Broadway King and I Interruption

Someone posted about that on the MTAS facebook page, I played devil's advocate and that seemed to end the discussion. My first point was that I highly doubt that the those complaining did so over that single incident.....I suspect it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Secondly? What if that child triggered other audience members who could have any one of number of disorders?

I really don't know much about autism, but it strikes me that a massive show like that is something that should be built up to for a child like that.....a few relaxed and/or shorter shows first to get a feel of how the kid will react to the theatre in general.

I very nearly did something similar when I went to see Matthew Bourne's Cinderella a couple of months ago. Two young children with an aunt sat behind me and didn't shut up once, she encouraged it in between shovelling sugar-laden crap into their mouths (she arrived with 2 full bags for life). The little girl spent a good deal of time complaining that there were no songs in the show, then there was the waving of the booster seats etc.  I can't help but think the Scottish Ballet's Cinderella (this Christmas) would have been a better option than the Bourne one; I just don't think Bourne is for children that young.  I went to see Highland Fling in March and I can't imagine how some of the scenes were explained to the couple of young kids that were there.  Point is, if I had blown the dancers onstage would only have been aware of that and not all the nonsense preceding it. I thought Loh was really condescending.

He's probably doing fine; he's seemingly constantly working and is currently in SpongeBob and has already been announced for Beetlejuice.

(Why is this gaining traction again since it happened three years ago?)

BurlyBeaR, shouldn't this be in the "International" section, please?