Vent: going to throat punch my FIL

stina93446

I just saw Billy Elliott the Musical on Broadway with DH, FIL and his boyfriend. FIL always pushes my buttons and everyone knows he's annoying. I have yet to master the art of ignoring him, or telling him to knock it off like the rest of his family. After Billy does his big 11 o'clock number, he poses, song is done, crowd is practically standing up, FIL nudges me, and then says, "I think he's a midget, not a kid." I swear to God if he wasn't leaving our house tomorrow to go back home, I'd be making my first throat punch attack EVER! Sorry, it just REALLY annoys me when people do that, especially in the theater. If you don't have anything nice to say about what you're watching, LEAVE! But don't drag me out of my fantasy! GAH!

megk8oz

Ew ... I totally hate when people say/do stupid, distracting things during a live performance. Like, is it really necessary to ruin somebody else's good time?FI and I went to go see Wicked on Broadway for my birthday last month. Now, even if we had the kind of money where we could do something like that often, I still wouldn't take being able to do something so awesome for granted. But the fact is, we don't have a lot, and money's been really tight trying to pay for the wedding, so FI really had to scrimp to get the money together for an NYC day trip for us and pretty good seats.Well, our seats happened to be next to a group of these  6 super stuck up b*tches that kept having their own conversations (that we could HEAR), and the one sitting next to me spent the entire show texting somebody on her iPhone ... you know, because the blaring white screen isn't at all distracting to the people nearby.During intermission we actually had a loud discussion with the people behind us about how rude it was for people to do something like that, and this is such a great experience, why would somebody want to spend it texting and talking to other people ... they kept it quiet after that and iPhone girl changed seats with the girl on the other end of their little row ... where she proceeded to STILL text through the entire second act.

bablingbrooke

Who texts through Wicked? It's like the greatest show ever! I think I listen to the soundtrack at least once a week.

LarissaAnn

I can't even stand that crap in a MOVIE theater, let alone live performance.

megk8oz

Brooke: as I had said "super stuck-up b*tches".

blackfire5th

I saw the Phantom of the Opera in NYC a couple years ago and I was talking to one of the ushers during intermission. He was telling me that women will change baby diapers and then hand them to him during the show so that they don't have to miss it. He often has people show up an hour late and get really p*ssed that they didn't wait for them to start the show. He had one guy on the edge of a balcony lean over and vomit all over the people below him (had some bad seafood). They actually stopped the performace to allow about 20 people to clean up and gave them free t-shirts to wear. People are crazy.

LarissaAnn

"Drinks accidentally spilled in their laps usually do the trick. They have to leave." An accidental elbow to the eye works pretty well too. "Oh, sorry! I've got this muscle spasm..."

banana468

That's when it's time to grab an usher."Miss!  I find that texting VERY distracting.  Can you help?"You'd be amazed how quickly they'll swoop in. 

stina93446

When we saw August: Osage County, there was a group of 4 people who could NOT stop talking, repeating the lines. We were 6 rows back orchestra so I don't let them have the excuse of "we couldn't hear". I kept shushing them. When the intermission arrived, one of the men walked by me, bent down, and shushed me. I nearly threw my playbill at him. When he came back, I yelled at him for being an azzhole at the theater. He then said I was telling him that he and his group couldn't laugh. What an azz! After they left, a group next to my group told me that I did the right thing and that the group behind me had snuck in a huge bottle of alcohol. So they were drunk the entire time. WHO DOES THAT?! So rude to the actors!

banana468

Stina, when my MOH was studying abroad in London, she was at a play and someone in the front row took out her cell phone to make a phone call just to say, "This play is horrid!"I seem to have awful luck when seeing shows.  The last one I saw with DH was 'Movin' Out' and it was a few weeks before Christmas.  The jerk-wad next to us decided to sing along to all the songs and even whistled to the beginning of The Stranger.::eyeroll::The worst was when I was in Carnegie Hall watching my brother sing with the HS choir and the people in front of us wouldn't stop the flash photography.  It was distracting and illegal.  At the time, I was too quiet to say anything.  Now I'll quietly bring out my can o'whoopa$$.   ;-)

stina93446

Ugh banana. Speaking of singing along, I saw Jersey boys 2 weeks ago and some old guy one row behind me insisted on singing the songs. to his wife. It was super annoying. I didn't pay $125 to hear you, old man.

megk8oz

Hahaha, Stina, I don't think any of us paid $125 to deal with anybody else's jack-a$$ery. Like, really, how hard is it for people to understand when you go to a show, you are NOT the only member of the audience. Other people paid to be there, too.

stina93446

Meg, after much study, I have decided that you can't go to the theater without being bothered. If you go on a matinee, you get old ladies who can't hear each other speak and candy wrappers. The best experience I had was this last week at God of Carnage. It was the best audience I've ever been a part of.....Oliver Stone was 2 rows ahead of me and slept through the whole thing...lol

stahlop

As someone who used to work professionally in theaters, I can relate.  One time we were putting on a performance of A Christmas Carol (I was running spot) and someone's cell phone rang.  It looked like he was going to shut it off, but instead he answered it, said he was in a play, and sure he could talk.  One of the house managers had to go and get him out of the theatre.    I don't understand people's manners.  Were they raised in the wild and never learned proper etiquette?

genna.west

ahhahahha. throat punch. ahahahahha. i am trying to laugh quietly as everyone in my house is sleeping- but omg, i can hardly be contained- that is making me laugh throat punching you fil. hahhaha