| re: hyperbole? | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 07:47 pm EDT 07/15/18 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:44 pm EDT 07/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: hyperbole? - jjhbb340 07:33 pm EDT 07/15/18 | |
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| So - you were sitting somewhere where you could really see the WHOLE orchestra section in a quick glance? Each time? What's always fascinating to me about accounts of standing O's is that people tend to say idiotic things like "the whole audience leapt to their feet." But it's a very rare time indeed when such a thing is, or even can be, literally observed. Most people's eyes are focused on the stage, not in panning the "whole audience." (Who cares what the audience is doing - you want to see the star lol.) Plus, in order to see an entire audience "leap to their feet" (a fast, sudden gesture), you kinda have to know it's going to happen before it does in order to be able to watch for it. What you can and do notice is that the people around you and in front of you are standing. If you're not in the back row, even if you looked behind you, you would not be able to see if everyone was really standing ot not. And by the 6th time, you certainly wouldn't care. I won't go as far as to say it's fake news, but it is hyperbolic exaggeration to the nth degree. As Sondheim tries to show us in "Someone In A Tree," you may have been part of the event, but you couldn't possibly observe all of it. ;-) :-) |
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