[NEohioPAL]Food and Drink in the Auditorium

[Lincoln King-Cliby]

Being from outside the Cleveland area this phenomenon has confused me
-- the theaters I'm most familiar with in Southern California
(professional, community, and school) mantain food and drink free
house.

I've always understood at some implicit level that as an audience
member -you- -do- -not- -bring- -food- -or- -drink- -into- -the-
-house-. Period.

Coming to Cleveland this certainly seems to be a much more grey issue
in this area -- some venues actively encourage it, some venues like
Playhouse Square allow it (and more than once I've been trying to
rapidly finish off my drink at the end of intermission and ushers have
reminded me of this), and the remaining venues that come to mind don't
have an explicit policy statement, relying, I assume on the implicit
'no food or drink' understanding.

Perhaps the current generation of theater goers is unaware of the
basic customs associated with the peforming arts?

Maybe it is because of this that I am especially sensitive to the
pop-fizzzzzz of an opening bottle of soda or the "pssst. hand me the
peanuts" from the row behind me in the middle of a quiet scene.

I mean, I love soda as much as (if not more than) the person next to
me, but can we not go an hour [there is intermission, after all]
without slurping or munching?

At least most people still have the common sense no to answer a cell
phone during a performance, but that's a different rant entirely....

Lincoln
(For the record -once- I tried bringing my drink into the house of a
venue where it is allowed after intermission and I felt like I was
driving the wrong way down a one way street)

(http://www.myspace.com/lincolnjkc)

On 2/18/07, Pribble Carol <cpribble at us.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I can't speak for all the schools in the area, but at University School
> where I direct, I would never let food in the theatre. Candy wrappers are
> noisy, and if audience members bring in cans of pop, there is a 100% chance
> one of them will kick a can over, and it will roll down the aisle (clink
> clink clink clink), not during a big strong ensemble number, but during a
> love song or an 11th hour ballad. Guaranteed.    Carol Pribble
>
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> Subject: [NEohioPAL]Food and Drink in the Auditorium
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>
> I have just come home from a middle school musical
> production and was absolutely appalled at the amount
> of food and drink that was consumed in the auditorium
> throughout the performance.  I am just curious, is
> this the trend in theatre today---eating and drinking
> as if you are at the movies?
> A young lady behind me actually said, "there should be
> cup holders."  I turned around and said that there
> shouldn't be an food or drinks and that it was an
> auditorium and not a movie theatre!  Am I way off base
> here???
> I would be interested to know what is the "norm" in
> theatres in the surrounding communities.
> Thanks!
> Tammy Palermo
> Music Director
> Riverside High School Drama Club
>
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