> Riot police were called in to remove audience members singing loudly during a performance of The Bodyguard which was forced to finish 10 minutes early.
> The unusual incident took place on Friday’s performance of the hit musical at the Palace Theatre. Riot police halted the show as disobedient members of the audience members were escorted from the venue.
> Theatre-goers had been asked by the production to not sing during the performance, with signs installed around the auditorium, after reports of previous audiences on the tour trying to “outsing” the actors and “chatting” during the show.
>Police were called 10 minutes before the show’s finale, with “mini riots” and “fights” breaking out among audience members after the public were told that the remainder of the performance had been cancelled.
> Video footage showed at least two women being escorted out of the upper circle of the theatre by police. The audience can be heard clapping as they are removed.
> At least half a dozen police officers were reportedly in attendance with a number of police vehicles parked outside the venue.
A certain type of people manage to spoil everything don’t they?
I am guessing the type of people who can’t behave at the theater are the same type who rent a badly-fitting, Peaky Blinder style suit to go to the Grand National, get pissed up and end up having a fistfight with other people in rented, badly-fitting Peaky Blinders suits while their orange-skinned girlfriend lies on the grass pissed out of her head on the cheap wine.
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The same type who rent badly-fitting suits and go to the White Collar boxing event to bay for blood as some utter amateur with no fighting experience gets pounded senseless by a former kickboxer.
As much as I’m miserable that such people live amongst us and are allowed to be in public places where there might be civilised people wanting to have a good time, it’s pretty telling that the police turned up for this but can’t ever find the time to investigate legitimately important things.
The headline makes it sound like they went from 0 to teargas 😂 it’s a fun image in my head
This makes me think that turning the country into intollerant, selfish narcississts wasn’t the best idea.
No one mixes with other people anymore. We drive our cars, sit at home, post on social media to other people in our little bubbles. Then when it comes to encountering other people, no one knows how to behave or respect others.
This topic was discussed on the Jeremy Vine radio show a few weeks ago. There was a split between those who, like me want to be entertained by the show, and those who want to join in. A show at a theatre is not a rock concert, where the audience is actively encouraged to join in.
They should’ve bought tickets to sing-a-long-the-bodyguard karaoke and buffet.
This kept happening when I saw the same show in Liverpool. The two women directly behind us were pissed, arrived late with their phone torches out and kept singing badly and talking when the actors went quiet. Another woman turned to them and told them to shut up. Then they got thrown out. Then a family of pissheads started kicking off cos they kept shouting and were told to leave! We ended up watching the drama instead of the show and it ruined it tbh.
Not sure what makes me sadder – people who don’t know how to behave in the theatre or the fact that The Bodyguard Musical is a thing.
More recent context on how we got here
• In its ‘review’ of the show last week, the local paper (the Manchester Evening News) ridiculed the efforts of the theatre to prevent patrons singing song during portions of the show.
• This was then picked up by ‘This Morning’ yesterday where the hosts also opined that such behaviour was perfectly acceptable. Reports are that this was referenced by audience members involved.
That’s leaving aside the overall worsening attitude of audience members who turn up already drunk and/or lightweights who partake of too much refreshment at the theatre bar…
A riot at a musical? Ladettes, wine o’clock prosecco, and girl’s nights out are getting out of hand. They’ll be playing football next. It’s a slippery slope boys!
So, if you read the article and ignore the B.S. headline, NO ‘riot police’ were involved.
Some audience members were rowdy and escorted from the venue, I suspect they were asked to leave and refused.
I also suspect this was probably one or two officers.
So, more mindless drivel for the intellectually challenged.
No Storming, No riot police.
Laughable 🤦♂️
West End have also been previously warned that their advertising promotes this behavior using slogans such as ‘you’ll be dancing in the isles’. Don’t’ quote me verbatim on that but it’s along those lines.
Didn’t think there was *anything* that could tempt me to see something like ‘the bodyguard’, but a riot in the stalls just might do it.
Can we do this to clap-along cunts as well? The best and only part about *Strictly…* that I enjoy is the A+ orchestra, and it’s all 👏 👏 👏 👏 over the top.
If they want to sing over a show then fuck off to America where they love that corny shit.
The story raises a chuckle (and some angst, it seems), but let’s be realistic – audience disruption of shows has been going on for centuries.
The only real takeaway here is that some people are just bellends.
Wasn’t this exact topic, and this exact show debated on “This Morning” yesterday? Alison Hammon and Canessa Feltz encouraging the behaviour, much to the dismay of dozens of musical theatre performers on social media.
I don’t think I’ve seen a show recently where there wasn’t some annoying behaviour.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie- women came in drunk, hassled the usher holding the ‘please wear a mask’ sign by singing ‘don’t tell me what to do’ at her. Removed shortly before start due to constant shouting.
Book of Mormon- woman a seat in front of me (who incidentally had a huge messy bun blocking my view) was saying the punchlines just before cast, during set up she was constantly saying ‘I love this bit, I love this, it’s so funny’ – asked her to stop as didn’t pay to hear her.
Les Mis- a few rows behind a lady was singing VERY LOUDLY along. Asked to stop a few times then mysteriously disappeared during the interval
Bizarrely, even in Rocky Horror, which is a lot more free wheeling, there was a guy who did not know when to shut up, constant shouting and heckling. I’m not a Rocky virgin and have seen it multiple times so aware of the cues and lines, the theatre had even sent details of what was acceptable during the show. During I’m Going Home, which is a poignant moment he was still yelling and cheering despite people in the stalls shouting up to him to stop.
I’d hate to work in a theatre right now, the sense of entitlement is epic. I’m sure since the pandemic people think they’re ‘owed’ a good time but only for them, there’s no consideration of others. Wish i had hundreds of pounds to piss away on theatre tickets just so I can show off in front of my mates . Same in cinemas to be fair.
I’m increasingly not getting a handle on Reddit post headlines these days.
Same thing happened to me a few months ago watching Jersey boys at the Manchester opera house. FOUR SEPARATE fights occurred in the audience during the show. They had to stop the show twice, bring down the stage safety curtain and make an unplanned 20 min interval. I felt like I was in some sort of live Jeremy Kyle show experience. All the people shouting and fighting were aged 50s and above without exception. It doesn’t surprise me that it was an 80s show like the body guard with probably the same aged audience that has has all these problems. I’m in my mid 30s and I’ve vowed never again to going to an event that will have a majority baby boomer and above crowds because there seems to just be a massive lack of respect for others and people who don’t know how to behave themselves.
This has been brewing for a while – lots of people who work in theatre have stories about abusive behaviour when they’ve asked the audience to respect the performance. There have been a couple of pieces of radio recently.
The answer would seem to be to give the paying audience what they want.
What happened to just sitting and watching a show
It’s not a panto just sit quiet and enjoy it its not that difficult
Whoever they are, I didn’t just shell out over £40 quid of my hard earned wages to hear Enid who’s had a few too many trying to hit the high notes and harmonies in “what is this feeling?”
One thing we absolutely should be borrowing from the gambling industry is their blacklisting system.
There are some people who cannot even walk into any casino without facial recognition cameras spotting them and security immediately booting them out, because they pose a financial risk to the gambling industry, whether through ways of cheating the establishment or due to a risk of legal action.
Maybe we should implement something like this for theatres, cinemas, bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues. Literally a shared excluded-persons list which bars anti-social knobs from attending.
Something similar happened when we went to see Cher the musical in Cardiff. They had signs everywhere saying don’t sing along until the end. They had signs everywhere saying no photography or filming. Throughout the production people were singing along or randomly jeering in response to some of the dialogue. It was really annoying.
A man was out with his wife and he asked two women next to him to stop singing over the show and she absolutely kicked off at him after the show telling him “who was he” “I can do what I like” etc. The ushers had to break it up. It’s honestly shameful.
Nobody pays for tickets to a live production of anything to hear the audience. Certain people need to keep their mouths shut and let the professionals have their moment.
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> Riot police were called in to remove audience members singing loudly during a performance of The Bodyguard which was forced to finish 10 minutes early.
> The unusual incident took place on Friday’s performance of the hit musical at the Palace Theatre. Riot police halted the show as disobedient members of the audience members were escorted from the venue.
> Theatre-goers had been asked by the production to not sing during the performance, with signs installed around the auditorium, after reports of previous audiences on the tour trying to “outsing” the actors and “chatting” during the show.
>Police were called 10 minutes before the show’s finale, with “mini riots” and “fights” breaking out among audience members after the public were told that the remainder of the performance had been cancelled.
> Video footage showed at least two women being escorted out of the upper circle of the theatre by police. The audience can be heard clapping as they are removed.
> At least half a dozen police officers were reportedly in attendance with a number of police vehicles parked outside the venue.
A certain type of people manage to spoil everything don’t they?
I am guessing the type of people who can’t behave at the theater are the same type who rent a badly-fitting, Peaky Blinder style suit to go to the Grand National, get pissed up and end up having a fistfight with other people in rented, badly-fitting Peaky Blinders suits while their orange-skinned girlfriend lies on the grass pissed out of her head on the cheap wine.
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The same type who rent badly-fitting suits and go to the White Collar boxing event to bay for blood as some utter amateur with no fighting experience gets pounded senseless by a former kickboxer.
As much as I’m miserable that such people live amongst us and are allowed to be in public places where there might be civilised people wanting to have a good time, it’s pretty telling that the police turned up for this but can’t ever find the time to investigate legitimately important things.
The headline makes it sound like they went from 0 to teargas 😂 it’s a fun image in my head
This makes me think that turning the country into intollerant, selfish narcississts wasn’t the best idea.
No one mixes with other people anymore. We drive our cars, sit at home, post on social media to other people in our little bubbles. Then when it comes to encountering other people, no one knows how to behave or respect others.
This topic was discussed on the Jeremy Vine radio show a few weeks ago. There was a split between those who, like me want to be entertained by the show, and those who want to join in. A show at a theatre is not a rock concert, where the audience is actively encouraged to join in.
They should’ve bought tickets to sing-a-long-the-bodyguard karaoke and buffet.
This kept happening when I saw the same show in Liverpool. The two women directly behind us were pissed, arrived late with their phone torches out and kept singing badly and talking when the actors went quiet. Another woman turned to them and told them to shut up. Then they got thrown out. Then a family of pissheads started kicking off cos they kept shouting and were told to leave! We ended up watching the drama instead of the show and it ruined it tbh.
Not sure what makes me sadder – people who don’t know how to behave in the theatre or the fact that The Bodyguard Musical is a thing.
More recent context on how we got here
• In its ‘review’ of the show last week, the local paper (the Manchester Evening News) ridiculed the efforts of the theatre to prevent patrons singing song during portions of the show.
• This was then picked up by ‘This Morning’ yesterday where the hosts also opined that such behaviour was perfectly acceptable. Reports are that this was referenced by audience members involved.
That’s leaving aside the overall worsening attitude of audience members who turn up already drunk and/or lightweights who partake of too much refreshment at the theatre bar…
A riot at a musical? Ladettes, wine o’clock prosecco, and girl’s nights out are getting out of hand. They’ll be playing football next. It’s a slippery slope boys!
So, if you read the article and ignore the B.S. headline, NO ‘riot police’ were involved.
Some audience members were rowdy and escorted from the venue, I suspect they were asked to leave and refused.
I also suspect this was probably one or two officers.
So, more mindless drivel for the intellectually challenged.
No Storming, No riot police.
Laughable 🤦♂️
West End have also been previously warned that their advertising promotes this behavior using slogans such as ‘you’ll be dancing in the isles’. Don’t’ quote me verbatim on that but it’s along those lines.
Didn’t think there was *anything* that could tempt me to see something like ‘the bodyguard’, but a riot in the stalls just might do it.
Can we do this to clap-along cunts as well? The best and only part about *Strictly…* that I enjoy is the A+ orchestra, and it’s all 👏 👏 👏 👏 over the top.
If they want to sing over a show then fuck off to America where they love that corny shit.
The story raises a chuckle (and some angst, it seems), but let’s be realistic – audience disruption of shows has been going on for centuries.
The only real takeaway here is that some people are just bellends.
Wasn’t this exact topic, and this exact show debated on “This Morning” yesterday? Alison Hammon and Canessa Feltz encouraging the behaviour, much to the dismay of dozens of musical theatre performers on social media.
I don’t think I’ve seen a show recently where there wasn’t some annoying behaviour.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie- women came in drunk, hassled the usher holding the ‘please wear a mask’ sign by singing ‘don’t tell me what to do’ at her. Removed shortly before start due to constant shouting.
Book of Mormon- woman a seat in front of me (who incidentally had a huge messy bun blocking my view) was saying the punchlines just before cast, during set up she was constantly saying ‘I love this bit, I love this, it’s so funny’ – asked her to stop as didn’t pay to hear her.
Les Mis- a few rows behind a lady was singing VERY LOUDLY along. Asked to stop a few times then mysteriously disappeared during the interval
Bizarrely, even in Rocky Horror, which is a lot more free wheeling, there was a guy who did not know when to shut up, constant shouting and heckling. I’m not a Rocky virgin and have seen it multiple times so aware of the cues and lines, the theatre had even sent details of what was acceptable during the show. During I’m Going Home, which is a poignant moment he was still yelling and cheering despite people in the stalls shouting up to him to stop.
I’d hate to work in a theatre right now, the sense of entitlement is epic. I’m sure since the pandemic people think they’re ‘owed’ a good time but only for them, there’s no consideration of others. Wish i had hundreds of pounds to piss away on theatre tickets just so I can show off in front of my mates . Same in cinemas to be fair.
I’m increasingly not getting a handle on Reddit post headlines these days.
Same thing happened to me a few months ago watching Jersey boys at the Manchester opera house. FOUR SEPARATE fights occurred in the audience during the show. They had to stop the show twice, bring down the stage safety curtain and make an unplanned 20 min interval. I felt like I was in some sort of live Jeremy Kyle show experience. All the people shouting and fighting were aged 50s and above without exception. It doesn’t surprise me that it was an 80s show like the body guard with probably the same aged audience that has has all these problems. I’m in my mid 30s and I’ve vowed never again to going to an event that will have a majority baby boomer and above crowds because there seems to just be a massive lack of respect for others and people who don’t know how to behave themselves.
This has been brewing for a while – lots of people who work in theatre have stories about abusive behaviour when they’ve asked the audience to respect the performance. There have been a couple of pieces of radio recently.
The answer would seem to be to give the paying audience what they want.
What happened to just sitting and watching a show
It’s not a panto just sit quiet and enjoy it its not that difficult
Whoever they are, I didn’t just shell out over £40 quid of my hard earned wages to hear Enid who’s had a few too many trying to hit the high notes and harmonies in “what is this feeling?”
One thing we absolutely should be borrowing from the gambling industry is their blacklisting system.
There are some people who cannot even walk into any casino without facial recognition cameras spotting them and security immediately booting them out, because they pose a financial risk to the gambling industry, whether through ways of cheating the establishment or due to a risk of legal action.
Maybe we should implement something like this for theatres, cinemas, bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues. Literally a shared excluded-persons list which bars anti-social knobs from attending.
Something similar happened when we went to see Cher the musical in Cardiff. They had signs everywhere saying don’t sing along until the end. They had signs everywhere saying no photography or filming. Throughout the production people were singing along or randomly jeering in response to some of the dialogue. It was really annoying.
A man was out with his wife and he asked two women next to him to stop singing over the show and she absolutely kicked off at him after the show telling him “who was he” “I can do what I like” etc. The ushers had to break it up. It’s honestly shameful.
Nobody pays for tickets to a live production of anything to hear the audience. Certain people need to keep their mouths shut and let the professionals have their moment.