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| re: Serious question for those who like mid-show standing ovations (long) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:43 am EDT 07/17/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Serious question for those who like mid-show standing ovations (long) - david_withv 11:44 pm EDT 07/16/18 | |
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| You were there, and I wasn't, and if you say there was a large number of younger people, I certainly can't doubt you. You were there, and I wasn't. Of course, younger could mean 40-45 in this context. :) But I have a good many younger friends — younger than 40-45 — who are avid theatregoers. So I can believe you with no problem. So even if I accept this as likely being the wave of the future (and certainly the wave of the present), I'd still like to believe that things can change, that the future is not already written in stone. But, again, my annoyance at this behavior for being excessive is not the main point. The main point is that this behavior seems to me remarkably thoughtless and inconsiderate. People of limited mobility do go to the theatre. Nowadays Broadway houses try to accommodate them in a fairer way than was perhaps the norm in the past, something I'm sure we all think is good. Even if we decide that people who don't have mobility problems but also don't really want to keep standing up and down and to stand through a whole number have their choice — stand up or don't see it — what about people of limited mobility? Do we just say to them, "Too bad. If you can't stand up on your own, why did you come to this performance? Stay home." I don't know how many times I've read here people saying with great indignation that latecomers should not be seated till after intermission or, if there's no intermission, not at all. The latecomers are disrupting the right of people who got there on time to see the performance uninterrupted. And, of course, those people are speaking of their own right. "I got there on time. I have the right to see the performance uninterrupted." I would hope that people who feel that way would also feel that this applies to them, and that they shouldn't disrupt the right of others to see the performance. And, again, what about a shorter person who is seated behind a much taller person? We all know this can be a problem even when everyone is seated. How much more of a problem might this be when the person in front is standing? What if there are two or three tall people next to each other in front of a shorter person? The shorter person will probably not be able to look around them or through them. At least with latecomers, the disruption is usually relatively brief. With the entire title song of Hello, Dolly! it's not brief. And the number is, for many, the highlight of the show. So in our theoretically enlightened age, at least as New York theatregoers, we should be more considerate. |
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