the EPITOME of tasteless audiences.....

All Shook Up... balcony....

group of tourists.. from, oddly enough, Texas. Their group was scattered across the balcony and they kept yelling across to one another. One man in a cheap suit took off his shoes and propped his feet up on a seat in front of him... a little girl was using another seat as a foot rest. constant candy unwrapping..PICTURING TAKING.. WITH FLASH... debating for 20 minutes on whetehr it was the same theatre Phantom of the Opera played in... loud commenting every time another person donned blue suede shoes... idiotic rude comments about the gay aspect of the plot.... (damn ushers never did a thing up there)

Oh wow.

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Dear Lord.

THE GLASS MENAGERIE, Marc 29

The two people sitting next to me had mentioned that it was their first Broadway show. You could tell. They laughed ferociously at some of the more dramatic parts of the show. You would've thought they were at SPAMALOT or DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, not THE GLASS MENAGERIE. There was talking, too. I finally had to shush them. Such rudeness!

Israelis in back of me constantly explaining Gem of the Ocean to each other. Of course, they had to be speaking Hebrew. If it was Mandarin or something I might have been able to tune it out as incomprehensible background noise.

So sorry to hear about that. I've had similar, but not that bad and not all at once.

At WAoVW, in the front row nonetheless (center!) this guy took off his shoes and had his feet outstretched for practically the whole show. I mean, what do you say? "Excuse me, but can you please put your shoes on? You're exceedingly tacky." He was w/ a woman FWIW who had a box of Godivas she was eating during the show (she was quiet though).

That was bad, but this mortified me. During Doubt, again front row center (across the aisle from me), this guy had his feet outstreched ON THE FREAKIN STAGE FOR THE WHOLE SHOW. His feet were pushed up against the ledge of the stage, if that makes sense. I was DYING. I seriously wanted an intermission so I could do something about it.

Then there were the loud drunk girls behind me in Chicago who sang along. Yep that was fun. The whole audience shushed them but house manager did nothing. They were LOUD (and rude); someone (usher, someone) would have noticed but they were not removed.

There are more stories, but those are doozies.

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That is ridiculous.

My experience wasn't that bad, but during HAIRSPRAY, there was a class of middle-schoolers in front of me. Most of them were fine, but a few of the boys were rude and had the nerve to ask if the show was over during intermission. Many exclaimed proudly, "I was sleeping!" How can you sleep during HAIRSPRAY?!?! Like it's not ridiculously loud or anything!

Last year when I was sitting in the balcony waiting for a show to start, a group of teens/20's? girls sitting a few rows in back of me started to cheer and yell "yay" out loud - apparently one of them was listening to a football game and her team won (luckily she had earplugs in, but really). I thought I was in a theater and not at a stadium. At least they didn't do "the wave". :)

oh trust me, i said something at intermission and I glared at many of them throughout the show...


i was not surprised to hear the woman mention TX....

At "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", the guy sitting three seats down from me (front row of the mezz) started taking pictures---RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE. I couldn't believe it.

I was at a ballet about two weeks ago and there was a group of middle schoolers about three rows in front of us. Because we were in the mezzanine the rows were raked pretty steeply, so I could look down on them (in both senses) pretty easily. Two girls, about 6 seats apart, texted each other throughout the entire program. One would put her phone down and I'd see the other's light up and vibrate. A moment later their roles would alternate. And this wasn't at some play where they could hear dialogue and keep up with the plot either. I mean, what's the point of even being at a ballet with your eyes on your cell phone?

God, people can be SO rude!

broadwayguy, that's worse than tasteless, that's just disgusting. I don't care if it's good for Broadway and the tourism helps the economy- people like that have no business being in a theater if they treat it like their family room.

And I don't know who's idea it was to put a bar in the back of the Warner Theater in DC, but I had to sit through Grease next to these 4 drunk women, who were singing along, and- after a few more drinks at intermission- got up and danced in the aisles. Ugh. What do you do about people like that? If the ushers had tried to take them out, it would have created any even bigger scene than they were already making.

I have to admit, I fell asleep during The Glass Menagerie once. The theater was very warm and cozy, and I was getting sick, and my friend's shoulder was so comfortable...but I wasn't BRAGGING about it, I was embarassed that it happened! Sometimes, there can be extenuating circumstances, and you don't have the option to leave. However, the majority of the time, the people are just rude and inconsiderate.

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hmmff the Americans behind me in the London's We Will Rock You.....

i over heard ask each other 'so is Freddy Mercury in this?'

AND
when Bohemian Rhapsody came on...
'oo i didnt know Queen did this!?'

i was fuming...sorry guys lol
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