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CurlyhairedAssassin · 29/03/2023 20:25

JuneBridie · 29/03/2023 19:49

You talk about people “living in a bubble” well you clearly do if you’re so ignorant of the original live acts performing all over the uk every night and the huge following many have on YouTube and TikTok.

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I'm not ignorant of anything - of course there are original live acts still doing this. It just isn't in the volume that it once was.

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 20:52

Villssev · 29/03/2023 19:19

@potniatheron shuffled off ages ago.

Yeah I’m down Covent Garden at the ROH. Warbling away. Got my phone on too, posting on Mumsnet.

MarchMadness23 · 29/03/2023 20:53

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

Err no, it's a theatre musical, not even a panto! People pay to watch & listen to the cast, not the audience.

Villssev · 29/03/2023 20:58

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 20:52

Yeah I’m down Covent Garden at the ROH. Warbling away. Got my phone on too, posting on Mumsnet.

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I knew that would get you back to read the comments! 😂

MarchMadness23 · 29/03/2023 21:00

Comefromaway · 29/03/2023 15:52

And it is rather poor taste for the paper to have published that article today of all days. I know a cast member of Annie and they are all heartbroken.

@Comefromaway please let your friend know people are thinking of them all x

several different reports as to which show was his last, I had intended to go but hadn't braved up to it yet (still not keen on sardines with strangers). Regret that now. I hope this lot didn't spoil one of his last shows.

Villssev · 29/03/2023 21:01

MichelleScarn · 29/03/2023 19:25

Where on earth are you thinking I have sympathy for the theater disturbing people? 🤨

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Huge apologies! Thought you were sympathetic to them. Completely misread!

TheEliminator · 29/03/2023 21:03

Can’t comment as I wasn’t there but maybe a singalong one would be better next time.

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 21:04

Villssev · 29/03/2023 20:58

I knew that would get you back to read the comments! 😂

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Yeah well they like me so much they’ve offered me a leading role. But I said I’m busy tomorrow. I’m going to have a bottomless brunch and then me and my déclassé cackling mates are going to see some Pinter. We’re going to liven up the meaningful pauses with our rendition of Hard Knock Life. I think the bien pensant in the audience will really appreciate it.

Sceptre86 · 29/03/2023 21:05

Honestly I think some people can't discern between panto where adludience participation is encouraged and musicals where it isn't. So many productions are having to highlight that they are not sing along events. They probably got too merry and were being annoying which happens a lot in theatres in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Tickets are so expensive and it really ruins the evening when you can't hear the actors you paid to watch and listen to.

Villssev · 29/03/2023 21:09

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 21:04

Yeah well they like me so much they’ve offered me a leading role. But I said I’m busy tomorrow. I’m going to have a bottomless brunch and then me and my déclassé cackling mates are going to see some Pinter. We’re going to liven up the meaningful pauses with our rendition of Hard Knock Life. I think the bien pensant in the audience will really appreciate it.

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I don’t really get this

but I think you’re perhaps out the joke that you’re a thoughtless theatre now a touch too far considering your first statement expressing disbelief that anyone would expect not to be able to sing at a musical.

although I don’t blame you for being a bit red faced. I don’t think I can remember a thread where a poster has been so roundly disagreed with!!

montysma1 · 29/03/2023 21:14

No you aren't.
People pay a lot of money to hear professionals singing ,🙄

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MichelleScarn · 29/03/2023 21:16

Villssev · 29/03/2023 21:01

Huge apologies! Thought you were sympathetic to them. Completely misread!

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Definitely not!! 😆

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IDontWantToBeAPie · 29/03/2023 21:32

Sounds very irritating for other guests. I was next to someone dancing and minima for &Juliet and it was v distracting

BubziOwl · 29/03/2023 23:28

It's been years since I've been to the west end, but I have seen a lot of musicals in my time. A fair few were on school trips.

I have genuinely never encountered anyone singing along at the theatre, thank God. I'm shocked that there are people who would think it's okay to do that! As I say, I went to a few west end productions on school trips, and I did go to a rubbish school with lots of bad behaviour. Somehow we all just knew how to behave respectfully in a theatre, so I'm baffled that there are grown adults who haven't figured it out!!

jazzybelle · 30/03/2023 01:02

viques · 29/03/2023 17:55

When we went to see Tina they were very forthright and clear . Don’t sing during the performance, but for the last 20 minutes, which is like a Tina performance, you can join in. I thought the poor man in front of me was going to explode with the anticipation!

I don’t know why people think they can join in during the performance, after all, no one joins in at a wedding when they are saying the vows……….

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Same here when we saw Tina. There was a thread here sometime ago where someone had seen Tina and they were singing and were asked to be quiet. They asked here if they were being unreasonable!!!

Murdoch1949 · 30/03/2023 06:50

How is miming a problem, it's silent.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 30/03/2023 08:10

How is miming a problem, it's silent.

Miming isn't a problem, if it's just sitting still in your seat and silently mouthing along with the words, so that nothing other than your lips is moving.

The problem is all the accompanying dancing/shuffling/swaying/jazz-handsing that people are falsely classifying as miming on the silly technicality that (if they are being honest about that part) no vocal sounds are being made.

KnittingNeedles · 30/03/2023 08:23

Honestly I think some people can't discern between panto where audience participation is encouraged and musicals where it isn't.

I also think that some posters have a HUGE degree of snobbery around musicals. Of course it's OK to sing along and behave badly at Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Grease because it's only a musical, not proper theatre. REAL music fans or theatre buffs are watching Shakespeare or opera. Leave the musicals for the oiks.

What also doesn't help is the show the BBC had on last weekend which I watched with my mum - something about celebrating musicals. Lots of casts performing songs from famous musicals like Hamilton or Wicked in a massive arena, and the cameras clearly showed audience members singing and dancing. You can understand someone who is not a regualr at the theatre seeing that and then booking a ticket to see a show in their local theatre and not knowing that singing along is very much not OK.

Villssev · 30/03/2023 08:36

@KnittingNeedles

went to see wicked three weeks

you would have honestly been escorted out of the theatre if you’d started singing along.

only a musical, not proper theatre

oh don’t be daft. The irony that you say people are snobbish about musicals and you say this!! 😂

Villssev · 30/03/2023 08:38

Oh wait you’re being sarcastic
but I think you’re completely wrong

literally not one poster has even implied that musicals aren’t proper theatre.

KnittingNeedles · 30/03/2023 08:41

What I mean @Villssev is that this is the attitude of many people when it comes to musicals.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3698452-AIBU-to-think-you-dont-sing-along-in-the-theatre

this thread about an experience in the same theatre in Edinburgh and the OP is told that Mamma Mia isn't a proper show, it's hardly Madame Butterfly, what did she expect? Edinburgh seems to have a particular issue with this. Maybe Edinburgh audiences are too polite to tell singers to STFU. Glasgow audiences would not have this problem.

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Anyotherdude · 30/03/2023 08:47

Many years ago I went to a Musical in the West End. It included the songs of Rod Stewart. The audience decided to sing along and it completely ruined it for me. If I’d wanted a singalong, I’d have booked seats on a pensioner’s coach trip.
I would have been furious if I’d paid upwards of £40 just to have to listen to the audience singing along out of tune (or clapping - there is always at least one moron who claps out of time, too)

IDontWantToBeAPie · 30/03/2023 08:52

Comefromaway · 29/03/2023 15:52

And it is rather poor taste for the paper to have published that article today of all days. I know a cast member of Annie and they are all heartbroken.

Heartbroken at what?

PuttingDownRoots · 30/03/2023 09:00

IDontWantToBeAPie · 30/03/2023 08:52

Heartbroken at what?

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Paul Ogrady was in Annie in Edinburgh.

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