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Post by tommygnosis on Apr 20, 2016 14:42:33 GMT
At Funny Girl on Friday night a guy in Grand Circle fell asleep and then to add insult to injury his wife thought it would be OK to take a photo of him passed out with full flash.
She then proceeded to sit on her phone for about 10 minutes presumably sending the photo to all her friends and family
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2016 14:46:11 GMT
At Funny Girl on Friday night a guy in Grand Circle fell asleep and then to add insult to injury his wife thought it would be OK to take a photo of him passed out with full flash. She then proceeded to sit on her phone for about 10 minutes presumably sending the photo to all her friends and family Let's just hope she was just sending the photos and not taking any... Euuch! |
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Apr 21, 2016 8:36:28 GMT
Oh God, I had the horror of being the Person With Cup Full of Noisy Ice at Funny Girl last night. I did ask for ice, but I hadn't realised he'd given me so much til I got back to my seat.
Mostly it was fine while my cup was full, but at one point I took a big swig and realised it was the last of the liquid as the ice clunked and rattled up the side, fortunately during applause. I then realised that we were going into a long quiet scene, and I still had my cup in my mouth - and I had no way of tipping it back to vertical position without it all rattling back down into the cup. So I had to sit for at least five minutes holding my cup to my mouth, stock still, until there was another loud bit!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 8:43:37 GMT
Haha, that made me laugh, and I'm sure your fellow audience appreciated it.  And I've still got more sympathy for rattly ice cubes ('cos you can't always stop the bar staff putting them in the drinks) than rattly bangles (if you can't keep your arms still during a play then leave the noisy jewellery at home!). |
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Post by n1david on Apr 21, 2016 8:46:51 GMT
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Post by profquatermass on Apr 21, 2016 20:17:56 GMT
Does booing the understudy count as bad behaviour? If so, shame on some of the Sunset Boulevard audience
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Post by talkstageytome on Apr 21, 2016 20:33:32 GMT
Does booing the understudy count as bad behaviour? If so, shame on some of the Sunset Boulevard audience Wow. Incredibly childish and mean, and just innappropriate. Definitely counts as bad behaviour in my books. |
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Post by d'James on Apr 21, 2016 20:42:44 GMT
Horrible for the understudy but the Theatre probably brought this on by not giving refunds.
I would never dream of it. In fact I'd be extra supportive of the understudy. I remember when Whoopi missed her final few original performances in Sister Act and Verity Quade got a fantastic amount of support at her bow.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2016 21:04:33 GMT
Understudies are the best bit of theatre. If I wanted to see the same people doing the same things every time, I'd stay at home with a DVD.
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Post by waybeyondblue on Apr 22, 2016 16:11:04 GMT
rattly bangles (if you can't keep your arms still during a play then leave the noisy jewellery at home!). Or as Lennon once said at a Royal Variety Performance, "those of you in the cheap seats can clap, the rest of you can just rattle your jewellery." And there is some argument as to whether it was even said at all, I think. You need to get out more ;-) Rattle, rattle, jangle, jangle oh sh*t we're not allowed to mention him anymore |
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 25, 2016 14:32:20 GMT
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Post by mistressjojo on Apr 27, 2016 3:34:07 GMT
Sadly I have the scars to attest to bad behaviour at stage doors ( other's behaviour- not mine!).
I've been hit in the head with programmes, verbally abused for daring to stand in certain spots, climbed over (seriously - a boy hoisted his girlfriend over my back to reach an actor) and in one instance physically pushed aside whilst an actor was chatting with me!
The actor was as amazed as I by the rudeness - he at least asked if I was okay.
I think the worst ones are those who try & guilt the actors with their sob stories 'Oh I travelled from XYZ just to see you , you have to talk to me' or even worse, drag their kiddies into it.
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Post by jek on Apr 27, 2016 13:52:04 GMT
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Post by littleflyer on Apr 28, 2016 15:05:54 GMT
Last night someone was on their phone, messaging people, in the front row! I was sat 2 seats down and she was one message away from me ripping the phone from her hand and dropping it into he orchestra pit!
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Post by tommygnosis on Apr 28, 2016 17:48:42 GMT
Last night someone was on their phone, messaging people, in the front row! I was sat 2 seats down and she was one message away from me ripping the phone from her hand and dropping it into he orchestra pit! And let's not forget the charming couple in the front row who needed to eat not one but TWO bags of peanut M&Ms |
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Post by d'James on Apr 28, 2016 17:52:15 GMT
What show was this?
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Post by littleflyer on Apr 28, 2016 17:53:18 GMT
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Post by tommygnosis on Apr 28, 2016 20:05:04 GMT
Best bad behaviour seen recently has to be the total moron who turned up FORTY minutes into the first act of Kinky Boots this evening and then proceeded to have inappropriate PDA with his girlfriend and I had to move to an empty seat further along the row as they blocked my view completely !!!!
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Post by perfectspy on Apr 29, 2016 12:05:48 GMT
It always seems the musicals have the most bad behaviour, hence why I never go. The whiff of onion could have been a large pack of crisps. I never understand why theatres sell these items, surely it encourages the audience to graze on them like Jersey cows.
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Post by d'James on Apr 29, 2016 12:10:01 GMT
I probably have already mentioned this, but once at Sister Act, this mother and daughter sat next to me an my friend and ate the stinkiest salad ever.
The weird bit was that they came in late, ate the salad and left. These were not cheap seats and they treated them like a park bench. They can't have left because they weren't enjoying the show because they didn't pay any attention to it. Very odd.
Also, more odd behaviour. I was at The Lion in Winter with Joanna Lumley and Robert Lindsay and this group of young people came in and sat at the front of whatever level we were on. Then, halfway through the first act, one of the girls got up out of her seat and curled up on the floor next to it as if to have a sleep.
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Post by eatbigsea on Apr 29, 2016 12:20:34 GMT
Tweet from Lin-Manuel Miranda after last night's show: "Phone second row, and Phone 4th row:
you almost f*cked it up for me, but Blue Dress and Little Kid were so with me, they held me down."
Blows my mind that people would have fantastic seats to the hottest show around and would still play with their phones.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 12:24:47 GMT
I am driven to distraction by the inability of people to go a couple of hours without munching at the best of times, but how anybody can be so inconsiderate to bring in smelly food is beyond me.
It's pretty bad in the train on the way home sometimes as well. I'm showing my age when I say that I can't see why they can't just wait until they reach home before eating.
Cinema visits have become worse over the years too with the increasing range of things to crunch, rustle and slurp throughout the whole film, going out for top-ups at regular intervals.
We only go to a couple of specific small cinemas and mainly the afternoon screenings if possible to avoid the worst of it. My husband says that *when* he wins the lottery he will set up a cinema which will be free entrance, but has big bouncers frisking people for food and ejecting anybody who has a mobile phone on or keeps talking. Until then I will just have to put up with it.
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Post by d'James on Apr 29, 2016 12:31:08 GMT
I wish cinemas would do no food/drink screenings, like adults only screenings (no, not like that!), where all you're allowed is a bottle of water.
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Post by d'James on Apr 29, 2016 12:36:22 GMT
The whiff of onion could have been a large pack of crisps Possible, but there was no rustling or crunching. Good thought, though. While on the subject, do they still do that 'Pickled Onion' flavour "Monster Munch?" You could always tell on school outings who had that, for sure... I treated myself to a pack just yesterday! |
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Post by littleflyer on Apr 29, 2016 12:42:01 GMT
It always seems the musicals have the most bad behaviour, hence why I never go. The whiff of onion could have been a large pack of crisps. I never understand why theatres sell these items, surely it encourages the audience to graze on them like Jersey cows. I will never understand why theatres sell bags of sweets that rustle nicely as the buyer tucks in during the show. |
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And I've still got more sympathy for rattly ice cubes ('cos you can't always stop the bar staff putting them in the drinks) than rattly bangles (if you can't keep your arms still during a play then leave the noisy jewellery at home!).
