Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
#1Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 5:53pmI 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?
#2Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 5:59pm
I find it extremely rude.
I just mouth the words if I know them...and at that, I'm merely moving my lips.
rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#2Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:05pmUnless an actor yells "Come on everybody!..." I slightly mouth the words.
#3Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:12pm
If someone is very easily angered by someone singing out loud during a show...here's a warning.
DON'T SEE "ROCK OF AGES"
#4Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:15pmYou 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.
#5Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:19pmThe AUDACITY of that audience member. How DARE they do such a thing?
#6Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:26pmStill bitter about being shushed, huh?
#7Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:34pmI don't recall being shushed, if it's me you're talking to...?
#8Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 6:50pmit's worse when they whistle along
#9Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:03pmI 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!
#10Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:06pmI saw PHANTOM again last year and this was what everyone in the audience was doing. It was like being at a rock concert.
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#11Why 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.)
#12Why 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. :)
#13Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:15pmBut 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.
#14Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:21pmIt's the Curran. They just want your money.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#15Why 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.
#16Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:23pmSell food all you want but sell gummi bears and tomatoes.
#17Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:41pmWhen 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
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
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#18Why 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.
madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
#19Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 9:34pmPardon my ignorance, but what are Swedish Fish??
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#20Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 9:36pmSwedish Fish are gummie fish shaped candies.
#21Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 11:28pmLibrarian: http://tinyurl.com/yd2qzsy
#22Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 11:31pmHappened 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.
#23Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/14/10 at 11:49pm
I roll up my program and hit them with it.
Very hard. On their noses.
darwhite915
Swing Joined: 8/15/06
#24Why do people in the audience think they can sing during a show?
Posted: 3/15/10 at 9:24amI 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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