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Post by lynette on Dec 14, 2018 17:07:06 GMT
Ah, those hormones...could do with a sit com all of their own.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Dec 14, 2018 18:10:25 GMT
"What if you're the person who stays sitting in order not to upset the ones behind you, then can't see because everyone in front is up - you then stand, and sure enough get it in the ear from the one behind? Asking for a friend ....." Well, the people to blame are the ones who start it, the selfish so-and-sos who get up and dance and cause these problems for the people behind. You are Parsley and I claim my £5
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Post by winonaforever on Dec 15, 2018 17:08:55 GMT
It was a whole week ago and I'm still cross! At 42nd Street, people immediately to my left, sitting directly behind, and on my right in the row behind - talking, eating, slurping drinks throughout the show. I shut up 2 of the groups with my Medusa like glares, but one group wouldn't be subdued and continued to comment, shriek, eat, make clinking noises with the ice cubes in their drinks, throughout the entire show. They looked to be in their early 70s or so. If they don't don't how to conduct themselves in public at their ages there's no hope for them! Made me feel positively homicidal!
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Post by lynette on Dec 15, 2018 23:12:41 GMT
Pinter Five: munching, crackling, coughing a lot of, all the usual especially in the pauses!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2018 23:19:19 GMT
If you're in a theatre with a decent rake, maybe check out where your hands naturally rest with regards to the head of the person in front of you, and if the rake means your hands are basically five inches away from their ears, then it would be really great if you could save the fingernail-clicking and sweet-unwrapping for the interval.
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 16, 2018 13:07:37 GMT
At the Harold Pinter dress circle I sat next to an elderly couple. The woman next to me fell asleep before the start and slept through almost the entire thing. Every so often she would start to snore, but her husband was on top of things and stopped her quickly - again and again. Afterwards she had the gall to tell a FOH staff that the sound where she was sitting was terrible. After she concluded her complaint, I then said to the FOH that I had sat next to her, that the sound was perfectly clear to me and that, in any case, it is difficult to hear anything if one is asleep for the whole show.
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Post by harrietcraig on Dec 17, 2018 0:35:32 GMT
At a performance of Handel's "Messiah" this afternoon, the woman sitting across the aisle from me took out her phone and started writing a message during "Comfort ye, my people". I could hear the tapping from across the aisle, so I reached over, tapped her on the arm, and whispered, "Turn that off". She did so (with a less than gracious look). I'm not a professional musician, but I'm fairly certain that Handel's orchestrations for "Messiah" don't include a cellphone in the percussion section.
By the way, the phone tapper didn't come back after the interval after Part One. I guess she wasn't interested in finding out how the story ended.
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Post by crowblack on Dec 17, 2018 1:52:59 GMT
Fantastic Mercury Rev gig at the Royal Exchange tonight, but surprised, given the age of the audience (balding/grey) that some still felt the need to pull phones out just as you were getting to favourite bits of the songs to film it. Special mention to the middle-aged woman on the front row (theatre in the round, so in everyone's sightline) who pulled her phone out with a lamp/spotlight on it like a lighthouse and filmed half of Holes, a song for which the lights were turned right down. I mean really, you must be at least 4 decades old - can't you learn how to turn the spotlight/permanent flash/whatever the hell it was off your flaming phone? Must have been right into the singer's eyes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 8:48:00 GMT
At a performance of Handel's "Messiah" this afternoon, the woman sitting across the aisle from me took out her phone and started writing a message during "Comfort ye, my people". I could hear the tapping from across the aisle, so I reached over, tapped her on the arm, and whispered, "Turn that off". She did so (with a less than gracious look). I'm not a professional musician, but I'm fairly certain that Handel's orchestrations for "Messiah" don't include a cellphone in the percussion section. By the way, the phone tapper didn't come back after the interval after Part One. I guess she wasn't interested in finding out how the story ended. That tapping sound on phones makes me homicidal. The lady in the bed next to me when my baby was being induced was tapping away. I figured we were both going to be there for hours, so I politely asked within a minute of it starting, to mute her phone. She glared, told her husband to draw the curtain between us and didn’t speak to me. But the phone went on mute :-)
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Post by lonlad on Dec 17, 2018 23:52:15 GMT
Quite a few people chuckling openly tonight at CAROLINE, OR CHANGE following C's remark to Noah that "hell is where Jews go to die" -- yes, really. One of them was clearly drunk and was responding as if the show were KINKY BOOTS.
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Post by ptwest on Dec 18, 2018 14:49:05 GMT
Reminds me of the time I was repeatedly kicked in the back of the head while seated at a Meatloaf concert (tiered seats, not freakishly tall children!) many years ago by two delightful children who couldn't have been more than 6. They were beyond bored and writhing around. Went into full on teacher mode which solved the problem pretty sharpish - not a peep out of the children or their parents for the rest of the evening!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 15:18:17 GMT
Question: What type of nutjob mother takes an 8 year old girl to a Lily Allen concert in the first place, and secondly one that starts about 9.20pm on a school night anyway? People in Lily Allen houses shouldn't throw stones....
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 18, 2018 15:27:54 GMT
So who else is thinking that Lily Allen has more than her fair share of Ls? Jeez, lady, leave some for the rest of us.
Although I suppose it is that time of year...
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Post by floorshow on Dec 18, 2018 16:08:09 GMT
So who else is thinking that Lily Allen has more than her fair share of Ls? Jeez, lady, leave some for the rest of us.
Although I suppose it is that time of year... First No L joke in the the thread?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 18, 2018 23:13:20 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell.
Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before...
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Post by happytobehere on Dec 18, 2018 23:21:01 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell. Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before... Oh damn 😳 I was in the crowd tonight & now I feel uncomfortable knowing that sort of thing was going on somewhere around me...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 9:16:42 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell. Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before... Wasn't there a report of Motown the musical having some kind of sexual activity at some point? @xandrel ?? (For clarity Xandrel told me the story, he wasn't involved...or so he says)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 9:19:58 GMT
I've definitely read reports of sexual activity in an auditorium on this very forum before. I want to say it was someone who was sitting in a box at Joseph...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 9:21:18 GMT
I've definitely read reports of sexual activity in an auditorium on this very forum before. I want to say it was someone who was sitting in a box at Joseph... To be fair, the loincloth has that effect on @ryan
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2018 9:24:09 GMT
Goodness, what would one do if you were sat next to them? Ask them to wait until the interval? Give them marks out of ten for technical and artistic merit?
Having said that, you have to give them fair respect really. Theatre seats are pretty uncomfortable and there's not a lot of room in the actual row so they must be pretty limber. They probably do yoga.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 19, 2018 9:39:26 GMT
I've definitely read reports of sexual activity in an auditorium on this very forum before. I want to say it was someone who was sitting in a box at Joseph... I'm sure I've heard stories of a couple who regularly used to book a box so they could get it on in the audience at all of the shows - it was like, A Thing for them - not realising that the casts could often see what they were up to in there.
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Post by vickster51 on Dec 19, 2018 10:10:16 GMT
I've definitely read reports of sexual activity in an auditorium on this very forum before. I want to say it was someone who was sitting in a box at Joseph... I'm sure I've heard stories of a couple who regularly used to book a box so they could get it on in the audience at all of the shows - it was like, A Thing for them - not realising that the casts could often see what they were up to in there. I’ve heard Rob Lowe talk about this couple when he was in the West End, so they did exist at some point!
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Post by daisy24601 on Dec 19, 2018 10:37:32 GMT
I mean I would do anything for love...but I wouldn't do THAT.
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Post by Xanderl on Dec 19, 2018 11:42:26 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell. Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before... Wasn't there a report of Motown the musical having some kind of sexual activity at some point? @xandrel ?? (For clarity Xandrel told me the story, he wasn't involved...or so he says) Yes, activity both inside and outside (in every sense of the word) theatreboard.co.uk/post/191891/thread
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Post by Snciole on Dec 19, 2018 11:48:06 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell. Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before... Wasn't there a report of Motown the musical having some kind of sexual activity at some point? @xandrel ?? (For clarity Xandrel told me the story, he wasn't involved...or so he says) @xand Xanderl
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Post by MrsCondomine on Dec 19, 2018 11:53:29 GMT
Question: What type of nutjob mother takes an 8 year old girl to a Lily Allen concert in the first place, and secondly one that starts about 9.20pm on a school night anyway? Answer: The same one who lets the brat wipe her feet all over the seat in front (really pity the poor lady who unknowingly took it later on), and is miffed that they have to leave about half way through the show at 10pm ish, having seen about 40 minutes of a 90 minute show. Punishment karma is swift, thankfully. I'm not a prude but if I had an 8 y/o that knew Lily Allen's lyrics and went round singing some of them, I'd feel pretty bad. "All right, how would it make you feel if I said you never made me come," isn't what I'd want my hypothetical child to be repeating!
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Post by floorshow on Dec 19, 2018 13:54:05 GMT
^Well, at first I'd be sad for a while, really... The chanting before she took to the stage of "Lily f***ing Allen" by the crowd could have been an education for the kid too, going by the look on mum's face. Not her fault she inherited her father's name!
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Post by tysilio2 on Dec 19, 2018 14:38:52 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell. Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before... Yeah, but it was the person next to them noisily unwrapping a Werther's Original that really p*ssed people off!
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Post by bellboard27 on Dec 19, 2018 23:51:22 GMT
Reports on MTAS on Facebook of sexual activity in the auditorium during this evening's performance of Bat out of Hell. Not sure how credible this is - but I don't think I have heard of oral sex being performed in the audience at a musical before... Yeah, but it was the person next to them noisily unwrapping a Werther's Original that really p*ssed people off! I don’t believe the wrapper is a suitable substitute for a condom. But, hey, I’ll give it a go and report back.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2018 1:24:27 GMT
I'm sure I've heard stories of a couple who regularly used to book a box so they could get it on in the audience at all of the shows - it was like, A Thing for them - not realising that the casts could often see what they were up to in there. I’ve heard Rob Lowe talk about this couple when he was in the West End, so they did exist at some point! Rob would have asked to join in and film it back in the 1980's.
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