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Post by d'James on Mar 17, 2016 12:47:25 GMT
I was going to say, laser + eyes = lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Post by jaqs on Mar 17, 2016 13:08:01 GMT
Jerry Mitchell must like the boxes. Saw him a few times at Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Probably the most comfortable place for him given the length of his legs, even if the view isnt great.
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Post by Snciole on Mar 17, 2016 15:27:44 GMT
I was going to say, laser + eyes = lawsuit waiting to happen. With my eyesight though? Free surgery! *stands up and waves phone around*
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 9:37:30 GMT
I was surrounded at 'The Last Tango' in Cardiff last night. Man next to me ate 2 cans of Pringles (the small ones) luckily only before and during the interval, but still loudly crunching in my ear. Women behind me insisted on rustling sweets the entire time, talking over overture and loudly letting everyone know what an authority on dance they were (they weren't). Several flash photographs and a general lot of drunken sounding howling in act 2 from the circle...Other than that it was a nice evening...
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Post by max on Mar 18, 2016 11:09:44 GMT
Laser pointers at the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre?? Surely they could just poke people with a long stick.
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Post by stuartww on Mar 18, 2016 14:16:20 GMT
I was at the final evening performance of Miss Saigon on Saturday with my husband. Behind us were two ladies, with think by the accent and language they were Scandinavian, talking very very loudly. I was mentally preparing comments in case their conversation continued (as happened on the previous Wednesday when two French teenagers held a full volume conversation behind me for near enough the entire show!). However, they remained silent throughout which was wonderful. What wasn't wonderful was the fact that the woman behind me decided the back of my chair was her footrest, then she moved her feet off and her legs were pushing my seat, then she would move again - it was almost constant! We were in the Dress Circle, so the leg room isn't really an issue... In the interval they went off for a drink, and then guy sat next to her said to his companion "she hasn't stopped fidgeting!" so she was clearly annoying someone else. We also noticed an eggy smell every now and then throughout the first act - was weird as it just came in waves every now and then. However, when the ladies behind us went for their interval drinks, the smell disappeared - until they returned for the second act. When she started with the pushing of the back of my seat with her legs, I found the best way of stopping it...lean forwards slightly then throw yourself back into your seat. She stopped pushing my seat and no doubt had bruises on her shins. Back at our hotel, i popped down to reception as our telephone wasn't working and we wanted food....and got back into the lift to go up to our room...and my leggy friend from the theatre was in the lift!!!! i coulnd't help but smirk Have we confirmed whether this is leggy or eggy? Can I be the first to say if there are any leggy Scandinavians they can put there legs on the back of my seat anytime Let's go with L-Eggy...and not in an Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson kinda way...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 18, 2016 14:32:32 GMT
"Clean oop!"
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Post by adrianics on Mar 21, 2016 10:38:31 GMT
Was introduced to a new one at the Showtime Challenge production of Thoroughly Modern Millie last night - Digital watches (iWatches etc). Like a constantly lit phone screen except permanently on display and checked very regularly.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 11:02:12 GMT
Was introduced to a new one at the Showtime Challenge production of Thoroughly Modern Millie last night - Digital watches (iWatches etc). Like a constantly lit phone screen except permanently on display and checked very regularly. I have an iWatch and i am so paranoid of it!! As soon as i sit down i put it on to airplane mode, but also every time you clap it will light up to show the time! So i now either make sure I am wearing long sleeve shirts or if not, I will not wear it when I go to the theatre!
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 21, 2016 16:21:23 GMT
I was at Phantom a couple years ago and a guy several rows ahead of us had a smartwatch that he CHECKED a few times until an usher stopped him, but then it kept lighting up later anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 13:13:21 GMT
I have now decided never to go to the theatre again. Matilda a few days back. Saturday night evening. Rear stalls, familly arrive 30 seconds before curtain up. they take off their coats and get themselves comfortable. so comfortable that they pull out a full M&S picnic and all four of them eat their way through sandwiches and bags of crisps. the entire first act ruined by the sounds of crunching from four people simultaneously and the rustling of wrappers. even my icy cold stare couldn't stop them. Just had enough of people who think this is acceptable and it's put me right off.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 13:33:58 GMT
I have now decided never to go to the theatre again. Matilda a few days back. Saturday night evening. Rear stalls, familly arrive 30 seconds before curtain up. they take off their coats and get themselves comfortable. so comfortable that they pull out a full M&S picnic and all four of them eat their way through sandwiches and bags of crisps. the entire first act ruined by the sounds of crunching from four people simultaneously and the rustling of wrappers. even my icy cold stare couldn't stop them. Just had enough of people who think this is acceptable and it's put me right off. I rarely go to the theatre on a Friday or Saturday night. In my experience that's when people with no manners and those who hold The Jeremy Kyle Show up as a benchmark of acceptable behaviour go out to the theatre. Scum. You should have just told that family that your friend Stuart Hall was on his way to his seat and he loves crisps. That would have probably shut them up.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 22, 2016 13:51:05 GMT
Was introduced to a new one at the Showtime Challenge production of Thoroughly Modern Millie last night - Digital watches (iWatches etc). Like a constantly lit phone screen except permanently on display and checked very regularly. I have an iWatch and i am so paranoid of it!! As soon as i sit down i put it on to airplane mode, but also every time you clap it will light up to show the time! So i now either make sure I am wearing long sleeve shirts or if not, I will not wear it when I go to the theatre! You could just take it off and put it in your pocket?
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Post by profquatermass on Mar 22, 2016 19:46:32 GMT
I hate it when your watching a sho... And it's the production crew behaving badly. Watching miss atomic bomb, and the couple in front of me are both constantly on there ipads trying to fix the show. When you've got a paying audience in why not at least stand at the back! Same thing happened in pipped at the meniee a few years back, Stephen Swhartz was chatting all the way through the first act. Told him he was being rude, when people have paid to see the show I don't want to listen to the crew dissecting loudly in front of you. Reminds me of this famous story from a while back "The Stage newspaper's Mark Shenton encountered similar insouciance from a theatre professional at the Donmar Warehouse. During Uncle Vanya a man near Shenton kept receiving text messages, each causing a loud "bleep". "We complained to him afterwards," says Shenton. "The guy said: 'Oh, I think Chekhov's robust enough to cope with that, don't you?'." The offender was Michael Colgan, director of Dublin's Gate Theatre." www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/quentin-letts-never-mind-the-play-just-listen-to-the-audience-856914.html
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Post by DuchessConstance on Mar 22, 2016 23:32:48 GMT
Two phones went off during A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing. Impossibly rude, considering it's a tiny black box and an intense solo show with no music or SFX so silence is really crucial. Anytime anyone crossed their legs you could hear it. The ushers did really make a big deal about how crucial total silence was to the play, but still people didn't listen!
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Post by patterdalepip on Mar 23, 2016 7:04:14 GMT
The Argument at Hampstead downstairs last night. Woman behind me, immediately the lights went down opened a bag of crisps really noisily and sat eating them, combined with swigging from a plastic glass that was full of ice cubes. To top it off she sat in her coat all evening that was some sort of padded waterproof that rustled every time she moved, kicking my seat as she went.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 11:54:44 GMT
I have an iWatch and i am so paranoid of it!! As soon as i sit down i put it on to airplane mode, but also every time you clap it will light up to show the time! So i now either make sure I am wearing long sleeve shirts or if not, I will not wear it when I go to the theatre! You could just take it off and put it in your pocket? That is much more sensible......
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 12:28:20 GMT
patterdalepip I read that as 'an argument at the Hampstead last night'
Last night at RWCMD 'Anything Can Happen' in Cardiff there was a group of girls in the front row who were determined that EVERYONE knew that they knew the performers. They over-reacted to everything and I'm surprised they weren't putting off their 'friends' to be honest. Determined to out stagey one another...
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Post by Coated on Mar 23, 2016 12:31:06 GMT
Argh, what is it with young woman and stinky hair? I really don't get what's so difficult about clean, non dog-smelling hair when you go to the theatre where some poor sod will have your mop near their nostrils all evening. Just wash it. If you haven't washed your hair for more than 2-3 days, it probably stinks. Yes, even if it's long hair. Wash it. Just do it.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 23, 2016 13:13:54 GMT
The Argument at Hampstead downstairs last night. Woman behind me, immediately the lights went down opened a bag of crisps really noisily and sat eating them, combined with swigging from a plastic glass that was full of ice cubes. To top it off she sat in her coat all evening that was some sort of padded waterproof that rustled every time she moved, kicking my seat as she went. There are few things more delish than a big bag of Walkers Cheese 'n Onion and a huge, slurpy, frosty glass of Cola. Yum yum yum! Not not in a theatre though, obvs!
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Post by patterdalepip on Mar 23, 2016 17:56:24 GMT
patterdalepip I read that as 'an argument at the Hampstead last night' Last night at RWCMD 'Anything Can Happen' in Cardiff there was a group of girls in the front row who were determined that EVERYONE knew that they knew the performers. They over-reacted to everything and I'm surprised they weren't putting off their 'friends' to be honest. Determined to out stagey one another... Emicardiff Love it! Though to be fair, I could have had an argument with the one behind me
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Post by patterdalepip on Mar 23, 2016 17:57:47 GMT
The Argument at Hampstead downstairs last night. Woman behind me, immediately the lights went down opened a bag of crisps really noisily and sat eating them, combined with swigging from a plastic glass that was full of ice cubes. To top it off she sat in her coat all evening that was some sort of padded waterproof that rustled every time she moved, kicking my seat as she went. There are few things more delish than a big bag of Walkers Cheese 'n Onion and a huge, slurpy, frosty glass of Cola. Yum yum yum! Not not in a theatre though, obvs! BurlyBeaR- the only good thing was that whatever she was eating did not smell- her only saving grace!! Had an egg sandwich eater next to me once- not to be recommended!
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 23, 2016 19:01:12 GMT
Last night at RWCMD 'Anything Can Happen' in Cardiff there was a group of girls in the front row who were determined that EVERYONE knew that they knew the performers. They over-reacted to everything and I'm surprised they weren't putting off their 'friends' to be honest. Determined to out stagey one another... That sounds familiar. I'm sure they were speaking in that excessively emphasised voice people use when they want to sound like they're having a personal conversation while making absolutely certain that everyone within 20 metres can hear them referring to the cast by first names only.
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Post by aksis on Mar 24, 2016 7:41:53 GMT
Got stuck on a seat in the middle of a company outing. Free ticket people who did not have a clue what they were going to see googling wildly around the internet for the first 20 minutes of the show and informing the whole first 4 rows in the theatre about who was supposed to be on (they got that wrong) what time the show would end (close) and that they would have snacks at the interval.
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Post by altamont on Mar 24, 2016 9:04:40 GMT
The last three shows I've been too - maybe not the worst behaviour reported in this thread, but each a source of annoyance...
Hamlet at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol - a woman along from me in the front row spends almost the entire play picking up her programme, rifling through it, trying to read it in the light available, putting it down, picking it up again, rinse and repeat.
The Herbal Bed in Exeter - a girl in the front row (in very clear view of the actors) spends most of the first half looking at her phone. The phone's display has been dimmed, but even so, this must be dispiriting for the actors
Don Quixote at the Swan Theatre - a chap in the front row spends the whole play chewing gum. In the second half, most of the time he has his mouth open and the sound echoes across the theatre in the quiet bits.
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Post by DuchessConstance on Mar 24, 2016 10:28:23 GMT
Put this in the Famous People thread too but Bertie Carvel really, really hates phones going off in theatres and apparently can shoot invisible death rays from his eyes.
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Post by littleflyer on Mar 25, 2016 19:09:00 GMT
Last night at 'Tom the Tom Jones Musical' was, special in terms of audiences. Bus loads of ladies (and gents) of a certain age from the Valleys who clearly thought it was a Tom Jones tribute at the local working men's club. So lots of to and fro, and running commentary. In fact thanks to the ladies behind me I heard everything twice as they'd repeat it all loudly. Also there was a need to repeat everything remotely Welsh said on stage (which I'll give you a clue was nearly every line) However my favourite exchange, that made me laugh more than the show ever did was this: Actor: What did he say? Actor: He said they're prostitutes! Woman 1: What? Woman 2: PROSTITUTES! This reminds me of a time at Legally Blonde Elle 'Make me a brunette' Paulette 'A what?' Random audience member 'A BRUNETTE!!!!!'
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Post by The Matthew on Apr 1, 2016 8:16:33 GMT
(Checks date of linked article. November 2, 2014.)
I'd love to know who it was who came up with the idea of Cineme, the dreadful (and fortunately not terribly popular) app that encourages people to get their phones out and use them at the cinema. If there's anyone who deserves to have people pee through their letter box it's that person. How about a system that rewards people for sitting quietly and paying attention?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 8:30:31 GMT
You'd think "being able to take in the entire story with complete focus and no distraction" would be reward enough for people, but apparently not.
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Post by anita on Apr 1, 2016 9:40:30 GMT
Had an interesting press release email today from SOLT, saying that some member theatres are are going to have "phone free" performances soon, like "access performances" for those needing signing, captions etc.
You'll be able to book them in the usual way, but theatres will be hiring proper "bouncers" to search audiences on the way in and put phones in sealed bags (www.cnet.com/news/phone-crazed-audiences-and-fed-up-musicians-yondr-is-on-the-case/) that unlock after the show.
Can't wait.
An obvious April fool Monkey.
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