Popcorn at a Broadway show?

[piney]

We went to see Hairspray on Broadway yesterday. I love this show, and Harvey Fierstein is back in it for the last few months as it will close in January.

The show was awesome, very entertaining. Harvey was wonderful.

My complaints: since when do they serve popcorn at a Broadway show?
I couldn't believe the mess when we got up to leave, it was like a Saturday cartoon matinee had played at a local theatre. There was popcorn and garbage all over the floor of the theatre.

Where is the respect people used to have for the Broadway experience?

There were a bunch of little girls sitting behind us and they screamed at the top of their lungs after every number. One of them kept kicking the back of my seat the entire time. I turned around once, but the mothers did nothing to stop them. You heard candy wrappers constantly.

Broadway is a very expensive outing and I was very disappointed in yesterday's experience. I think if you are going to expose your children to live theatre at a young age you should teach them to respect the venue and the people around them.

 

[OrlandoMike]

At our "theater" here in Orlando they serve roasted nuts in the lobby. Thats all you can smell the entire evening! The smell goes through the whole building! And dont get me started on how people dress to go to the theater these days!

 

[FergieTCat]

As for the child kicking the back of my seat, I would have found the house manager during intermission and asked him to speak to the mother. Even at 1/2 price, the tickets are $50 each and that is way too expensive for me to be disturbed by another audience member.

We went to see Hairspray on Broadway yesterday. I love this show, and Harve Fierstein is back in it for the last few months as it will close in January.

The show was awesome, very entertaining. Harvey was wonderful.

My complaints: since when do they serve popcorn at a Broadway show?
I couldn't believe the mess when we got up to leave, it was like a Saturday cartoon matinee had played at a local theatre. There was popcorn and garbage all over the floor of the theatre.

Where is the respect people used to have for the Broadway experience?

There were a bunch of little girls sitting behind us and they screamed at the top of their lungs after every number. One of them kept kicking the back of my seat the entire time. I turned around once, but the mothers did nothing to stop them. You heard candy wrappers constantly.

Broadway is a very expensive outing and I was very disappointed in yesterday's experience. I think if you are going to expose your children to live theatre at a young age you should teach them to respect the venue and the people around them.

 

[happygirl]

It would have bothered me that they had got the theatre cleaned before the next show. As for the kid kicking the back of the seat if that they worse they did then be grateful. They could have been noisy or anything else

 

[piney]

It would have bothered me that they had got the theatre cleaned before the next show. As for the kid kicking the back of the seat if that they worse they did then be grateful. They could have been noisy or anything else

They screamed after every number. At the tops of their lungs. The theatre was clean when we entered; it was in shambles after the show.

 

[happygirl]

They screamed after every number. At the tops of their lungs. The theatre was clean when we entered; it was in shambles after the show.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I agree with you that is hard to enjoy yourself with child screaming the whole show

 

[ckay87]

Yea, IMO, going to the theater is not the cultural experience it once was. You really don't need to dress well and, yea, can't we go 2 hours without eating something? Ever?

But what really gets me is at our local theater they serve beer. Fine, I like beer, but when it's spilled all over a theater floor, the place now smells like a bar at 2 am or a college football game and, for me it just takes away from the experience.

A few weeks ago, we went to see a Pink Floyd tribute band at this theater and the beer stench was worse than ever. That didn't surprise me, but what did surprise me is that anyone would think it's okay to smoke....NOT cigarettes.....in a theater. Yep.

 

[c4a]

We went to see Hairspray on Broadway yesterday. I love this show, and Harve Fierstein is back in it for the last few months as it will close in January.

The show was awesome, very entertaining. Harvey was wonderful.

My complaints: since when do they serve popcorn at a Broadway show?
I couldn't believe the mess when we got up to leave, it was like a Saturday cartoon matinee had played at a local theatre. There was popcorn and garbage all over the floor of the theatre.

Where is the respect people used to have for the Broadway experience?

There were a bunch of little girls sitting behind us and they screamed at the top of their lungs after every number. One of them kept kicking the back of my seat the entire time. I turned around once, but the mothers did nothing to stop them. You heard candy wrappers constantly.

Broadway is a very expensive outing and I was very disappointed in yesterday's experience. I think if you are going to expose your children to live theatre at a young age you should teach them to respect the venue and the people around them.

Popcorn? Geez. Why don't they just go ahead and build a mini-arcade like the movie theatres, also?

And I agree with OrlandoMike on the way some people dress. I literally have to bite my tongue, sometimes. Just because people have a casual Friday when jeans are allowed...does not make jeans, T-shirts, & shorts "business casual" attire.

I went to a show, earlier this year, that a youth group was also attending. (Not that I have a problem with that-I don't. Many matinees I have been to have had appropriately dressed & behaving youth at them) There were girls in Daisy dukes, spaghetti strap halters & FLIP FLOPS!!!

Is it too much to ask for a nice skirt, dress, or dress pants? Or to not have a child kicking my seat, popping gum, or playing with their cell phone (I was so thankful when the phone was confiscated! The entire first act I just kept hearing what sounded like Tetrus/Mario music. )

 

[c4a]

Yea, IMO, going to the theater is not the cultural experience it once was. You really don't need to dress well and, yea, can't we go 2 hours without eating something? Ever?

But what really gets me is at our local theater they serve beer. Fine, I like beer, but when it's spilled all over a theater floor, the place now smells like a bar at 2 am or a college football game and, for me it just takes away from the experience.

A few weeks ago, we went to see a Pink Floyd tribute band at this theater and the beer stench was worse than ever. That didn't surprise me, but what did surprise me is that anyone would think it's okay to smoke....NOT cigarettes.....in a theater. Yep.

OMG!! The smell of stale beer.

 

[OrlandoMike]

but what did surprise me is that anyone would think it's okay to smoke....NOT cigarettes.....in a theater. Yep.

Well I guess that explains all the popcorn consumption!

 

[ckay87]

OMG!! The smell of stale beer.

Yea mixed with fresh wacky tabacky .... that was one classy evening, let me tell you


Mike...

 

[c4a]

Yea mixed with fresh wacky tabacky .... that was one classy evening, let me tell you


Mike...

Now why do I get the feeling that neither my little black dress or sweater/set & pearls would be appropriate there?

Stale beer, a left handed cig, and fresh popcorn. Quick. Name 3 things that you never hoped to smell at the theatre.

 

[piney]

Now why do I get the feeling that neither my little black dress or sweater/set & pearls would be appropriate there?

Stale beer, a left handed cig, and fresh popcorn. Quick. Name 3 things that you never hoped to smell at the theatre.

 

[Planogirl]

The theaters in Dallas and Fort Worth that host the touring shows allow no food or drink in the seating area. You can have something in the lobby during intermission and that's it.

I don't think I'd like the mess either, not to mention the crunch, crunch of popcorn during the show.

 

[tiggger1]

That didn't surprise me, but what did surprise me is that anyone would think it's okay to smoke....NOT cigarettes.....in a theater. Yep.

Yeah the same thing happened at the new Kids Concert I went to in Sept!

 

[c4a]

And then there is the taking the smell home issue. I've been to bars & pubs and came out smelling like an ashtray. Even my hair would get the funk smell-geez, I can't even imagine how I would begin to describe/defend that smell combo when I got home.

 

[Cool-Beans]

They've been serving refreshments here for ages. There was always a bar, but now we've got candy and cookies and who knows what all.

They're having some trouble selling tickets. They're doing what they can to draw people in and to make money. I'm fine with that.

Poorly behaved children, on the other hand...not so much. If your kid can't sit through the show, leave them at home, please.

 

[piney]

They've been serving refreshments here for ages. There was always a bar, but now we've got candy and cookies and who knows what all.

They're having some trouble selling tickets. They're doing what they can to draw people in and to make money. I'm fine with that.

Poorly behaved children, on the other hand...not so much. If your kid can't sit through the show, leave them at home, please.

I'm all for the bar and refreshments during intermission. But the smell of popcorn turns my stomach, and at $65 per ticket it really annoyed me that it was allowed at the seats.

 

[krcit]

I remember seeing Les Mis on Broadway and the guy next to me took out a tunafish sandwich during the show I was young and naive so I didn't say anything, I just sat there wanting to throw up the whole time. If that happened now though-oh boy-he would've heard it form me, lol.

 

[ThreeMusketeers]

What show did you go see? And where did you go see it?