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 wish someone had removed the family behind me when I took my kids to see a musical in the west end. The kids in the family didn't speak English and so were loudly asking questions with the parents narrating the plot in their home language all the way through. I got very shirty with them.

@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.

Right you are, pet

[quote GrandTheftWalrus]@Nanny0gg when the teachers noticed they were quick to tell them off but there was about 30 (full class?) And only about 4/5 teachers/helpers and they were at the end of the rows so the pupils in the middle weren't spotted misbehaving quickly enough. It was mainly boys who were misbehaving and the girls watched the show. Maybe because it was the lion King?[/quote]
Took them to that too.

Rookie error (or deliberate plan) by the teachers. You always sir between groups of children. That way you're always in reach of them

@Sweetandsaltycaroline

I often think the same about people who complain to a newspaper about their child being bullied/told off for then pose for sad face pics in the paper. I always wonder if the child will be teased more for the pic in the paper or the fact their parent made a big deal of it, than the original issue!

Same.

You have to wonder what goes through the minds of these parents (and the woman this thread is about).
There are facebook Groups dedicated to these pictures.

Urgh, some people have absolutely no awareness of how their actions affect other people.

My teen DD used to sing along at music concerts (which is different as there is generally a lot of noise) but she has realised that any videos she made of her favourite songs also came with her own bad karaoke as a bonus .

I had the strangest experience when we went to see Hamilton in LA.
The atmosphere was amazing but when It started there was much whooping and cheering and everyone started singing along..... and pretty much continued all the way through
Men were crying and hugging, people were dancing, movin' n shaking
They were all so into it! And so emotional. It's their history so I guess they felt very passionate.
We daren't speak as we thought we might get lynched for being British
Saw it again in London- totally different- not a note was sung by the audience.

@HumourReplacementTherapy

I had the strangest experience when we went to see Hamilton in LA. The atmosphere was amazing but when It started there was much whooping and cheering and everyone started singing along..... and pretty much continued all the way through Men were crying and hugging, people were dancing, movin' n shaking They were all so into it! And so emotional. It's their history so I guess they felt very passionate. We daren't speak as we thought we might get lynched for being British Saw it again in London- totally different- not a note was sung by the audience.

I think that’s probably as much a ‘superfan’ thing as patriotism?

@shiningcuckoo

I wish someone had removed the family behind me when I took my kids to see a musical in the west end. The kids in the family didn't speak English and so were loudly asking questions with the parents narrating the plot in their home language all the way through. I got very shirty with them.

Ha. I have had this in the theatre too. Paid for expensive seats and the entire row in front of me was taken up by a group who had a translator with them. They yelled through the whole performance and passed around Tupperware with snacks. I complained and they were asked to keep it down, but kept on. Shame there were no burly security guards.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/playhouse-boss-condemns-behaviour-of-audience-members-who-abuse-his-staff-3586456?fbclid=IwAR2u4zLTrr1qFxRBpB5cckWSXk3vNSn8DOHEzKon0GuFBZk9otBplL5Qmbg

@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.

They didn't. It's a digital publication. And thanks to this thread it'll be doing storming traffic.

I'll try to care @littlegwyneth

I wish this was a thing in the West End! I went to the Rod Stewart musical and honestly - it felt like I was on a coach trip with the local old peoples home! I don’t go to the theatre to join in, but to see and hear professional actors perform. If I wanted karaoke, I’d go to a karaoke bar, so you’re definitely not BU!

@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.

I've seen Mamma Mia twice - the audience was only encouraged to sing along during the last song from what I can remember. I love musicals, I've seen:
Wicked
The Lion King
The Bodyguard
Thriller
School of Rock
Legally Blonde
Tina
Kinky Boots
Matilda
Jersey Boys
Waitress
Beauty and the Beast
Everybody's talking about Jamie

You don't sing along unless specifically encouraged to, there are sometimes signs saying something like "please don't sing along". When I saw Thriller and Tina, a couple of people near me got asked by the usher to be quiet because they were singing along, and they stopped. When I saw Matilda there was a drunk woman sitting behind us who was being very rude and disruptive, they asked her to be quiet several times and eventually kicked her out.

People don't pay £20 - 200 to hear Dot signing along.