Now that your focus on table manners around the Thanksgiving dinner table has passed, it’s time to switch to theater manners during this season of nutcrackers and scrooges.
A few weeks ago during a terrific production of “Guys and Dolls” at the North Shore Music Theatre, a large man sitting next to me used his ticket stub to floss his teeth and later used his hands to pat his tummy (did he think the orchestra’s percussion section needed help?). I said nothing because “Please floss at home and stop banging your drum” didn’t feel right, so I just complained to my sympathetic date.
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Too bad this is even a topic of conversation. As much of a problem the kids can be, it's really their parents who are the problem, for not adequately either preparing them, leaving them home if they can't handle it, or contaiining them in the theater. As for the adults.... sheesh....
For a while, we had 3rd row center orchestra subscription tickets at the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, NYC.
One time, a man diagonally in front of us opened up a jumbo sized tootie roll during overture, with Placido Domingo conducting, and started to eat it. LOL!!!
Nothing suprises me anymore ever since the parents in front of us at Mass brought a bag of trucks and toy fire engines for their boys to roll down the open pew seats all during the entire Mass.