From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:04:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] SOM- Audience


We all have this very same problem with audiences. It does vary community to 
community, but it is a huge problem in our culture. One of lack of respect 
for others. I have gotten to the point of telling audiences how they need to 
behave during a live performances. I have whipped a few communities into 
shape over a five year period and am pleasantly surprised when we perform 
there and they now know what it means to be an audience. However don't be 
fooled into thinking it is only at puppet shows. I have been in the audience 
for a number of broadway plays and have had to tell people to shut up! I 
even had to tell a lady to stop singing along with the show. So it is 
critical that we convert as many as we can at a young age!!!!
Michelle
The Puppet People
Schenectady NY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jon green" <puppen-AT-mac.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: [Puptcrit] SOM- Audience


> Several people took exception to the Philadelphia critic's comments
> about the audience at the Salzburg Marionettes production of the
> Sound of Music.  Well, he was spot on.  I have never seen or heard
> such a disruptive audience.  Of course the problem is not the
> children, it is the "entitled" upper East Side Mothers*.  At last
> Sunday's matinee there were several infants, one year olds and two
> year olds.  These children are just too young to see a broadway
> musical, even one adapted to marionettes.  The older children all
> seemed to have a bag of potato chips that they ate throughout the
> show ( OK, it only seemed as if each and everyone had a bag of chips,
> but there were enough that bags were crackling throughout the
> performance) .  The girl next to me had a bracelet made of jingle
> bells that she fiddled with the entire first act.  When I asked that
> the child remove it for the second act, I was told that this was out
> of the question as she had made it herself.  I had thought that the
> audience at the Saturday evening production of The Magic Flute was
> less well behaved than was acceptable, but the Sunday matinee
> audience was the worst.
>
> I suppose part of the problem here is that there is no longer any
> real sense of an "adult" puppet tradition.  Puppets are for children-
> very young children.  Yes, there is some adult puppetry on the
> fringes, but the average mainstream american cannot fathom that
> puppetry is for anyone older than 12.
>
> *I say mothers because a., most fathers are AWOL at these events, and
> b., when they are present, they insist on more disciplined behavior.
>
> Jon
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