Police called to theatre after audience sang over cast

[SnottyLottie]

According to this news article, 2 people were evicted by security and there was a “mini riot” after the show was stopped 10 minutes before the end (and ultimately cancelled) because a handful of the audience were singing over the cast. Police were called (riot vans included).

https://news.sky.com/story/police-called-to-disturbance-at-manchester-palace-theatre-during-the-bodyguard-musical-after-audience-tried-to-sing-over-cast-12852504

What do we think? Over reaction or perfectly reasonable response? I’d be furious to have the show stopped and cancelled 10 minutes before the end because of a handful of disrespectful idiots!

I've experienced the same in small theatres. Behaviour is a lot better

A lot of it comes down to alcohol. People get tanked up before and during the show and lose their decorum.

Plus the social media generation who think everything revolves around them.

Not sure who you mean by the social media generation but in every case I’ve experienced the guilty parties have been women of my age (mid fifties) or older.

ChocHotolate has hit it on the head. As pop stars have increasingly used stadiums for their concerts and consider singing along as a compliment people confuse that with the theatre where it is verboten. Sad all round really. Wrong time wrong place the women were very heavily handled. Perhaps there has to be a formal announcement at the beginning of shows that have pop anthems in them that they are not to join in. Can you imagine going to the opera and trying to sing along to popular arias? I feel sorry for the women as they meant no harm as far as we can tell. Just horrendously humiliating.

Can you imagine going to the opera and trying to sing along to popular arias?

There's been a TikTok thing for ages where people attempt to sing the famous, wordless bit of the Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute.

What's funny is how many of them don't think it sounds that hard...

Yes, and looking at the video evidence from the incident the OP is talking about, one of the two women who got kicked out was in that age cohort.

She is backtracking now because of the responses she got to her pathetic comment on This Morning.

She would not have thought it funny and said she would "have been devastated if she could not sing along" unless that was how she really felt.

Trying to pretend she didn't mean that is pathetic

Wonder if the Beeb had a word with her in advance of her presenting GBBO? She’s a prize idiot, it doesn’t surprise me that she said what she did - I can imagine she would belt out the songs and think it hilarious.

It's definitely alcohol that's the issue, I don't think it should be served at the theatre as so many people take it too far.

I went to see Footloose with my DM. A couple in their late 50's came in, already drunk and could barely get down the stairs, they had a bottle of wine with them that they had bought at the bar. They sat in front of us and were drinking the wine, and then just fell asleep and sat there snoring through the whole thing. During the interval a group of women asked to get past. The man stood up swaying on the spot with his trousers halfway down and his arse hanging out. I would be absolutely embarrassed if that was me or a member of my family.

Did you just compare your daughters to property? Surely not.

I’m sure you’re aware that in fact the greatest risk your daughters will ever take is having a male domestic partner. Your warnings about that should outnumber your warnings about strangers by about 10:1. Do they? Or has this never really been about safety?

So disrespectful to the cast and musicians.

Twice I've been to a show where people have had to be thrown out. First one was Saturday Night Fever where a man and woman who were absolutely steaming drunk were up dancing being loud. People behind couldn't see and asked them to sit down and they didn't so were removed.

Second was a Bugsy Malone show where a grown man was howling drunk and fell onto the little girl next to him who was with another family. Staff found a nearly empty bottle of vodka under his seat and he was removed by staff.

They are not concerts, they are theatre performances. You usually get opportunity to get up to dance and sing at the finale.

I go to the theatre very regularly and it doesn't happen at the ballet and the opera.

If you're unfortunate enough to go to the family performances for ballet then yes there's more prancing about by children in their seats and aisles but it's still (almost) watchable

What we're talking about here is populist theatre (which I also love) - I can only recommend that you go in term time to matinees to get a more sedate crowd (no children, people much less likely to take a day off work)

I do think the cost of living crisis has really affected everything - when people are able to go out (they go out much more infrequently) then they really LARGE it up - they get drunk, they screech and are very pushy. It's the same at the football and at concerts.

We're being so screwed over, having to work so much harder to get even a basic standard of living that it's not a surprise to me that people act like twats when they rarely go out.

It feels like the last days of Rome in town at the moment

LaurieFairyCake · Yesterday 18:07
I was at the theatre on Thursday and was in the second from the front row

In the front row was a young couple loudly hissing an argument to each other - it was putting off the (famous) main actor and the other cast members at the front

I heard someone behind me go out to get a member of staff and a LOT of tutting

I said loud enough for my whole row to hear 'shut the FUCK up or leave'

They did and the main actor winked at me when they bowed (couple twats had left at the interval)

The front row seats must have cost them about £125 each !

Who the fuck goes to the theatre to have an argument ?!?”

I think I love you 😁 (go on, who was the actor?)

I went to a garden party at Buckingham Palace once. You are told very clearly there is to be no photography.

I think I was one of the very few that did what I was told!

Yes. Have all the sub-editors been sacked?

With that demographic it's going to be more alcohol.

Social media generation I mean people who let it influence their behaviour. Apps like tik tok destroy attention spans and the smart phone in general. It started with camera phones in the 2000s.

Did you just compare your daughters to property? Surely not.
That's what you took from my post? You poor thing

They were always savages, it's just that following the lockdowns they had forgotten how to repress it when mixing in society.

Perhaps theatres need to start offering discounts to younger people. After all, it seems to be 50ish year olds who are the main offenders.

That said, the ENO already do offer very generous discounts for the young.

"I had no idea..."

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.

One of the last times I was at the theatre I asked the lady behind me to please stop talking. The hood of jacket was hanging over the back of the chair slightly.

When I left, I realised that she had poured her drink into the hood to teach me a lesson.

Some scrotes shouldn't be allowed in theatres.

God, exactly 🤦‍♀️ Why comment publicly on something you admit you had no idea about? Bloody muppet.

Rentagob.

Isnt bake off on channel 4 now?