| Theater rest room traffic in Europe | |
| Posted by: aleck 09:44 am EST 01/09/22 | |
| In reply to: Corsets - AlanScott 09:59 pm EST 01/07/22 | |
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| I'm been to many theaters, concert halls and opera houses throughout the UK and Europe. There is NEVER any kind of line or stampede to the restrooms during intermission. And those folks are chugging down coffee and other drinks before the performance and during intermission. This weak bladder behavior seen here is seemingly a unique and recent American phenomenon. Indeed, years ago there was none of this bathroom traffic. In fact, in London theaters they used to serve tea on trays that would be passed to your seat by other people in the row. There was no jumping up to run to the rest room. Somehow that first act curtain ringing down has become like a Pavlov dog signal to rush to the rest room. Or perhaps what it really means is that a large portion of the audience would rather be somewhere else. That was certainly the case for me at a recent performance of Flying Over Sunset. Should I go to the rest room or should I leave? I chose to go to the rest room. A large number of audience members chose to leave -- although they first made a stop at the rest room. There used to be a time when you would go to the theatre and hope the experience would never end. Now there's celebration when you hear the show is going to be over in 75 minutes! And if it's not over in 75 minutes, you can comfort yourself in knowing that you can bear sitting through the rest of it if you could just get some bladder relief. Otherwise the productions are not transporting enough to keep your mind off of your own body functions. After a while, counting your teeth while putting up with nonsense (like Flying Over Sunset) gets boring. Can you image hoping that something like Annie Get Your Gun would be over in 75 minutes? |
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