to genuinely not understand why this woman went to the papers with her story?

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She seems to think she's been wronged in some way. I feel a bit cringe for her actually.

link to Metro article

but surely tapping a foot to the music is no great crime.

It says in the article she was 'waving her hands' too. Re. the foot tapping, it depends if she was jiggling about generally and how loud it was - it could be very annoying to the people in the seats behind and next to her.

Wonder if she's the same idiot who kept singing through another musical I went to. They got told to be quiet by staff then actually asked people around them if they were annoyed by her singing. Even when they all said yes, she still kept saying nothing was wrong with it.

Stupid people cannot see sense.

People like her have no business being in a theatre. She’s ruined the whole experience for people who have paid to watch and listen to professional actors, and is STILL so dense that she’s telling her story to a paper?! I despair sometimes

Ive just attended a Meatloaf musical and we were asked right at the beginning to leave our Meatloaf impressions until we had left the building !

I went to a show last week and there were some kids a few rows ahead of us that were singing so loud and out of time it made it impossible to hear what was actually being said. One was making “cute” little comments constantly during the speaking parts that her mum was looking around and laughing at as if she thought the rest of us also found it adorable. They were standing up constantly too. She was spoken to by 2 ushers and 2 annoyed audience members- I wish they had removed them because it was a waste of money for about 20 people sat around them.

Was she wrong though? The audience are encouraged to sing during Mama Mia and similar performances - isn't this much the same thing? (Obviously you wouldn't be singing along during a play, but this was a muscial - I thought that was considered part of the fun of going to a musical?) Either her behaviour must have been sigificantly more distracting than she thought, or the ushers overreacted; possibly a bit of both from the limited information available.

I was once at a Symphony concert and the woman next to me started singing!
Obviously no lyrics, so she was dum-Dee-dumming She did stop after I politely asked her not to though.

Everyone sang when I went.

It's not a karaoke. Also, love that she says that they adhered to the mask wearing policy, whilst there is a selfie of them all in the theatre clearly maskless. Go maskless if you like, but don't lie about it and then submit a photo to the press! What a plum.

She needs to learn theatre etiquette. She is a grown woman and needs to stop behaving like an entitled child

My best friend sings along at musicals. I won't go with her to her favourite shows anymore, it's so embarrassing

I thought that was considered part of the fun of going to a musical

The fun of going to a musical is to listen to professionally trained singers communicate the story through their voices, not the wannabe in row D.

I don't know why she went to the papers either, but tbh, this sounds unsatisfactory all round... she was driving everyone around her mad, and got kicked out; but only 15 mins before it ended anyway.
So she ruined the show for people bar the last 15 minutes.
Throwing her out at that point was useless

And mean for her to miss the end.

One of those nobody wins situations

She could be any of us. Free her.

@C152

Was she wrong though? The audience are encouraged to sing during Mama Mia and similar performances - isn't this much the same thing? (Obviously you wouldn't be singing along during a play, but this was a muscial - I thought that was considered part of the fun of going to a musical?) Either her behaviour must have been sigificantly more distracting than she thought, or the ushers overreacted; possibly a bit of both from the limited information available.

There's usually a clear indication if it's a singalong show. A singalong show is a different experience - not at all the same as one person warbling or droning or seat-dancing in a distracting way.

Totally love that she was not just singing but “waving her hands around”

I think she fails to realise people paid to hear the actors not her.😂

twat if youre asked once to not make noise dont carry on

@Georgeskitchen

Not sure what to make of this. If it's not a singalong she shouldn't be singing but surely tapping a foot to the music is no great crime. I don't think this is an isolated incident, I've read other articles saying the stewards are aggressively shining torches in people's faces

You need to look at the source. This isnt an unbiased account. She is telling it about herself.

She isnt going to tell the truth about her actions.

Tapping and singing under her mask probably means dancing, work waving and loud singing and shaking about.

With a mask on, they would only be sure it was her if she was making a spectacle of herself.

I read this yesterday.......the theatre was 100% correct to have removed her! Some people have no idea how to behave in a theatre.........waving hands in the air, singing along and slapping your leg along to the music is not acceptable.
I was at a west end show once.......it was the story of Take That, the girl sitting next to me screamed her lungs out every time one of the band came on stage...........it was right in my ear!!! After a while I told her to be quiet and got a mouthful from her mum. She did shut up but they glared at me for the rest of the show.

This article has been published on several news websites. There are comments on one that allege there was a fair bit of drinking and a fight involved.

I've seen 'Bat out of Hell' - it's incredibly, wall shakingly loud ! So she must have been making an absolute racket. The trouble is, some people think they're still at home watching tv in their front rooms. Same happens in cinemas. ( The show is fab, by the way!).

@kittensinthekitchen

This article has been published on several news websites. There are comments on one that allege there was a fair bit of drinking and a fight involved.

Quelle surprise ...

On the fwlt Facebook page there is a link to an article that gives the other side of the somebody from someone else who was there.......

Someone who sat beside her commented on the fb page that the woman was drunk and was arguing with the people she was with

Silly cow. Bet the other theatre goers were pleased to get rid of her and her warblings.