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Post by greenandbrownandblue on Sept 7, 2024 12:35:38 GMT
A Chorus Line last night, man next to me had brought a whole snack bar with him. Nuts, jelly sweets, crisps, a flask of coffee, and 4 share size packets of M&Ms - and I kid you not, in the 2hrs show duration, he ate all four packs himself, eating handfuls at a time, sometimes pouring the content into his mouth. Quite extraordinary and extremely distracting.
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Post by hannechalk on Sept 7, 2024 13:31:22 GMT
For some reason the woman sitting next to me last night at Kiss Me Kate decided to take her shoes off. Not bad behaviour as such, but bloody weird sitting in your socks in the front row. She put them back on during the interval - trainers 🤣. I've seen that before at a stream from a theatre to the cinema. Took her shoes and socks off. Put bare feet high up the chair in front of her. Opened a tray of sushi. |
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 7, 2024 13:43:43 GMT
A Chorus Line last night, man next to me had brought a whole snack bar with him. Nuts, jelly sweets, crisps, a flask of coffee, and 4 share size packets of M&Ms - and I kid you not, in the 2hrs show duration, he ate all four packs himself, eating handfuls at a time, sometimes pouring the content into his mouth. Quite extraordinary and extremely distracting. At least you can now tell all your theatre friends that you've had the 'honour' of sitting next to our very own BurlyBeaR!  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 7, 2024 15:24:08 GMT
I went for a Chinese after! 😆
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Post by max on Sept 7, 2024 22:07:35 GMT
A Chorus Line last night, man next to me had brought a whole snack bar with him. Nuts, jelly sweets, crisps, a flask of coffee, and 4 share size packets of M&Ms - and I kid you not, in the 2hrs show duration, he ate all four packs himself, eating handfuls at a time, sometimes pouring the content into his mouth. Quite extraordinary and extremely distracting. He could at least have themed it in with packets of Walkers 'Sensations' - popping a singular Sensation mini poppadom, oriental cracker, or handful of nut mix into his gob each time they hollered "one". |
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Post by hannechalk on Sept 7, 2024 23:14:11 GMT
Tonight at Blood Brothers at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, the young lady next to me came back after the interval with a Slushie. So in a plastic cup with a straw.
Now there are plenty of louder moments in Blood Brothers where you can take a sip. Unfortunately this young lady decided to take a big slurp during all the quiet bits.
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Post by ceebee on Sept 9, 2024 22:30:51 GMT
Tonight at Blood Brothers at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, the young lady next to me came back after the interval with a Slushie. So in a plastic cup with a straw. Now there are plenty of louder moments in Blood Brothers where you can take a sip. Unfortunately this young lady decided to take a big slurp during all the quiet bits. Tell me it's not true. |
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Post by ladidah on Sept 10, 2024 6:40:53 GMT
Interestingly, I went to a very fun and wild live podcast show last night and the behaviour was genuinely better than most west end audiences.
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Post by max on Sept 10, 2024 8:19:43 GMT
Tonight at Blood Brothers at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, the young lady next to me came back after the interval with a Slushie. So in a plastic cup with a straw. Now there are plenty of louder moments in Blood Brothers where you can take a sip. Unfortunately this young lady decided to take a big slurp during all the quiet bits. Tell me it's not true. But if it is... Tell me it's not blue. |
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Post by hannechalk on Sept 10, 2024 18:51:35 GMT
But if it is... Tell me it's not blue. It was. 😂 |
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Post by fiyero on Sept 11, 2024 13:48:40 GMT
Tonight at Blood Brothers at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, the young lady next to me came back after the interval with a Slushie. So in a plastic cup with a straw. Now there are plenty of louder moments in Blood Brothers where you can take a sip. Unfortunately this young lady decided to take a big slurp during all the quiet bits. I may not know the show as well as you (not quite double digits) but I can imagine this. "He's your brother" [sluuuuuurp] |
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Post by hannechalk on Sept 11, 2024 13:59:31 GMT
Tonight at Blood Brothers at the Winter Gardens Blackpool, the young lady next to me came back after the interval with a Slushie. So in a plastic cup with a straw. Now there are plenty of louder moments in Blood Brothers where you can take a sip. Unfortunately this young lady decided to take a big slurp during all the quiet bits. I may not know the show as well as you (not quite double digits) but I can imagine this. "He's your brother" [sluuuuuurp] 'Look. We've...we've managed to sort ourselves this far but what's the use if...' 'Have we sorted ourselves out? Do you think I'm really stupid? You sorted it out. You an' Councillor Eddie Lyons. Now give me me tablets...I need them.' SLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP! |
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Post by Marwood on Sept 11, 2024 20:19:17 GMT
Just been to see John Bishop at the Bloomsbury Theatre: before the show started I could see that the halfwit sat next to me in the third row had his phone switched on and the camera aimed at the stage, and was obviously planning on recording the whole show (I was picturing having to tell him to switch it off at some point)until just before Bishop started his set with a slide show that culminated in the message ‘no photos, no videos, don’t be a Tw*t!’ After everyone round him laughed at this, he sheepishly put the phone away and seemed lost after that: quality 🤣🤣🤣
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Post by sph on Sept 11, 2024 21:48:35 GMT
Just been to see John Bishop at the Bloomsbury Theatre: before the show started I could see that the halfwit sat next to me in the third row had his phone switched on and the camera aimed at the stage, and was obviously planning on recording the whole show (I was picturing having to tell him to switch it off at some point)until just before Bishop started his set with a slide show that culminated in the message ‘no photos, no videos, don’t be a Tw*t!’ After everyone round him laughed at this, he sheepishly put the phone away and seemed lost after that: quality 🤣🤣🤣 I think you really REALLY do need to hit people over the head with it with the announcements in order to let it sink in. The problem is you have to hit the producers over the head most of the time in order for them to allow an announcement like that. |
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Post by kit66 on Sept 12, 2024 13:48:43 GMT
Although I don't agree to the obligatory standing ovation for some old crap just because everyone else is standing I do find it odd and perhaps a bit rude to the performers when members of the audience do not clap.When I saw Two Strangers the couple sitting next to me "sat on their hands" throughout the performance and even at the curtain call.Listening to them at the interval it wasn't because they weren't enjoying the show and stayed to the end but it just didn't enter their heads to applaude (thank) the artists by clapping and showing their appreciation.
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Post by ceebee on Sept 20, 2024 21:43:29 GMT
Selfish dim idiot sat in the back row of stalls at Next To Normal filming "I'm Alive". Yes... they tried to film the song despite the top of the set being cut off by the overhang and the show having already been professionally filmed. Beyond thick.
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Post by nancycunard on Sept 21, 2024 9:07:43 GMT
Selfish dim idiot sat in the back row of stalls at Next To Normal filming "I'm Alive". Yes... they tried to film the song despite the top of the set being cut off by the overhang and the show having already been professionally filmed. Beyond thick. Surprised he wasn’t pulled out — the ushers were all over someone filming when I went a couple of weeks ago, took her straight out of our row in the middle dress |
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Post by ceebee on Sept 21, 2024 9:32:56 GMT
Selfish dim idiot sat in the back row of stalls at Next To Normal filming "I'm Alive". Yes... they tried to film the song despite the top of the set being cut off by the overhang and the show having already been professionally filmed. Beyond thick. Surprised he wasn’t pulled out — the ushers were all over someone filming when I went a couple of weeks ago, took her straight out of our row in the middle dress The ushers came along at the interval and said to around ten people "our sound desk has notified us that somebody was filming in the first half, please don't do this or you'll be asked to leave". The person tried again in the second half and an usher stood in front of her and told her to stop. Imagine the disruption to the mood... I was in the box at the back with my daughters. Sadly the lady sharing the box with us (whilst pleasant natured) also spent most of the show looking at her phone. Thankfully there's a pillar in the box which blocked out the worst of it. |
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Post by david on Sept 21, 2024 10:13:42 GMT
Reading this thread really is staggering sometimes. As a society we can send people into space, cure diseases and build amazing things but somehow there are people who seem unable to sit in a room quietly for 2-3hrs. It really is mind boggling at times.
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Post by xrea2000 on Sept 21, 2024 11:42:51 GMT
Also at Next to Normal on Wednesday, I had the worst audience member I’ve ever encountered sat next to me. He discussed loudly with his partner all through the show what was going on and his theories.
Not content with that he started trying to loudly sing along with the songs that he didn’t know at all, and laughed loudly at very inappropriate places. He also got passive aggressive with me for standing during the interval to let people in and out of the row, and finally decided to sit during the standing ovation at the end until about half way when he jumped up and decided to go wild. I paid a lot for my ticket so do wonder why anyone pays and does this. As this was my final time and I didn’t want to remember the show for this I had to pay up on Thursday for another ticket, but glad I did after that.
I’m also surprised the person filming mentioned wasn’t kicked out, I too was there the other week when that girl was kicked out during Superboy and the Invisible Girl by the usher. It was disruptive as the usher had to come in and out of our aisle but was pleased to the action taken.
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Post by fiyero on Sept 21, 2024 20:07:09 GMT
Aladdin tour on Wednesday. The usual phones, latecomers, filmers, toilet-goers, talkers etc…
During the interval the talkers behind me discussed all the parts that hadn’t happened yet (trying to work out how long act 2 is). I’m sure most people will have seen the film but possibly not all of them!
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Post by lt on Sept 23, 2024 9:38:20 GMT
At the Royal Court Theatre last week - this was very much a low grade annoyance rather than a major one. But on either side of me during the first half, two women consistently slurped water out of plastic water bottles, in addition to their slurping, there was also the accompanying crinkling and crackling of their water bottles.
In the second half, the woman to my left had replaced her water bottle, with a rigid container (looked like glass but perhaps was plastic) containing ice cubes which constantly hit against the glass as she drank, making far more noise than she had made in the first half.
It was not hot in the theatre on Friday, and I understand if someone has a cough or a cold they might need the occassional sip of water. But I can't understand why most adults can't get through one hour of theatre without constant hydration.
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Post by fiyero on Sept 23, 2024 11:25:03 GMT
Reading this thread really is staggering sometimes. As a society we can send people into space, cure diseases and build amazing things but somehow there are people who seem unable to sit in a room quietly for 2-3hrs. It really is mind boggling at times. There is usually a break in the middle where noise is acceptable too! It is getting crazy, Another thing I noticed at Aladdin was all the kids eating crisps etc... Surely they've just had their tea? Would they usually have a bag of crisps later too? (also reminds me of my old ponderance of whether a child would rather go to a show with a bag of crisps or stay home and have 2 bags of crisps!) |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Sept 29, 2024 6:45:30 GMT
Les Mis Belfast Arena, many people before the show taking photos at the front of the stage. Two women with a young girl (10 or 11) told her to go up for a photo .. she beamed at them from the front of the stage. "G'wan *up* on the stage" said presumably Mum. *G'WAN UP ON THE STAGE"*. Luckily the girl had more sense than the Mum and said No.
Hand on heart happened.
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Post by littlefan on Oct 3, 2024 12:57:52 GMT
Tell me you're at a mid week matinee in Cheltenham without telling me... A group of elderly ladies loudly opening and eating a tin of shortbread in the seats behind me. The show hasn't even started yet... Pray for me.
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