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.

Reads like a reverse to me. Nobody could seriously post this.

Last encore sing along, yes. All through the musical, no way!!

I was at the theatre last week and a young couple were practically starring in their own porn show in the front row - old Doris warbling along to Tina would've been preferable to that

To summarise, you were late and decided to sing along during a professional musical. did you also bring nachos, crisps and sone beer?

You were rude, ignorant and unreasonable.

You made a teal show of yourself, as my mum would say.

*real show

YABU definitely- no one was paying to listen to your Mum. Equally it's sad that it ruined her birthday but really...

I call reverse. No one could be that dense, surely?

This is why I don’t go to the theatre any more. You were late (in the bar probably) then noisy and rude. So fucking selfish.

I think it's a reverse too 🙄

You do not sing along at musicals ... YABU. It's not a concert! Yes great songs and catchy but people have paid a lot of money to experience the trained professionals singing and not your mum. Its a musical not a karaoke bar.

This has got to be a wind up? I can't believe there even needs to be a sign to tell people not to sing - surely this goes without saying?

That would really annoy me. I would love to sing along to my favourite prices of music at concerts. But guess what? The audience have paid good money to hear the choir not me!

Arriving late was bad enough. Singing along even worse. I have to admit I'd be annoyed at both.

YABVU the poor people sat around you. Sounds like your Mum ruined their trip to the theatre - she ruined her own birthday

I wound be cross if I went to the theatre & paid a lot of money to hear your Mum sing, especially when the signs said not to. YABVU.

Oh my god 😂

This reminds me of the time I paid a good amount of money to see Hamilton. Woman 2 seats to my left was rapping along loudly and thankfully someone way more assertive than I told her to shut the hell up. It's astonishing how selfish and unaware people can be.

Well your family are totally rude, I'd have told you in less polite tones if you'd got stroppy too.
Are people really that entitled they think they can do what they like?

What is a reverse???

I just can't believe you felt 'oppressed'

I saw this show in August. At the time there wasn't a physical sign stating no singing, but at the beginning of the show an announcement was made saying please don't sing along during the performance, as there would be a chance to sing along at the end. If you were late you would've missed it. A few people still sang along when we went, but were told by ushers to stop.

You sound like a nightmare.arriving late and singing ...I don’t want to pay a fortune to hear you sing

TBH - you were lucky even to get in if you were late. Our local Theatres don't allow anyone to come in if it's more than 5 minutes after the start of the performance - it disturbs both the cast and the audience.

I can see why you were upset as it was a special day - but perhaps it was a special day for other people, too, and they wanted to listen to the people they had PAID TO HEAR.

I would have said something to your mum, too.

YABU - you shouldn't be allowed into theatres and cinemas if you think that kind of behaviour is in any way appropriate!