When did they get jobs in security?

Yes, I’m pretty sure they’re being facetious.

Same. We went to a few shows. Only 4 or 5 of us. COVID is absolutely still out there. I was vaxed and boosted, made it through the pandemic and then caught it in January. It’s still hanging on. The Omincron is a very nasty version.
Stay safe.

I’ll go to a movie during the slow time of day when there are only 10 or so people in the theater, but I won’t go back to a live performance until they get a better handle on Covid.

Yes, audience participation is very much A Thing at RHPS. In fact I directed the stage version (The Rocky Horror Show) and encouraged the audience to yell out.

IS HE?

I had the same experience a few months ago at Moulin Rouge. Two assholes directly behind me sang Every. Damn. Word. of every pop song in the show. Multiple people told them to shut up. It made no difference. It honestly ruined the show for me because you could never focus on the performances on stage because Becky and…

my first theater experience in the US was rent, where i had the most unfortunate experience of sitting next to two young women who sang along loudly to that stupid ‘how many minutes in a year’ song, and then sobbed for the rest of the second half.

Bitt’rsweet mem’ries / Yond is all I am taking with me

Concerts, shows, even movies these days are a “no thanks” for me. People post-Pandemic are getting awful. If this is the ‘new normal’, no thanks. I’m there for the show, not the side-show.

When I saw Jersey Boys there was a woman behind me who would not stop singing along to all the songs. It was infuriating. People really don’t know how to act in public anymore.  

Which is odd because I don’t even remember “I Will Always Love You” being in it.

Historically speaking, the concept of the theater audience being silent non-participants in the play is relatively new. Who among us has not read the rousing accounts of barely literate Englishmen singing along to "" I Shalt Always Love Thou" during performances at the Globe Theater? 

“Two women were forcibly pulled out of the theater by security”

But isn’t that one of the things about that particular show? I know the movie showing have a strong tradition of audience participation. 

I’m not cheering for Disney’s success, I’m just celebrating Ron’s failures.

Facism - political movement that embraces far-right nationalism and the forceful suppression of any opposition, all overseen by an authoritarian government.

White Boot Fascism.

Might?  I think Biden winning in 2020, and the dems keeping the senate in 2022 just gave us a fighting chance, I still think the odds are high that they rule changes and elections deniers in local offices make the 2024 election highly suspect.  They also saw what legal arguments wont work and have a blue print.  I…

We aren’t calling banning books in schools fascistic, we are calling the way, reasoning and scope with which its done in this case, along with the sheer volume and what topics and people it targets fascistic