Theater Personnel

[Dakota]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 8:36pm

Earlier this week I had a horrible experience with a RUDE usher. Anyone else have problems that really bother you, or do you just let it go?

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 8:40pm

Did this involve the usher smacking you across the face with a playbill because you cut in the restroom line?

They shouldn't but if you were in their shoes you might be more likely to give them a break. Jobs like that are horrible. I used to work in a library, not exactly the same, but people are coomplete jerks sometimes, uggh I could tell some horror stories. Some people are just jerks though.

Updated On: 1/2/04 at 08:40 PM

[LadyGuenevere]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 8:42pm

I once went to a theater (not Broadway, a regional one) where I stood at the door for about 10 minutes, without help from any of the ushers. They were helping everyone else except for me. I kept going "Excuse me- I need help finding my seat" to about a ton of ushers, but I never was paid attention to. (I guess being only 16 and I was by myself meant something *rolls eyes*)

Anyway, I ended up finding a program on the floor, and began to make my way down the theatre, just guessing at where my seat was. I ran into another usher, and he finally asked if I needed help, and I coldly snapped "No thank you," and proceeded to find my seat myself.

Ugh. But I never dealt with any usher that was openly rude or nasty or anything... Updated On: 1/2/04 at 08:42 PM

[shermanslave]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 8:42pm

let it go. they deal with plenty of rude theater goers, i'm sure.

[Dakota]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 8:50pm

My incident happened at Avenue Q and the usher seated us in the wrong seats and when people came for those seats he was so rude to us. It was his fault. I asked someone for his name and I was going to complain, but it really isn't worth the energy!!!

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 10:24pm

I don't have a problem with Ushers. It's the people in the seats that piss me off. lol Well, not all of them of course.
I was at Hollywood Arms one day, and my friend and I were in the front row. Well, this woman came in right as the show was about to start, and proceded to trip over my friend and I, and continuesly laugh. Now I know that getting through rows in order to get to your seat can be tough, but there was actually a lot of leg room between the front row and the stage. I think she and her friends had been drinking a little too much at lunch.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 10:40pm

I once had a problem with rude ushers. Ok, well I was at Thoroughly Modern Millie, and I, being only 12 at the time, was by myself temporarily. So, since I'm a spazz at finding my way around theaters, asked an usher. She brought me to the row, and so I started going in, when I forgot to get a Playbill. So, I asked for a Playbill. And the woman, who had one playbill left, turned around a gave it to an older woman AFTER I had asked her.

But then there are those annoying people in the audience, like the people who start snoring....

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 1/2/04 at 11:39pm

o yea that reminds me...when i saw tmm with my parents, there were no ushers in site. soo we had to look at out tix nd find out own seats nd hunt for our own playbills, talk about good service! =P