The Mancunian Way: Blurring the lines
11.04.2023 - 18:03
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Welcome back - I hope you all had a lovely long weekend. I must say I was surprised to read about the startling scenes that unfolded at The Palace Theatre on Good Friday.
A performance of The Bodyguard ended early when two unruly members of the audience were thrown out by security for tunelessly honkingI Will Always Love You at the top of their lungs - despite producers asking the audience not to sing and installing signs around the venue.
Bosses at The Palace say the 'disruptive customers’ refused to stay seated and 'spoilt the performance for others'. And theatre etiquette has become the subject of much heated national debate since the incident, which led to police being called to the Oxford Road venue.
In fact, This Morning presenter Alison Hammond apologised after Friday’s incident because - during light-hearted segment about theatre rules - she suggested she’d be skipping the show if she couldn’t sing along.
Of course, the incident in Manchester isn’t the first time audiences have been chastised for bad behaviour in recent months. It’s been suggested that phones could be banned from theatres after nude pictures of James Norton were taken during a performance in London. And at the tail end of last year a heckler shouted ‘rubbish’ at a child actor, resulting in a lifetime ban from the Royal Opera House.
So what does this story mean for theatres and theatre audiences? And what’s the answer? We’ll be discussing that in today’s newsletter. But first, we’re going to take a look at how
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