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#1

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 5:53pm

I finally got up to Lincoln Center Saturday to see South Pacific. We had seats in the first row of the loge next to 3 very nice women....one who was celebrating her 70th birthday. Well of course the show starts and one of them for some reason thinks it is necessary to sing along. I mean really...why does she have to do this? To show her friends that she knows the words? This happens to me at least 25% of the time. I mean. Don't they realize that it's rude?
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#5

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:15pm

You ever had the urge to sing along with a cast recording? (Or, more broadly, just the radio?) It's the same feeling as that, but with a much higher degree of obliviousness.
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#10

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:03pm

I get it...you know I understand singing in the car...at home while I'm working around the house listening to cast recordings etc. I can honestly say that despite how young or naive I was, I never sang along with the cast during any of my first musical theater outings. I realized that people did not pay money to hear me sing...and as much as I wish it were the case...I AM NOT IN THE SHOW!
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#12

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:09pm

They're just oblivious to everyone else around them. They probably sing along at home and in the car all the time and don't realize that when they do it in public, other people can hear them.
It's just another instance of people doing what they want when they want and not knowing or caring about anyone else around them. (See also, texting/talking during shows, chewing gum loudly, eating chips/smelly food, etc.)
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#13

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:13pm

Exactly. It's not always that they're inherently rude or stupid. It just doesn't occur to them (which is why I always advocate shushing). I saw Jersey Boys with a friend of mine who enjoys theatre but isn't a big theatre geek and doesn't go to it often. At intermission he bought a bag of Swedish Fish, and I said something like, "You're not going to crinkle that during the show, are you?" And it was like a lightbulb went off. It just hadn't occurred to him. So he took all the Swedish Fish out and put them on his shirt, to quietly eat during Act 2. :)
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Updated On: 3/14/10 at 07:13 PM

#14

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:15pm

But why the fvck do they SELL Sweedish Fish in the theater to begin with?? Sell Junior Mints or something like that in a damn box. I blame the theater for a lot of that noise you hear everytime you see a show.
#16

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:21pm

I was watching one of the Next To Normal vlogs on Broadway.com. They had some of the cast talk about how they don't like it when there are people in the audience eating in the the theatre. Yet, the theatre staff walks around as if it were a baseball game and hawks off food and drink.

I do know that The Shubert theatres used to be more strict about this sort of thing. However, they are starting to become more and more laid back. That is something that annoys me. You would think that they would take into consideration how the actors feel as well and not sell food.
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#18

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:41pm

When I was at the Addams Family last wed, there was a school age girl with her laptop open trying to figure out a sophisticated thesis. Good thing she sat behind me
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#19

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 8:19pm

I can usually handle it at Rock of Ages.
But I was there for Kerry Butler's last show the other night and it was clear some people weren't aware of that. I was just like, leave her solo to her, thanks.
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#21

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 9:36pm

Swedish Fish are gummie fish shaped candies.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#23

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/14/10 at 11:31pm

Happened to me at the final performance of Ragtime. The guy behind me just had to let everyone know he knew EVERY song in the show. Talk about annoying.
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#25

Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?

Posted: 3/15/10 at 9:24am

I sat next to a guy at Next to Normal who had to sing AND dance from his seat along to the show. Apparently, he alternates between N2N and Hair, because he "had seen each 40 times and knew the whole show, and the whole cast on a first name basis", and is probably about one more stage door away from a restraining order. In any event, he was a complete distraction and annoyance for a great portion of the show.

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