Singing along at a musical to cause such upset?

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I went to a musical yesterday with my parents & sister to celebrate my mums birthday. We had a really nice day & this was the last thing we had planned. Arrived a few mins late and got to our seats with no problems.

After about 20 mins in. A catchy song came on. It was Tina Turner. My mum sang along for a couple of times during the chorus. It was hard not too. The whole show was about her being oppressed. Which is exactly how we felt after what happens next.

The lady in front turned around. Looked at my mum & said could you please, then used her hand against her mouth to gesture my mum to zip it 🤐 very passive aggressive.

Mum looked at us as if to say. What the F**
Anyway. She said I'll have to speak to her at the interval. Meanwhile I just thought what a spoilsport?!?! If you can't sing along at a musical what's wrong with the world. It's not like she was singing at the top of her voice???

It resulted with the lady in front going to make a complaint about my mum as mum tapped her on the shoulder and said during the interval How dare you tell me how to behave. My mum ended up going to see the manager herself where the other women was acting like we were trying to victimise her for not being happy against us telling her it was a free country. They said we were aggressive and being unreasonable?!?!

She said. It said on the way in you can't sing. We said. Well we didn't see that notice as we were late. We ended up leaving as my mum was so cross. There was a slight scene. The other woman was behaving like a child in my opinion. Has the world has gone mad.

My sister and I told her that she had spoilt our mums birthday and She was clearly enjoying playing the victim. I think she was probably shocked we confronted her over it.

We left. Were we being unreasonable? Or has the world gone crazy? I'd love to hear you're thoughts.

Op - please refer to my username

Wow what an utter bunch of miseries! Dance and sing your heart out in my opinion!!

Well fortunately, your opinion is in the minority. You’re obviously another one who doesn’t know how to behave appropriately.

YABU. People don't want to hear your mum singing.

You turned up late and then your mum ruined the experience for other people. You then got aggressive. You are a nightmare family.

I guess I'd better stop screeching "Yoh Oh Toh HOOOO!" during Ride of the Valkyries from the cheap seats then. Or doing the 'Shuffle off to Buffalo' in the aisle during 42nd Street.

Seriously, maybe we should all arm ourselves with peashooters so we can silently blast the offender in the back of the head.

(I don't really do either. I sit very quietly and enjoy the performances that I'm paying good money for. Then go home and screech and/or dance)

LOL

Has anyone got a spare angle grinder handy? Just in case I go to Flashdance and want to get stuck in. Cheers.

Singing is nothing. Whenever I go and see Wicked, I make sure to bring two friends with me (three if I've eaten a big lunch) to winch me up into the air at the end of the first act. I'm very cultured and need to be on eye-level with Elphaba at all times.

I must admit went to see Bette milder At O2 about 4
Years ago .. couldn’t wait for Wind beneath my wings ... Bette had already asked audience not to sing along during the show ... well this absolute moron decides to sing and out of tune and time ...: omg it totally ruined it all .... we had been chatting before that before show started ... I upped and walked out with hubby and didn’t acknowledge him and it still makes me angry today how selfish people are .... I wish I’d said something but ... would have made the evening worse .... please people .... don’t sing along .. A-Ha gave us cues when to join it and boy did we ! Amazing band love
Love love them .... royal Albert 2 weeks ago ❤️❤️👏👏👏

Have you seen OP's follow-up post, @PeppyPiggy?

Or perhaps people are way to serious these days. No doubt she works in health and safety or something else utterly boring or has a very miserable life to feel the need to say anything at all. I. My eyes she was a misery guts.

I'm pretty sure this goes beyond a simple lack of 'good perception'.

Are cavalier and Sprockermum the same person?

You are not being unreasonable you was late so didn't know you couldn't sing a long, it was a musical not a play sing away🙃😁

Diplomatic and cultured but belittling of a whole industry? I’m sure if you had an awful, life changing injury at work that was as a result of your employers negligence, you would change your tune.

With everyone else here. Well done to your mum for ruining others experience with her inability to follow a very straightforward clearly displayed rule.

Theatre - only sing when asked by the cast

Gig- go for it (maybe keep it down if you’re tone deaf)

@Sprockermum utterly selfish and entitled, it isn't about you, have some courtesy for literally everyone else in the theatre with you. Musicals are different to concerts. I highly doubt you go to WE/B'way musicals "all the time", you AREN'T allowed to sing during these shoes and every show says that beforehand, if you get someone singing often who doesn't get told to be quiet by the ushers or anyone else in the audience, what kind of shows are you attending?
It's. so. Rude. People don't pay hundreds of pounds or dollars to listen to someone in the audience sing

Ah what a pile of goady bollocks
And more socks appearing than my odd sock box

I sing at musicals - but before you all shoot me (!) - it's not a London theatre; I go to the matinee performance; I buy the cheapest seat right up in the rafters; and I check when buying to ensure the seat is away from other occupied seats. I hate the idea of being hemmed in by other people. And I don't belt out the songs, I'm more mouthing along / singing under my breath. I know that's still objectionable behaviour but so far, nobody has sat close enough to me to raise that objection

I hate when people sing over the top of actors/singers. It's so rude. I also hate overly drunk people at music gigs (who somehow always seem to stand right next to me) who dance in a group and push people out the way and also chat like fk all through gig..if you wanna put the world to rights stay in the fecking pub!

I much prefer the cheap seats for similar reasons EggysMom. Added bonus is the banking is so steep and the fear of falling over the edge so great there tend to be very few hoachy DC on booster seats. Most of the other customers up there are considerate joiners in ime.

Very unreasonable. I'd react much same as woman in front. No one wants to hear your mum sing along when they've paid good money to hear pros. In what imaginary world would it ever be OK

Wow im shocked. Yabu. You and your mum were vvvvv rude.

considerate joiners in

No such thing.

And you’re starting to sound deranged on the booster seat front.

I wouldn’t want to be seated in front of someone singing along.