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Posted by:	BroadwayTonyJ 10:35 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	Etiquette? - FriendofDorothy 12:52 am EDT 03/17/14

It can be a tough call. It's only happenened to me twice in New York. Back in Apr., 2007 at Part 3 Salvage of The Coast of Utopia, a 16-year old kid (seated next to me) began dozing and snoring loudly just a few minutes into the performance. I nudged him a little to wake him up. Then several times afterward I nudged and eventually poked him to keep him awake. The kid never got angry. He was just tired and bored. After the performance he told me that he didn't want to see the play at all -- he was only there as a school requirement. More recently (in fact on Sun. evening, Mar. 9th) at a performance of Tenderloin, I was sitting in the 3rd row at the York. There was an elderly, handicapped (and very large) gentleman seated next to me. During the Artificial Flowers number, he began snoring loudly. Because of his age and various disabilities, I was hesitant to wake him. Since he was overlapping his seat into mine, I made it a point after each number to applaud strongly and laugh heartily at all the funny lines in such a way as to shake him up a bit. This kind of worked up to a point. Fortunately he left at intermission.

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