Times article regarding eating in the theatre — Page 3

AAGGHH!!! The opening announcement will soon be "please turn all cell phones, pagers, beepers, walkie talkies off, open M&M Peanut wrappers now, suck on your cough lozenges to avoid coughing, no talking, breathing loudly, snoring", the list goes on and on. The opening announcement will soon need to have it's own credit in the Playbill. When will it end?

When is she ever not the winner, SDav. When is she ever not?

Haha, the column that says "Patti LuPone would not approve", the p isn't capitalized. I just noticed that.

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When is she ever not the winner, SDav. When is she ever not?

Last year's Tony Awards...?

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Honestly, people are just becoming too spoiled and self-indulging. Some of them think the entire world...churches, movies, Broadway theatres...are just larger versions of the sofa in front of their TV.

Seriously, I'm such a hardcore coffee fiend, it's not even funny. But I can at least sit through two hours of show without a Starbucks cup clutched in my hand and a cookie in the other.

Tobias

I have a big hot dog...
Wanna bite?

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"It wasn't until I went to London and saw icecream, popcorn and pop inside(and had to HEAR it while trying to listen to the show)that I even realized they did this."

I've never seen popcorn and pop inside...

"I think Patti LuPone's a bit two-faced here. She has worked in London's West End and they allow ice cream to be sold and eaten in their theaters. So her appalled attitude doesn't quite cut it."

Yes, but the ice cream tubs are only sold during the interval and are very, very small - small enough to be eaten during the interval. Not many patrons continue eating into the second act...and if they are, they'll soon feel a disapproving atmosphere all around them.

Eating and drinking inside the auditorium during a performance doesn't sound as if its as much of a problem here as on Broadway from what I've read of your posts, but it's certainly a problem, particularly among younger theatregoers.

Updated On: 1/6/07 at 07:01 AM

Well that does it, they should just turn the balcony or mezzanine into a sit down restaurant with tables. You could catch dinner and a show at the same time. It would be like the luxury suites at sporting events.

Eating in theatres drives me crazy. Maybe if we all start buying mutlitple chocolate bars and glasses of red wine and deliberately pour them on all the rugs and squash them into the seats, theatre owners will rethink allowing food in the theatre.

"I surprised that when I went to see Spring Awakening, they told us to bring our drinks back to our seats."

Are you kidding? Where I work, you don't even have to leave your seat to buy snacks. We have hawkers who circulate in and out of each stage and sell you food and drink in your seat!

Alcoholic drinks bought at our bar are also allowed in the theaters.

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I'd like to see snipers perched atop the procenium to take care of this problem...

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Wait, the West End theatre allows food? I saw Blood Brothers there back in 2004 and I didn't see anyone eating; nor did I see anything being sold.

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"Before you know it, we'll have peanut vendors walk through the audience during the show: One More Dawn, One More Day, One Day...Peanuts, get your peanuts!"

Seriosuly, LOL.