YawningDodo
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2014
That's strange. I don't ever recall being told that everyone has to move at the end of the row in the theatre. We've always sat near the middle and people would fill in on either side of us, but I've never heard any announcement to move. Perhaps sometimes they mention to fill all available seats when it's busy, but I don't remember being asked to move.
Those older ladies were just lying to you so that they can sit where they wanted to sit without any regard for others. The fact that they can do that shows the kind of people they are. The sad thing about this is not that those ladies will continue to be horrible people, but that it may make you more jaded. This is the issue with having to deal with such selfish self absorbed people...it's the considerate people who suffer.
Most, if not all, theatre shows at WDW make that announcement. You are not able to fill in on both sides as everyone enters through one side of the room and exit on the other.
funny that those ladies would think that rule should apply to some but not them. That's truly self centered IMO.
Yeah, it's usually part of the spiel. I can hear Goofy's voice in my head right now telling people to go aaaaaall the way to the end in Mickey's Philharmagic. At less crowded times of year you can get away with stopping in the middle of the row, but when the shows are running at or near capacity I've seen/heard CM's stepping in to make additional announcements to get people to go to the end. If it's low crowds it's still technically against the rules to stop in the middle, but no one will care...unless they're citing the rule to get you out of the seats they want to take for themselves (seriously, jerk move on those ladies' part). In more crowded times if I care about being in the middle I'll sometimes let people go ahead of me in the waiting area so I'm not one of the first ones in.
That's just the shows in the parks, though, because as tinkerone said it's due to the theaters typically loading from one side and unloading out the other. On the ship it was more about the CMs asking people to fill seats all the way to the middles of rows since people can enter the rows of seats from either direction.