RUDE PEOPLE AT THE THEATER!

[Corine2]

Last evening, I went to a show and the person behind me did the following:
1. Put her leg on my head. I am not making this up.
2. Unrapped hard candies. She made wrapping and unwrapping sounds.
3. Spit out the hard candy and unwrapped another.
4. Tugged on my hair.
5. Cell phone went off
It was horrific! Please discuss bad experiences here!
PS The other day a man ate a McDonald's cheeseburger at a matinee and the smell of it and the pickle made me ill.
DISCUSS!

[neddyfrank2]

What shows?

[broadwayismylife.]

why do you have un-needed punction marks in your title? its quite annoying.

[Liverpool]

Why do you ask questions for which the answer is unimportant and unrelated to the thread? Its quite annoying.

[vmlinnie]

Oh, the bitchiness is wonderful! And for someone who's correcting punctuation, you should really punctuate your own posts properly! Haha. It's quite annoying, not its. Seriously, you might have forgotten about the apostrophe, but a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, jeez...

edit: I mispelled apostrophe. Sorry...

[Jane2]

"punction marks"

LOL

[lesmisforever]

It's apostrophe. This can go on forever. :)

That does sound amazingly rude. Ugh!

[TWSFan4Ever]

McDonalds? Haha, wow, some people are just really dumb when it comes to theatre etiquette.

[SNLMedia]

Good god. I hope you turned around and said something.

[justafan2]

Once had a kid sitting next to my husband eating SALAMI!!! He waved it around (smell and all!) and was wiggling so much he was, at one point, half-sitting on my husband's lap!

Another pet-peeve I have is when I'm sitting in the mezz---the people in the front row find it necessary to sit with their elbows on the half-wall in front of them, obscuring the view for those of us behind them!

Usually, tho', I find people in live program theaters better than in movie theaters (which is why I don't see movies any longer) :)

[Yankgrl46]

I can relate. About ten years ago at Les Mis, this couple next to me did the following:
*came in about 20 min late carrying plastic bags that rustled throughout the first act
*Popped Snapple bottle tops to begin drinking
*Unwraped liverwurst sammies in wax paper, which freaking reaked
*Chomped on Deli Brand chips
*Then waited until the second act to pop their gum as if they were cows.

For the record, I did say something and shot several dirty looks throughout and despite being apologized to......the behavior continued. By far my worst experience ever.

[keen on kean]

If anyone sitting next to me ate liverwurst, I would quite unrepentantly throw up in their lap.

[ikmbway]

justafan, that happened to me yesterday at A Chorus Line with someone leaning over and it wasn't necessary. Super annoying. Then, when I saw Rent about 2 years ago, these two people were leaning over so much we couldn't see a thing. Luckily, my mom spotted 3 seats in row CC of the center mezz.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Ugh. I was once at a show and this drunk woman was sitting next to me. She proceeded to ASK ME questions throughout the first act about what was going on! I didn't even know her! God wanted to bitchslap her upside the head. At least there was an empty seat to my right so I finally just moved over one. I think she spent the rest of the show giggling and asking questions to her boyfriend who was sitting on her other side. (Why she bothered to talk to me when she was with someone, I don't know. Like I said, she was drunk.)

[SweetQintheLights]

This didn't happen to me but a friend:

She was sitting behind a women and her mother who obviously had some hearing issues. (she was about 80).

The daughter was repeating what the actors were saying. It was unbelievable. And she obviously was not doing it quietly. I almost wanted to believe that she didn't know she was being rude and interruptive.

Don't they have those headphone things at theatres for those with hearing problems?

[ashley0139]

This happened to my mother about a decade ago at POTO. Watching the show, the lady behind her started singing. In the theatre. With all of the songs. At intermission she said, "I didn't pay to hear you sing, I paid to hear the actors." Her boyfriend said, "You're just jealous you can't sing like her."

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Well for those of you who were at Opening Night of JOURNEY'S END on Thursday night, you know that it's not only the unsuspecting tourists who disregard pre-show cell phone announcements. Five LOUD cell phones went off throughout the performance, four of which kept ringing and ringing because the owners of the respective phones were too embarassed to make it known that it was theirs and shut it the heck off. I find this insanely rude. Let alone on Opening Night. The man sitting to the left of me slept and snored through the entire first act and left at intermission (he was with his wife - she stayed).

[dancingthrulife04]

It was kind of funny, but when John McMartin first came onstage during GG, someone waited until it got pretty quiet, and went "Do you KNOW who that is?" It was rude, but still cute.

[lesmisforever]

At Wicked on Tuesday these two girls behind me who seemed to be in their tweens were singing throughout the entire show. Too bad I was too shy to say anything.

[ThankstoPhantom]

At Mary Poppins, loud middle aged tourists found it necessary to be speaking while the show was starting. Actually, it felt like my whole section of the balcony thought that the opening scene was a swell time to yap their traps while the curtain was rising...

You know what I did? I emitted the shound
"SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" as loud as I could, and followed it with a softer "Cripe" (my personal minor explative)...not one of them spoke for the rest of the show...when they did, I shot them dirty looks of death. No problems after the first 2 minutes.

Oh, I am wicked.

At Wicked, two ladies were yapping their mouths all of the first act. They were sitting next to my friend. At the END of intermission, they opened a bag of Fritos and were talking at the beginng of Act II. I decided enough was enough. I reached over my friend, stared them straight in the eyes and said softly but firmly: "Can you PLEASE be quiet? People want to watch the show."

No more problems after that!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

You tell 'em, sista!

[Acurran530]

I guess this is not really rude, becuase it was not really his fault. But when I was seeing Avenue q the guy next to me was really.....lets say overweight, so he took up his seat and half mine and was burping through out the while show. It was very annoying.

[Broadway Baby4]

When I saw The Fantasticks, the person behind me was singing along. It was so annoying! And it wasn't even a kid- it was a middle aged woman!

[allvocal]

I saw a production of A Chorus Line in Chicago and the person sitting behind me was translating the show into Spanish! Very Loudly.

CINCO,SEIS,SEITE,OCHO!!

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Allvocal, I just laughed out loud. That was hilarious!