The Six Worst Types of Theatergoers — Page 2

Nom, I don't know how recently you've been to The Met, but they seem to have relaxed their standards quite a bit. In the Family Circle at a performance of LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST last season, they seated latecomers all throughout the first act, people fell asleep and snored loudly, old ladies popped candy like it was going out of style, and the ushers--who usually remain inside the theatre for the duration of the acts--did nothing.

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Maybe Family Circle has different rules?

If you come to orchestra level late you get stuck off in a side room to watch the opera on screen until there is a break when you can be seated.

So, ahhrealmonsters, you been bumping up your height again on your resume?

Sometimes I make the choice to sit on my winter coat as a booster.

I do have a fondness for theaters with a good rake in height for each row of seats, especially in the orchestra, but those seem rare.

Someone once gave us tickets to The Nutcracker. We sat behind a row of Mommies and their 5 - 8 year olds. It seemed like there were dozens of them. Throughout the show they talked, passed around juice boxes, hollered from Mommie on the far right to Mommie on the far left while the kids played, jumped around—they did everything but watch the freaking show.

I swore, as god is my witness, I'd never attend another show aimed at "families."

I have written my NYS Assembly person and suggested he introduce legislation barring tall people and people with physical disabilities from entering a Broadway theatre. We don't need these people cluttering up the space. Get those wheelchairs out of the aisle. Make them stay out in the lobby and view the show viaa closed Circuit (No forget that idea, that would clutter up the lobby). Let them stay in the street. How dare those with a hearing disability use those hearing devices, let them read lips. And those rude enough to be blind, how dare they but a ticket, have they no compassion for the poor folks that have good audio and visual skills. And while we're it perhaps the legislation could include those with developmental disabilities. Theatre goers unite

What the **** are you on about junkyard?

Show me where someone in this thread, or in the link in the OP, has said that people who are hard of hearing or blind or developmentally challenged should not attend theatre.

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No ****, backwoodsbarbie. My question is, who is his sarcasm directed at, since no one in this thread has said anything about barring people from the theatre.

Or do you think that saying "It's frustrating sitting behind someone really tall" equals "OMG! Anyone who has any kind of disability should be prohibited from going to the theatre!"

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