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The problem could be solved if they just market Broadway as "Dinner Theater". I had the same potato chip problem the other night at She Loves Me.. This fat cow, who didn't need to be eating chips was crunching and crinkling the bag. I snapped my fingers at her and she stopped. And I had to put up with a kid of about 10 who kept kicking the back of my seat and when the Act 1 curtain came down, he said to his mother..."Is it over now?"

Maybe Rudin has a soft spot in his heart for potato chips.

I was at that matinee yesterday, and can confirm that the basics of that post are true, but highly exaggerated.

1. There was a hearing aid squealing through parts of the show. It wasn't a constant barrage, but incredibly distracting nonetheless.

2. The couple showed up about 2 minutes into the start of the performance, not 20

4. There were multiple cellphones with distinct ringtones, not a single offender. I recall 3 incidents, with ~5 rings each. There were several "email received" alerts too.

I'm *not* saying that any of these incidents were remotely acceptable - they are not - but the hyperbole in that post is filled with more drama than the play itself :P.

Also, some people were loudly sighing when the incidents above occurred or people coughed. THAT'S JUST AS BAD AS THE ACTUAL DISTURBANCES! Stop that! We get it: you're annoyed. I'm annoyed too. You're just contributing to the problem.

evic said: "The problem could be solved if they just market Broadway as "Dinner Theater". I had the same potato chip problem the other night at She Loves Me.. This fat cow, who didn't need to be eating chips was crunching and crinkling the bag. I snapped my fingers at her and she stopped. And I had to put up with a kid of about 10 who kept kicking the back of my seat and when the Act 1 curtain came down, he said to his mother..."Is it over now?"



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Haven't seen fat shaming for a long time, especially ones like "fat cow"... SIGH... Body weight is much more complex than eating. You gain weight when something's wrong with your hormones. Bad parenting is also a popular cause. Sometimes fast food is the only choice for people from low-income families because going green is not cheap. It's not like all or most people in the United States can afford 10-dollar salad every meal (I believe people have been discussing environmental racism in social and cultural analysis, and body weight is one of the topics covered.).

Updated On: 6/9/16 at 11:11 AM

How do you know she "didn't need the chips?"

I can answer that one - nobody needs chips. Those are totally empty calories with no nutritional value at all. People may want chips, but that's a different thing altogether. There are dietary needs - but those never include junk food. One may need a banana, or an orange, or protein.

But never chips.

The recently coined verb "to Trump" has several meanings; one of them is "to pretend one didn't say or write something one definitely said or wrote."

Sorry, PThespian, that wasn't in response to you. Just a comment in general about noisy food.

little_sally said: "How did they get all that food in when I couldn't even get a water bottle by security"

This. The woman sitting next to my daughter at The Color Purple Wednesday afternoon brought a COOLER into the show. One of those soft-sided, foil-lined coolers. They do bag checks. How on earth was that allowed in?

Unfortunately water bottles have become a problem. People seem to like to squeeze them when they finish and the sound is annoying. I have asked people several times to stop doing that.

Jordan Catalano said: "A good friend of mine who saw COLOR PURPLE a few weeks ago told me they made him throw out his bottle of water before letting him into the theater. He got really pissed but they wouldn't let him in unless he gave it to them or threw it out himself. That's ridiculous."

When I saw Hugh Jackman last year at Rod Laver Arena (where the Australian Open is played) water bottle LIDS were not allowed. You could take the bottle in but the cap was confiscated at bag check. They also removed the caps from all drinks sold inside. I still cannot understand the logic there.

Today at Balckbird, I was working outside the theatre. They made everyone throw away water bottles, full or empty. A lot of people argued it and the security personnel were not having it and told them to step to the side of they wanted to drink it. They also made people throw away reusable water bottles.

As for the late seating, there was around fifteen people who showed up late and again the theatre workers moved them outside of the lobby to the street. So looks like they've cracked down for the last shows

I think a lot of the issues arose from people then saying "oh what do we have to buy it inside!?" And the staff kept saying "no it's the producers. The show is very quiet and they don't want there to be distracting noise"

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Updated On: 6/11/16 at 03:19 PM