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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went to a small venue recently. Audience was able to have some verbal exchanges with the performers, which was nice at first, but then it became a thing that a handful of people kept yelling their thoughts and funny comments and trying to get a conversation going with those on stage. All evening.

It got old pretty quickly. Everyone else was pretty respectful of the show.[/quote]

UGH. Trying to be the center of attention, certainly trying to get the performer to focus on them. I think a short exchange once would add a lot of fun to  show at a small venue (being close up and personal is the point there) but going on all evening? Did anyone try to tell these people to cool it down? Though these days, some people take that as just a reason to increase the behavior.

I'm wagering two things: Alcohol was involved, and/or entitlement.

This sounds like the supposedly more "positive" flip side of the recent spate of people hurling things at performers onstage. There is a growing sense of entitlement, as in, "I paid to be here and I'm entitled to interact with this performer however I want--the rest of the audience, and even the performer, be damned."[/quote]

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