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Why are audiences so poorly behaved these days?
#175Why are audiences so poorly behaved these days?
Posted: 5/3/26 at 10:07pm
It follows the fall of movie theatre cinema behavior and it comes down to one thing: money.
As in, "I paid a ton of money for this experience so I'm going to enjoy it the way I want."
Theatre owners don't help by treating it like an amusement park, selling popcorn and concessions in noisy cellaphane bags.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
MasterThespian 2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/22/22
#176Why are audiences so poorly behaved these days?
Posted: 5/4/26 at 6:33am
Broadway is a business, so it will exhaust all opportunities to make money. That means selling food and drink. I’m sure both are key money makers. The theatres are simply capitalizing on peoples’ addiction to feeding their faces. Can’t survive two hours without shoveling in calories. It’s also funny that most then complain about how small theatre seats are. Yup, it has nothing to do with your XXL a$$.
Updated On: 5/4/26 at 06:33 AM
Zeppie2022
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
#177Why are audiences so poorly behaved these days?
Posted: 5/4/26 at 9:21am
MasterThespian 2 said: "Broadway is a business, so it will exhaust all opportunities to make money. That means selling food and drink. I’m sure both are key money makers. The theatres aresimply capitalizing on peoples’ addiction to feeding their faces. Can’t survive two hours without shoveling in calories. It’s also funny that most then complain about how small theatre seats are. Yup, it has nothing to do with your XXLa$$."
Funny how Broadway survived by selling food/drink but only allowing it to be consumed outside the theater for many years. My complaint is that some theaters have very little legroom which can make things uncomfortable for somebody over 6ft tall like myself. That being said, it is not going to change so I just have to "buck it up" in certain theaters.
#178Why are audiences so poorly behaved these days?
Posted: 5/4/26 at 9:58am
MasterThespian 2 said: "Broadway is a business, so it will exhaust all opportunities to make money. That means selling food and drink. I’m sure both are key money makers. The theatres aresimply capitalizing on peoples’ addiction to feeding their faces. Can’t survive two hours without shoveling in calories. It’s also funny that most then complain about how small theatre seats are. Yup, it has nothing to do with your XXLa$$."
This is a bit much, especially since most complaint I have as a person of size involves legroom and not the width of the seats and I’m built like a linebacker. Granted, seat widths aren’t really worthy of high praise, but that’s also because some of these theatres haven’t done any meaningful renovations on their auditoriums since the Landmarks commission got involved and historical preservation became the new bureaucratic red tape.
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