Theatre pet peeves - from the stage!

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Stage performers share what they have observed from the audience while they are performing on stage.

Some are quite funny...but a few are downright unbelievable

Updated On: 6/3/16 at 06:32 PM

The one about people showing up to the Hamilton stagedoor while the show is going on and singing group songs. That's just weird.



Don't they have line sitters for that now that line up at the door hours before the show ends???

Regarding Yorktown, I totally understand why the audience starts getting up. That is an end of act song!

Did the guy really faint because of Tovey or just coincidence? I hope he doesn't sit front row of American Psycho!

The ice cubes...good god, the ice cubes.

I was actually giggling when I read about the roast chicken being passed down the row - LOL!

gypsy101 said: "NJ_BroadwayGirl said: "People actually are hiring line sitters to wait at the stage door for them. "

huh! like I said, I don't know why they would do that, it seems very silly."

I know. It's ridiculous to me too.

I disagree with Nathan Lane about no drinks being allowed. I can understand them not liking the noise of the ice, that bothers me too. That's why I get low ice if I get a drink early enough before act 1, it usually melts before the show starts. If I don't get it early enough, I just don't get ice. Sorry Nathan, but a human should not have nothing to drink for 2.5 hours. Food, I agree, just don't eat. When I went to see Straight, I got a cocktail, and they didn't even allow me to have ice (which is fine). I don't see how silently drinking something will disturb the actors on stage to the point of distraction.



In regards to Tony Danza's response: Audience member pet peeve for things that happen on the stage:

1. Boring shows

Updated On: 6/3/16 at 11:24 PM

Admittedly, I will look at my Playbill during the show. Sometimes I check the song list (though rarely), but mostly it is to figure out where I know people from. Me trying to figure it out by myself will usually just end up distracting me more. For example, I was at The Father and I was staring at the lady playing Langella's daughter. I could not for the life of me figure out from where I knew her and her voice. It hit me mid-scene and I had to double check my playbill to make sure I wasn't crazy. She (Kathryn Erbe) was Ms. McKay in D2: Mighty Ducks in case anyone wants to know...

Bwaydide92 said: "I disagree with Nathan Lane about no drinks being allowed. I can understand them not liking the noise of the ice, that bothers me too. That's why I get low ice if I get a drink early enough before act 1, it usually melts before the show starts. If I don't get it early enough, I just don't get ice. Sorry Nathan, but a human should not have nothing to drink for 2.5 hours. Food, I agree, just don't eat. When I went to see Straight, I got a cocktail, and they didn't even allow me to have ice (which is fine). I don't see how silently drinking something will disturb the actors on stage to the point of distraction.


A human should not have nothing to drink for 2.5 hours? Where do you get this stuff?



If you have some medical condition that makes you need liquids that frequently, you should NOT be drinking anything alcoholic, since that will dehydrate you.









In regards to Tony Danza's response: Audience member pet peeve for things that happen on the stage:

1. Boring shows



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I couldn't understand Bwaydide's drinking theory either. Either it was a joke or a cry for help. You're at a theatre, not a bar or restaurant. You can survive the duration of the show.

I've just come across this one, from a Roundtable discussion for THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER --



"On stage, do you get distracted by people? Have you stopped to address the audience?

Close: I did in Sunset Boulevard. The big entrance down the stairway, I was coming down the stairs, and I heard all these flash cameras going off from up in the balcony, and as I was singing the song, I thought, "Do I stop?" It was so distracting. I just stopped, and I walked to the edge of the stage, and I said, "We can either have a photo shoot or we can do a play." "