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Bad Theater Behavior#525
Posted: 1/22/17 at 12:50am

Tonight at the Great Comet, when the actors started giving out and throwing dumplings, one of the actors threw one at my younger (child) relative seated next to me. He ended up not catching the dumpling and it landed on my seat behind my back. The lady behind me was just so keen on getting a dumpling that she reached her hand down onto my chair to grab the dumpling that was touching my behind... She then proceeded to proclaim to the world, "I got a dumpling!" like it was something so spectacular. 

It amazes me that she had the nerve to basically touch my rear end just to get that stupid dumpling that would have gone to a child...

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Bad Theater Behavior#526
Posted: 3/12/17 at 2:31pm

A post in The Play Goes Wrong thread reminded me of my experience at On Your Feet. Throughout the performance there was a lot of whispering and people drinking beverages full of ice. I could let that go because it wasn't hard to follow the story and it was annoying but I wasn't that invested in what was happening on stage. But the woman next to me was unbelievable. She was a thin woman and didn't have any noticeable reason that she needed to take up more space. She had her legs crossed when I sat so that one foot was all the way in front of me. She moved it when I passive aggressively put my purse down. She then proceeded to talk throughout the show and yet she was the one who kept stabbing me with her elbow. The seats at the Marquis are not tight. I had pushed myself all the way to the opposite armrest so she had to reach over to keep hitting me in the side.

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Bad Theater Behavior#527
Posted: 3/12/17 at 2:45pm

Movie theater culture has so completely taken over, and it's sad. Last weekend at Picnic Off-Broadway, a middle-aged couple sat down before the show, pulled out a giant box of milk duds, and proceeded to chomp down the whole thing before the show started. Then at the first intermission, they pull out a similarly large box of skittles. It's like they had an entire candy store in their pockets. I'm glad they confined their eating to intermission only and didn't noisily munch during the show, but seriously--you can't go two hours without snacks?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Bad Theater Behavior#528
Posted: 3/12/17 at 2:52pm

You'd amazed how many people ask me if we sell popcorn. 

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Bad Theater Behavior#529
Posted: 3/12/17 at 2:55pm

Didn't Hairspray used to sell popcorn back in the day?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Bad Theater Behavior#530
Posted: 3/12/17 at 3:42pm

Yes, Hairspray did. When I tended bar at other theatres people got downright mean sometimes when I said we didn't. "But Hairspray DOES!!"
 

Wicked's merch also made people think all shows had snow globes, golf balls, beach towels, etc.

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Bad Theater Behavior#531
Posted: 3/13/17 at 7:05am

Thankfully theatres don't sell popcorn. I hate the smell and the noise people make when eating it in movie theatres.

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Bad Theater Behavior#532
Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:07am

Someone's cell phone went off at If I Forget on Saturday.  It's unbelievable how people ignore it and let it keep ringing. I have no idea where it was coming from either.  It didn't sound close. 

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Bad Theater Behavior#533
Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:10am

Marianne2 said: "Someone's cell phone went off at If I Forget on Saturday.  It's unbelievable how people ignore it and let it keep ringing. I have no idea where it was coming from either.  It didn't sound close. "

 

Last weekend at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh (during a performance of the Book of Mormon tour), I had my SECOND experience of someone TAKING A PHONE CALL during a show.  She answered it and had a brief conversation.  Just unbelievably rude.

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Bad Theater Behavior#534
Posted: 3/13/17 at 8:11am

djoko84 said: "Thankfully theatres don't sell popcorn. I hate the smell and the noise people make when eating it in movie theatres.

 

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The Kimmel Center in Philly (where I live) sells popcorn and small boxed meals--sandwiches, salads, etc--but they're very good about not allowing people to bring anything inside. In the several years I've been attending Philadelphia Orchestra concerts there, I've never seen anyone get a snack inside the auditorium.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Bad Theater Behavior#535
Posted: 3/13/17 at 10:59am

At last Thursday's Phantom matinee, a woman seated in the front row of orchestra center (who, I feel compelled to note, was wearing gold lame high-heeled sneakers bedazzled with faux diamonds), pulled out her iPhone 6 Plus at the start of the second act and began, not surreptitiously, to record video of the "Masquerade" scene. 

I was so awestruck by her gall that I could at first only stare at that large, garish screen, visible to virtually everyone else in the house. As my outrage overcame my awe, I leaned forward and tapped her on the shoulder. When she turned to me, I glared at her and said "TURN THAT OFF. NOW." She complied immediately.


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