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

That woman was tone deaf to the feelings of everyone else in the theatre. Probably sang off key too. Why would she think anybody wanted to hear her sing when they’d paid to go to a show?

As for the father and daughter - what a pair of numpties.

why the hell did they go to the media? How to show you are are a stupid arse.

Embarrassed for her, what a ridiculous and entitled woman

Why didn't she stop singing?

Oh Dot.

I saw KD Lang a few years ago - she stopped half way through a song and asked the person in the front row to stop singing and shouting “I love you” - it took several attempts to shut her up.

We once saw Tracy Chapman in an amazing concert, and there was some idiot near us shouting "Love you, Traceeeee!" throughout - apparently not enough to allow her to do her job properly.

He also kept shouting out the titles of a couple of her biggest hits, presumably thinking that Tracy would stop what she was singing, suddenly change the set that the whole band had planned and practised and smack her forehead at remembering that, oh yes, she had had those huge hits, hadn't she?! - and maybe the audience might like to hear her sing them..... exactly as she was (obviously) going to do at the point she'd decided they would fit into the concert best.

You genuinely don't understand? It's easy. Two words: attention seeking.

What on earth makes people like her think that other audience members want to listen to her rather than the show they've paid to watch? It's not as if she claims that she was following anyone else's lead, she must have been aware that she was the only person doing this. And I'm prepared to bet that her neighbours asked her to stop before they started complaining to the staff.

My mum does this. It’s selfish and doesn’t consider that others aren’t paying to listen to her screech and waller out of tune or time

@pricelessdice

Well if the original behaviour didn't out her as an attention seeker running to the newspaper about it has sealed the deal.

Must be a slow news day at the Metro, though, I can't believe they wasted ink publishing this.

Newspapers love this sort of sad face story. They were probably egging this woman on to show herself up more and more. Usually I have a degree of sympathy with people who get conned into this, but I struggle to do so here. If I had paid for tickets for this sort of show and found one of my neighbours in the audience behaving like this, they'd have had one warning before I made a major fuss with the management.

@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

That's only her account. She admits she was singing and waving her hands around even after being warned, that's more than enough to justify the theatre's action. They have to consider all their audience and not let one person spoil the show for a lot of people.

@vbnm89

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!!!

I got front row seats twice for six in Torquay and sat transfixed and loving being so close to the queens 💕sang my heart out in the car there and back obviously 😂😂 but no singing in the theatre

@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.

But the audience were definitely NOT encouraged to sing during this show, and she was asked to stop buy carried on.

Fortunately for me, I've never been to a musical where the audience were singing along, apart maybe from the finale when they might be specifically encouraged to do so. Unsurprisingly, I go to musicals to listen to the trained and rehearsed cast singing, not some idiot in the row in front. So it clearly isn't "considered part of the fun". FFS, if that's what you want to do, go to karaoke.

@thereisonlyoneofme

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 was there at the Playhouse last week and yes, it was announced …didn’t stop the pain in the arse sitting in front of me though…I HATE people who clap along….totally ruined Mama Mia for me

A friend of my db told him how the school took them to see a production of Julius Caesar, Stephen Lewis who played Blakey in On the Buses
had a leading role.
Apparently everytime he came on stage some of the pupils were shouting
I hate you Butler!
A tough gig performing for bored kids.

surely tapping a foot to the music is no great crime

She said “tap her thigh.” I think many of us have been near to such an enthusiastic audience member in a show.

Interesting she claimed to be singing under her mask but Dotty’s mask is conspicuously absent from the photo.

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.

There really isn’t.

I saw a newspaper piece today where a grown woman wept because her kebab delivery order has chilli sauce on it - and she hadn’t wanted chilli sauce. Her daughter (adult) told the paper that her mum went to bed crying over this.

There was no specific reason why she would have taken it so badly (she wasn’t housebound or it wasn’t her last penny spent) she just was disappointed I suppose.

I recently opened my much awaited veggie takeaway to find they’d added lamb to the (veggie) dish even though I’d been very clear it was my usual plain veggie version I wanted (no one eats red meat here so it went to our neighbour).

I was pissed off (it was late, I was exhausted, and I was hungry) but I didn’t wail like a banshee and call the newspapers. I made myself a jacket potato.

@Piglet89

I went to see a production of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Barbican about a decade ago.

Nobody sang along.

I made this comment only in an attempt to win the prize for “Most middle class theatre attendee on the thread.”

Anyone who can sit through The Nose in anything other than stunned silence would be unusual. I saw one at the ROH that had a chorus line of tap dancing giant noses. I’m not sure I’m over it yet.

I hate people like this an their entitled attitude.

I want to see dancing noses!

But this was Bat out of Hell - aren’t you supposed to join in? How loud could she have been to he heard over a Meat Loaf sound a like?

In 18 years
You never got the faintest whiff your partner thought this?

@KittenKong

I want to see dancing noses!

But this was Bat out of Hell - aren’t you supposed to join in? How loud could she have been to he heard over a Meat Loaf sound a like?

There’s an announcement at the start of the show specifically asking you NOT to

Really? Well she should have kept quiet then!

I once went to the Globe to see Othello and someone took a photo with flash. This was obviously completely stupid and annoying, but the ushers started shining torches and moving across lines of people to get to this woman. It was right at an emotional death scene and the whole kerfuffle was worse than the flash. Spoilt the moment completely!

There’s nothing more annoying than someone singing along. Of course they are having a great time and may have no idea they are being irritating. Having someone near you singing definitely spoils it for others.

She is a total idiot full of her own self importance. People did not pay to hear her tap and sing - she can do that in her own house.

@KittenKong

I want to see dancing noses!

But this was Bat out of Hell - aren’t you supposed to join in? How loud could she have been to he heard over a Meat Loaf sound a like?

For you, @KittenKong:

(The comments are also quite funny, and include musings about whether this is Voldemort's recurrent dream.)