Worst Broadway Audience Ever?

I was at 'an oak tree' when someone's cell phone rang...and kept ringing. Tim Crouch (actor, writer, director of the play) stopped, stared right at the woman and said "It's okay, we can wait". I've never seen anybody quite so mortified before in my life - it was fantastic.

yes, my high school. i was in anything goes and right before billy was about to sing "all though the night", someone shouted "F*CK YOU, N***A!" the music director stopped the show and personally escorted him out.

people coming right off the street with shopping bags into an evening performance of 'The Lion King'

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I was just in NYC and saw 10 shows in 7 days. I actually was surprised at how wellthe audiences are behaved considering some of the things I have read on here. I got through the whole week without any phones ringing. There were people at Beauty and the Beast taking pictures usinga camera phone, also the kid behind us kept talking very loudly, which I can excuse but the fact that his grandmother kept talking back to him the whole time, never once whispering or even telling him to talk quietly was very aggravating. I made a comment but I don't think she heard it. Also, and I think this is more of an issue with jukebox musicals, but at Jersey Boys, there were a lot of people singing along to the songs. Also a good deal of talking and I have never seen so many people still getting to their seats after intermission is over. The only other show I've experienced so much singing along from the audience was at Mamma Mia.

Cruel, in response to your "actor stopping the show" question, I saw Equus in London, and Richard Griffiths, just as he was wont to do here in New York during the History Boys, simply stopped speaking when someone's cell phone went off. It rang and rang, and he just refused to speak and stared at the offender for several minutes. When it stopped, he resumed speaking. Daniel Radcliffe didn't look out at the audience; he stayed in character.

I have two good ones

While back I saw Rent. There was this group of people from the south and during intermission there was laughter from them talking about how Rent had too much "gay ****" and how it was what young people were into. They started to smoke and I tried to tell them ( only because they were loud and annoying otherwise I wouldn't be a dick about this) that they were breaking the law by smoking in the theatre. They couldn't care les about that and thought that I didn't know the rules because I was young ( I was sixteen at the time) Then during act two they arrive late and were forced to stand in the back for a bit. While they were standing one of the guys phones rings and he asnwers it loudly not caring where he was or who was around him. The ushers kicked him out of the theatre.

During the same preformance I was in standing room and one guy during the middle of act two who was german asked me for the exit I pointed to where it was. Then also during intermisson these two french girls asked me where the bathroom was so I told them.

I felt that the preformacnes of Rent was like a meeting at the UN.

And, during a preformance of Croam Boy I was quitly looking through my playbill trying to figure out who on of the actors on stage was. This old guy turns to me in the process and yells at me " why are you doing this you can't read this in the theatre its too dark."

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ShbrtAlley44 - In which theatre do you work?