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Post by fiyerorocher on Aug 22, 2022 15:55:06 GMT
I have to say, I'm very tired of people who are fully aware they've booked standing tickets, moaning about having standing tickets. If you didn't want to stand - book a seat! When you sit in the back row and have the standing places behind you and all you hear for the 20 minutes before the show is 'my feet are already sore' and 'maybe someone won't turn up and we can take their seat' and people asking the ushers if they can be upgraded to a seat (for a sold out show), you slowly lose your mind.
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Post by sph on Aug 22, 2022 23:46:59 GMT
I have to say, I'm very tired of people who are fully aware they've booked standing tickets, moaning about having standing tickets. If you didn't want to stand - book a seat! When you sit in the back row and have the standing places behind you and all you hear for the 20 minutes before the show is 'my feet are already sore' and 'maybe someone won't turn up and we can take their seat' and people asking the ushers if they can be upgraded to a seat (for a sold out show), you slowly lose your mind. Back when I worked in theatres you wouldn't believe the amount of people who would book balcony seats and very conveniently develop terrible, crippling vertigo when they entered the auditorium. Everyone is always grifting for an upgrade.
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Post by fiyerorocher on Aug 23, 2022 8:32:17 GMT
I have to say, I'm very tired of people who are fully aware they've booked standing tickets, moaning about having standing tickets. If you didn't want to stand - book a seat! When you sit in the back row and have the standing places behind you and all you hear for the 20 minutes before the show is 'my feet are already sore' and 'maybe someone won't turn up and we can take their seat' and people asking the ushers if they can be upgraded to a seat (for a sold out show), you slowly lose your mind. Back when I worked in theatres you wouldn't believe the amount of people who would book balcony seats and very conveniently develop terrible, crippling vertigo when they entered the auditorium. Everyone is always grifting for an upgrade. Yeah I've had plenty of that too. Used to work in a theatre with a show that never sold out and the regulars would book the cheapest seats at the back of the circle and upgrade themselves to premium stalls seats they could bet on being empty. Then they got annoyed when the show closed because of poor ticket sales!
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Post by marob on Aug 23, 2022 20:30:59 GMT
I went on a tour of the local theatre recently. Except for the main auditorium the building is closed for extensive renovations, but they’re showing people round the now-empty building while there’s a pause in the work. I ended up in a group made-up mostly by a bunch of old ladies who seemed much more interested in chatting amongst themselves.
One was with a boy I’d guess to be about 9 or 10, and she said to him “are you bored?” He said no, and she replied “oh, I thought you’d be bored.” Kinda gave the impression she was bored to death herself. Nothing wrong with that particularly, but the fact she said it quite loudly, while she was directly behind the guy showing us round struck me as quite rude.
Another one, despite being on a tour, didn’t seem to realise that they’d have to walk…
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 24, 2022 8:44:57 GMT
I was at South Pacific last night at Saddler Wells and I overheard the older couple next to me mention that the missing nurse had been found- (given that I'd actually missed the news in order to grab a bite to eat before seeing the show)- this was the best news I'd heard all day!
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Post by LaLuPone on Aug 25, 2022 16:36:14 GMT
A couple on the way out of Sister Act;
Lady: I just don’t know where they get all that energy from! Man: Drugs.
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Post by inthenose on Aug 26, 2022 6:41:29 GMT
A couple on the way out of Sister Act; Lady: I just don’t know where they get all that energy from! Man: Drugs. Judy Garland doesn’t disagree!
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Post by anthony40 on Aug 26, 2022 8:19:46 GMT
A couple on the way out of Sister Act; Lady: I just don’t know where they get all that energy from! Man: Drugs. What? Drugs! They're nuns! Surely not!- Though, to be fair, underneath her wimple Maria did have curlers in her hair, so....
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Post by Dr Tom on Oct 16, 2022 19:22:53 GMT
Two good ones today.
“London is like a city” at Jersey Boys
“I’ve just realised it’s half term” young guy to his girlfriend five minutes into the interval wondering why everyone hadn’t left at Get Up Stand Up (which must attract one of the audiences least able to control themselves in the West End).
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Post by crabtree on Oct 18, 2022 21:19:52 GMT
a couple walking out of a production I was in of Habit of art last month - 'huh, they don't know their lines' the couple grumbled - Habit of Art is a play within a rehearsal of a play with a character deliberately needing prompting.
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Post by hadeswasking on Oct 21, 2022 23:36:20 GMT
My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican the other week:
People who bought dayseats next to me thought it was going to be the film with a live orchestra. Watching their amazement during the first act was fascinating.
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Post by digne on Oct 25, 2022 10:37:31 GMT
I was sitting next to someone who got the ticket as a gift from her father and also thought it was going to be the film with live orchestra - she was so excited when she saw what it was! That has to be the best surprise.
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Post by yokollama on Oct 25, 2022 15:07:29 GMT
Wasn't overheard at the theatre, but coincidental as I was on the train after seeing Cursed Child: Isn't Meghan Markle the one who died in Harry Potter? The one in the bathroom?
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Post by frappuccino on Oct 26, 2022 2:22:49 GMT
Wasn't overheard at the theatre, but coincidental as I was on the train after seeing Cursed Child: Isn't Meghan Markle the one who died in Harry Potter? The one in the bathroom? Hahaha!! Omg...moaning myrtle! Was the person who said it very young/old?
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Post by deej4life on Oct 28, 2022 6:25:46 GMT
At my first time seeing Wicked in Dublin in 2013, a man in front of me was discussing how "Idina must be off today".
I loved the idea that Idina has been performing as Elphaba non-stop across multiple continents since 2003!
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Post by inthenose on Oct 28, 2022 12:58:43 GMT
At my first time seeing Wicked in Dublin in 2013, a man in front of me was discussing how "Idina must be off today". I loved the idea that Idina has been performing as Elphaba non-stop across multiple continents since 2003! I heard similar at Phantom in 2001 - “I thought Michael Crawford was in this”
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Post by yokollama on Oct 29, 2022 21:08:06 GMT
Wasn't overheard at the theatre, but coincidental as I was on the train after seeing Cursed Child: Isn't Meghan Markle the one who died in Harry Potter? The one in the bathroom? Hahaha!! Omg...moaning myrtle! Was the person who said it very young/old? Another thing I learned about them that night is that their mother is 16 years older, which would put them in their 20s. I almost choked on my drink.
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Post by musicbox on Oct 29, 2022 23:22:44 GMT
At the Joseph tour in Edinburgh on Wednesday night -
Alexandra Burke - Literally walks onto the stage before saying or singing a word in the beginning seconds of the show
Woman in front of me - “She's a bit full of herself isn't she?”
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 30, 2022 6:19:15 GMT
On entering the Olivier theatre for the Crucible and the wonderful set with the sky raining a man announced quite loudly ‘that’s not real rain’. Was met with quite a few giggles from those near
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Post by marob on Oct 30, 2022 9:47:46 GMT
That reminds me of being in the Lyttleton at the end of Network, when they showed the various presidents in order up to today. Obama got loud cheers, Trump got even louder boos, then one man shouted ‘you’re a moron’ at the screen. I just sat there quietly, ‘cause it’s a video. 🤷🏻♂️
Stretching it a bit with this, as it wasn’t in a theatre, but when I was killing time before Mrs Doubtfire, wandering around the Arndale Centre. In WH Smith there was a young couple agonising over which books to buy. They weren’t interested in the content, just which ones would go with the coffee table. I know they’re called ‘coffee table books’ but still, never realised people actually bought them to just sit there.
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Post by longinthetooth on Nov 23, 2022 20:28:42 GMT
At From Here to Eternity this afternoon - on seeing a palm tree just inside the door of the auditorium, the lady next to me asked her friend, "I wonder where it's set? Must be somewhere in South America with that palm tree"!
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Post by theatreliker on Nov 25, 2022 19:56:09 GMT
Walking to the theatre last night there was a guy (presumably a producer) on the phone saying 'I think this show is good enough for an 8 week run at the Ambassadors'. Aim high.
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Post by Jon on Nov 25, 2022 21:07:56 GMT
Walking to the theatre last night there was a guy (presumably a producer) on the phone saying 'I think this show is good enough for an 8 week run at the Ambassadors'. Aim high. I wonder what show they were talking about.
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Post by david on Nov 26, 2022 21:13:20 GMT
At the start of Act 2 at tonight's performance of A Christmas Carol at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, one cast member says to the audience "I'm so glad you've all come back", with one lady in the audience replying - "We had to. They have locked the doors".
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Post by kyvai on Nov 29, 2022 8:07:36 GMT
Cute one for something different.
At Wicked this week at the start of the interval, I saw a very young little boy with his Dad getting up from their seats. He was 4 at the most. And he said in the cutest voice ever, “wow Daddy, that chapter was LONG!!”
He isn’t wrong.
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Post by hadeswasking on Dec 2, 2022 1:45:27 GMT
During the applause Lisa Lambe recieved a "Brava!" from a gentleman in the audience tonight after her big solo in Act 2 of Hex.
First time I've ever heard that in the theatre. It was very cute and well deserved though. That voice is breathtaking.
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Post by dm913 on Dec 16, 2022 0:04:36 GMT
Overheard at Wicked from some visitors across the pond:
"I like seeing understudies because they never get to go on"
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Post by Dr Tom on Jan 23, 2023 21:59:38 GMT
“I was more entertained by looking at your face”
One woman giving her verdict of Dirty Dancing to her friend tonight.
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 18, 2023 18:46:24 GMT
"This is really hard to follow, I thought they'd just be singing songs like when we saw Mamma Mia."
Woman in the row behind at the interval of Jersey Boys today.
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Post by Dr Tom on Feb 25, 2023 15:49:22 GMT
“Wow, there’s actually a movie called Heathers!”
Overheard about a minute ago. I won’t say what show I’m at the interval of!
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