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

Bet she was sooooo loud

Should’ve removed her in the first half, she ruined most of the performance for the other guests.

No one wants to listen to some random woman screeching and flapping about all evening.

She must have been singing really loudly to have people complain about her. They should have chucked her out when she ignored the first warning.

Jersey Boys seem to have a recurring problem with people singing along acvirding to some recent reports I’ve read. Also, I think I read recently of some actors who turned to the audience and told them to behave (and possibly even stopped the performance early, or did I imagine that?).

I’m glad she took the story to the papers, it shows how selfish behaviour isn’t permitted in theatres - probably not the story angle she expected.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

FFS leave the poor woman alone. She was singing at a theatre. I dont see the crime. 8 men on to one woman sounds pretty thuggish to me. I can guarantee if it was a 10 of pissed burly blokes they'd have turned a blind eye.

You don't see the crime? Fine, do you want to reimburse everyone for their tickets and expenses of a ruined night out? No singing along unless explicitly invited to do so, don't ruin it for everyone else.

As for the eight men - it didn't happen, read the report.

FFS leave the poor woman alone. She was singing at a theatre. I dont see the crime. 8 men on to one woman sounds pretty thuggish to me. I can guarantee if it was a 10 of pissed burly blokes they'd have turned a blind eye.

Why do people comment things like this on every post where a woman is chucked out/spoken to? You have no way of knowing how they would have reacted.

The first usher the woman went to speak to who told her to stop was female.

The security company that have taken over the playhouse are very heavy handed.

However I saw this on fb and people who were there that night said they were being loud and fighting etc so clearly the woman isn't saying that part.

I went to a show at the playhouse and it was full of school kids who weren't behaving, jumping about and being on phones. Why do schools think taking primary children to a show is a good idea?

If I've paid ££ for tickets I want to enjoy it not listen to other people.

Selfish woman, clearly couldn’t care less about the other people who paid to watch the cast perform, not her. She was warned, ignored the warning so was told to leave. Non story and totally her fault.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

FFS leave the poor woman alone. She was singing at a theatre. I dont see the crime. 8 men on to one woman sounds pretty thuggish to me. I can guarantee if it was a 10 of pissed burly blokes they'd have turned a blind eye.

Why do you think that she should be allowed to spoil the show for others by singing loudly so that everyone around her can hear her screeching away when they've paid good money to listen to professional singers and waving her hands and obstructing the view of the folk behind her? You don't see the problem with that? She was told to stop, advised that there had been complaints however she chose to carry on disrupting the show for others. She was therefore made to leave. Where is the problem?

@Riverlee

She must have been singing really loudly to have people complain about her. They should have chucked her out when she ignored the first warning.

Jersey Boys seem to have a recurring problem with people singing along acvirding to some recent reports I’ve read. Also, I think I read recently of some actors who turned to the audience and told them to behave (and possibly even stopped the performance early, or did I imagine that?).

Some actors have definitely told audience members to turn their phones off and leave. Including Michael Sheen.

Or leave, not and leave.

I am a big theatre fan and am on a few fb sites and most of the comments lately seem to talk about anti social behaviour in the theatre, anything from singing along to full on fights by groups of drunk people. Years ago musicals and theatre seemed to be only for the elite in society but now there are jukebox style musicals and much more musicals being put on there is a much wider audience now and I think some people just don't know theatre etiquette. Some tickets cost £80 plus and I dont know how people can afford a ticket and bottles of champagne before the show which I am sure contributes to the anti social behaviour.

A friend of my niece's is in the touring production of Six and she is often putting on her instagram page about fans that buy front row tickets and then sing all way through the show and how off putting it is to the cast. Six like several other musicals has sing along performances for this reason. A musical in a theatre is not a gig or concert and I think some people can't see the difference!!!

As I said upthread I'm a big fan of this show and see it as often as I can and people singing along on this tour has been a problem.

I think the first issue is that the pre-show announcement is a bit misleading. It asks people to 'refrain from doing their best Meat Loaf impression until after the show'. A lot of people might interpret that as don't sing full throttle but it's ok to sing quietly - which it bloody isn't! Someone droning on in a whisper behind you is very annoying. When it was on at the Dominion there were signs and announcements saying very clearly "Do not join in or sing until the encores' and warning that people who did sing would be removed. No room for misinterpretation.

I think another problem with the tour is that a lot of the FOH staff I'm seeing seem to be very young and inexperienced. I'm assuming they are local students just doing a few shifts. Given that Bat attracts an oldish crowd (I'm 60 and well within the median age range) I think it can be hard for a young usher to approach someone their Granny's age to ask them to stop singing. I think they need more support and training from the theatre management.

I last saw Bat in Edinburgh last week and won't be going again until it reaches Stoke in April. I hope they've got it sorted by then because the singers are spoiling what is normally a great show.

@Mochudubh

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.

It instantly reminded me of this thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3748621-singing-along-at-a-musical-to-cause-such-upset

Where were all these wonderful bouncers on any theatre or cinema trip that's been ruined for me by absolute arseholes like this? I'd knight them all.

@Joinedforthis22

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!

Which is fine, it's the finale and some musicals encourage you to join in, there is a difference between that and singing along during the story.

Oh, don't take my post as supporting this anti-socail woman, I was merely saying that there's a time and a place and she was in the wrong on both counts!

@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.......

Can you copy and paste?

What a selfish woman. That would ruin the show for me if I'd been sat near here.

“Tell me your parents bought you up with no boundaries WITHOUT telling me your parents bought you up with no boundaries”.

@AngeloMysterioso

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

I have very definite memories of dancing in the aisles at WWRY but it must have been encouraged as everyone was doing it? It wasn't a singalong either.

Good! Glad she was thrown out. I went to see Wicked and sat next to a man who HUMMED (?!) along to every song, in the wrong tune. Honestly almost ripped my ears off, completely ruined it. Selfish dickhead.

God I bet she was annoying! Why do people behave so selfishly! Theatres should be more heavy handed about chucking people out!

I went to see Dirty Dancing and had 2 people in front who were literally sucking each other's faces off! Luckily in the second half they must have got a room!!

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?)

@C152 just in case you ever find yourself sitting next to me at a musical, yes she was wrong and so are you. If the musical is described as a Singalong - feel free to sing whenever you like. At any other musical (including Mamma Mia) it is made clear when the audience is encouraged to join in and THAT is part of the fun of going to a musical - not just bursting into song whenever you feel like it. Fun for me is listening to the highly talented cast doing their jobs, not having to listen to some randomer with an overinflated sense of their own importance.

Obviously if your real name is Adele Adkins I’m prepared to allow some leeway.

What amazes me about people like this though is that she didn't notice that not a single other person was doing the same. Surely that should have told her all she needed to know.