the EPITOME of tasteless audiences..... — Page 3

bg2, you didnt tell us what you thought of ASU, what little you managed to watch...

When I saw Ave Q for the second time I was in the Mez, and this family of abour 10 people was trying to find their seats and the usher was helping them. Well one of the girls in the group sat in a seat that was not her ticket, so the usher kept on asking her to move to her right seat so that they could keep track of what seats were taken. The girl SCREAMS out "it doesnt ****ing matter". The scream was so loud the WHOLE theater stopped talking to listen to her. They had to get the manager to shut her up.

It was before the show but still SOOOO rude!

a theater that sells popcorn during a live performanace of Evita? That would throw-up a huge red flag to me to begin with....

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The whole Texas generalisation is so stupid. I grew up in Houston and the rudest audience members I've ever encountered were native NY/NJ and the English. The older NY/NJ crowd has a tendency to behave as if every theatre is their personal living room because they have been attending shows for decades and they have some sort of right to carry on long loud conversations during their own private social hour. This is quite common and usually includes some variation of how tacky tourists are. In London, during musicals in particular, I notice the English will simply talk through any scenes they don't find interesting (usually dialogue between songs) not caring whether other people wanted to see the show or not. This usually happens as sort of a group effort and gets increasingly louder as the show progresses.

The only instances I've seen involving rude Texans were those who were attending the theatre for the first time, but that's not specific to Texans. That and the rich and tasteless who feel every curtain should be held for them and every show should hold their house seats aside just in case these special individuals should be charitable enough to grace the show with their presence in the audience.

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Mistress,

my thoughts on the show you ask? In a nut shell --

the script is a bit uneven.. some of the somgs and bits work very well, others seem very shoe horned and jailhouse rock stopped the show cold - and not in the good way - you can tell it was there simply to appease elvis psychopaths in the audience - who loudly cheered and clapped along during as though at a concert.

The cast is uniformly strong.. sharon wilkins is simply incredible and i adorded nikki james and curtis holbrook. cheyenne and jenn - no comment needed.. it has all been said before... though i will say that even from the balcony, cheyenne is stunning!

I felt that the second was more enjoyable and easier to watch than the first. The highlight of the first act, for me, was cheyenne's first number.. with the costumes slowly progressing from drab to fab and finishing off with that great effect involving nikki m james.

the set definately has rockwell's very distinctive and unmistakeable style and i thought it worked very well...the motorcyle's traveling effect was great...

all in all, while the script could use some future hammering out, the PRODUCTION itself is first rate and I DO think it deserves node from the outer critics circle and others... the nod for best musical is not about the script itself or the writing - that is what the best score and best book of a musical awards are or... the nod is for the overall production itself - cast, sets, lighting, direction, choreography, etc and how they meld together.... and it definately deserves recognition for that!

Most theatres tell people not to bring the food into the theatre, but usually nobody listens. Usually, the only thing they will let you bring in is a bottle of water---most theatres won't even allow that.

I don't bring anything I purchase at intermission in with me. If I bought a candy bar and was only halfway through it when the bell started to toll, I would throw it out before I would bring it in.

I went to see a Gilbert and Sullivan show (probably Pirates, but it may have been the Gondoliers) at City Center with my then-best friend. For some reason (maybe she had an oncoming cold), she was breathing really loudly throughout the second act and making whistling noises through her nose. People kept staring at her and I was utterly mortified.

I HATE THOSE WHO COUGH DURING A SHOW!! Especially when someone does it, and then another, and another...pretty soon its a wave of obnoxious coughing...and you know sometimes people are just being assholes, thinking that its funny..Ruined Cabaret for me.

Doodle - I hate when people talk during the overture too!

I also hate that people wear jeans and sweats to the theater. Grrrr! There used to be a dress code at the Civic Theatre in SD and they would not let you in if you didn't dress appropriately, but now they just let everyone in, regardless of how they are dressed.

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"During the national tour of JCS I sat next to a woman who insisted on singing along to the entire show, (she was accompanied by a scary-looking man, so I said nothing...) "

The same thing happened to me at the Hippodrome in Baltimore last December (same show). I was next to a drunken (beer beforehand, beer brough in) redneck couple who did the same thing before my companion and I gave them enough nasty glares and shushings that they left during the temple scene...and knocked over the beer they had sitting on the floor...

I care because it's an oxymoron to pay $100 for a theater ticket, then show up in cargo pants, flip flops and a t-shirt!

It wouldn't be right to show up to a beach party in slacks and a tie, would it? In my opinion, you should dress for the occasion you are attending.

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marlo, someone's appearance does have an effect on the show. If people are wearing sweats into the theater, that's going to bring down the entire atmosphere, making people think it's okay for them to talk and eat during the performance.

I've actually stayed home from going to a show because I was getting over a cold and didn't want to make anyone else have to listen to me hack and sneeze and sniff through the show.

I saw Follies a few weeks ago and was about to tell off this girl sitting 2 seats away from me. She was coughing loudly, sneezing, sniffing, got up twice to rush to the bathroom...basically she looked horrible. At that point, I wasn't so much annoyed that she was distracting me from the show, I was pissed at her for exposing the entire audience to her germs! If you're that sick, you shouldn't even leave your room, let alone go to a theater performance.

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