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Post by theatrefan77 on Apr 10, 2024 23:22:16 GMT
That's terrible. Sorry your night was spoiled by this awful behaviour. Maybe you should write to the Manager at the Gielgud and explain what happened? Sometimes in cases like this they offer the affected patron tickets for the same or another show.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Apr 11, 2024 11:36:48 GMT
That's terrible. Sorry your night was spoiled by this awful behaviour. Maybe you should write to the Manager at the Gielgud and explain what happened? Sometimes in cases like this they offer the affected patron tickets for the same or another show. Defo write into Delfont / point of purchase. Not OK, sorry you had to go through that shownut - same happened to me (pre pandemic) and I can appreciate how you were feeling. ❤️
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Apr 11, 2024 15:28:24 GMT
Joe Lycett told the story tonight on QI that he has a friend, who when bored at the theater, in a quiet moment will call out "Line!" He he Yes I was watching QI repeats yesterday. Very amusing story
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Post by adrianics on Apr 12, 2024 10:06:07 GMT
Speaking of Joe Lycett, I had an awful audience experience seeing his outstanding show at the Utilita in Birmingham a couple of years back. I came back from the toilet to find that someone behind me had hung her jacket and bag on the back of my chair, so I turned around and asked who it belonged to. One of the women behind me said their friend who had gone to the bar, so I said "please tell her to keep her belongings to herself when she gets back" and put the coat and bag on the floor. I heard the woman I spoke to say "oh god, she's going to kick off".
Sure enough, the woman got back and immediately tried to put her coat and bag back over my chair. I turned around and told her to keep her belongings to herself and she asked me what my problem was, to which I said "you, right now". I asked her why she didn't just put her things on her own chair, to which she just smirked and nodded at me, so I said "anything of yours on my chair, you'll lose". She then gave up but I heard her say "it's a shame men these days are such princesses". I was going to turn around to ask her if she was aware that nobody she was with was happy she was with them, and that when she was gone they were all talking about how she was going to cause a problem, but my wife stopped me.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 12, 2024 10:51:17 GMT
Reminds me of this
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Post by scarletmood on Apr 12, 2024 15:36:49 GMT
Speaking of Joe Lycett, I had an awful audience experience seeing his outstanding show at the Utilita in Birmingham a couple of years back. I came back from the toilet to find that someone behind me had hung her jacket and bag on the back of my chair, so I turned around and asked who it belonged to. One of the women behind me said their friend who had gone to the bar, so I said "please tell her to keep her belongings to herself when she gets back" and put the coat and bag on the floor. I heard the woman I spoke to say "oh god, she's going to kick off". Sure enough, the woman got back and immediately tried to put her coat and bag back over my chair. I turned around and told her to keep her belongings to herself and she asked me what my problem was, to which I said "you, right now". I asked her why she didn't just put her things on her own chair, to which she just smirked and nodded at me, so I said "anything of yours on my chair, you'll lose". She then gave up but I heard her say "it's a shame men these days are such princesses". I was going to turn around to ask her if she was aware that nobody she was with was happy she was with them, and that when she was gone they were all talking about how she was going to cause a problem, but my wife stopped me. You should have said that as causing divisions in the emeny is a great tactic.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 13, 2024 8:46:23 GMT
Similar thing happened to me in 1977. Liza Minnelli concert at the London Palladium. Woman sat directly in front of me draped her fur coat over the back of her her seat and half of it was on my lap. I did the "blow" test and it was real. Tapped her on the shoulder to ask her to move it, she turned around and it was Ingrid Bergman. She was very nice and removed it. I've been telling that story for years now and the usual response from the younger generation is "who's Ingrid Bergman?".
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Post by hannechalk on Apr 13, 2024 15:05:32 GMT
Not as much at a show, but telling a performer the show he performed in was flat that evening, doesn't help you get closer to him, like you so desperately have been trying to do. 🤭
(It wasn't me, honest)
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Post by n1david on Apr 13, 2024 15:22:30 GMT
Reminds me of the time I left a Fringe show and went for a drink in the bar. I spent the next 15 minutes moaning to my husband everything the production got wrong - the script, the casting, the direction, the acting. When we got up to leave I realised that the entire cast had at some point joined us at the table behind me. As we left one of them said "thanks for coming." Furious at my husband for not telling me...
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Post by Joseph Buquet on Apr 13, 2024 22:42:54 GMT
Went to see I Should Be So Lucky at the Bristol Hippodrome tonight.
There were two young women seated just in front of us. During the opening scene, one of them got her phone out to take photos. A few minutes later, she clearly felt the need to take more photos. Then the phone came out again so she could send the photos to someone on WhatsApp. And then again to continue the WhatsApp conversation.
Then her friend next to her got her phone out and started watching dog videos. By this time, I’d had enough, so leaned forward and asked the one nearest to me (the one watching dog videos) to put her phone away. The scary thing was that she seemed genuinely astonished I was asking her that. She asked me to repeat my request. She just couldn’t understand why I would ask such a thing. “But I’ve only had it out once”, she said. By this time, we were only 10 minutes in - and looking at your phone any number of times during the performance is wrong.
As we had this conversation, her friend also still had her phone out, and fortunately the usher shone a torch on them, and gestured to put their phones away.
It worries me how they clearly thought that having phones out during the performance was an entirely acceptable and normal thing to do. I hope they don’t represent the future of theatre audiences!
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Post by ladidah on Apr 15, 2024 11:25:55 GMT
It's shocking, just stay at home!!
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Post by max on Apr 15, 2024 11:50:32 GMT
Went to see I Should Be So Lucky at the Bristol Hippodrome tonight. There were two young women seated just in front of us. During the opening scene, one of them got her phone out to take photos. A few minutes later, she clearly felt the need to take more photos. Then the phone came out again so she could send the photos to someone on WhatsApp. And then again to continue the WhatsApp conversation. Then her friend next to her got her phone out and started watching dog videos. By this time, I’d had enough, so leaned forward and asked the one nearest to me (the one watching dog videos) to put her phone away. The scary thing was that she seemed genuinely astonished I was asking her that. She asked me to repeat my request. She just couldn’t understand why I would ask such a thing. “But I’ve only had it out once”, she said. By this time, we were only 10 minutes in - and looking at your phone any number of times during the performance is wrong. As we had this conversation, her friend also still had her phone out, and fortunately the usher shone a torch on them, and gestured to put their phones away. It worries me how they clearly thought that having phones out during the performance was an entirely acceptable and normal thing to do. I hope they don’t represent the future of theatre audiences! Can you remember what kind of spoken or signage warning there was about phone use? I wonder if ATG have a blanket policy for their venues (on how to notify the audience), or go with whatever the incumbent show wants? I think that may have been answered already upthread. I made a complaint to FOH at the Barbican recently, and they said they'd gone with what the visiting company wanted - which was no announcement (they then pointed to some printed out A4 sheets on a wall on the steps to the seating, which nobody would be concentrating on when going down steps and finding their seat).
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