Wednesday night Spongebob Audience — Page 3

"Theatre was a privelege" is a truly vile and elitist statement

I see a whole bunch of issues across all age ranges (both at Spongebob and other shows). I honestly think they need to say at every single performance: PLEASE SIT STILL AND DO NOT DISTRACT OTHERS AROUND YOU - AVOID EATING DURING THE PERFORMANCE, DO NOT TALK, DO NOT USE YOUR PHONE. THANK YOU.

It feels like it's becoming worse and worse.

Updated On: 1/24/18 at 10:18 AM

I went last night, actually, and the audience was pretty well-behaved. The only time I saw an audience member take their phone out, an usher rushed down the aisle to stop them.

rjm516 said: "It's awful in London too. I go to the theatre every week, sometimes twice, and I haven't had a good audience experience in maybe three years. Even at Hamilton last month someone was taking video, and there was no usher to be found. And EVERYONE checks their phone. A huge problem I'm noticing now is Apple watches and the like. Some people think 'hey I'm not on my phone' but using the watch is the same! Someone in front of me left it so the watch lit up every time he got a text or email or something, which meant it lit up and beeped every 2 seconds. And how do you ask someone to turn off...their watch? So weird. So frustrating."

As an audience member and Apple watch user I can relate. Apple made a theatre mode on the watch so it does not come on unless the users taps on the screen. I was at a play a few months ago and the guy in front of me kept putting his arm behind the person he was with and the watch kept turning on everytime he moved.

Sondheimite said: ""Theatre was a privelege" is a truly vile and elitist statement"

I don’t think they meant it in that way. I miss the days when questions were asked and benefit of the doubt existed, but that’s a different topic.

I believe they meant that people valued theater differently than we do now. People 20-30+ years ago weren’t disrespectful at the theater because they felt it was a privilege to be there.

Nowadays, everyone feels so entitled to everything - not just in theater, but life. Chewbaca said it perfectly above. It really is sad.

I’m curious and want to see SpongeBob, but not if the audience is going to distract me from it.