Singing along at a musical to cause such upset?

[cantbeatfreshsheets]

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.

Unless your mum is Tina Turner, YABVVU.

So basically you've had eight pages of people telling you that you were being unreasonable (I can think of other words for it) and you're still insisting it was ok for you to arrive not a few but TEN minutes late and for your mother to spoil other people's enjoyment of a show they'd paid a lot of money to see?

Unbelievably arrogant and selfish.

Its more like 100 a ticket @Evilmorty especially in the stalls. Nobody wants to hear your mum singing along op

Your mum was being EXTREMELY unreasonable. As others have said, I don't pay to see a musical to have it ruined by other audience members!!

To anyone who's seen Les Mis; do you hear the people sing?

Is your mum Janice from Friends per chance?

I'm going to a show in London in March next year, please kindly refrain from attending all and any shows- I'm travelling the length of the country to attend and want to hear the actors sing not your Ma belting out songs like she's in the shower or at a karaoke bar.

You need to learn some manners OP
You seem to think that everything is about you

This is why I love going to premieres - fellow audience members don't know the music yet

You came late, you sang along??!!!

YADBU Totally utterly naff, rude, and very common.

If you had been behind me I would have alerted the ushers and asked to have you removed.

Watch movies at home or go to your local and participate in the karaoke.

Singing along at musicals is the height of vulgarity. Are your family very low class OP? Otherwise it's inexplicable how you could thing this is ok behaviour. It's a theatre production, where people have paid a lot of money to be there, and the performers on stage have spent a lot of years practising so their talents could be appreciated. It not the circus, dear.

Quite Clearly we have no etiquette
You got it. I can’t believe anyone can be so lacking in self awareness but here you are, the very proof.

Ten minutes late only caused disruption to the two people who had to stand? Words fail...
You distracted EVERYONE who saw you and EVERYONE who heard you and EVERYONE behind the two poor saps who had to stand. You are the flppin' definition of a self-absorbed narcissist if you don't know that.
They should have thrown you out.

I consider myself a diplomatic, considered, cultured person.

You clearly haven't met many then

I consider myself a diplomatic, considered, cultured person

In that case I must be the Queen.

I presume you are joking because none of the above is true.

Ugh. OP, hopefully you have learnt a lesson (although I think from your response, you haven't).

Op, your manners are atrocious! Entitled, rude - are you like this in other areas of your life?

This has to be a reverse, surely no one is quite so ignorant and lacking in self awareness?

If by some tiny chance this is real, YABVVVU and you and your family behaved very rudely and selfishly, disrupting numerous people.

You were late, your mum thought it was ok to sing along, and the pair of you caused a huge scene. I’ve seen better behaved three year olds! Don’t go to the theatre again, you’re clearly not capable of behaving properly.

I'm surprised they let you in, so many don't as it disrupts the audience.
You clearly have no manners to think your mums behaviour was fine.
Guess the apple didn't fall too far from the tree.
I hope you don't have kids, what a way to raise them.
I often wondered what people were like who hadn't been socialised properly. I have my answer
OP, if you don't live by societal norms, society will sort you out.
Next time it could be a slap, that's up to you and your family.

And I note that @cantbeatfreshsheets hasn't been back. Ignorant goady fucker

Wow! So you came late and then your Mum sang along to a chorus. And then YOU had the nerve to complain when someone gestured (not shouted) for your Mum to stop.

I wouldn't go to a theatre again. Better to stay at home where consideration for others doesn't matter.

No, you cannot sing along at a musical unless it is a designated sing along performance. But I assume you know that now!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is fucking hysterical! You asked for people’s views and they’ve given them and now instead of acknowledging that it wouldn’t been very annoying for the people who had no doubt pared a lot of money for the tickets you continue saying she must be in H&S and still passing the buck! I bet your family are a fucking scream to sit next to! I like the music in some funerals too but I don’t sing along! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"It's a free country". Always said by such pleasant, kind, reasonable people, isn't it?

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No. You don't sing along.

Op: was I unreasonable?
Everyone : YES!
OP: well I'll just be petty and insult people. "She must be a bore, bla bla.... "
Everyone: crack on! But you were still unreasonable