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Post by jake on Nov 24, 2024 22:01:29 GMT
AARRGGHHHHH!
“Sing! You’ve paid your hard earned money for a ticket, and you've gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing," he said.
Another nail in the coffin.
Really sad, isn't it? He forgot to say that 'your hard earned money' is more important than the hard earned money of people who want to see the show and not be disturbed by raucous elements. A good reason why I don't go to musicals - even the minority of musicals that might appeal to me. |
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Post by ruggerlad on Nov 25, 2024 8:25:46 GMT
AARRGGHHHHH!
“Sing! You’ve paid your hard earned money for a ticket, and you've gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing," he said.
Another nail in the coffin.
Really sad, isn't it? He forgot to say that 'your hard earned money' is more important than the hard earned money of people who want to see the show and not be disturbed by raucous elements. A good reason why I don't go to musicals - even the minority of musicals that might appeal to me. What a four letter word. Obviously someone who doesn't go to public cinemas. Got to say my experience of schools is they have always been perfectly behaved during a show. Also the audience at the Steps musical were immaculate, but I did go to a matinee as I daren't go to an evening show. People draping coats over the back of chairs even though there is someone sitting behind them. What's that all about ? |
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Post by alicechallice on Nov 25, 2024 10:06:49 GMT
AARRGGHHHHH!
“Sing! You’ve paid your hard earned money for a ticket, and you've gone into a musical, and you’re into it. Sing," he said.
Another nail in the coffin.
He is such a ducking bumhole! But what you can expect from somebody who thinks its acceptable to piss in a bottle in the corner of a film set rather than walk to the toilet. CNUT. |
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Post by blamerobots on Nov 25, 2024 10:08:43 GMT
Send him in a sardines can into the furthest reaches of space, please
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Post by matthew90 on Nov 25, 2024 15:02:03 GMT
Such a weird BBC agenda atm... I have now seen that news article but also 2 separate videos on their BBC UK insta page where they are asking people and celebrities to say it's okay to singalong in cinemas to Wicked and Moana. I think cinemas should offer more relaxed singalong performances to cater for this crowd who think it's their personal lounge, but please let's not make it socially acceptable to disturb others in theatres and cinemas at normal performances.
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Post by fiyero on Nov 27, 2024 21:07:13 GMT
As we’ve veered onto cinema I don’t feel so bad posting this here. Just on my way home from my third visit to the Wicked movie. I was always going to see it many times but the second was let down by poor picture quality and staff basically calling me a liar as nobody else said anything!
Anyway. I was in the front row which was fine as it is a refurbed cinema with fancy recliner seats. Front row isn’t close. To my side was 3 mums and 3 preteen girls. The girls nearest me and the mums far away. The kids were raucous during the ads but did comment on the no talking rule so I had hope! It was dashed. Talking near constant, glares were useless and nearest mum just gave a sarcastic smile back when I made eye contact. At times we had cartwheels, clapping their new uggs together, throwing socks, crawling to the toilets (would have been far less distracting to just walk), sitting upside down, jumping. I was conflicted as getting staff would possibly be more distracting (and after my interaction at the other cinema I didn’t hold out much hope*). On the way out one of the mums said sorry for the girls behaviour. I bit my tongue and just said good luck on the way home!
* this was eventually backed up when I left. One guy was cleaning the whole screen while 3 held the door. Great teamwork guys!
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Post by jake on Nov 27, 2024 21:28:03 GMT
As we’ve veered onto cinema I don’t feel so bad posting this here. Just on my way home from my third visit to the Wicked movie. I was always going to see it many times but the second was let down by poor picture quality and staff basically calling me a liar as nobody else said anything! Why do people still do this? It was always annoying - there's no point offering a defence that's almost impossible to prove or disprove so it's just likely to make a dissatisfied customer even more dissatisfied; but you'd think customer-facing staff would, after the Horizon scandal, be aware that no complainant is ever again going to believe you if you tell them they're the only person to have mentioned this problem. Even if it's true. |
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Post by mattnyc on Nov 27, 2024 21:33:53 GMT
In the states here there will be specific showtimes for "singalongs". Are there no UK theatres doing this? It sounds like my own personal hell to be in one of those, but better to give them a space to be able to do it.
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Post by fiyero on Nov 27, 2024 22:03:21 GMT
As we’ve veered onto cinema I don’t feel so bad posting this here. Just on my way home from my third visit to the Wicked movie. I was always going to see it many times but the second was let down by poor picture quality and staff basically calling me a liar as nobody else said anything! Why do people still do this? It was always annoying - there's no point offering a defence that's almost impossible to prove or disprove so it's just likely to make a dissatisfied customer even more dissatisfied; but you'd think customer-facing staff would, after the Horizon scandal, be aware that no complainant is ever again going to believe you if you tell them they're the only person to have mentioned this problem. Even if it's true. It gets better. I took a photo of the credits. They said my phone was at fault then told me you shouldn’t take photos. Apparently me reporting it right at the start was ignored / not passed on. Eventually I was upgraded to a manager who after the standard ‘nothing I can do now’ offered vouchers to come back. Fingers crossed for next time! |
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Post by jake on Nov 27, 2024 22:22:01 GMT
Why do people still do this? It was always annoying - there's no point offering a defence that's almost impossible to prove or disprove so it's just likely to make a dissatisfied customer even more dissatisfied; but you'd think customer-facing staff would, after the Horizon scandal, be aware that no complainant is ever again going to believe you if you tell them they're the only person to have mentioned this problem. Even if it's true. It gets better. I took a photo of the credits. They said my phone was at fault then told me you shouldn’t take photos. Apparently me reporting it right at the start was ignored / not passed on. Eventually I was upgraded to a manager who after the standard ‘nothing I can do now’ offered vouchers to come back. Fingers crossed for next time! Good for you. If you know you're in the right, be persistent. Even if it's a lot of work for seemingly little reward you might make that manager (and (s)he in turn might tell staff) think again before trying to fob off the next person in your position. |
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Post by capybara on Nov 28, 2024 0:35:47 GMT
I went to a workshop reading of Cliffs at The Other Palace’s studio space on Friday afternoon. It’s a really intimate space and I felt so sorry for the cast as a woman in the front row ate for the entirety of both acts.
I’ve never seen anything like it. She literally did not pause. It was as if her right arm was on some sort of automated setting, lifting crisps and sweets into her mouth. Now, I don’t mean to judge but I’m not exaggerating when I say this woman devoured a minimum of six family sized packets of food.
Obviously she was making no attempt to stifle the noise and rustled the whole way through in blissful ignorance. I was too far away to say anything or make eye contact, alas. Her partner made a loud comment at the start of act two about how he wasn’t enjoying the performance and they were very vocal about it during the interval too. How rude.
I also moved seats during Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Sunday due to the couple directly in front of me being unable to sit still or stop talking. I’m no prude but the performative displays of affection was gag-inducing.
By contrast, at an amateur show last night, a family arrived with a toddler in the row in front and my heart sank. It’s a long and serious show (The Color Purple) and I was fully expecting to be looking for a spare seat elsewhere in the interval. I couldn’t have been more wrong though. The child sat still and didn’t make a noise throughout the whole show!
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Post by ladidah on Nov 28, 2024 7:53:56 GMT
As we’ve veered onto cinema I don’t feel so bad posting this here. Just on my way home from my third visit to the Wicked movie. I was always going to see it many times but the second was let down by poor picture quality and staff basically calling me a liar as nobody else said anything! Anyway. I was in the front row which was fine as it is a refurbed cinema with fancy recliner seats. Front row isn’t close. To my side was 3 mums and 3 preteen girls. The girls nearest me and the mums far away. The kids were raucous during the ads but did comment on the no talking rule so I had hope! It was dashed. Talking near constant, glares were useless and nearest mum just gave a sarcastic smile back when I made eye contact. At times we had cartwheels, clapping their new uggs together, throwing socks, crawling to the toilets (would have been far less distracting to just walk), sitting upside down, jumping. I was conflicted as getting staff would possibly be more distracting (and after my interaction at the other cinema I didn’t hold out much hope*). On the way out one of the mums said sorry for the girls behaviour. I bit my tongue and just said good luck on the way home! * this was eventually backed up when I left. One guy was cleaning the whole screen while 3 held the door. Great teamwork guys! Hell on earth. Last weekend when I saw it, my recliner seat-mate had purchased a refill coke and helpfully spent most of the movie either refilling the coke or emptying her bladder. |
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 2, 2024 14:17:24 GMT
Bad behaviour of the year award nearly went to me, when I noticed the young man who spent the last act of Orange Tree 12th Night playing on his phone was sitting in a stalls seat almost directly under my circle seat, from where I could very easily have beaned him with my empty paper cup.
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Post by mockturtle on Dec 2, 2024 14:30:27 GMT
Bad behaviour of the year award nearly went to me, when I noticed the young man who spent the last act of Orange Tree 12th Night playing on his phone was sitting in a stalls seat almost directly under my circle seat, from where I could very easily have beaned him with my empty paper cup. I don't know if that would count as bad behavior.... Not all heroes wear capes, samuelwhiskers. |
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Post by lt on Dec 2, 2024 18:07:11 GMT
Bad behaviour of the year award nearly went to me, when I noticed the young man who spent the last act of Orange Tree 12th Night playing on his phone was sitting in a stalls seat almost directly under my circle seat, from where I could very easily have beaned him with my empty paper cup. That's depressing I usually think the OT is one of the theatres with better audience behaviour. |
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Post by ceebee on Dec 2, 2024 21:44:38 GMT
Bad behaviour of the year award nearly went to me, when I noticed the young man who spent the last act of Orange Tree 12th Night playing on his phone was sitting in a stalls seat almost directly under my circle seat, from where I could very easily have beaned him with my empty paper cup. I had a recent issue at the Old Vic with a person on their phone throughout the first half of A Christmas Carol. Old Vic front of house were excellent in dealing with it, though the person who was reprimanded was not happy and was verbally abusive. I find it astonishing that people spend their hard-earned on a theatre ticket and then sit arseing around on their phone. |
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Post by max on Dec 4, 2024 21:13:56 GMT
If you fancy playing 'Guess the Show', there's this from a Tripadvisor review: "In the interval an usher announced from the aisle there was to be NO SINGING …oh dear , a huge faux pas I obviously made due to my enthusiastic 50 year wait!! …I suggest the Mayflower print this fact on the tickets and/or make an announcement beforehand to save anyone else the embarrassment of being publicly humiliated like a naughty child!" {And the show was....?}
'Jesus Christ Superstar'
lol
"sing them for yourselves for you are blessed"...but only in the car on the way home. |
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Post by lt on Dec 5, 2024 10:11:56 GMT
If you fancy playing 'Guess the Show', there's this from a Tripadvisor review: "In the interval an usher announced from the aisle there was to be NO SINGING …oh dear , a huge faux pas I obviously made due to my enthusiastic 50 year wait!! …I suggest the Mayflower print this fact on the tickets and/or make an announcement beforehand to save anyone else the embarrassment of being publicly humiliated like a naughty child!" {And the show was....?}
'Jesus Christ Superstar'
lol
"sing them for yourselves for you are blessed"...but only in the car on the way home. For the life of me, I can't understand why theatres don't make a clear announcement at the start of each production that audiences should keep quiet, turn their devices off and not sing along. Instead most theatres just have the ushers silently holding up a placard saying no phones or devices, which those with their heads down on their devices never see. |
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Post by max on Dec 5, 2024 11:03:03 GMT
If you fancy playing 'Guess the Show', there's this from a Tripadvisor review: "In the interval an usher announced from the aisle there was to be NO SINGING …oh dear , a huge faux pas I obviously made due to my enthusiastic 50 year wait!! …I suggest the Mayflower print this fact on the tickets and/or make an announcement beforehand to save anyone else the embarrassment of being publicly humiliated like a naughty child!" {And the show was....?}
'Jesus Christ Superstar'
lol
"sing them for yourselves for you are blessed"...but only in the car on the way home. For the life of me, I can't understand why theatres don't make a clear announcement at the start of each production that audiences should keep quiet, turn their devices off and not sing along. Instead most theatres just have the ushers silently holding up a placard saying no phones or devices, which those with their heads down on their devices never see. Never truer words - the number of times I look at the ushers holding up those signs, and then look around at the people who really needs to see them busily scrolling their phones, oblivious. Audio announcements, and (as in some cinemas) the sound of bleeps, rings and vibrations - that's what works (better, at least). Also, it's much easier to challenge someone if you know the FOH staff have given the phone policy verbally as people enter/have tickets checked. You know that they know. I think this is more commonly done at plays (?) |
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Dec 5, 2024 11:30:02 GMT
Very pleased to see a No Talking sign on the back of the usual No Mobile Phones one at The Devil Wears Prada matinee. The ushers turned round their signs every few seconds. There's also the "joke" announcement at the start of the actual show prohibiting coughing and unwrapping sweets even slowly!
Didn't expect perfect audience behaviour at that one but from my front row seat I never heard a word or rustle. Other theatres take note.
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Post by sph on Dec 5, 2024 12:45:30 GMT
If you fancy playing 'Guess the Show', there's this from a Tripadvisor review: "In the interval an usher announced from the aisle there was to be NO SINGING …oh dear , a huge faux pas I obviously made due to my enthusiastic 50 year wait!! …I suggest the Mayflower print this fact on the tickets and/or make an announcement beforehand to save anyone else the embarrassment of being publicly humiliated like a naughty child!" {And the show was....?}
'Jesus Christ Superstar'
lol
"sing them for yourselves for you are blessed"...but only in the car on the way home. For the life of me, I can't understand why theatres don't make a clear announcement at the start of each production that audiences should keep quiet, turn their devices off and not sing along. Instead most theatres just have the ushers silently holding up a placard saying no phones or devices, which those with their heads down on their devices never see. I've said before on this thread - it's the producers. Producers hate pre-show announcements generally. |
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Post by lt on Dec 5, 2024 13:04:45 GMT
For the life of me, I can't understand why theatres don't make a clear announcement at the start of each production that audiences should keep quiet, turn their devices off and not sing along. Instead most theatres just have the ushers silently holding up a placard saying no phones or devices, which those with their heads down on their devices never see. I've said before on this thread - it's the producers. Producers hate pre-show announcements generally. But why? |
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Post by max on Dec 5, 2024 15:32:52 GMT
I've said before on this thread - it's the producers. Producers hate pre-show announcements generally. But why? It's strange and self-defeating that producers don't like it. An announcement welcomes the audience warmly, and if you get a slight murmur of agreement or even applause after the 'no mobiles' announcement it's the audience having their own chance to express that they approve of the message and want to concentrate on the show. It's a bit of audience bonding that should surely set up the oneness amongst the audience, and between them and the performers. Plus make ushers' lives easier, as the strength of a number of people has been expressed. |
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Post by A.Ham on Dec 5, 2024 16:27:51 GMT
Very pleased to see a No Talking sign on the back of the usual No Mobile Phones one at The Devil Wears Prada matinee. The ushers turned round their signs every few seconds. There's also the "joke" announcement at the start of the actual show prohibiting coughing and unwrapping sweets even slowly! Didn't expect perfect audience behaviour at that one but from my front row seat I never heard a word or rustle. Other theatres take note. Yes, I groaned at the faux warning from Emily at the start of the show, but much to my surprise it was a very well behaved audience at the performance I attended, despite the gallons of Prosecco being necked! |
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Post by lt on Dec 5, 2024 16:50:13 GMT
It's strange and self-defeating that producers don't like it. An announcement welcomes the audience warmly, and if you get a slight murmur of agreement or even applause after the 'no mobiles' announcement it's the audience having their own chance to express that they approve of the message and want to concentrate on the show. It's a bit of audience bonding that should surely set up the oneness amongst the audience, and between them and the performers. Plus make ushers' lives easier, as the strength of a number of people has been expressed. Completely agree, Operation Mincemeat do it brilliantly with a member of the cast in character giving the audible announcement, which I don't think anyone could object to |
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