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.

I beg @profile22 to go along to Hamilton and try to join in the singing.

The fans are hardcore and getting tickets is still expensive and difficult. I would love to see their reaction to you singing along with My Shot.

I think people are equating musical with concert whereas really a musical is a play where some of the lines are sung (or all in the case of through-sung shows such as Les Mis)

@profile22 I have to say I am impressed that you were brave enough to come on here and give us your pretty stupid, selfish and arrogant opinion.

It’s a musical? So of course fans are going to sing! Please tell me that you are being sarcastic. What if the whole audience decided to sing so no one could hear the cast? Why bother paying for trained singers who can actually sing when they could just put the words on a giant screen and the audience could play all the parts.

There should be no need for signs telling people not to sing. Anyone with a brain should know not to.

What about proper plays? Say you happen to know a lot of the words. Is it ok to recite them along with the actor?

I, too, wouldn't give a monkey's bottom if someone wanted to sing along in our local theatre because I've not paid $300 for a ticket (blush have to save up for years for those ones, so naturally!) and the atmosphere is a lot more of a joining in one as opposed to a professional cast

Please don't! It's still usually a professional cast (and amature ones usually pride themselves on being "professional" if it isn't). And going to the theatre is still a big deal for some people, I have to really save up for a local show and I know I'll never see the West End because of cost so things is the next best thing. I'm not alone. Please don't ruin it.

Unless you're told you can join in. Then pass the earplugs and screech to your heart's content.

I joined in with the singing at Hamilton!!!!!....................................................................

In the two "allowed" places where the actors break the fourth wall

"Everybody" da da da da da

&

"Shout it to the rooftops Come on" wo oh oh oh oh

@beveren I think for the sake of being polite a few extra seconds doesn't harm anyone.
Seriously the hostility in this world is getting worse.

Ha, @Comefromaway, until I read past your first sentence I was wondering how you had escaped with your life!!

@Beveren So as I don't agree you call me a liar??? Grow up!!

And let’s face it, Tina Turner puts a lot of energy, voice and volume into her songs and performances, and would be hard to drown out.

You do realise that the actual “Tina Turner” wasn’t there? This was a musical performance NOT a gig.

I agree the scene created by the ops own admission was wrong but I try and live my life by being polite.

If someone is talking over something I'll say sorry I'm trying to listen to this but I'll always be polite as being rude just sets the tone for more hostility

A PP mentioned that it might have also been someone else's birthday that day, so I present to you . . .

betterexplained.com › articles › understanding-the-birthday-paradox

Understanding the Birthday Paradox. 23 people. In a room of just 23 people there's a 50-50 chance of at least two people having the same birthday. In a room of 75 there's a 99.9% chance of at least two people matching.

The link explains it mathematically etc - but in a full theatre (200 people? 300? more?) there will have been at least one other person celebrating a birthday - perhaps even the woman who complained. What if they'd all sung along? But I'll bet that everyone except OP's drunken mother just wanted to listen to the cast perform on stage.

@profile22
You're the OP's Mum aren't you? 🤔

As PP has said, people that need a sign to explain that you really shouldn't act like a div, are exactly the same people who the warnings saying "do not drink" on shampoo bottles are for.
This has made my day!

You have rightly had your arse handed to you here.

I pay to hear the show. Not an assclown

YABVU .Haven't had time to read the whole thread but having spent a lot of money on train tickets and theatre tickets only to have a much anticipated show ruined by a woman singing along -badly- throughout .I would defonitely tap someone on the shoulder and politely but firmly ask them to let us hear the actual cast if it happened again.And speak to theatre staff if they didn't shut up.There is a big difference to joining in en masse at the encore as sometimes happens to warbling along in the main production.

@profile22

You're the OP's Mum aren't you?

Got to be. There's some fines genes in them there hills

Comefromaway

I agree. JOJ Is a terrific performer. I must be one of the few who wasn't too keen on Come From Away though - the musical not you!

Live from Tina Turner The Musical .... interval. No one from the audience has sung yet.

You know what you have to do @DeadBod
Deep breath and off you go!

You go girl - deadbod you only live once only you matter sod everyone else off you go take a deep breath! The rest of the audience will love it and if they don’t who cares they are probably health and safety officers so sod them !

Rollin" Rollin" .......

was it a karaoke thing.for everyone. or a musical?