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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 11:58:26 GMT
People who fiddle with their paper tickets throughout the play. Just put your ticket away FFS I always keep hold of my ticket in my hand in case I decide to nip off into a different seat that I didn't pay for and it then looks like I have the ticket.
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Post by 49thand8th on May 14, 2019 14:27:52 GMT
People who fiddle with their paper tickets throughout the play. Just put your ticket away FFS I always keep hold of my ticket in my hand in case I decide to nip off into a different seat that I didn't pay for and it then looks like I have the ticket. You don't have pockets?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 14:58:47 GMT
I always keep hold of my ticket in my hand in case I decide to nip off into a different seat that I didn't pay for and it then looks like I have the ticket. You don't have pockets? No. It ruins the line of a trouser.
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Post by zahidf on May 14, 2019 15:51:40 GMT
People who fiddle with their paper tickets throughout the play. Just put your ticket away FFS I always keep hold of my ticket in my hand in case I decide to nip off into a different seat that I didn't pay for and it then looks like I have the ticket. Well, then don't fiddle with it.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 16:11:03 GMT
I always keep hold of my ticket in my hand in case I decide to nip off into a different seat that I didn't pay for and it then looks like I have the ticket. Well, then don't fiddle with it. Oh, you reminded me of the dear old Queen Mum then. Anyway, I always think, if one is behaving badly in the theatre anyway by sitting where one shouldn't then you may as well go the whole hog. Once I've played around with the ticket, I often turn it into a paper aeroplane and aim it at a particularly wooden actor on the stage. After I've checked my phone of course.
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Post by TallPaul on May 14, 2019 16:26:59 GMT
You should get one of those newfangled smartwatches, @ryan. Then you could keep up with social media AND fiddle with *it* at the same time. 😉
Are you right or left handed?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 16:42:11 GMT
You should get one of those newfangled smartwatches, @ryan . Then you could keep up with social media AND fiddle with *it* at the same time. 😉 Are you right or left handed? I'm ambidextrous. I can Zsa Zsa you with the back of either hand.
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Post by bobbybaby on May 14, 2019 16:43:38 GMT
Well I’ve improved on ATG’s ordertorium. I get a Deliveroo KFC to my seat about 15 minutes in to the first act. I usually get a bargain bucket and chuck the chicken bones into the Orchestra pit. You know you’ve cleared the front row when they bounce off a cymbal. Keeps the actors on their toes I find.
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Post by waybeyondblue on May 14, 2019 19:51:45 GMT
I had a complete moron of a neighbour who started playing loud music from 2am to 8am a few times a week and even though I got that shut down I'm now on edge before I go to sleep listening out for anything that might keep me awake. A nightmare from my late teen years too. I don't think you ever really recover from it. There should be a law that nothing should be audible outside of the room it is being played in, full stop. But MPs all live in mansions and don't give a toss about normal people. And maybe one for factual inaccuracies. MPs do not all live in mansions (my one lives in a terrace house) whereas internet posters often make unsubstantiated claims - fact. As for being audible outside the room, then you may want to try that with the door open, then see how close you have to sit to the source to be inaudible outside the room. You may also want to check the effects on accurate sound reproduction at low volume. You may also want to define the Db level of “audible” and the effects of sound waves outside average human hearing.
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Post by The Matthew on May 14, 2019 19:58:32 GMT
I had a complete moron of a neighbour who started playing loud music from 2am to 8am a few times a week I used to have neighbours who'd play Toto's Africa over and over again at full volume in the middle of the night, a couple of times a month. Just that one song, many times.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 20:09:18 GMT
I had a complete moron of a neighbour who started playing loud music from 2am to 8am a few times a week I used to have neighbours who'd play Toto's Africa over and over again at full volume in the middle of the night, a couple of times a month. Just that one song, many times. Were they otherwise normal?
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Post by peggs on May 14, 2019 20:20:13 GMT
Yes I do think I notice and am annoyed more than I used to be, I don't remember being bothered back when I started whereas now it seems to be a rare performance when no one annoying is around. I think it's like once you've noticed something once you can't stop noticing. And equally yes lived in a flat once and swear the people above were dropping bowling balls on the floor it was so loud and this was above the noise of loud music that came on every night, by day they were almost silent.
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Post by The Matthew on May 14, 2019 20:27:13 GMT
I used to have neighbours who'd play Toto's Africa over and over again at full volume in the middle of the night, a couple of times a month. Just that one song, many times. Were they otherwise normal? I never met them. Only heard them. They weren't there for long.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 20:34:12 GMT
Were they otherwise normal? I never met them. Only heard them. They weren't there for long. Perhaps they moved...to Africa?
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Post by harrietcraig on May 15, 2019 3:36:19 GMT
Two all-Bach piano recitals by Angela Hewitt in New York this week (Saturday evening and Tuesday evening). I sat next to the same young couple at both performances. Hewitt would leave the stage briefly (no more than a minute) between pieces. Each time she left the stage, the person sitting next to me (Saturday it was the woman, Tuesday the man) would take out his/her cellphone and begin scrolling through it until the second Hewitt’s hands descended on the keyboard again. I will say, they never looked at their phones while music was actually being played, but it was as if even the briefest of pauses during the performance triggered an uncontrollable impulse in them to look at their phones. The idea of sitting quietly between pieces and absorbing what they had just heard would probably have struck them as ridiculously quaint.
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Post by kimbahorel on May 15, 2019 4:41:24 GMT
And equally yes lived in a flat once and swear the people above were dropping bowling balls on the floor it was so loud and this was above the noise of loud music that came on every night, by day they were almost silent. The people above me have a baby elephant!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 10:10:38 GMT
At the Playhouse Theatre yesterday, lot of people decided to switch seats at the interval. Very (VERY) tall girls decided to sit in front of the nice, older couple next to me. They politely asked them not to, the girls laughed. The couple then told an usher, who did nothing about it, in fact she said those seats were free so they had the right to move? Um, that's not how it works. I guess she didn't want confrontation?
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Post by MrsCondomine on May 15, 2019 10:17:36 GMT
And equally yes lived in a flat once and swear the people above were dropping bowling balls on the floor it was so loud and this was above the noise of loud music that came on every night, by day they were almost silent. The people above me have a baby elephant! The people in the flat above the one I used to live it had a baby elephant that also liked to bounce on the bed at roughly the same time every night... At least they had a routine, eh.
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Post by Backdrifter on May 15, 2019 10:45:14 GMT
So arriving for my Sweet Charity performance I note that my row seems to be full. So with apologies and hat doffing I wend my way down to 'my seat', and yes it is occupied. Obviously as I must look rough as a badgers arse, other people check that I know what I'm doing, right day, right performance, right part of the theatre whilst the interloper stares blankly at me. Eventually but very slowly a ruffle into a bag and a pocket occur and tickets are produced and pored over for 17 1/2 minutes, looking at the back, the front, the side, forming them into an origami swan to hear the eventual words, 'they put us in different rows but I wanted to sit with my husband, do you mind moving?' So, you knew you were in separate rows but performed this agomising pantomime making me look like the idiot. You had removed coat scarf bag etc and settled in without so much as waiting for me to arrive to discuss (it wasn't 30 seconds to start either, though should that matter?) and then presented me with a fait accompli. Yes I moved, the seat was marginally better but should I have? I hadn't booked a specific aisle or view or anything. I think it's less the moving than the sense of entitlement and the diminishing of me. I’m too soft, and would probably have agreed to move as well as I wouldn’t have wanted to cause a scene. Although their sense of entitlement is pretty shocking. Had a strange lady at Rocky Horror in Bath a few nights ago who was sat in B21 but when a couple came along to take their seats in B20 and B21 she did the whole act of “this is definitely my seat” etc. to then be chucked out of her seat and she moved to sit beside me in B8 and admitted she’d moved to B21 because of the restricted view she had (pillar) in her original seat. She then moved in the interval, telling me “she’s going to sit with some friends.” Another one who felt she was entitled to a better seat and how dare the person who’d actually paid for the seat she was in turn up to claim it. GAAAAAAHHHH! That's partly at the seat-stealers in both these stories but also at you and missthelma for being, as you put it, "too soft". Okay, I apologise and I totally get that everyone will react differently to situations - not everyone is comfortable with any level of confrontation, even down to "you're in my seat". I'm at the other end of the spectrum from you, I wouldn't hesitate to make them move. (If anything I'm probably guilty of almost relishing it!) I always choose seats very carefully so there's no way they can just stay there. But the manner in which they do it makes a huge difference - in both those incidents their behaviour was unacceptable. If they immediately owned up to it, said yes it was a bit cheeky of them but... etc, it wouldn't bother me too much. I'd still bloodywell make them move back, but it'd be the polite way to handle it. In particular the couple in missthelma's anecdote are way out of line, just unbelievable. They absolutely should have been made to move back. Again, I understand not everyone reacts like me but it still niggles me that such slimy entitiloids get their way and are smugly emboldened to keep doing it. When I was 8 or 9 I imagined I could just point at people who annoyed me and they'd disintegrate as though shot by a ray-gun. In this case I'd definitely be sweeping their dust off the seats before settling down and stretching out.
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Post by Backdrifter on May 15, 2019 10:58:22 GMT
This is fascinating and I'm sure it's useful for someone wholly unfamiliar with theatre (let's face it, it has a snobby reputation that makes many people feel theatre isn't for them), but I'd have to show it to a true newbie to see if it comes off as patronizing, because I'm getting a slight sheen of that Thought it was quite a good article to be honest - didn't come across as patronising to me (although I agree the target audience are better qualified to comment on that!) and I thought pitching it as "here's the difference between going to the cinema and going to the theatre" was a good angle. Although I'd add "they don't have trailers or ads so the start time is the time the show starts" here! (I think this may be different in US cinemas though? UK cinemas generally start the film 20 minutes after the stated start time) Yes I thought it was good too and not especially patronising or amusing. OK yes perhaps "bring a coat if it's raining" is pushing it a bit, but as far as the rest of it's concerned, given many of the stories in this thread it seems to me that guidance like this is sorely needed.
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Post by Backdrifter on May 15, 2019 11:13:23 GMT
I had a complete moron of a neighbour who started playing loud music from 2am to 8am a few times a week and even though I got that shut down I'm now on edge before I go to sleep listening out for anything that might keep me awake. A nightmare from my late teen years too. I don't think you ever really recover from it. There should be a law that nothing should be audible outside of the room it is being played in, full stop. But MPs all live in mansions and don't give a toss about normal people. I lived in a block where a downstairs neighbour played really loud music at past 2am. Fortunately it was just once or twice but one of them was an occasion when I really understood the idea of 'the red mist'. I recall erupting out of bed and only just remembering to shove some clothes on (this could've been a very different story) and Mrs Backdrifter saying "now look - " and the next thing I was shouting through his front door while punching and kicking it. I completely lost control, made worse by hearing him laughing. I then went back to my flat, wrote a surprisingly articulate note given I was an angry dishevelled shouting man at 2.30am who'd just been physically attacking a solid door, in which I detailed his shortcomings. I put it through his door and to my surprise the racket stopped and was never repeated. That was just once; I can't bear to think of this being a regular thing as you've both described.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 12:27:25 GMT
I had a complete moron of a neighbour who started playing loud music from 2am to 8am a few times a week and even though I got that shut down I'm now on edge before I go to sleep listening out for anything that might keep me awake. A nightmare from my late teen years too. I don't think you ever really recover from it. There should be a law that nothing should be audible outside of the room it is being played in, full stop. But MPs all live in mansions and don't give a toss about normal people. I ended up selling my flat after a drug dealing pimp moved in, then squatted in the ground floor flat. Music all night was a regular occurrence, I had the council on speed dial (they do nothing.) I ended up renting another place to live and selling after the rape and beating of a woman resulted in the police breaking down the front door. He got her to tell them everything was ok, nothing was done. I am like a frightened cat the moment I hear loud music at night. It never leaves you.
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Post by Backdrifter on May 15, 2019 14:43:07 GMT
I've always thought about the annoyance, the anger, the grating on the nerves of such behaviour. I admit I hadn't thought of the long term psychological effects. The above stories are upsetting, especially yours @happysooz.
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Can we please go back to people stealing seats and rustling sweet wrappers?
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Post by floorshow on May 15, 2019 15:25:16 GMT
I've always thought about the annoyance, the anger, the grating on the nerves of such behaviour. I admit I hadn't thought of the long term psychological effects. The above stories are upsetting, especially yours @happysooz . ☹️ Can we please go back to people stealing seats and rustling sweet wrappers? Over 300 pages of this thread does suggest significant long term psychological effects are also caused by seat thieves, phone users and sweetie rustlers.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 16:25:47 GMT
I've always thought about the annoyance, the anger, the grating on the nerves of such behaviour. I admit I hadn't thought of the long term psychological effects. The above stories are upsetting, especially yours @happysooz . ☹️ Can we please go back to people stealing seats and rustling sweet wrappers? Over 300 pages of this thread does suggest significant long term psychological effects are also caused by seat thieves, phone users and sweetie rustlers. I hit post and then thought ‘crikey, that was dark.’ floorshow’s reply made me laugh though, there’s room for both :-)
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Post by david on May 15, 2019 22:11:09 GMT
At Betrayal tonight, the audience on the whole was very civilised, though we did have during one of those long pauses a mobile phone alarm go off for a good minute before the owner of said phone realised it was their phone and they went outside to sort it out. So what was a long dramatic pauses did go on for a bit longer than planned as the cast stopped until it was sorted.
On a more positive note we had a noisy sweet eater who was quickly shut down by a very annoyed lady at the back of the stalls at the start of the play. Thankfully the quick shutdown seemed to work as the offender was quiet for the remainder of the performance.
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Post by lynette on May 16, 2019 20:46:02 GMT
How did the woman 'shut down ' the noisy sweet eater?
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Post by xanady on May 16, 2019 20:56:30 GMT
Apparently some songstress from Wales appeared unexpectedly on the stage at Waitress tonight without any fanfare and the audience were overcome with shock and awe.Wonders never cease in the wild and wacky world of The WE.
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Post by david on May 16, 2019 22:56:21 GMT
How did the woman 'shut down ' the noisy sweet eater? Some very loud tutting of disapproval and “Will you please stop that” in a very stern voice. I was rather hoping that she would grab the sweetie bag from her but unfortunately not.
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Post by lou105 on May 18, 2019 16:51:54 GMT
I mean..no phone noises are helpful but has anyone else experienced a really inappropriate ring tone? Just as Blood Brothers gets really tense and we re all dreading what's to come, the perky calypso introduction to Under the Sea did not help!
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