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Post by 49thand8th on May 18, 2019 17:37:21 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! Not me, but:
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Post by xanady on May 18, 2019 21:49:46 GMT
^Theatre Monkey 🐵 would this be one of your acquaintances? Lol.
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Post by jess173 on May 19, 2019 7:08:56 GMT
Yesterday at Betrayal there was another early leaver for the Stagedoor. This woman got up like 10 minutes before the end of the show, then squeezed by the usher sitting in front of the door and still ended up in the front of the Stagedoor queue. I mean, there are notifications plastered all over the theatre now that early leavers were not allowed to queue. Why on earth don’t they enforce this then? She then proceeded to chat Tom up for an eternity, screwing a lot of people behind her. I waited until the very end of the show to get out and barely made the cut. Guess I was very lucky. These people really should get kicked out immediately...
Other than that it was quite well behaved. Only one short message tone and no sweet rustlers. But there was a loud breather sitting behind me again... I seem to attract those... 🙈
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Post by bgarde on May 19, 2019 7:23:35 GMT
Three Sisters yesterday - I counted at least 3 phone rings. Then someone with a chest cough - lady in front of her continually leaning forward in avoidance. Must have said something to which there was the reply of "I can't help coughing," with more head-turning, sighing and coughing. This was all more interesting than the production at times. Then at the interval the coughing lady left to never return and person in front was overheard "it's not just the coughing but she was actually spluttering".
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Post by wickedgrin on May 19, 2019 7:53:25 GMT
But there was a loud breather sitting behind me again... I seem to attract those... 🙈 Now, I'm all for clamping down on mobile phones etc. but when breathing becomes bad behaviour it's going a bit far...….LOL
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Post by Coated on May 19, 2019 9:20:21 GMT
But there was a loud breather sitting behind me again... I seem to attract those... 🙈 Now, I'm all for clamping down on mobile phones etc. but when breathing becomes bad behaviour it's going a bit far...….LOL Having once retrained a heavy breather to become a delightfully quiet theatre buddy, I know that their darth vader act can be moderated and there is no excuse for ruining other people's enjoyment with exaggerated breathing exercises.
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Post by xanady on May 19, 2019 12:43:10 GMT
^Asthmatic?
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 12:44:37 GMT
Yesterday at Betrayal there was another early leaver for the Stagedoor. This woman got up like 10 minutes before the end of the show, then squeezed by the usher sitting in front of the door and still ended up in the front of the Stagedoor queue. I mean, there are notifications plastered all over the theatre now that early leavers were not allowed to queue. Why on earth don’t they enforce this then? She then proceeded to chat Tom up for an eternity, screwing a lot of people behind her. I waited until the very end of the show to get out and barely made the cut. Guess I was very lucky. These people really should get kicked out immediately... Other than that it was quite well behaved. Only one short message tone and no sweet rustlers. But there was a loud breather sitting behind me again... I seem to attract those... 🙈 If there is a set amount of people that Tom will meet or the queue goes to a certain place etc. I would have thought the people running the queue would reasonably keep it moving - things like one photo and/or one signature then you go. This way Tom can meet more fans and it can be run efficiently. Also if queue is on public road how do they keep all the other fans back as they can wait on other side of the road or reasonably walk close by where Tom is.
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Post by lynette on May 19, 2019 14:10:25 GMT
Last night 3 Sisters Almeida a bloke left half way thru first half. Ok, clutching phone so maybe suspect baby swallowed a nut.... then same man left half way thru second half. Each time crouching to run across the front of stalls. He didn’t come back in either time. But ?
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Post by jess173 on May 19, 2019 15:38:28 GMT
Don’t know how that sounds but this woman sounded like she was snoring. She wasn’t asleep tho... I checked... 🙈 In a quiet play this can be quite nerve wrecking.... @larrylightfoot: The security guys kept repeating that it was either picture or autograph and still so many people asked for (and got) both. And there were at least three or four “chatters” who apparently told him their life story...
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 16:56:10 GMT
Don’t know how that sounds but this woman sounded like she was snoring. She wasn’t asleep tho... I checked... 🙈 In a quiet play this can be quite nerve wrecking.... @larrylightfoot : The security guys kept repeating that it was either picture or autograph and still so many people asked for (and got) both. And there were at least three or four “chatters” who apparently told him their life story... Both can be done quickly and people moved on. I can figure Tom doesn't want to be the bad guy but someone yapping to him could mean he gets through another 10 people. Security can hurry people on without dragging them away to a certain degree too. Maybe releasing next person to go up so Tom can then say "I need to move on" and person keeping him talking becomes the "bad guy or girl". I'd figure that the people running the security know what they are doing and have run signings/meet and greets before as these can be kept moving well whilst not seeming to rush everyone through.
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Post by xanady on May 19, 2019 17:29:55 GMT
^An asthmatic can breathe with a wheezing sound.Many respiratory conditions lead to a heavy,almost breathless rasping,hacking or whistling sound as if the sufferer is gasping for air. Read once that cinemas in coal-mining areas in places such as South Yorkshire used to have audience-members often straining to hear dialogue due to the number of men in the audience who would be wheezing and coughing due to often terminal illnesses caused by inhaling so much deadly coal-dust. I think we have to accept that in a public arena,it is a distinct possibility that disturbances can be caused sometimes by sheer rudeness or lack of manners or by a genuine medical condition.
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Post by CG on the loose on May 19, 2019 22:43:48 GMT
Last time it happened to me, they were asleep! Couldn’t work out if the person they’d come with preferred it that way or if they’d come alone and the strangers either side didn’t feel comfortable nudging...
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Post by 49thand8th on May 20, 2019 18:31:42 GMT
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Post by kimbahorel on May 20, 2019 21:56:25 GMT
I can't remember where it was posted about people getting upgraded seats. But this is both an annoying upgrade of seat I did not want coupled with sitting next to the most ANNOYING PEOPLE every. At Queens its rare to be upgraded at all. But for some startling reason the removed the right slip seats A0-A7 for some reason. I book A0 because a) its front row b) I dont have annoying people around me c) I can lean forwrd d) I am basically sitting on stage. I get stuck with B6 in the dress. Which I hate sitting in low raked seats because you miss stuff. Fine I didnt pay the £100 or what ever it was for it but its still pretty annoying. But I go to deal with it. UNTIL I get the mother of all fidgety bloke that is sat in front of me. I can't see any of the centre of the stage and he keeps moving side to side for the whole of act 1. Plus I had two guys next to me who decided to talk. I lent in and asked "are you planning to talking trough all of this?". They stop but then periodically talk in places. Then the start I had to ask the woman next to remove the plastic bag she has wrapped around her drink. So after missing A LOT more than I usually would. I had to ask FOH is I could stand. And bless them they let me I really wish now I had just asked the. To stand from get go.
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Post by 49thand8th on May 22, 2019 18:17:38 GMT
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Post by NeilVHughes on May 22, 2019 18:30:27 GMT
Great quote from from the above link
...take it from Nathan Lane in the Hollywood Reporter: “As far as I’m concerned, there is no food or drink that is OK during a show. If you cannot live without food or drink or your cell phone for two to three hours, then you should stay at home and watch The Bachelorette or seek psychiatric care.”
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Post by Baemax on May 23, 2019 8:36:43 GMT
There speaks a man who doesn't sit in enough auditoria to appreciate just how freakin dusty it gets inside a theatre from an audience perspective. If you're going to crack down on even WATER then you're just not thinking realistically.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 9:50:41 GMT
Not sure if this classifies as bad behaviour, per say, but what is it with the those that show up late for day seats, not anticipating any queue and then try to shuffle in or bargain their way forward. 12 adults stood outside a theatre, in a line. Enter persons 13 & 14 to no12 "oh are you in the queue?". Then #13 walks down asking everyone in front if they're there for tickets and then proceeds to tell people "they won't let you in with bags you know", as if to put others off.
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Post by Baemax on May 23, 2019 10:44:55 GMT
We got a glass from the bar, Monkey, because if we didn't, we coughed through the entire play like we had TB.
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Post by The Matthew on May 23, 2019 11:18:25 GMT
There shouldn't be any need for rules like "no food or drink". If you care about the effect of what you're doing on other people then reasonable behaviour falls out of it naturally.
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Post by missthelma on May 23, 2019 12:34:02 GMT
Yesterday at Waitress I was in front of the loudest WooHoooooo-er in the Western Hemisphere. Not sure if this is bad behaviour as he was clearly enjoying himself but my eardrums took a battering. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad had it not happened after every single song. Pace yourself sweet pea. I would dread the noises he would make during an act of sexual congress judging by his public expostulations of excitement. I would imagine a safe distance would be at least 3 postcodes away.
Also the woman who left about 10 minutes before the end disturbing her row, obviously an emergency not bad behaviour per se but did you have to return to your exact seat 7 minutes before the end disturbing everyone again when there were empty seats at the end of the row?
And finally the irritating opinionated milennials behind, who despite talking about their work in the theatre knew nothing about Waitress (strange as it's not exactly a niche under the radar show) and apparently if Hamilton is an 11, this show is a minus number. Please take your stupid opinions aired loudly before show and ram them into a suitable receptacle. Or stay at home. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 13:11:43 GMT
There shouldn't be any need for rules like "no food or drink". If you care about the effect of what you're doing on other people then reasonable behaviour falls out of it naturally. And therein lies the problem. People only care about themselves now.* *sweeping generalisation
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Post by 49thand8th on May 23, 2019 14:14:40 GMT
If you're going to crack down on even WATER then you're just not thinking realistically. But what did we all do before bottled water? Er, we went without, and sat in theatres for the hour or two. There are a lot of things we did without "before" that are harmless or minimally disturbing now. Water is fine. Especially without ice. Water is way quieter than someone coughing because a tiny bit of dinner got stuck in their throat 20 minutes into the show.
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Post by paulbrownsey on May 24, 2019 9:35:07 GMT
There shouldn't be any need for rules like "no food or drink". If you care about the effect of what you're doing on other people then reasonable behaviour falls out of it naturally. As the Spartans said on a memorable occasion: "If."
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Post by lightinthedarkness on May 24, 2019 9:40:19 GMT
Had two very annoying people behind me at Cursed Child over the past two nights.
They kept talking all the time despite multiple shushing instances. They also kept taking out a water bottle from a bag - which is fine but every time they would zip the bag back up??? They were taking it out every five minutes then they'd play with the bottle too.
Toward the end the one right behind me also put her feet on the back of my chair...
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Post by floorshow on May 24, 2019 13:12:28 GMT
^Never thought of that, at these "two part" shows - you may have to put up with the same pilchards twice... >.< Draw some lines and give them a stern lecture during the part one interval. Or hope for a sympathetic jury (they'll probably be eating crisps, talking and going to toilet during the summing up etc.)
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 13:38:25 GMT
^Never thought of that, at these "two part" shows - you may have to put up with the same pilchards twice... >.< Draw some lines and give them a stern lecture during the part one interval. Or hope for a sympathetic jury (they'll probably be eating crisps, talking and going to toilet during the summing up etc.) Also, alert Front of House as you know they'll be back in the same seats and they might be able to help prevent a re-occurrence.
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Post by alexandraastrid79 on May 27, 2019 10:26:37 GMT
Mobile phone went off behind my friend and I at our local theatre, plus at a london show the other week someone was caught filming. The usher did a good job in stopping them.😄
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Post by talkingheads on May 28, 2019 10:35:53 GMT
This is more bad behaviour from the staff. At Fortune Theatre for Austentatious yesterday, second row from the back of the stalls. It turned out the people next to me had tickets for the wrong day when the people who had the proper tickets turned up. So after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, the staff moved the wrong day people to better (and more expensive) seats four rows from the front, the excuse being that they were the only seats left in the house, while the people who had the right tickets stayed where they were at the back. Now maybe it's just me but I'd be mightily pissed off if the people who couldn't even turn up on the right day got a great free upgrade for their mistake!
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