which is worse: stinking like weed or texting in a theater?- Page 6

[theaternut]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:13pm

"I once had to sit next to someone that smelled of old age"

I am hysterical.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:14pm

Says someone who personally believes that lol. I'm not telling you what you should or should not do, I'm just speaking for myself.
And writing etc. is a different issue because perhaps the weed provides inspiration or a new thought process. One doesn't need inspiration to enjoy a show.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:15pm

This thread makes me wanna skip the deodorant, have a wild three-way with partners of both genders, cover myself with their fluids (and my own) and go see MARY POPPINS, hair askew, clothes rumpled, second-hand lipstick smeared on my mouth, stinking to high heaven.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:15pm

If you truly enjoy the theatre, you should not need anything to enhance your experience.

If you truly enjoy the theatre, you should not need to post on a message board to discuss it with others to enhance your experience. Oh wait...

One doesn't need inspiration to enjoy a show.

Says who?

Updated On: 5/31/10 at 07:15 PM

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:19pm

Just make sure your phone is off and you're good to go, Borstal.


eta: Bring it though, for your show and tell photos at intermission. Updated On: 5/31/10 at 07:19 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:23pm

Well, that goes without saying...


Wait, let me arrange the semen glob in my hair just so.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:34pm

Yes, I do feel the same way about alcohol. If you're drunk, you're just as bad in my opinion.

And I think actors who are under the influence of something onstage are horrifically unprofessional. That goes without saying.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:38pm

I'm not talking about drunk, or excessively intoxicated on anything, colors - or do you have zero tolerance? Serious question.

I think you'd be very disappointed in many, many actors, I'm afraid.

Borstal, you missed a spot - and ya wanna button your fly, please?

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:47pm

Orangeskittles, I'm just talking for myself. And I don't need the message boards to enjoy the theatre, as I did so for years before I knew the internet even existed. Just like (I would think) you weren't high when you enjoyed your first show.

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:08pm

I would be gagging next to someone smelling like weed.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:09pm

Lots of things make different people gag. Tough ****.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:30pm

"If you truly enjoy the theatre, you should not need anything to enhance your experience."

After doing theatre for as long as I have, sitting in the audience takes extra effort without looking at the show with a critical eye.

Besides, bwaylvsong, weren't you the one who posted that the OP should seek help?

Give me a break.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:44pm

I was joking about the "get help" thing. I apologize if it came off differently. And you don't count as a general fan/ audience member, Diva, since you work behind the scenes. And what's wrong with looking at a show with a critical eye? You (or, as I should say from now on, I) can enjoy a show and acknowledge its flaws at the same time.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:46pm

I love this thread.

I echo ghostlight's thoughts about having no tolerance. If you don't object to audience members having a drink or two, you shouldn't object to someone who has smoked a little pot.

Honestly, unless it's really cold out or you've smoked an entire joint, I just don't think that the scent is going to be that that overpowering or will linger for that long. Honestly, if I'm ever anywhere and I smell the scent of weed, I chuckle. And yeah, I'm totally immature, but whatever. I think if more people smoked pot, the world would be a much nicer place.

Really, what this thread teaches us is whom among us has a pearl clutching overreaction to evils of marijuana and who doesn't.
Updated On: 5/31/10 at 08:46 PM

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:05pm

I'm also getting the distinct feeling that the line divide is between the older (and in several cases here) more professionally working posters being more tolerant, and that it's the younger ones who are so judgmental about it.

[singtopher]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:12pm

Hands down, this is the best thread of the weekend.


ETA
If you don't object to audience members having a drink or two, you shouldn't object to someone who has smoked a little pot.

Ain't that the truth, and frankly I'd rather risk having a pot head sitting next to me than a drunk. A drunk could get loud and rowdy whereas a pot head lacks the motivation to be disruptive.

Updated On: 5/31/10 at 09:12 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:19pm

"Ivanguy, no offense, but instead of using your money to buy theatre tickets, maybe you should get some help. Sincerely, I mean that with no disrespect."

Joking? It sounds like you were apoplectic in your effort to try not to offend.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:20pm

I hate drunks, so I think anyone who has a glass of wine before a show hates theatre and is a drunk. It just makes me have to pee.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:23pm

Ghostlight2, you're absolutely right. I think it's because us younger posters are products of the project DARE/ "don't do drugs!"/ "crack is wack" school and just automatically equate drugs with evil in our minds, even on a subconscious level.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:24pm

Wait till college.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:28pm

But you'll bathe in cologne, which is like someone spitting in my mouth.

Nothing better than sitting next to someone who leaves my eys burning.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:34pm

Diva, that's what happens when I try to be sarcastic and fail...
PRS, I'm almost done with college... and am probably one of a number of students I can count on my hands that hasn't tried any drugs.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:43pm

Ghostlight2, you're absolutely right. I think it's because us younger posters are products of the project DARE/ "don't do drugs!"/ "crack is wack" school and just automatically equate drugs with evil in our minds, even on a subconscious level.

There's a huge difference between someone smoking pot and people who do coke or smoke crack or shoot heroin. (although I don't think you'll see many junkies taking in a Broadway show. Not right after their fix, at least)

Updated On: 5/31/10 at 09:43 PM

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:51pm

I know that, I was just using "crack is wack" as an example.
Wow, I'm really digging myself deeper and deeper in this thread... I should probably stop posting in it...

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 5/31/10 at 10:04pm

bwaylvsong, that's not necessarily true. I was raised in the whole DARE/"crack is wack" environment and a product of that generation. My father was a cop working Narcotics (and a Republican who hates gays, but that's another issue and reason for my future therapy bills) and I was always told drugs are a death sentence. Luckily I was also raised in a time where libraries and the internet were readily available.

Do a little research on pot and you'll see the BS reasons it's illegal. Without getting too 'history lesson' here...Back in the day hemp so threatened the major industries (cotton, paper, etc.) that the newspapers ran with stories like "eighty percent of all the murders committed by Mexicans are done while the killers are drugged by marijuana" and "A California man decapitated his best friend while under the spell of the smoke." Okay, that first one is crazy racist as well, but it still paints an accurate picture of the propaganda surrounding the demonetization of weed. Heck, just watching Reefer Madness (both the musical and the original anti-pot film) gives you an idea of how little truth there is to fears of weed. Though it may seem so far out there nowadays, people actually believed these claims and we're still feeling the repercussions even now.

I know we've gotten somewhat off-topic from the original post (which I already answered with 'cell phones' and a suggestion to cook the ganja into something ahead of time on a previous page), but I just think some people see the issue from such a limited place. The woman smoking a menthol before a show? No problem. The countless drinks being served beforehand (and at some shows - even at your seat)? That's fine. Yet someone asks if smoking weed before a show is ruder than something that we all can agree is an increasing problem in theaters nowadays and they get attacked. Guess which of the three hasn't killed anyone? Oh, that's right - the only one of the three that is illegal. Darn. I now shall step off my soap box. Apologies and such. :)