Mentally Impaired Audience Members- Page 5
Mentally Impaired Audience Members
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#100re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:19pm
Yeah I hear that geaj. And you know what? If a Down's person ended up sitting behind me at a b-way show, I think I might be secretly sooo curious as to how they act, I might want them to stay, just out of curiousity, even if they do make random sounds here and there.
However, the ORIGINAL poster's story sounded like he was sitting near a person who was just totally disruptive, and I think he was asking if we could excuse a disruptive person because of a development issue. I'd say no, we cant excuse a disruption, but yes geaj, we could still be reasonably tolerant.
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#101re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:22pm
"If a Down's person ended up sitting behind me at a b-way show, I think I might be secretly sooo curious as to how they act, I might want them to stay, just out of curiousity, even if they do make random sounds here and there."
Good lord.
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#102re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:23pmmiss pennywise, I think you are taking things way too personally.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#103re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:25pmI would be curious too, especially if it is their first time attending a Broadway show. And their reactions are so brutally honest that a lot of times they are hilarious.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#104re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:26pmOk, george. I get ya. Maybe I missed the whole disruptive to the point of intolerance. I have had a few martinis here. LOL! The great thing is, I see your point, and you see mine. Wouldn't be great if more of the world's problems could be solved as such?
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#105re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:30pm
Yeah I would just be curious because I know that I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER take my cousin to a b-way show, and so it would just be neat to go home and tell my family about it. Its just one of those things--whenever we are out and we see another Down's person, and we're not a at a Down's event, its like "ohhhhh interesting hmmm"
and yeah lakezurich, they would be brutally honest. One of the things my cousin does during "heartfelt" quiet moments in movies/tv show, is he'll break the silence with a big "awwww baby! baby!" and then laugh. I'm positive that's what He'd like during Moritz' funeral scene, etc. So if another Down's person was behind me, and they just laughed or respond at the appropriate times---or if they ever made people turn around and look---yeah i'd be curious about that.
marilynrita
Swing Joined: 1/12/05
#106re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:30pmWhen ANYONE goes to a show, it is expected that you should have some sort of theatre etiquette. This will be blunt (and politically incorrect sorry), but I do not want anyone around me talking!!!!!!! I don't care if you are mentally challenged, old and can't hear, 4 years old, a 10 year old who can't behave,never been to theatre before, or translating for the person next to you who doesnt fully understand english-SHUT UP!!!!! It is an unspoken rule. If you are mildly annoying-whatever, but if you are loud and disruptive that is absolutely NOT acceptable.
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#107re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:31pmLakezurich, maybe I have "personal" reasons for feeling the way I do. Anyway, I feel sorry for anyone mentally disabled with whom you work.
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#108re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:33pmI feel sorry for you seeing as you have no sense of humor.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#109re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:34pm
Just because they have developmental disabilities does not mean every moment needs to be treated as a melodrama.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Updated On: 2/6/08 at 10:34 PM
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#110re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:35pm
Marilyn you pretty much said it all. And this is what I meant before about the paradox of "treat a Down's person like they're normal---but they're not normal" That's just it--if you can't sit in a theater and not be disruptive, then you really dont have a right to be in the theater.
My cousin is obsessed with the movie "Grease". He's so obsessed that for every holiday, all he wants is Grease on DVD. If you get him a present that's not Grease on DVD, he will throw it across the room and swear at you. (yes that's made for many shocking Christmas scenes) I bought him a window card and a t-shirt of the current Grease on b-way, but thankfully if he ever came here, he wouldn't even understand that Grease is a live musical and not the movie. And he'd prefer the dvd anyway--thank goodness.
But in response to some people who were saying that if a mentally impaired person wants to enjoy a show, should we prevent him? I really think that if a person as enough mental capability to understand there is a show on b-way and he/she wants to see it, then that person will probably have enough capability to understand that if they talk, they'll have to leave.
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#111re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:38pm
lakezurich, makes its just best to ignore those rude comments like calling people morons and saying that we feel sorry for people who work with you........I mean seriously how are we supposed to respond to that? Is there any reasoning with a person like that? And do we want this to be a thread about personal insults slug back and forth, or about the thread topic?
#112re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:41pm
ok... I will switch modes.
Anyways. So today at work one of my clients has this thing where she will chase you around once in awhile and say "I'm gonna spank you in the butt" (the way she means it is in a flirting manner) and she had me laughing so hard, because she was doing that to me today.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
miss pennywise
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/04
#113re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:42pm
Oh, I have a great sense of humor. I find most of the posts in this thread utterly laughable!
But you're right, I shouldn't take it personally when someone who is 20 says the things you have. I originally gave you much more credit for being older. After all, I know better than to pay any attention to the stupid things "those young people" say.
"You people" are amazing! You insult and offend people with disabilities and the people who love and care for them, then YOU get offended when others try to speak on their behalf. You're pathetic.
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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#114re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:43pmin what way have I "Offended" the Developmentally Disabled community
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#116re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:45pmpennywise, are you including me in the people who insult the disabled?
postergirl
Leading Actor Joined: 3/13/07
#117re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:49pmI would be curious too, George, as I also would be interested to know the person's reactions. I also have a 50 year old cousin with Down syndrome. She has the capacity of perhaps a 4 year old, but musicals are her life. She has a huge record collection, and somehow can put them back in the correct sleeves even though she cannot read a word. She has attended live shows since she was a child, and is taken to summer stock every year to see everything available (her sister has sat through more hideous productions of Annie than she can count). My cousin is very well behaved because she is totally into any show, and would undoubtedly shhhh anyone around her who made noise. And yes, Lake, many of her comments about the shows are hilarious. And the bonus - her cell phone never goes off.
#118re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:49pmI think she is referring to anyone who has a different view than she does
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#119re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:50pmI would totally love to see a show with your cousin.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#120re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:53pm
Postergirl that's so great your cousin is doing well at 50! Every year that goes by I get scared that my cousin is gonna be one of the Down's people who dies young.
That is so cool that she would shhh someone who was talking! I know a lot of Down's people at my cousin's camps who are also like that--like when we go bowling they chide me if they think I'm not gonna wait my turn to bowl or something.
Something else that's funny with my cousin is fireworks. At the Chicago fireworks on Lake Michigan every July 3rd, my cousin would be so excited about seeing the fireworks-that's all he would take about for days before. Then, when the fireworks started, he would hide under a blanket crying because the fireworks scared him so much. Then, all the way home, he would just yell "fireworks! fireworks! yayyy!"
#121re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:55pm
Miss Pennywise, please don't make this into a thread that attacks other members. And PLEASE do not attack "those young people." I'm sixteen and I'm damn sure that I act mature and can speak my mind without being disregarded as just another teenager.
The purpose of this thread was to discuss thoughts and opinions on how the mentally impaired should be treated in a theatrical environment, not to attack those who have views different from yours.
Call me Travis. :)
#122re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:56pm
george
me, you, postergirl, and her cousin should go see a show
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#123re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 10:59pm
I am totally down with that. : )
And tgn, as a high school teacher who takes his students to see b-way shows all the time--i got your back.
#124re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:03pmon a side note, george, this snow is RIDICULOUS!!
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#125re: Mentally Impaired Audience Members
Posted: 2/6/08 at 11:05pmawww come on lakezurich, I love Chicago winters, and NYC winters have had a lot of snow the past few years, but now this year there has been none! so i'm jealous! (snow doesnt bug me out here since I walk/take subways everywhere)
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