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

I have been to a couple of musicals recently and the amount of singing going on is ridiculous. Others just talked through it or looked at their phones. It is so frustrating and people should be removed if they can’t behave and spoil it for everyone else!

If you Google that musical and theatre there are stories of 3 other people being shouted at or thrown out for clapping or singing along during the last week. Must be having a purge on disruptive behaviour.

Like a lot of other people I follow this musical and try and see it as often as possible. Since this tour started in Manchester last autumn a lot of performances have been blighted by people, who clearly don't know how to behave in a theatre, singing along. I'm glad the ushers in Edinburgh cracked down on it and hope that the staff at future venues do the same.

When it was on at the Dominion pre-pandemic there were regular singalong performances and quite often a singalong encore which were great but as a general rule if I'm paying good money to watch a show I want to hear the professionals not the arse sitting 2 rows behind me.

Even if I had been unjustly kicked out of a theatre, the last thing I'd want to do is advertise it in a national newspaper. Even thinking she was in the right I couldn't imagine thinking anyone would be interested enough in it! Some people really think they are a global protagonist.

(Not getting into the she shouldn't be singing along bit as that's obvious!)

@BlanketsBanned

I am sure she will get free tickets and a meal out plus the fee for her story

Sincerely hope not. I'd have been very unhappy to be seated near her or someone like her; I pay to hear the performers on stage, not some wannabes in the audience.

Is it just me getting déjà vu reading that? I'm sure I've read something very similar, maybe on MN. Something about a poster's mum getting chucked out for singing along. Pre covid though so no masks.

They took the words right out of her mouth, didn't they?

It must have been while she was missing (social) cues.

Eldest DC used to work as an usher albeit in a different theatre, which had a long running musical production on. This woman must have been doing a lot more than she said to have been chucked out.
DC's stories about what went on were s real eye opener, he had to ask for a few people to be removed over his time there, usually for filming on their phones, dancing in the aisles (having been warned once), loud shouting/ singing - during non musical interludes (again after warning) and the worst one was a bloke having a piss in the corridor. A lot of people turned up drunk to the show (some were so drunk they got turned away at the door) which always baffled me, it's a theatre show not a nightclub!

@Newnormal99

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.......

Sorry what is the fwlt?

@Newnormal99

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.......

I've searched fwlt on Facebook and google but nothing is coming up at all, it just keeps asking me if I mean "felt".

Could you please link the article?

As if she carried on after being warned. I can't understand people like this, I'd have died of shame if someone had told me to shut up because I was annoying people!

I saw a production of The Threepenny Opera at the National Theatre a long long time ago ( think it was Imelda Staunton) and there were two older ladies who sang along loudly with all the songs and also gave us a running commentary ('Oooh, she was good but he hasn't got much of a voice' sort of thing) for the first half. It was annoying but quite funny. They must have been chucked out or spoken to because the second half was much quieter.

I’d genuinely love to see more of this happening, people have no idea how to behave in a theatre or even the cinema - I went last weekend and there wasn’t a solid five minutes of show without someone walking about. Sit down and shut up should be the motto.

Not the lady in the article but apparently they announce "no singing" at the beginning, there's also this.

theatrescotland.co.uk/edinburgh-playhouse-staff-praised-by-customers-for-dealing-with-abusive-audience-members/

Oh, I hate people like that. They are so oblivious to the fact that in society you have to think about other people. I bet she is a nightmare neighbour.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

They took the words right out of her mouth, didn't they?

It must have been while she was missing (social) cues.

Chapeau!

I had to ask the twenty something next to me at the theatre recentlyto put her fucking phone away ( was polite though) she looked at it every 5 mins light was very distracting people so addicted to these bloody things

I don’t understand why anyone goes to the media with any of this stuff to be honest. If you feel aggrieved with a company or organisation about a product or service, complain and seek redress from them. I don’t get the “I’m going to the papers” brigade at all, just makes them look like an arse.

@MsTSwift

I had to ask the twenty something next to me at the theatre recentlyto put her fucking phone away ( was polite though) she looked at it every 5 mins light was very distracting people so addicted to these bloody things

There’s a generation of young adults who are simply incapable of putting their phones away and concentrating on a performance. Sometimes I really hate phones.

Ohh that's a very timely warning!
I was planning on taking a friend's drum kit to a screening of The Beatles : Get Back - The Rooftop Concert at our local cinema next week.

I think I shall just do air guitar now.

FWLT - families who love theatre. Absolutely lovely group set up for people to share reviews and experiences and recommendations. I knew from the title of this thread what the article was 😂

Can't stand people like this. By all means enjoy the show, but show some consideration towards people who have paid out probably a fortune for their tickets to also enjoy the show, not have it drowned out by some selfish person. Same goes for the people who go to shows/gigs and get so drunk they don't know how to behave and ruin it for others around them. Seems to happen at every show now, it's infuriating!

@MsTSwift We had the same experience at the theatre in London last year. There was a group of 3 20-something women sitting just along the row from us, taking loads of selfies (the posing was quite amusing) while we sat waiting for the show to start. Then, once the show had started, one of the young women sat looking at her phone, editing and filtering the photos before putting them up on Insta and tagging the name of the theatre. She kept going back to it during the show and in the interval, we and several other told the stewards as the light from the phone’s screen was distracting. The steward evidently had a word because she didn’t look at her phone in the second half. I was mostly just baffled that someone would spend a lot of money on a ticket and then be more preoccupied with telling social media that they were at a show, rather than actually just watching the show.

@Joinedforthis22

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.

It depends on the misical, surely? I have fond memories of seeing We Will Rock You at the Playhouse and everyone was well behaved until the end when we all let rip with We Are The Champions!

My Mum would have done this, although she would have stopped when asked. When I took her to see We Will Rock You I actually had to persuade her not to get up and start dancing in the aisle