't ask to sit next too, but we have too.
Today I had one of these experiences. I posted it on my Spamalot review thread (link at the bottom), but was so disturbed by it I really feel the need to make a new thread.
(this is a copy and paste from my review)
" have never experienced worse audience etiquette then I did today. My first thought was: “Okay, these must be Monty Python fans and aren’t familiar with proper theatre behavior. However, after listening to an argument between the man and the woman if Patsy was supposed to be a guy with coconuts or an actual horse, I didn’t know what to think. I was seated in row D of Mezzanine and had a perfect view, surprisingly close. However, the man thought it wasn’t close enough so he whipped out his binoculars. (Now I know many people do this and its not a bad thing, but that is when you are last row balcony not front of the mezz).
Now in between passing the binoculars between himself and his wife/girlfriend/sister/whatever she was to him, I felt random taps on my head. It took me a couple seconds to realize what it was. It was his ARM. Yes. His arm. I found it around MY chair (Yes. My Chair.) every couple of minutes. This made me extremely uncomfortable. They also had a lively discussion to find out if that was “that guy from ‘The Birdcage’ ya know the one in the knights outfit” while wildly passing the binoculars back and forth."
What do you do in situations like this?
Review
Today I had one of these experiences. I posted it on my Spamalot review thread (link at the bottom), but was so disturbed by it I really feel the need to make a new thread.
(this is a copy and paste from my review)
" have never experienced worse audience etiquette then I did today. My first thought was: “Okay, these must be Monty Python fans and aren’t familiar with proper theatre behavior. However, after listening to an argument between the man and the woman if Patsy was supposed to be a guy with coconuts or an actual horse, I didn’t know what to think. I was seated in row D of Mezzanine and had a perfect view, surprisingly close. However, the man thought it wasn’t close enough so he whipped out his binoculars. (Now I know many people do this and its not a bad thing, but that is when you are last row balcony not front of the mezz).
Now in between passing the binoculars between himself and his wife/girlfriend/sister/whatever she was to him, I felt random taps on my head. It took me a couple seconds to realize what it was. It was his ARM. Yes. His arm. I found it around MY chair (Yes. My Chair.) every couple of minutes. This made me extremely uncomfortable. They also had a lively discussion to find out if that was “that guy from ‘The Birdcage’ ya know the one in the knights outfit” while wildly passing the binoculars back and forth."
What do you do in situations like this?
Review
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Updated On: 3/3/05 at 12:00 AM
