I really don't get it but it happens so often now that I am seriously considering not going to any live performances. For Christmas last year, I got my wife tickets to Patti Lapone in concert. Great seats but right before the show started a couple plopped down in the row behind us. They both were clearly drunk and it didn't take very lon…
I really don't get it but it happens so often now that I am seriously considering not going to any live performances. For Christmas last year, I got my wife tickets to Patti Lapone in concert. Great seats but right before the show started a couple plopped down in the row behind us. They both were clearly drunk and it didn't take very long for the man to start singing along with Patti at the top of his lungs. As far as I could tell, he was the only one in the theater doing so. We asked him to be quiet several times but he just ignored us and his companion just kept saying, "He can't help himself! He can't help himself!" Fortunately, the performance wasn't sold out and we just relocated ourselves to different seats and enjoyed the rest of the show. I can give lots of other examples as well. But I don't get why an increasing amount of people feel they can do what they want and to hell with the people around them. Are they that clueless? And why is calling them on it an immediate fighting offense?
That surprises me, as Lupone has a history of denouncing audience members (unmasked theater attendees whom she forced to leave) and grabbing a cell phone from an audience member during a show.
We went to an Elton John/Billy Joel concert several years ago, and the woman next to us sang along with EVERY song, standing up and dancing around. We let it go for about 5 songs; then my husband asked her to please stop singing since we were here to listen to the performers, not her. She said "I don't have to!" and continued. Finally he got an usher, who told her to stop or she'd be removed. She slumped down in her seat like a recalcitrant toddler *for the rest of the show* and, when it was over, thanked us for ruining it for her. As my dad used to say, "some people's children".
I really don't get it but it happens so often now that I am seriously considering not going to any live performances. For Christmas last year, I got my wife tickets to Patti Lapone in concert. Great seats but right before the show started a couple plopped down in the row behind us. They both were clearly drunk and it didn't take very long for the man to start singing along with Patti at the top of his lungs. As far as I could tell, he was the only one in the theater doing so. We asked him to be quiet several times but he just ignored us and his companion just kept saying, "He can't help himself! He can't help himself!" Fortunately, the performance wasn't sold out and we just relocated ourselves to different seats and enjoyed the rest of the show. I can give lots of other examples as well. But I don't get why an increasing amount of people feel they can do what they want and to hell with the people around them. Are they that clueless? And why is calling them on it an immediate fighting offense?
That surprises me, as Lupone has a history of denouncing audience members (unmasked theater attendees whom she forced to leave) and grabbing a cell phone from an audience member during a show.
We went to an Elton John/Billy Joel concert several years ago, and the woman next to us sang along with EVERY song, standing up and dancing around. We let it go for about 5 songs; then my husband asked her to please stop singing since we were here to listen to the performers, not her. She said "I don't have to!" and continued. Finally he got an usher, who told her to stop or she'd be removed. She slumped down in her seat like a recalcitrant toddler *for the rest of the show* and, when it was over, thanked us for ruining it for her. As my dad used to say, "some people's children".
Amazing to hear an adult say, "I don't have to..."