| re: Are Audiences Addicted to Applause? | |
| Posted by: Thom915 07:31 pm EDT 07/12/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Are Audiences Addicted to Applause? - Chromolume 06:51 pm EDT 07/12/23 | |
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| I must agree that applause itself isn't the issue. It is the cries, the whistles, the whoops at the beginning or end of each number, each show, each high note that is different today than yesteryear. I attended this afternoon's matinee of Good Night, Oscar and the applause that followed Sean Hayes' rendition of Rhapsody in Blue was prolonged and deafening, deservedly so. But there were no whoops, no whistles, no screams. It was pure and honest applause of appreciation for a job extremely well done. In a musical it would have been a definite show stopper. So it would be too were the numbers greeted with applause. When Bette Midler appeared at the top of the stairs after the intro in Hello Dolly she was greeted with thunderous show stopping applause but not with those vocal sounds that seem to draw attention to the issuer and annoy others in the audience. (All right, at various times in that revival there were the occasional "We love you's" thrown out but they were definitely solitary individuals and not segments of the audience. And yet this phenomenon is so pervasive and widespread, I don't think we are going to get rid of it anytime soon. I do not think "please do not hoot and holler during your applause will be added to the preshow announcement any time soon (especially not at "Shucked where hooting and hollering may seem appropriate) and maybe we are just going to have to get used to the idea that this is the way today's audiences enjoy theri music same as we had to get used to beverages served at seats. | |
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