Bad Behaviour at a Show

I hate people who behave like that. If you want to see a play and your loved one is in it, then that's fine and you should definitely go along to support them, quietly and unobtrusively. But if you want to see a play *because* your loved one is in it and for no other reason, then your motives are impure and should be questioned (unless you can be quiet and unobtrusive while being supportive). Friends-and-family-of-the-cast are the most likely to be disruptive whenever their darling isn't on stage (because why on earth would they bother watching the rest of the play?) and the most likely to be disruptive whenever their darling is on stage (your common-or-garden over-laugher is NOTHING compared to the "my child said a joke!" over-laugher). Audiences are naïve if they think the cast can't see them being disruptive, and if it were me, I would be absolutely MORTIFIED to discover that the disruptive audience member was a family member or friend.

A "pusher" as we call them in the biz

I was front row centre!

Bit of an incident at the Park Theatre the other night with Laurence Fox taking a zero tolerance approach to some bad audience behaviour ...

www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/laurence-fox-launches-into-fourletter-rant-against-a-heckler-during-performance-of-the-patriotic-a3199206.html

Fair play to him for bringing the cunning stunt's arseholiness to the attention of everyone else in the theatre, but should he have spoiled the ending with that rant? Shouldn't he have either gestured to front of house/security to get the felon thrown out while the play was running, or just waited until the curtain call to say something? If I'd have gone and been sat through the whole play just to have the ending fall to bits, I wouldn't have been too happy with Laurence Fox or Colin Hunt.

Considering Laurence Fox's developing reputation as "the new Trevor Eve" I'm not entirely on his side on this one.

Last night at 'Tom the Tom Jones Musical' was, special in terms of audiences. Bus loads of ladies (and gents) of a certain age from the Valleys who clearly thought it was a Tom Jones tribute at the local working men's club. So lots of to and fro, and running commentary. In fact thanks to the ladies behind me I heard everything twice as they'd repeat it all loudly. Also there was a need to repeat everything remotely Welsh said on stage (which I'll give you a clue was nearly every line)

However my favourite exchange, that made me laugh more than the show ever did was this:
Actor: What did he say?
Actor: He said they're prostitutes!
Woman 1: What?
Woman 2: PROSTITUTES!

I was by there too last night, Emi man. It pretty much is a Tom Jones tribute at the local wmc, butty.

Dew butt is really is. That Tom Jones man.

Yes, the home crowd were out in force...I work in Pontypridd 3 days a week and I felt like I'd wandered into town on my lunchbreak both on and off stage.

(where were you sat? if happened to spot Shenton's head in the crowd I was behind him... EDIT: that should probably say 'where to were you by?')

I was in the back row of the lower stalls. We frequently heard loud waves of laughter of recognition coming from certain sections of the upper levels, particularly in reaction to Phylip Harries's various MCs and especially at the Top Hat club in Cwmtillery.

Did you think that the physical appearance of the critic in St Nicholas was inspired by Shenton?

Tom Conti looks like he found that hat in the street and decided to wear it for a laugh. 

Just at the Stephen Sondheim platform, Mr Sondheim kindly asked no-one to take flash photography or pictures. Yet whilst Mr Sondheim was answering a question he caught someone doing this and asked them to stop.