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Needmorelego · 29/03/2023 16:05

A lot of musicals do allow singing AFTER it's finished and they do a mega-mix encore. That's the only time you should join in.
Unless you are at a specific Sing-a-Long version or it's Rocky Horror Picture Show* then keep quiet.
*Audience participation is expected...."Damm It Janet" 💋

NerrSnerr · 29/03/2023 16:06

The emphasis in the article about them going to the bar, having a drink in hand etc is interesting. It also sounds exactly what my mum would say after an embarrassing drunken incident 'I definitely wasn't drunk when I laid down in the road- I was just feeling a bit tired'.

I bet they were wasted.

Villssev · 29/03/2023 16:06

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 16:02

I don't know, not ever seen Annie

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Yes but…. Clearly Annie was the same type of musical as lion king and you went and observed that no one in the audience sang until the end.

take yourself back to the lion king and imagine one family singing along

Appropriate?!

mondaytosunday · 29/03/2023 16:08

But they weren't singing they were miming. Unless they were standing up or moving around so much as to be distracting I don't see why they can't mine.

MsFogi · 29/03/2023 16:09

This is why musicals will die a death over the coming years - people won't be willing to risk spending huge amounts of money to attend them because the risk is too high that you end up sitting near dick-heads who think they can sing along as though they are in the shower.

ClaraThePigeon · 29/03/2023 16:10

Miming/lip syncing tends to involve exaggerated gestures which would still be incredibly distracting. I doubt that they'd have drawn so much attention if they'd just been sitting in their seats and mouthing the words.

HealthyFats · 29/03/2023 16:11

mondaytosunday · 29/03/2023 16:08

But they weren't singing they were miming. Unless they were standing up or moving around so much as to be distracting I don't see why they can't mine.

It was obviously enough to be distracting or it wouldn't have been noticed.

It sounds as if they were pissed, swaying and dicking about and are now trying to make some money out of being told to stop.

MajorCarolDanvers · 29/03/2023 16:11

Could be worse.

The previous month the same theatre were reporting staff being physically and verbally abused for asking people not to sing, talk and play on their phones during performances.

Edinburgh Playhouse staff scared over rising abuse - director - BBC News

Declan Egan, Matt Corner, Simon Bailey and Matt Hunt in the London production of Jersey Boys

Edinburgh Playhouse staff scared over rising abuse - director

Claims come after a man and woman were charged over a disturbance during the musical Jersey Boys.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-64571538

Rosebel · 29/03/2023 16:11

Well it rather depends. Surely if they actually miming it doesn't affect anyone. If they are singing then they are in the wrong but with no indepent witness who knows what the real story is.

CheshireCat1 · 29/03/2023 16:13

Isn’t this the show that Paul O’Grady performing in just before he died. They must be feeling properly ashamed of themselves.

EmmaEmerald · 29/03/2023 16:13

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

No.

krustykittens · 29/03/2023 16:13

The King's Theatre has had a really hard time lately, with audiences becoming very rowdy and sometimes abusive. Apparently, coach loads of pissed tourists are turning up to these musicals and trying to turn them into a very rowdy party. They claimed security followed them to the loos, I bet they were doing a lot more than miming!

CheshireCat1 · 29/03/2023 16:14

was

MysteryBelle · 29/03/2023 16:14

They’re in the audience and not on the stage for a reason. The people who paid to see and hear the show did not pay to hear a bunch of cacklers in the seats. This is basic etiquette 101. Rude and foolish. Now if it’s a singalong that’s different.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 29/03/2023 16:14

MichelleScarn · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

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Bollocks were they 'miming'.

Allblackeverythingalways · 29/03/2023 16:14

Needmorelego · 29/03/2023 16:05

A lot of musicals do allow singing AFTER it's finished and they do a mega-mix encore. That's the only time you should join in.
Unless you are at a specific Sing-a-Long version or it's Rocky Horror Picture Show* then keep quiet.
*Audience participation is expected...."Damm It Janet" 💋

Up until the song "once in a while" then no participation until encore!

KatherineJaneway · 29/03/2023 16:14

mondaytosunday · 29/03/2023 16:08

But they weren't singing they were miming. Unless they were standing up or moving around so much as to be distracting I don't see why they can't mine.

They said they were miming to each other 'for a laugh' so they were moving about and laughing I suspect.

Blinkingstars · 29/03/2023 16:15

Went to ABBA Voyage before Christmas and the arsehole with his phone out got it confiscated within seconds. That’s the sort of attitude I appreciate in stewards.

MysteryBelle · 29/03/2023 16:15

And they shouldn’t be ‘miming’ either, calling attention to themselves. It’s not their show.

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 16:18

Villssev · 29/03/2023 16:06

Yes but…. Clearly Annie was the same type of musical as lion king and you went and observed that no one in the audience sang until the end.

take yourself back to the lion king and imagine one family singing along

Appropriate?!

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I didn't know Annie was similar to the Lion King. As I said, I've never seen it. I thought it was about street urchins.

TBH I wouldn't have known in the Lion King if other audience members were singing in their seats because the actors were miked up so much and the music was so loud. But most of us did stand up at the end.

Mamma Mia was like I imagine the early performances at the Globe to have been. Total good natured chaos throughout😂

memesndmoreme · 29/03/2023 16:18

I'm confused what's wrong with miming, no sound passes your lips when miming. Wtf no wonder their angry

memesndmoreme · 29/03/2023 16:19

MysteryBelle · 29/03/2023 16:15

And they shouldn’t be ‘miming’ either, calling attention to themselves. It’s not their show.

Better tell them not to smile aswell.

Rosula · 29/03/2023 16:19

RiktheButler · 29/03/2023 15:43

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

Most people who go to musicals pay a lot of money to see and hear the performers. They don't enjoy having their view obstructed by some idiot swaying and dancing, nor are they going to enjoy having the cast's singing drowned out by other audience members.

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 29/03/2023 16:20

I worked as an usher for a while. The shite people get up to. And of course they all swear they were causing absolutely no disturbance whatsoever.

Dirty Dancing is the absolute worst. Young male ushers used to get mauled.

Villssev · 29/03/2023 16:20

Ask yourselves

why would a steward follow and speak with a theatre goer. Unless the theatre goer in question was behaving like a twat?

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