Worst Theatre Audience of my life (Joke Post check my latest post on the 3r

[Multimatt]

I'm going to try my best not to sound ungrateful here. I loved The Great Comet Of 1812. It was amazing. It's a very very very good show! My problem with it was the staff and the crowd. Idk why but the crowd (mostly filled with Elderly and rude people) was horrible. The guy two rows ahead of me talked during the show about 5 times and then proceeded to yell at the person in front of me Twice during the show. The lady next to me stepped on my playbill as she went to the bathroom and she noticed that she did and didn't say anything (Lucky I have two). Then I realized if I wanted to make it out of this theatre fast I had to leave during the curtain call which I did but as I was trying to get out Of my aisle this lady yelled at me and said "I can't walk" (Even though I saw her walking in at the beginning). In the end the show was fantastic but it was ruined by annoying rude crowd members. Also the staff wasn't very good at directing anyone and they themselves were rude. The show was amazing but it would have been fantastic if it wasn't for the crowd!

[A Director]

*Update* I audio record all my shows and I listened to my audio recording and you can hear the two couples fighting loud and clear...

So, you audio record all of your shows?  This is illegal!  I  hope you are caught and get in big trouble!

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[Margo319]

Your entire post became irrelevant when you admitted to BREAKING THE LAW and OPENLY DISRESPECTING THE CAST, CREW AND ALL INVOLVED by recording the show.

 

#Bye

[christinelavin]

Multimatt said: "I'm going to try my best not to sound ungrateful here. I loved The Great Comet Of 1812. It was amazing. It's a very very very good show! My problem with it was the staff and the crowd. Idk why but the crowd (mostly filled with Elderly and rude people) was horrible. The guy two rows ahead of me talked during the show about 5 times and then proceeded to yell at the person in front of me Twice during the show. The lady next to me stepped on my playbill as she went to the bathroom and she noticed that she did and didn't say anything (Lucky I have two). Then I realized if I wanted to make it out of this theatre fast I had to leave during the curtain call which I did but as I was trying to get out Of my aisle this lady yelled at me and said "I can't walk" (Even though I saw her walking in at the beginning). In the end the show was fantastic but it was ruined by annoying rude crowd members. Also the staff wasn't very good at directing anyone and they themselves were rude. The show was amazing but it would have been fantastic if it wasn't for the crowd!

 

Why did you have to get out of the theater fast?  Doesn't that make you part of the rudeness?

Dame Edna knew how to deal with those who tried to make a mad dash up the aisle so they wouldn't have to applaud her show -- the music stopped, the house lights went black, a spotlight focussed on one of those impatient people now exposed to all as they tried to make a quick getaway up the aisle, and Dame Edna would say, "Oh, too bad, possum.  You were going to win the car."  Huge laugh from the audience, and I bet that person never tried to sneak out like that again.

I'm sorry that you don't recognize trying to run out during the curtain call is bad manners, too.  So many people work hard to put on a show -- I'm sorry there was so much rudeness around you, but none of that was from the actors, or the dressers, or the light crew, or the sound crew, or anyone else working in the show, and I hope next time you will let them bask in the applause they deserve and get to hear once a day (twice on Wednesdays and Saturdays) when it's a job well done.  

 

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

You lost me at leaving during curtain call - especially since it sounds like you weren't on the aisle. The people in your row have the right to watch the curtain call, an important and respected part of the experience, without you stepping all over and in front of them. And as others have said, it's extemely rude to not acknowledge the performers. 

Oh, and then your illegal recording. Nope. 

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

You lost me at leaving during curtain call - especially since it sounds like you weren't on the aisle. The people in your row have the right to watch the curtain call, an important and respected part of the experience, without you stepping all over and in front of them. And as others have said, it's extemely rude to not acknowledge the performers. 

Oh, and then your illegal recording. Nope. 

[KathyNYC2]

I can't decide if the original comment here was real or just a bad joke? Complaining about rudeness by being rude? Don't get it. 

[newintown]

Another item from the original post not yet addressed - you left your Playbill on the floor, and then complained that someone stepped on it?

[RaisedOnMusicals]

And you were upset because someone stepped on your Playbill? Why was it on the floor? I'd retitle your post "Worst Audience Member Ever".

[LarryD2]

Playbills are free. There are usually stacks of them on each aisle. If someone stepped on your playbill (which you left on the floor), you could always grab another one, completely free. This isn't London where programs cost money.

[BroadwayConcierge]

For the love of God, don't ever record any shows you go to in the future. Audio, visual, whatever. Biggest no-no in the book, dude. 

[Nycat63]

Gosh I sure hope your illegal audio recording wasn't also tarnished by the sounds of candy wrappers opening.  I mean, that's where I would draw the line.  

[n2nbaby]

That awkward moment when half of the people bitching about him illegal recording either has listened to or has illegal recording themselves.

[VintageSnarker]

If that's the worst theatre audience you've ever experienced, you got off lucky. 

[elephantseye]

I went to Comet last month, stayed through to the end of curtain call, and managed to leave the theatre fast enough to get to the front of the barrier at stage door. I don't know why you felt like you needed to rush out of the theatre, but if I can do it after curtain, then so can you 

 

And, ethics of the audio recording aside (that's not a can of worms I want to open right now), I think we can all at least agree that if you're going to take audio, you should at the very least show some respect to the actors you've just secretly recorded and give them the applause they've earned.

[PThespian]

I'm not even going to address the illegal recording and the leaving early during the curtain call. Everyone else has already made it clear what type of person that makes you.

I will just add that I love when people leave School of Rock during the curtain call. They miss out on the cute singing competition between Mullins and Dewey and everyone clapping along to Queen of the Night.

I also wanted to make an observation that I have seen people trip on Playbills left on the ground. Not a good idea. I love that it got steeped on.

What bothers me is that you said the staff was "rude". It's an accusation a lot of people make regarding different theater going experiences.

I happen to know the staff at the Imperial very well. Some of them are close friends. They are all extremely friendly people who are good at what they do.(BTW you're lucky they didn't catch you recording. Security there is no joke.)

What exactly did they say or do to justify your accusations against them?

[Wee Thomas2]

Don't feed the troll, folks.  Post is 100% BS

[Liza's Headband]

Yep ^^^^

[adam.peterson44]

Leaving your playbill on the floor can cause sometime to slip and fall, leading to potentially serious injury, especially if the person is disabled already and has poor balance or difficulty recovering from a slip without falling.  That is a dangerous act against your fellow theatre-goers, and it is you who should be embarrassed about your dangerous rudeness.  Not to mention, the width of aisle that people have to step through is only about playbill-sized anyway, so if your playbill was there blocking that part of the floor, the person didn't necessarily have any other option but to step on it (not everyone has good enough balance to make an elongated step over it).

[MinnieFay]

adam.peterson44 said: "Leaving your playbill on the floor can cause sometime to slip and fall, leading to potentially serious injury, especially if the person is disabled already and has poor balance or difficulty recovering from a slip without falling.  That is a dangerous act against your fellow theatre-goers, and it is you who should be embarrassed about your dangerous rudeness.  Not to mention, the width of aisle that people have to step through is only about playbill-sized anyway, so if your playbill was there blocking that part of the floor, the person didn't necessarily have any other option but to step on it (not everyone has good enough balance to make an elongated step over it)."

 

Jeez --- do you people not recognize TROLL BAIT!  Let me give you a hint:

TROLL BAIT (definition courtesy of Urban Dictionary) - A person who attracts trolls and responds to them unknowingly to their scheme; one who falls prey to the phenomenon of trolling in a,forum, or internet chat room; a person that trolls find a method of attack and targets especially naive, overly deceptible, gullible people.

 

Now --- please unclutch those pearls and continue on with your day.

[SweetLips]

What you need to do OP is to book out the theatre and have it entirely to yourself.

You do realise that other people do exist and they do not think, or react, EXACTLY as you, or as you would wish them to.

You obviously live life in a bubble and there is a word for your anger? that therapy would help.

It's interesting to read all these sensible responses which I am sure OP you would also have read but strange that you vented[?] at things so trivial but you don't have the courage to respond-- very strange.

[Jane2]

Idk why but the crowd (mostly filled with Elderly and rude people) was horrible.

How would you know the crowd was mostly rude and elderly people? You must have had altercations with most of the crowd.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

The OP contains so many obviously inserted button-pushers, this can't be anything but some poor sucker desperate for responses. Fake!

[dramamama611]

Combine that with a newly joined member that only revisited to delete his recording info.   

 

(And if it happened, HE was the one that got yelled at.)

[PThespian]

I agree the post is probably bogus. 

I tesponded, however, because there is a slight chance it's not. That's pretty darn scary. 

[PThespian]

I agree the post is probably bogus. 

I tesponded, however, because there is a slight chance it's not. That's pretty darn scary.