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Post by lynette on May 9, 2016 17:11:19 GMT
I noticed because it was noticeable that during the recording of the Shakespeare Live at Stratford there wasn't any coughing nor any rustling of any kind. Obviously because we were aware that it was being televised 'live'. I'm. not blaming people who are suddenly taken as it were into a cough or people with bad colds - if that bad, don't go- but interesting I thought.
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Post by loureviews on May 9, 2016 17:29:10 GMT
*Sigmoidoscopy: Medical technique in which a camera on a flexible tube is inserted via the anus to inspect the digestive tract. Alarmingly, the procedure is often referred to as a "flexible sigmoidoscopy", which leads to the suspicion that there is such as thing as an inflexible sigmoidoscopy, which doesn't bear thinking about. It isn't remotely flexible, I can tell you from painful experience. |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2016 18:40:41 GMT
Oh dear lord, I TOTALLY agree about the throat clearers! I have every sympathy for people with a genuine cough who are trying their best to stifle it, but there is NO NEED to clear your throat since you're not going to be saying anything! And that horrible phlegm gargling thing some people do - I often wonder if they've forgotten they're in public. Vile.
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Post by mallardo on May 10, 2016 4:58:42 GMT
"That phlegm gargling thing"? Abby, you put me right off my breakfast.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2016 16:50:15 GMT
"That phlegm gargling thing"? Abby, you put me right off my breakfast. As long as you weren't eating it in a theatre...! |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 8:50:04 GMT
Why are people with babies following me at the theatre? I was at Goodnight Mr Tom last night, so expected small people but not actual baby in arms! Which proceeded to make noise through the whole play. One amusing moment however when it screeched particularly loudly Sammy the dog threw it a serious dirty look (seriously that puppet can scowl!)
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 10:01:15 GMT
At an international storytelling festival, only five to ten minutes into an intense theatrical storytelling show in a small theatre with a fully seated and rapt audience, there were long and unceasing loud and distressing screams from a ten year old child in the gallery.
The storytellers first paused and then stopped, the lights went up and after a few moments the child and their family left the gallery, the child still whimpering.
A few more minutes and the festival director bounded on to the stage, beamed at us, apologised for the interruption and reassured us that the disturbance was now over and that the show would shortly restart, from the beginning again.
With a twinkle in his eye and a chuckle in his voice, he explained that an audience member in the gallery had accidentally tipped their hot coffee over their ten year old child. He then beamed that they had broken two Festival Rules - 1) no hot drinks to be taken into the theatre, and 2) an age restriction for the show of 12+.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 10:12:05 GMT
Not exactly bad behaviour, but the same director proudly announced just before another storytelling session that, if anyone needed the service, this session would be signed by a BSL signer, and that you'd be best to sit over on the right hand side. His announcement was greeted by a chorus of calls from the audience of "They can't hear you."
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Post by jason71 on May 11, 2016 14:52:27 GMT
I wish theatres would ban sweets from auditoriums. I'm getting fed up of hearing sweets being opened during performances.
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Post by richey on May 12, 2016 7:53:17 GMT
Footloose at Liverpool last night, was expecting some bad behaviour and wasn't disappointed. Had four elderly women sat next to me who waited til curtain up to open the food variety boxes they'd purchased from the theatre and then proceeded to discuss the contents of them.
There were the usual phone checkers too but given how bad the show was it was understandable they wanted to look at something more interesting.
Highlight of the evening though was a couple sat a few rows in front who started a minor domestic during the interval and carried it on through act 2 with him putting his arm around her and repeatedly pulling her close to say things to her. At one point he also got up to dance in the aisle and got told by several people to sit down.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 14, 2016 21:18:02 GMT
In the interval today I overheard one usher telling another usher how someone (not at their theatre) had bought tickets for a show then both returned them to the box office by phone and sold the actual tickets on to an unsuspecting person. It sounded like it only came out when two lots of people were trying to occupy the same seats at the performance. This really needs a new "Criminal Fraud at the Theatre" thread!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 6:00:15 GMT
In the interval today I overheard one usher telling another usher how someone (not at their theatre) had bought tickets for a show then both returned them to the box office by phone and sold the actual tickets on to an unsuspecting person. Considering how obvious a flaw that is I'm surprised the theatre allows it to happen, unless this is one of those stories that always happens to someone a couple of steps removed from the person telling it. |
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Post by stuart on May 15, 2016 12:05:59 GMT
Not really a theatre show but I went to see Busted's reunion tour last night (don't judge me, I know someone working on the production) and ended up with 2nd row seats. There was a group of 3 people sat in front of me who were right in front of the group a number of times during the show. Yet, they remained seated and still. Didn't flinch during the show, didn't singalong once and when the show ended, simply got up and left without uttering a word. Not exactly bad behaviour, just a bit odd.
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Post by kathryn on May 15, 2016 13:32:32 GMT
Don't judge them, maybe they also knew someone working on the production?
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Post by RedRose on May 15, 2016 13:49:18 GMT
At Showboat yesterday afternoon old American guy singing along, his elbow went into my seat several times and his coat smelled terribly of moth balls.
Evening at The Caretaker guy spreading legs and arms went regularly into my zone. And he smelled terribly of garlic.And worst of all he was making sniffing noisrs although he had a handkerchief - throwing the used ones on the floor - disgusting!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 14:52:07 GMT
At Showboat yesterday afternoon old American guy singing along, his elbow went into my seat several times and his coat smelled terribly of moth balls. Evening at The Caretaker guy spreading legs and arms went regularly into my zone. And he smelled terribly of garlic.And worst of all he was making sniffing noisrs although he had a handkerchief - throwing the used ones on the floor - disgusting!You sure that wasn't the lovely Tim Spall?  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 15, 2016 20:52:22 GMT
Not really a theatre show but I went to see Busted's reunion tour last night (don't judge me, I know someone working on the production) and ended up with 2nd row seats. There was a group of 3 people sat in front of me who were right in front of the group a number of times during the show. Yet, they remained seated and still. Didn't flinch during the show, didn't singalong once and when the show ended, simply got up and left without uttering a word. Not exactly bad behaviour, just a bit odd. Complimentary tickets. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 22:09:42 GMT
Plain clothes security.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 22:22:44 GMT
McFly
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Post by hitmewithurbethshot on May 15, 2016 23:13:08 GMT
A few months ago I was at the Hippodrome Casino watching a cabaret put on by the Miss Saigon cast. 2 girls sitting near us were talking before the show started which wasn't really an issue (plus I overheard some West End gossip so every cloud), but they continued their conversation once it had started and talked their way through a good 3 songs, when they ordered more alcohol to be brought to their seats I decided to move. I'm pretty sure they talked through most of the show.
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Post by mistressjojo on May 16, 2016 2:41:25 GMT
Not really a theatre show but I went to see Busted's reunion tour last night (don't judge me, I know someone working on the production) and ended up with 2nd row seats. There was a group of 3 people sat in front of me who were right in front of the group a number of times during the show. Yet, they remained seated and still. Didn't flinch during the show, didn't singalong once and when the show ended, simply got up and left without uttering a word. Not exactly bad behaviour, just a bit odd. This reminds me of something I experienced. Again not a theatre show, but one of those promotional 'Meet the Actor' dinners where you can talk to the guest about their work etc. and get a meal.
A couple, seated next to the guest of honour, spent the entire evening heads down writing notes & doodles in a journal. Didn't engage with the guest or any of the other diners once (despite efforts to include them in the conversation) Also I don't think they ate anything.
Now each to their own, but the tickets were *very* expensive, and as there were only maybe 10 people at the table their behaviour was a bit awkward.
Why bother spending all that money when they had no interest in being there?
(And no, they weren't comps. I checked with the organiser.)
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 9:20:57 GMT
Plain clothes security.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2016 9:22:24 GMT
McFly.
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Post by adrianics on May 16, 2016 11:28:26 GMT
Guys and Dolls matinee on Saturday - A surprisingly and pleasantly well-behaved audience, if you ignore some talking during the overture/entracte and some old dear behind me who started whispering punchlines before the actors said them.
It's gotten to the point where I consider the absence of genuinely obnoxious behaviour a victory. Like, whispering and phone checking *is* going to happen no matter how angry I get, so what's the point?
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Post by dippy on May 16, 2016 23:24:36 GMT
I don't know if this is bad behaviour or just odd behaviour or just a muddle up. So I was sitting one seat from the end of the front row with my friend in the end seat. Originally I was planning on sitting on the end but we swapped. I pulled my bag over from under her seat to under mine. In the process of doing this my programme must have fallen off the top of my bag.
When the interval started I went straight for my bag to get my programme as I wanted to look something up. It wasn't on top of my bag, so I looked inside, but it wasn't there. I then looked under both seats but no programme to be seen. I saw the people in the row behind us were reading a programme so decided, you know, just in case they had mine to make it obvious I was looking for my programme. I got up, went to the end of the row, checked under the seats again, still no programme and I definitely mentioned the word programme a few times. I was not looking forward to having to pay for another one but I decided if I had to buy another one I would do it at the end of the show just in case my programme mysteriously reappeared.
The show finished, we got up to leave and lo and behold, there was my programme, on the floor with a few creases in it under my friend's seat. Now as to if the people behind us had their own and accidentally picked mine up or if they never had one and thought they could use it I don't know, but it was very odd. If the person in front of me was obviously looking for a programme on the floor I'd check I hadn't accidentally picked theirs up and would give it straight back.
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