the EPITOME of tasteless audiences..... — Page 5

LMAO Forester you beat me to it. I was thinking the same thing. Don't be that loser. LOL.



Oh and SUMOFALLTHINGS you're not funny. Give it up.


Couple of storys. First time I saw RENT all I could afford was an upper balcony ticket, not the best seats to say the least and I was surrounded by other kids who were obvious Rentheads. Well there was this massively overweight and effeminite kid about oh 15 or so right in front of me. And from the first song he was dancing and throwing his 300 pounds around in his chair and not just singing along but repeating every sing spoken/sung on the stage. Well I took about 15 mintues of this untill I not so polietly told him to knock it off, and I got applause for it. I don't know how he was able to stay after that.

Lion King: I was with my college and seeing it for the second time, against my will. I should have taken those 26 dollar tickets to see The Goat. Either way we were in that horrible balcony in The New Amsterdam. And the man in front of me, who had the front row btw refused to sit back in his seat and this 40 year old man was leaning on the bar the entire time. Finnally second act I couldn't deal with it anymore and he wasn't picking up on my subtle kicks to his chair or my increasingly louder sighing and shifting. So I asked him to sit back, second time or not I at least wanna see the damn thing. SO he sat back and 3 minutes later was asleep.

Final performance, senior year of high school, Guys and Dolls. I was playing Nathan and doing the phonebooth scene. We added some extras and had a bum sleeping on a bench outside the phonebooth. Well right as I reach for the phone a cell phone in the audience goes off and I don't know what possesed me, but the ring was way loud. So I picked up the phone in the booth and said "Hello?" and then looked at the kid playing the bum and said "He's drunk, he'll call you back." Massive cheers from the audience and then I went on with the scene. After the show I got an appology from the man who's cell phone rang.

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Well, I don't really remember about anything really, but now that we are mentioning RENT, here goes:

I saw the national tour of RENT for my Christmas present about one and a half or two years ago. So these freakin' idiots stand up during "Seasons of Love" (Or some other number-I can't really remember.) and start dancing to it, and also cheer very loudly. No one did a thing about it, and I would have if I was closer to them. (But I got 7th row center-they had 3rd row towards the right) Come on folks. Seasons of Love is supposed to be a touching song. And what do these idiots do? They dance their asses off while pissing everyone else off!

Reading all these stories is giving me a migraine...

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It really annoys me that many of these problems could've been handled with. Where was the ushers? Sounds like poor house management in many cases.

[disclaimer: all in fun] okay, so I was reading and sometimes posting in this "EPITOME of tasteless audiences" thread on BWW, along withe several others, and this member named "SUMOFALLTHINGS" kept coming in and posting these posts -- funny to some, no doubt; not so funny to others -- that recounted all these outrageous scenarios about various performers reacting to disturbances from audience members (including Phylicia Rashad's hair apparently spontaneously combusting, followed by her devouring an annoying audience member) ... so anyway, finally other posters on this thread, myself included, had our avatars gang up on SUMOFALLTHING's avatar and beat the living crap out of it. But I doubt that'll stop 'em.

One of the things I loved about the Sydney Opera House:

They do not seat latecomers! Even high government officials have found themselves pacing the lobby.

My biggest pet peve: late curtains.

What annoys me about all of this rude behavior is that theater etiquette is common sense, or should be, - to everyone. It's not like these are some kind of secret rules that only theater insiders know about. People just don't use their heads.

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Back to the point about dressing for the theater. My belief is that if you dress appropriately for an occasion, you are more likely to behave appropriately DURING that occasion.

Example, you say?

Well, if you are dressed for the theater in DECENT clothing, you are less likely to put your feet up on the seat, take your shoes off to examine your feet, eat candy and let it spill all over your decent clothes, or lounge around and talk conversationaly to your friends.

If you arrive to the theater in the clothes you wear to say, clean the car or sit in class all day in, you are more likely to feel like you can just sit back, put your feet up, slip off the flip flop and examine yourself, eat the candy and hell, who cares if some of the chocolate melts into the clothes!

And I say again, you wouldn't show up to a beach party in evening wear and you wouldn't wash your car in a nice outfit, so why do you feel it's ok to show up to the theater in clothing you would wash the car in?

And to the point of whichever poster said "not everyone has paid $100 for their ticket", it's not the price you paid for the ticket, it's the experience of seeing a live performance that should count for showing some respect to not only the performers, but the patrons around you.

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Thanks Keggs!

I just can't believe people treat the theater as their living room! You are outside the home, people! Have some personal dignity!

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i agreed that someone who is dressed down might be more likely to do the other rude things, but i dont think its the best measuring stick.

No, the best measuring stick is the one you can take to the theater and beat the annoying people with!!

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Last night, I saw ASU ... I was in the second row of the balcony and the row behind me was I sat in my seat and there was this really humungous guy next to me. I decided to move over one seat because it was empty and I could see better. In the middle of the first act, this guy climbs over our row into the row behind us and spreads himself out all over the row. It was distracting and rude.

Thankfully, I was allowed to move down for the second act.

Not to mention, there were these kids ewwing everytime someone kissed.

As for the dress code, I feel it depends on the show. I wear jeans to Rent all the time because i feel the atmosphere of the theatre allows it but I tend to wear something nicer to a show like Phantom.empty.

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Sum: SHUT UP!

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