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Post by Tibidabo on May 29, 2018 21:26:47 GMT
I turned round and the woman behind me had decided she should take off her shoes and place one bare foot on the back of my chair and the other on the back of my mums chair, the stabbing device was her very pointy big toe nail . I glanced up at her and she was sitting there in a short sundress with her legs wide open so we could see her knickers, I'm more than a little disappointed that Tibidabo didn't tell me she was having an outing to Woking. Sorry, I was overdue a pedicu........no, no, NO! Even I cannot joke about this. It's too disgusting. itsemily, I don't know how you managed to stay so cool. Personally, I'd have got my scissors out and cut off the offending toe nail.✂️ Bleugh.🤮
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 8:44:18 GMT
And I shouldnt forget the guy at the Dutch Lion King a few years ago a few rows in front of us who was dressed as a giraffe. OMGosh, I just love that, it keeps making me giggle. And I have so many questions but really, timothyd's post requires no further explanation. Clearly I wouldn't have wanted to be sat behind him but even still . . .
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Post by daisy24601 on May 30, 2018 13:56:11 GMT
A giraffe, of all choices.
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Post by poster J on May 30, 2018 15:13:02 GMT
^certainly sticking his neck out there, for sure. Taxi!
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Post by timothyd on May 30, 2018 15:16:53 GMT
He told us in the interval that he wasn't sure if he was going to dress up as a giraffe or Lion. According to him it truly was a neck-a-neck race' between which costume was going to be worn.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 16:49:40 GMT
I’m surprised he had the brass neck to dress up as anything, least of all a bloody giraffe. Not the kind of behaviour you expect at a show like this. Definitely putting his neck on the line there. I hate people like that; a real pain in the... arse.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 17:28:09 GMT
There are a few things I've noticed in the differences between audiences in the London and in my country (Holland). - They sell food and drinks at the bar and in the auditorium in the UK. It's like a cinema. People are eating and drinking everywhere. Where in Holland it's not allowed to take your drinks or food in the auditorium. They don't sell food either. You have a drink before/after or in the interval, but you don't take it with you into the auditorium. - I hadn't heard people shush other people until I went to a theatre in the London. Doesn't really happen here. Here, at musicals with well known songs (Lion King, On Your Feet, etc), it's not really a crime to hum or sing quietly. I never do so, but it's definitely not weird here. I rather have people humming/singing then eating or drinking tbh. I even heard people shush other people because they coughed. That literally made no sense to me. - I've never seen people go to the toilets during a show in Holland either. - People booing the villains during applause in London. I do like that though. On topic: I really dislike it when people, who've been to the same show multiple times, talk about and spoil major plot points before the show even started. It's not that difficult to be a bit more aware of the people around you who might never have seen the show. Some years ago now I took my parents to the RAH to one of those Christmas concerts. All the Christmas classics: Winter Wonderland, White Christmas and so on. I think Graham Bickley was one of the singers; I can’t remember the girl... My mum and dad were so excited. They commented that they’d only ever been inside the RAH once before when they’d sat in the gods to watch me graduate. I felt really proud to think I’d brought them back there. Anyway, a couple of songs in and I thought I could hear someone singing along, really quietly but it was audible. Then the singing got a bit louder, and when they didn’t know the words they’d pad out with some la la las until they could pick up the words again. I looked around for the Christmas Crooner... and I suddenly saw across my mum to see my dad singing his heart out. I was mortified! I nudged my mum and told her, “Tell dad to shut up.” She did. He stopped. At the interval I had to explain that it wasn’t the done thing. He reckoned he’d tell all his mates that he’d sung at the Royal Albert Hall!
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Post by oxfordsimon on May 30, 2018 18:43:55 GMT
There are a few things I've noticed in the differences between audiences in the London and in my country (Holland). - They sell food and drinks at the bar and in the auditorium in the UK. It's like a cinema. People are eating and drinking everywhere. Where in Holland it's not allowed to take your drinks or food in the auditorium. They don't sell food either. You have a drink before/after or in the interval, but you don't take it with you into the auditorium. - I hadn't heard people shush other people until I went to a theatre in the London. Doesn't really happen here. Here, at musicals with well known songs (Lion King, On Your Feet, etc), it's not really a crime to hum or sing quietly. I never do so, but it's definitely not weird here. I rather have people humming/singing then eating or drinking tbh. I even heard people shush other people because they coughed. That literally made no sense to me. - I've never seen people go to the toilets during a show in Holland either. - People booing the villains during applause in London. I do like that though. On topic: I really dislike it when people, who've been to the same show multiple times, talk about and spoil major plot points before the show even started. It's not that difficult to be a bit more aware of the people around you who might never have seen the show. Some years ago now I took my parents to the RAH to one of those Christmas concerts. All the Christmas classics: Winter Wonderland, White Christmas and so on. I think Graham Bickley was one of the singers; I can’t remember the girl... My mum and dad were so excited. They commented that they’d only ever been inside the RAH once before when they’d sat in the gods to watch me graduate. I felt really proud to think I’d brought them back there. Anyway, a couple of songs in and I thought I could hear someone singing along, really quietly but it was audible. Then the singing got a bit louder, and when they didn’t know the words they’d pad out with some la la las until they could pick up the words again. I looked around for the Christmas Crooner... and I suddenly saw across my mum to see my dad singing his heart out. I was mortified! I nudged my mum and told her, “Tell dad to shut up.” She did. He stopped. At the interval I had to explain that it wasn’t the done thing. He reckoned he’d tell all his mates that he’d sung at the Royal Albert Hall! I had a similar experience at a concert of the Lloyd Webber Requiem. My father was singing along to his favourite bits throughout. No interval so no chance to stop him easily. It was an uncomfortable experience and conversation afterwards...
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 1, 2018 20:09:51 GMT
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Post by The Matthew on Jun 1, 2018 20:50:53 GMT
"So I turned around and my baton accidentally stabbed her in the eye. And the other eye. And the neck."
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 1, 2018 22:28:23 GMT
Stephen Oremus is a badass; you never know.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 2, 2018 12:25:03 GMT
Not bad behaviour, saw Benjamin Zephaniah last night and row behind me lots of scribbling. Turned round and there was a young lad, maybe ten years of age who had drawn a comic strip animation of the performance.
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Post by david on Jun 2, 2018 22:10:02 GMT
Maybe not bad behaviour, but two couples claimed the exact same seats next to me in the stalls at tonight’s performance of Julie at the NT. After FOH staff tried to sort out the issue, I managed to take a peak at the gentleman’s ticket. Correct performance and seat, but wrong location! They should have been in the CIRCLE. This meant that both couples got reseated in different seats unnecessarily. An easy mistake to make, but it shows you the importance of reading the ticket before taking your seat!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2018 22:18:04 GMT
There was an audible groan from the audience at Tina tonight when the message asking for people not to sing or dance throughout the show was broadcast. Clearly a lot of them came in with other ideas... It still didn’t put off the gentleman next to me who decided to hum along to the first few numbers though 😣
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Post by stagebyte on Jun 3, 2018 0:53:01 GMT
There was an audible groan from the audience at Tina tonight when the message asking for people not to sing or dance throughout the show was broadcast. Clearly a lot of them came in with other ideas... It still didn’t put off the gentleman next to me who decided to hum along to the first few numbers though 😣 Of course it didn’t put him off. Why should it when he belongs to that ever growing number of narcissists who believe no rule applies to them and that the world revolves around them?
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Post by timothyd on Jun 3, 2018 8:53:55 GMT
Is it possible to be completely quiet during a show with Tina Turner songs? Cant believe that.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2018 8:57:49 GMT
Mercifully he did stop, but the amount of surreptitious filming and photograph taking was frustrating. Within my eye line but not near enough for me to say anything unfortunately. This was the only occasion where I felt I had to let the bad behaviour go, and not allow it to ruin the experience, considering the price I’d paid.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 4, 2018 7:05:41 GMT
At the end of Tina as the concert bit started I noticed two FOH walk down to the front of the stalls at each side. Ah! I thought, they’re here to stop illicit filming. They then proceeded to stare into space and at anything BUT the two people in the front stall said blatantly filming the entire thing.
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Post by stagebyte on Jun 4, 2018 13:30:34 GMT
Regardless wish FOH would wait til the blackout or applause at the end of the show to make their move. Very distracting at Harry Potter play. The end is very quiet, two ushers making their way to the front less so and also signals for those who don’t know that it is the end!
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 4, 2018 14:24:41 GMT
Harris is fairly thoughtful here. The "shoulda told an usher!" comments are short-sighted.
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Post by stagebyte on Jun 4, 2018 16:36:08 GMT
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Post by wickedgrin on Jun 4, 2018 19:21:07 GMT
This is the issue - some people feel entitled to their bad behaviour. Intervening is always problematic in that someone who (say) uses their mobile phone during a performance is just the sort of person to justify their behaviour rather than apologise and turn it off. So this can easily escalate into a fight either verbal or even physical.
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Post by wickedgrin on Jun 4, 2018 19:29:46 GMT
At a performance of Young Frankenstein I was sat next to a group, one of whom further along the row kept checking her mobile every 2/3 minutes. The light in my peripheral vision was so distracting! My death stare accompanied by a throat slitting gesture soon stopped her. I meant the gesture to be taken as "cut off the phone" but she may have taken it that if she didn't I might kill her! She didn't dare take it out after that!
With badly behaved children at shows my child catcher impression usually does the trick!
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Post by ellie1981 on Jun 4, 2018 20:50:29 GMT
This behaviour actually sounds scarily similar to two friends of mine. We often go out as a three and I’m the only female. Both of them are in their early 40s and literally act like a couple of 8 year olds. Theirs might be “play fighting” rather than actual fighting, but I’m quite sick of it. It’s a lot of shoving and pinching and I find it embarrassing. They did it through Young Frankenstein and at the weekend we went to a Sing Along cinema show and they did it again. While they’re very good friends, I just can’t seem to stop this rather odd, immature behaviour. They seem to think it’s my problem, but they seriously disturb others around us. I’ve sworn that I’m just going to get up and leave the next time they do it.
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Post by david on Jun 4, 2018 21:09:59 GMT
The use of mobile phones in the theatre during a performance is everyone’s pet hate I would imagine. I just wonder why people feel the need to do it. As a society are we that transfixed with phones and checking social media every 5 minutes to see what other people are doing. I just find it rude to both other theatre goers who have paid good money to see a show and not a light show from the seated areas as well as the hard working cast who must get really frustrated at the constant ringing during shows. We all know those actors who have stopped shows mid way because of phones.
Personally, apart from posting on this board, I don’t have Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram or any other social media apps. Am I worried I’m missing out on someone posting what they had for dinner? Quite frankly I couldn’t care less what they eat. If I want to know something, I’ll ask the person themselves. I believe it’s called the art of communication. If you want to use your phone, use it in the interval or pre/post show. Have some basic respect for other human beings.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jun 4, 2018 21:24:23 GMT
I've been on Twitter for 10 years and a few others for almost as long. I have never wanted to check one DURING a show. Sometimes I might make a mental note to post about something funny or weird that happened onstage, but that stuff can wait. If something else is happening that I'm interested in, it'll probably still be there for me to read when I'm done with the show
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 21:29:04 GMT
I like checking Twitter at the interval, so that I can share my halfway-through thoughts, and see if I can guess what shows my friends are at from the halfway-through thoughts they're all tweeting.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Jun 5, 2018 7:54:39 GMT
I like checking Twitter at the interval, so that I can share my halfway-through thoughts, and see if I can guess what shows my friends are at from the halfway-through thoughts they're all tweeting. I do my interval-check too, but mostly to see if I have an emergency message from anyone, or anything that might need answering soon. The phone goes in airplane mode after I've done it! Letting your children stand and lean against the barrier in the circle is a bugbear of mine too. Dangerous and blocks the view. It tends to happen during pantos which I understand (they're excited) but during more serious shows it becomes tedious VERY quickly. Another is when people on the end of your row give you a glare when you're coming back to your seat. Fair enough if you are late or if you don't say "excuse me," but otherwise... MOVE! I need to get back to my seat and I'll bloody trample you if you don't move your arse.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 9:02:14 GMT
Letting your children stand and lean against the barrier in the circle is a bugbear of mine too. Dangerous and blocks the view. It tends to happen during pantos which I understand (they're excited) but during more serious shows it becomes tedious VERY quickly. I find that if you just tip them over the barrier, they don't tend to lean against it again.
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 5, 2018 9:09:15 GMT
I don't know if this would be considered bad behaviour, but yesterday I went to the cinema to watch Edie (great little film incidentally). I was the only one in there, or so I thought. It's one of those cinema's without reserved seating so you just pick when you get in there. I got my favourite spot three rows from the back in the middle. As the trailers started, this old bloke wandered in and, despite having an entire cinema of free space, he decides to plonk himself down right next to me. I appreciate he had the right to sit wherever and I could have moved, but I was in my favourite spot and, not to sound childish, but I was there first. I doesn't matter in the scheme of things but I like seeing films on my own and hearing him rustle his way through a packet of Werthers did spoil in a tad.
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