Embarrassed Edinburgh family 'told off for miming' along to Annie at Playhouse- how can they think they're in the right?!

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https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/embarrassed-edinburgh-family-told-miming-26567374

How on earth can they think that this behaviour was OK?
Bloody rude and probably spoiled it for people around them!

Doesn’t the article say they were told off for mining but they weren’t?

I thought it meant they were told off for singing but they were just miming.

Which for me is almost worse 😂

It says "for the first song they mimed to one another for a laugh"

This is ridiculous. It's a musical! Aren't you SUPPOSED to sing along in the aisles?

I’d like to hear the steward’s take on what happened.

I think they’re full of shit and the stewards, and other theatregoers, would have a different story to telll.

This is ridiculous. It's a musical! Aren't you SUPPOSED to sing along in the aisles?

No. The whole point is to hear the professionals on stage do it. There's often a song or two where you can sing along, usually at the end, but the cast will tell you if that's the case. No one is paying a small fortune to hear random people screeching along.

People pay a fortune for theatre tickets. You want to be able to focus on what’s going on, not some muppet next to you who is just having a laugh.

why do these people think that they have a right to ruin things for everyone else

Same

Absolutely not

Were you there op? Or are you just one of those miserable buggers who hates people enjoying themselves at a theatre?

If you want to sing, you go to a Sing Along version.

I feel sorry for actors having to put up with that shit.

They say they are embarrassed yet go to the press. Now even more people are aware of their faux pas 🤷🏻‍♀️

Totally selfish people.

Sounds like they were showing off and miming just to make a point because they'd been told they couldn't sing.

I have never encountered anyone singing along at a musical, unless it's clearly a singalong number at the end. Imagine it- a moving "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" accompanied by Doris in row 23 doing her own version 😂

NO! People pay to hear the professionals not random people who can't sing.

...no.

iThat's what sing-alongs are for.

There will be more to this

Added to which, no witnesses, just the word of an odd peed off family

Really? Awww well when I went to see Mamma Mia in Cardiff everyone was standing up and singing to all the numbers. Mind you, it was a rowdy theatre and rowdy evening all round

Absolutely not. People pay to see and hear the performance not hear a bunch of tone deaf audience members instead.

guessing you have never been to a musical

Hell no! Not unless it's a singalong production. I took my Mum to see Joseph, she was thrilled. Bloody woman in front of us started burbling away but luckily her friend shut her up before I critiqued her performance.

I bet the op is one of the party and trying to raise awareness in the misjudged expectation we would all be horrified on her behalf

got that wrong Op! 😂

Audience behaviour since the theatres re-opened after covid is dreadful. The stories dd has told me are unbeleivable.

You absolutely do NOT sing along. The highly trained professionals on stage are telling a story through song, dance and spoken word. The audience have paid a lot of money to watch.

FOH staff have a very hard job. They let a lot go because they simply can't police everything so I am sure the behaviour of the family must have been quite extreme for them to have intervened.