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Post by michalnowicki on Feb 19, 2018 10:02:24 GMT
Why is it always the audience member with the nylon coat who feels the constant need to arrange and rearrange the damned thing, obliterating dialogue for all immediate neighbours with an insistent "swish-swish-swish-swish-swish"? Easy to solve this problem with mandatory and free of charge cloakrooms. But it's not as profitable as installing another bar
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Post by musicallady on Feb 19, 2018 16:27:52 GMT
Not a theatre production but I was at the Sunday For Sammy charity show at Newcastle's arena. (It had Ryan Molloy from Jersey Boys on). Its normally at the City Hall. At the City Hall people stay in their seats and enjoy the show. Because it was at the Arena people were constantly up and down to the bar and toilets and not quietly. The couple in front of me were up and down at least 3 times every act. In the end the woman next to me snapped at them - fot gods sake stop getting up and down. I want to watch the show not be disturbed by you! He looked at her, laughed and left returning with drinks. Then his female accomplice began to twist because "I don't do plastic cups!" Apart from that a cracking show.
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Post by CG on the loose on Feb 19, 2018 18:00:02 GMT
Easy to solve this problem with mandatory and free of charge cloakrooms Only if they accept full responsibility for the coat and contents. If they don't, I don't leave a coat in a cloakroom, ever. Sound reasoning - mine is that if I have to queue to collect post-show, I miss my train, possibly my last train! And that's with only the small number of people who currently use the service, let alone a whole house-full of clobber being retrieved.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2018 22:56:15 GMT
People would not want to hand coats in if it was mandatory. How could you get 1,500 coats back at larger venues, people have transport to catch, parking booked for only certain amounts. What about parties of older people who may not be able to stand to wait for coats, school parties. If you had any exceptions then I'd just argue it was discrimination if I wasn't allowed an exception.
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Post by loureviews on Feb 20, 2018 7:45:31 GMT
People would not want to hand coats in if it was mandatory. How could you get 1,500 coats back at larger venues, people have transport to catch, parking booked for only certain amounts. What about parties of older people who may not be able to stand to wait for coats, school parties. If you had any exceptions then I'd just argue it was discrimination if I wasn't allowed an exception. Not to mention some draughty theatres where you have to keep your coat on (yes, Duke of York's, I'm looking at you).
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Post by jek on Feb 21, 2018 8:10:27 GMT
Christopher Eccleston was on the Today Programme on Radio 4 this morning talking about his upcoming role as Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Most of the interview was about his failure to be approached for Shakespearean roles due, he feels, to his accent and being working class. But he was also asked how he will react if people attending - particularly, the inference was, those who know him primarily as Dr Who - get out their cameras during the play. His response was that he would take their cameras off of them. He pointed out that the stage would be full of men and women with swords meaning that this would be an easy task to achieve. Not a person to cross it seems!
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Post by bellboard27 on Feb 21, 2018 12:13:44 GMT
“Is this a camera which I see before me, thy finger on the flash button? Come, let me punch thee.”
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Post by Coated on Feb 21, 2018 13:33:32 GMT
People would not want to hand coats in if it was mandatory. How could you get 1,500 coats back at larger venues, people have transport to catch, parking booked for only certain amounts. What about parties of older people who may not be able to stand to wait for coats, school parties. If you had any exceptions then I'd just argue it was discrimination if I wasn't allowed an exception. Quasi mandatory cloakrooms (you'll be glared to death by other patrons if you sit down in your fur or nylon crinkley coat, some might actually be mandatory) work just fine in concert halls in Vienna, but then they were build with large foyers and industrial cloak room provisions. Can't see how they could squish something like that into tiny west end theatres.
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Post by Polly1 on Feb 21, 2018 15:47:45 GMT
^ At Hamilton a couple of weeks ago (midweek matinee) my friend went to put his coat in the cloakroom and it was full - and this was about 30 mins before the start!
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Post by lynette on Feb 21, 2018 17:37:31 GMT
^ At Hamilton a couple of weeks ago (midweek matinee) my friend went to put his coat in the cloakroom and it was full - and this was about 30 mins before the start! Thanks for this info. . So it is going to be old coat that can be squashed beneath the seat.
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 22, 2018 13:27:12 GMT
I used the cloakroom last night at the Crucible. Incredibly efficient and completely free. There wasn't even a tin for voluntary donations.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 14:22:46 GMT
^ That’s probably because they didn’t return your coat to you; the bloke behind the cloakroom is wearing that today (making use of your Strepsils as we speak). Don’t the sleeves on ‘yours’ feel a bit tight today? Haven’t you thought about why they come up to your elbows? And haven’t you missed those Strepsils?
It’s about time you worked out why the cloakroom is stuck in a dingy corner, and why you’re the only person using it! And you wanted to tip him! 😂
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 22, 2018 16:13:02 GMT
I'll have you know there are no dingy corners at the world-famous Crucible Theatre. In fact, because of its unique design, there are no corners, just Grade II curves and bends.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 22, 2018 18:39:04 GMT
I don't think I have ever put my coat in a theatre cloakroom. I am a chilly mortal, however, and frequently don't take my coat off until moments before the start of the show. I have been known to put it back on during the interval, in particular at one performance where I thought I was going to expire from hypothermia. Mostly, though, I'm quite happy to shove it under my seat and take the consequences.
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Post by grannyjx6 on Feb 22, 2018 18:49:28 GMT
Practically everyone in the rear stalls this afternoon kept their coats on as both the outside doors and inside doors (into the stalls) were wide open until the show started (10 minutes late) and it was FREEZING!
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Post by woodyb on Feb 22, 2018 23:30:43 GMT
Be nice to me people have been a lurker for a while. Now joined. Was at Hamilton on the 3rd feb matinee. I was loving it as was everyone else around me. 3/4 of the way through the first act a woman got up and started walking through the row kicking coats etc out of the way, shortly before she reached me she said at the top of her voice 'I'm not going to watch any more of this cr*p!' At the top of her voice. Kicked my leg as she left despite the fact I was getting up to let her pass. People either side of me we just looked at each other and got back to the performance. Never seen anything like it. I left half way through Chicago at the Adelphi because it really wasn't for me but did it quietly with a couple of 'excuse me' comments on the way. Never seen behaviour like it.
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Post by ellie1981 on Feb 22, 2018 23:50:59 GMT
Be nice to me people have been a lurker for a while. Now joined. Was at Hamilton on the 3rd feb matinee. I was loving it as was everyone else around me. 3/4 of the way through the first act a woman got up and started walking through the row kicking coats etc out of the way, shortly before she reached me she said at the top of her voice 'I'm not going to watch any more of this cr*p!' At the top of her voice. Kicked my leg as she left despite the fact I was getting up to let her pass. People either side of me we just looked at each other and got back to the performance. Never seen anything like it. I left half way through Chicago at the Adelphi because it really wasn't for me but did it quietly with a couple of 'excuse me' comments on the way. Never seen behaviour like it. Oh dear, what an awful lady, not least for her bad taste in musicals. I was at that exact same matinee but fortunately didn’t witness that.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Feb 23, 2018 1:12:55 GMT
Be nice to me people have been a lurker for a while. Now joined. Was at Hamilton on the 3rd feb matinee. I was loving it as was everyone else around me. 3/4 of the way through the first act a woman got up and started walking through the row kicking coats etc out of the way, shortly before she reached me she said at the top of her voice 'I'm not going to watch any more of this cr*p!' At the top of her voice. Kicked my leg as she left despite the fact I was getting up to let her pass. People either side of me we just looked at each other and got back to the performance. Never seen anything like it. I left half way through Chicago at the Adelphi because it really wasn't for me but did it quietly with a couple of 'excuse me' comments on the way. Never seen behaviour like it. Hello! *waves* Golly how angry at the world do you have to be to take it out on Hamilton?
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Post by dizzieblonde on Feb 23, 2018 9:52:29 GMT
Be nice to me people have been a lurker for a while. Now joined. Was at Hamilton on the 3rd feb matinee. I was loving it as was everyone else around me. 3/4 of the way through the first act a woman got up and started walking through the row kicking coats etc out of the way, shortly before she reached me she said at the top of her voice 'I'm not going to watch any more of this cr*p!' At the top of her voice. Kicked my leg as she left despite the fact I was getting up to let her pass. People either side of me we just looked at each other and got back to the performance. Never seen anything like it. I left half way through Chicago at the Adelphi because it really wasn't for me but did it quietly with a couple of 'excuse me' comments on the way. Never seen behaviour like it. Hello! *waves* Golly how angry at the world do you have to be to take it out on Hamilton? I suspect something other than just 'I don't like this show' was going on there! Was she alone, or with others? To shove her way along an entire row, and actually kick a complete stranger, tells me she was very angry at something, and no musical (no matter how much you realise it's not your cup of tea) will do that! I'm sorry you had to deal with that weird, angry woman, but I've no doubt the enjoyment of the rest of the show was probably increased by her absence, at least for any poor companions she was with!
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 23, 2018 14:36:07 GMT
At least we now know Parsley is safe and sound!
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 23, 2018 17:18:23 GMT
At least we now know Parsley is safe and sound! I was actually wondering if he's reincarnated himself as bacon on the Theatrebored thread.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 17:19:38 GMT
One at Mark Thomas' show on Wednesday, a woman's alarm was going off in her bag over and over. Not her phone ringing. But her alarm. Who sets an alarm for 8pm in the evening? and then doesn't turn it off...people people.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Feb 24, 2018 15:29:05 GMT
Not the theatre, but the cinema. Watching Black Panther last night. Missed dialogue due to some incessant rustling from someone trying to open up/eat from a large crisp packet to my right. Also on my right, a man and his son began talking very loudly to one another because the boy desperately needed the loo. So off they went, running past me down the stairs. Another disturbance. And later on, of course, a phone goes off, presumably from the same person(s), as it was coming from, again, the right of me. A triple whammy.
Additional note: unless I was sat in the worst place ever, I thought the sound mixing was awful at my cinema! The bg music was louder than some of the dialogue in important scenes and I was almost straining myself trying to hear.
This was however nothing compared to my experiences watching Rogue One and Paddington 2. R1 was being constantly disrupted by rowdy tween males and P2 was being constantly disrupted by rowdy tween females. In both instances, they were eventually reprimanded by someone in the audience (a middle aged man for the boys, a middle aged woman for the girls), who either turned round to them or stood up and approached them to tell them to shut their traps. The man said, "I did not pay all this money to listen to you lot behaving like idiots!" The woman said, "We've paid a lot of money to see this, so could you just shut your faces!"
Slightly creepy coincidences there, ha!
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 25, 2018 11:51:42 GMT
At Nottingham Playhouse yesterday, the chap sitting next to me, who looked perfectly civilized in all other respects, folded his ticket in half and stuffed it in his pocket. Yes, that's right, he folded his ticket in half.
I should have left there and then. After witnessing something so horrific, I simply couldn't concentrate on what should have been a thought-provoking play.
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Post by shady23 on Feb 25, 2018 16:08:03 GMT
I'm not sure if anyone's been but I went to the Sister Act tour last night in Newcastle City Hall. They basically play the film on a big screen with an accompanying band and gospel choir. Really nice evening on the stage, off stage the audience was the worst I've ever been a part of! Yes it was Newcastle on a Saturday night but who goes along to a screening totally blind drunk? Plenty apparently... The whole few rows behind us were screeching out the whole time with hysterical laughter, loud constant commentary "eee my hair looked like that on holiday ha ha ha", "she looks like my friend Steph! Ha ha ha" etc. Plus getting up every five minutes to get rounds in (bars were serving throughout) and loudly planning their orders "what are you having?" "Giz a pint".
At what point do theatre venues refuse to serve people and say you've had enough?
At what point are people seen as being so disruptive to other people's experience that they are thrown out?
It got to about half way through and people were leaving in their droves to go and sit in the half empty upstairs. It went from half empty to nearly full as more and more moved, accompanied by a "they're leaving as they're boring" cackling as they did so. A sign of how loud they were that we could still hear them loudly when we went upstairs!
Awful and shame on the venue for doing absolutely nothing about it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 16:58:51 GMT
At Nottingham Playhouse yesterday, the chap sitting next to me, who looked perfectly civilized in all other respects, folded his ticket in half and stuffed it in his pocket. Yes, that's right, he folded his ticket in half. I should have left there and then. After witnessing something so horrific, I simply couldn't concentrate on what should have been a thought-provoking play. Oh that sounds like Nick Robinson, world famous paperfolder and author of almost seventy books. Look what he did with it after the show! Good eh?
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Post by kimbahorel on Feb 26, 2018 6:17:00 GMT
At Nottingham Playhouse yesterday, the chap sitting next to me, who looked perfectly civilized in all other respects, folded his ticket in half and stuffed it in his pocket. Yes, that's right, he folded his ticket in half. I should have left there and then. After witnessing something so horrific, I simply couldn't concentrate on what should have been a thought-provoking play. That is really disturbing. I have see people do that. I always feel a little sad when I see disgarded tickets on the floor outside shows. I had one of the usher rip a chunck out my ticket last week at Queens. I forgot to pre-fold. Not as bad as one time having an usher at Apollo just rip 1cm into the top of the ticket. In my mind I was screaming "Whyyy?"
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Post by vdcni on Feb 26, 2018 8:54:46 GMT
My husband and I got chatting to a lady outside a bar the other evening after she asked him for a light. She and her friends had been to the matinee of Dreamgirls and were complaining that when they got up to dance and sing along to something everyone told them to sit down. I think she quickly realised we were the wrong audience for her complaints!
Oh and for the theatre itself (the Vaudeville) or their bar staff but when I order a vodka coke in a bar they usually serve the cheapest vodka not the most expensive! Theatre prices are insane enough as it is without you squeezing a bit more out of us.
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Post by shady23 on Mar 7, 2018 22:34:40 GMT
Why would you even do that?!
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Post by bellboard27 on Mar 8, 2018 11:20:13 GMT
More amusing, person crunching through a large back of crisps in the row in front ON STAGE at "Jubilee." Fortunately, she pushed off and didn't come back at the interval. Anarchy only goes so far, in my book. When some people see others naked, they end up getting the munchies.
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