To think that the parents whose toddler kept speaking loudly during Les Miserables should have done something about it?

[SweetestThing]

Leave aside whether a two year old (by the look of her) would follow anything about the show, or whether it's an appropriate show for her age, should they have taken her out when she started making a noise?

MN Jury, what do you think? It was a matinee performance, not the evening one.

There's no way this child was over five. She was in her mother's arms when they left and she looked no more than three at the most - and sounded young too. In any case, a five year old should have been able to keep quiet especially when told to.

The couple next to us had a conversation near the end of the first half, which culminated in the woman getting up and leaving, meaning we all had to get up and let her shuffle along the row!

I think I need to go back another time .

There are loads of posts on here recently by parents thinking it is perfectly acceptable to take babies/toddlers to West End shows or to see something like Skyfall.
Its not on, dont care if they think their pfb will sleep through and their right to carry on doing whatever they did before they had children.

YANBU.
I agree with bruffin.
Why on earth do perents think they can carry on as they did pre children.
Face it-your life changes when you have kids.
FWIW I don't think it's acceptable for any show to be ruined, regardless of suitability for chidren. The only exception I would make is Panto where you can scream as much as you like.

I cant help but thinking those people cant really apreciate or love theatre as they claim because if they did they wouldn't do this to the actors.
So why not going for a meal instead?

arent stage productions given age certificates??? wtf is a toddler doing at les mis????? that like the 6 year old at the batman film where the gunman went.

its not exactly the lion king is it?????

and whistling waves, the people at the theatre shouldnt have let the toddler in then should they? dont understand people i really dont.

Complain to the theatre.

YANBU, I would have been furious (silently, don't think I'd have had the guts to actually do anything about it!)

Les Mis is both expensive and awesome. To let a child make noise throughout it is practically a crime. As is chatter - I don't care if it's a matinee, the theatre is not the cinema. No talking, no eating/drinking and no rustling; to do so is just rude.

AND... Why the fuck do people find it so bloody hard to take their seats on time? makes me sodding furious at them trooping in late, squeezing past, disrupting the performance
On the subject of noisy children, sat through a performance last week full of noisy little ones who would just not shut up.......OK, it was The Snowman and the gasp of delight when the snowman and the little boy flew across the stage was seriously audible, bless 'em