Bad Behaviour at a Show

Any white chocolate is wrong. It's not chocolate.

You see now I want to seek out a white Toblerone to try it.

And cocoa butter. It has to be at least 20% cocoa butter, although the better white chocolate is more like 35%.

Ooh, Toblerones at dawn: sounds like my sort of duel. Any seconds required?

This can only end badly...

Worst-case scenario: price of Belgian and Swiss chocolate goes up, price of American chocolate comes down.

I had a colleague at work, who was upset and confused.

She was in one of the smaller West End houses and in the interval, the Duty Manager spoke to her and told she had to move in another seat as there had been a complaint from audience members, even though no one was sitting next to her both sides. Also the Duty Manager said that there has been a complained from a cast member who refuses to go on for the second half if she wasn't moved.

Obviously I thought hello, something serious has happened, as Duty Managers tend not to move someone for something serious, like heckling, persistent getting her phone out. So thought she deserved what she got.................But what was her crime, what has she done so machevelion that she got asked to move? She was eating a pack of Innocuous grapes! I nearly fell off my seat laughing.

Now I don't agree with eating in the theatre, but the theatre don't help their own cause, when they sell a range of confectionary that rustles and do cause offending noises to neighbouring patrons and would say a pack of grapes are on par as a box of Maltesers, also bear in mind it is limited to what my colleague can eat as she is Diabetic and they sell nothing suitable in the theatre. Yes this action isn't advisable, but was it so wrong to be ejected from your seat?

Does seem an over the top reaction, given that as you say the theatre sells food!

Wild guess - was she watching "The Dresser"?

Ah, but what was she doing with the pips?

Obviously she spat them on the floor.

Apparently there was this one guy at Les Mis tonight who filmed the entire curtain call with the flash on.

Not so much bad behaviour by the audience, but by the theatre. At the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Manager in his wisdom had decided to remove part of the front row seating nearest the door, presumably to accommodate a wheelchair. Unfortunately, those seats had already been sold and the purchasers not informed. I and two others were therefore standing around helplessly while the girl went off to seek help.

Now, when I counted along the bench, my actual seat was still there, but someone was in it. At no point was I or this person asked to show our tickets to stake our claim. I'm guessing they came in before me, realised their seats were non-existent, so moved quickly into the first ones that were free and hoped for the best! The girl trying to organise things offered me a seat in the corner right at the back (instead of the front row I had booked), which I declined. Fortunately, a very kind lady in the 2nd row had a spare seat, so she offered me that, for which I was very grateful.

They then produced a wooden chair, which they tagged on to the side of the wheelchair spaces, which they offered to one lady, while the second lady was relocated elsewhere. At the interval wooden chair lady disappeared (as did the chair), so I presume they managed to seat them somewhere together.

I can understand making wheelchair provision, don't get me wrong, but surely not AFTER you have already sold the tickets?