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PurpleEmpress · 29/03/2023 17:18

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 29/03/2023 17:15

No miming, no running, no bombing, no heavy petting.

Just sit down and watch the show in a civilized manner.

Add to that no eating. There is no need to arrive with a full scale picnic to scoff during the play. Bags of sweets allowed but no rustling papers or loud crunching

MajorCarolDanvers · 29/03/2023 17:19

@Villssev

So…. Did you read your OP

Did you read the OP? Cause it reads like you didn't.

Comefromaway · 29/03/2023 17:21

Quote from the OP

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

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 29/03/2023 17:22

PurpleEmpress · 29/03/2023 17:18

Add to that no eating. There is no need to arrive with a full scale picnic to scoff during the play. Bags of sweets allowed but no rustling papers or loud crunching

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Absolutely. Bad cess to the rustly crunchers.

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 17:25

So, so far, in addition to no singing or miming, I also have no moving of your head and no crunching.

Roger that ladies! What are the views on laughing? Permissable or haram, like Afghanistan under the Taliban?

America12 · 29/03/2023 17:25

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

No you're not. You pay £££ to listen to professionals. Unless it's a pantomime.

jazzybelle · 29/03/2023 17:26

Some thick people confuse a musical theatre performance with a rock/pop concert. Musicals like Tina, the Musical and Mamma Mia are good examples where some people think they can join in.

MsFogi · 29/03/2023 17:28

Florenz · 29/03/2023 17:13

Theatres need to crack down on unruly behaviour. Read a warning out at the start of the show, then if you break it, the play stops and you're escorted out, forcefully if necessary. Make an example a few times and the rest will get the message.

This - otherwise either the theatres will be filled with cfs singing or they will be empty because people will not continue to spend a fortune to hear cfs in the audience singing over the performance.

RedCarsGoFaster · 29/03/2023 17:28

HealthyFats · 29/03/2023 15:44

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 😂

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I had this. All the way through the first half, despite me asking her to stop. Again through several of the second half - until I got rude about it, then she sulked. Lady in her 70s, definitely someone who should know better. I'm not paying to listen to her terrible "singing", especially in the sad songs of Les Mis!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 29/03/2023 17:29

Absolutely. Bad cess to the rustly crunchers.

How do you do that, then? Do you pop lumps of it into their sweetie bag when they aren't looking and give them a mightily unpleasant surprise when they mistake it for a slightly misshapen melted Minstrel?!

Charlottewebsbabies · 29/03/2023 17:30

We went to see only fools and horses,the musical at londons haymarket
Was brilliant-it would have been better if the two old ladies behind us hadn't talked and scoffed a sweetshop worth of sweets all the way through
All I could hear was 'rustle of sweet wrapper I've never watched only fools,I don't get the love for it'
'Aye,I know-its a pile of steaming shite'
'Thieves,the pair of them'
Rinse and repeat all the way through-loudly

If they didn't like the programme then don't go to the musical!
We love the programme and wanted to see it

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 29/03/2023 17:33

ClaraThePigeon · 29/03/2023 15:42

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.

I agree completely.

Allthecheeseplease · 29/03/2023 17:34

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

No! You're absolutely not.

FetlocksBlowing · 29/03/2023 17:35

I think...this is a completely unimportant and dull minor incident that has been given far too much attention already 😂

Who cares? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Abra1t · 29/03/2023 17:36

PurpleEmpress · 29/03/2023 17:18

Add to that no eating. There is no need to arrive with a full scale picnic to scoff during the play. Bags of sweets allowed but no rustling papers or loud crunching

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Can we have our own theatre, please?

I once went to a recital at the wigmore hall. There was even guidance about when to turn the pages of the programme/score so as not to put off performers or audience. No eating. No talking. No mobiles. Bliss.

Allthecheeseplease · 29/03/2023 17:39

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:47

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

I would have been so annoyed after paying money to see the professional on stage

Stravawindow · 29/03/2023 17:41

What a load of utter nonsense. I think it really poor that Edinburgh live have published this today in light of Paul O’Grady passing away.

Comefromaway · 29/03/2023 17:43

I totally agree Strava

Queryer · 29/03/2023 17:46

Glad it posted their ages so we all know they should be capable of assuming how distracting it would be for the child actors to perform while a group of grown women are flailing about in the audience. Except they chose to “boo hoo” to the press instead.

PurpleEmpress · 29/03/2023 17:47

Agree with you Strava. I did think however that in his Lily Savage mode Paul O’Grady would have slaughtered any theatre wrongdoers.

raincamepouringdown · 29/03/2023 17:47

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

Absolutely not. People pay to hear the professionals, not randoms in the audience.

Talia99 · 29/03/2023 17:50

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

Unless specifically advertised as a singalong performance, absolutely not.

viques · 29/03/2023 17:51

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:40

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

No, they employ professional musicians, actors and singers for which you pay a hefty price. It’s live theatre not karaoke.

viques · 29/03/2023 17:55

jazzybelle · 29/03/2023 17:26

Some thick people confuse a musical theatre performance with a rock/pop concert. Musicals like Tina, the Musical and Mamma Mia are good examples where some people think they can join in.

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……….

MelsMoneyTree · 29/03/2023 17:58

potniatheron · 29/03/2023 15:47

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

Yy I think there might be regional variations in expectations Grin I'm guessing the steward in the article was an out of town student because it's not unusual for the audience in Scottish theatres to be quite 'lively'.

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