Ugh, ruined experience

Saw a performance of Peter Pan last night, it was great except for the fact that this tall person with enormous head was blocking my view, so I ended up spending the whole time peering to the right and left of him and ended up straining my neck.

Has anybody else had this experience? What did u do?

Updated On: 4/18/08 at 11:17 AM

I shoot them.

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I won the Wicked lotto (when it was on tour here). There was a large man with a bald head, but it ok because he was one seat over in front of me so it wasn't really blocking my view. That is, until the switched seats with his small, young daughter right before the show started.

So, the whole first act I strained my head to the left and right. Then for the second act, I switched seats with my aunt.

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At least I assume you could watch the "I'm Flying" number, assuming they were able to inhabit the airspace above the big head in question.

Why didn't you tap him on the shoulder and ask him to remove his head? Sounds like you have no one to blame but yourself.

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my younger sister has this happen to her all the time. she rolls up her jacket and then sits on top of it.

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Dont sit behind Erykah Badu...

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so i ended up givin my seat to my date, so I could be a gentlemen (shakes head)

So sorry you ended up sitting behind Michael Reidel.

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Updated On: 4/18/08 at 12:45 PM

I hate when that happens. I just deal with it.

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I'll move seats or deal with it. I'm not that tall but I'm usually aware of who is sitting behind me so if I have a really short person or a kid sitting behind me, I usually slouch a little so they can see.

What does bother me is when I'm sitting in the mezz or balcony and the people in front insist on leaning way over (even though they can see just fine sitting back in their seat). When they lean over, I can't see anything.

They made a point of announcing that all people in the balcony should sit back when I saw Phantom in London. But of course, the people sitting right in front of me figured this rule applied to everyone but them. I think that is more annoying than a tall person. A tall person can't help being tall. But anyone has the ability to sit their butts back in the seat!

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Updated On: 4/18/08 at 01:21 PM

It's a part of live theatre and comes with being short, I guess. I've looked for another seat (even if I'm with others, we just get together after the show). Sat on my handbag, squirmed until I'd get a reasonable view. Once or twice I've asked people in front of me if they would mind switching seats, but I usually try to not bother them, it's really not their fault either, unless someone is wearing a hat or spiked hair or something.

This is one of the reasons I've fallen in love with Blu-ray high definition video at home. I want to build up an extensive collection of musicals as they come out. (Only a few musicals have so-far come out on blu-ray.)

But everyone here knows that widescreen TV will never replace the magic of the live performance onstage!!!!