Why I walked out of Gypsy today- Page 5

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 9:10pm

Isn't that sad. Roman?

I'm so upset, I'm crying into my keyboard.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 9:47pm

Aw man, I missed it.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:13pm

Hello Dolly, I'm surprised you know my name. I guess the moderators-that-be do patrol the forum from time to time. Plus, I wrote such an eloquent response to your thread. What's this forum without a little (....LITTLE?) drama? from RC in Austin, Texas .... two more weeks to my June 10 - 13 vacay in NYC...

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 12:24am

And in my many, many years of theatregoing, and after many thwacks, no one has ever retaliated. It's such a shocking gesture, they are dumbfounded. I often think I'll be hit in the face, but I never have been. And the guilty perpetrators always shut up.

Didn't Andrew Lippa write about this once?

[Fosse76]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:43am

"Yes, ushers should be keeping it under control to an extent, but they cant babysit the entire audience once the show starts."

And were the ushers aware what was happening? In some theaters, the ushers are sometimes positioned in the upper levels where they can't see the audience.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:54am

Ushers are just there for the check.


I'm of the thwacking and "shut up you f**king c**t" variety of theatregoer. New Yorkers aren't rude anymore is the problem.

[lightguy06222]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 12:20pm

#1- I LOVE that this thread is still going!

#2- Dollypop is my hero. Are we the only people who are normal on this board???

#3- Jazzicat still needs to grow up and shut her face.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 1:29pm

"I would have had NO problem telling them to sit down and shut the f*** up..."

well said Tom. I have NO problem publically embarrassing people with rude behavior as it makes them stop.

Like the French family that tried to film RENT,

or the 3 teen girls who were babbling during Spamalo, until I paid to see the show, NOT listen to them

and finally the teens at the ballet we saw in Copenhagen who kept standing in front of us until I loudly told them to SIT DOWN..and thwacked the head instigator with my program.....

if you are firm with people they will usually stop.

going to a theater manager...usually does nothing.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:14pm

Why was your iPod on your lap???? mmmmmmm!

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:15pm

...underneath your Playbill? mmmmmm!

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:17pm

Id be pissed if some c***s ruined my attempt at recording a Broadway show!!!!

[BWayJunkie]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:41pm

I feel for you jazzicat. I work at the New Am theater (not as an usher) but it all depends on the theater. The ushers at my theater are very diligent when it comes to complaints and re-seating people who are uncomfortable for some reason, especially in the balcony because the seats are rather close together. They're also good at stopping people from recording the show. But yea, its unfortunate that your experience was ruined and from what I've been told Gypsy is an excellent show. In the future there should be a lead usher on each floor that you might speak with. Generally the house managers can't do much but the guest relations manager can (if they have one). And when all else fails "thwack" them on the head with playbill, or a program if you bought one.

[Weez]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 3:52pm

Um, I've had my iPod on my lap during a show before, simply because I was listening to it before the show, and the show started before I had a chance to remove it and put it in my bag. And if I hadn't turned the backlighting off, damn STRAIGHT I'd put something over the top of it! But backlighting kills batteries at SPEED, so that's not an issue for me anymore. ^_^

I love the idea of thwacking people. I now actually wouldn't mind sitting near an obnoxious person, as long as I could get the balls to thwack 'em. That must be hilarious. XD Although knowing my luck, I would get punched.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/30/08 at 6:05pm

I would like to be a bit more vivid than thwacking. A well-placed smack is so much more effective at times.