| On the topic of audience misbehavior, can we add excessive drinking? At a Sat matinee of Book of Mormon this spring, I sat next to a woman who had two pre-show cocktails and another two at intermission. Sometime in the second act, after she obliviously spilled the remains of her last drink on me, she decided the time was right to engage me in conversation. Apparently, she was concerned that I wasn't laughing hard enough (She was right; I wasn't - BoM has its moments, but it's time has passed, IMO). After every joke, she'd turn to me and try to ask why I didn't think it was the funniest thing ever. Finally, I said something to her along the lines of "I'm sorry, but I am trying to watch the show !". This offended her greatly, and she actually elbowed and kicked me off and on for the rest of the act, and slurred something about how I must be racist to not find the show uproarious. What?!? |
