The Green Room - Theatre Audience Etiquette . . . What's the deal?

Reply #40 - Jan 28^th, 2010 at 2:36am

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The Kaylee and the Ivy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2010 at 1:44am:

Captain Malcolm Reynolds wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2010 at 1:35pm:

Cell phones are the bane of my onstage life.� I have so many annoying cell phones stories, I could never tell or remember them all, but here's one I will share.� I was playing this character Freddie, a bartender, in Picasso at the Lapin Agile.� A cell phone started ringing in the front row just feet away from me while someone else was giving their lines.� I was lucky in that my character had already broken the 4th wall.� I went over to him and said, "Excuse me, but you need to turn that off.� Cell phones are not allowed in the Lapin Agile, nor do they exist in 1904."

Huh. I do not remember this.

(I was probably on lortab. I was lucky I remembered my lines.)

You also managed to be brilliant too. If you don't remember that either, it's okay. I remember.

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Reply #41 - Jan 28^th, 2010 at 10:09am

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Captain Malcolm Reynolds wrote on Jan 28^th, 2010 at 2:36am:

The Kaylee and the Ivy wrote on Jan 24^th, 2010 at 1:44am:

Captain Malcolm Reynolds wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2010 at 1:35pm:

Cell phones are the bane of my onstage life.� I have so many annoying cell phones stories, I could never tell or remember them all, but here's one I will share.� I was playing this character Freddie, a bartender, in Picasso at the Lapin Agile.� A cell phone started ringing in the front row just feet away from me while someone else was giving their lines.� I was lucky in that my character had already broken the 4th wall.� I went over to him and said, "Excuse me, but you need to turn that off.� Cell phones are not allowed in the Lapin Agile, nor do they exist in 1904."

Huh. I do not remember this.

(I was probably on lortab. I was lucky I remembered my lines.)

You also managed to be brilliant too.� If you don't remember that either, it's okay.� I remember.

Dude, way nice of you! Thanks! I appreciate that.

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Reply #42 - Feb 11^th, 2010 at 3:53pm

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LOL! Loved this whole discussion. I guess I am a little older then most of you... but people are people, where-ever you go and they do some pretty weird things. Bottom line is that nothing I read here surprised me. Of course that doesn't mean that I agree with rudeness. It does seem that people these days don't respect anything or anybody. It doesn't seem to matter how much they spend for a ticket... they own the place and they are the customer, hence they have the right to do whatever they want. Which means of course that whomever they are watching, then has a perfect right to stop whatever they are doing and "comment" on the rudeness, assuming that they don't ruin the show with the new dialogue (which can of course happen). Hmmm, so the knitting lady OBVIOUSLY shouldn't have been knitting---but what is one to do. She must have been "made to come along" with some other theater goers who were probably embarassed by her behavior. Then of course, the txting and cell phones and sound are all problems, what sounds more frustrating is that again you were no doubt faced with people who wanted to come, and one who didn't... and thus everyone PAID the price... but the rudeness went on. And lastly, the oviation delima, which is of course a delima. People are just tired of sitting, ready for the parking lot rush... or just maybe they thought the performance was GREAT! Guess you all better just enjoy that one, and think the latter! After all if you are going through the pains of all the other stuff, you might as well enjoy the applause.

Putting all that aside, try hard to concentrate and remember why you are "performing." Be glad the audience is with you, and comfortable. Remember someone is paying the rent, and just be glad people bought tickets... so you can do it again. Gosh I didn't know I had so much to say. As far as educating people on their behavior... keep trying, I am sure some of it sticks. But remember the important thing is your performance and that of your fellow actors!

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