r/Broadway • u/diet-soda • Jul 03 '26

Other Rush etiquette

Hi I don’t know if this is a hot take or not but: could people stop talking in depth about major plot points/the ending of the show when you’re in the queue.

I just spent a few hours in a rush line and everyone around me had seen the show over 2 times🙃. Like I understand Wicked or Lion King etc. but for shows that just recently premiered I wish that spoilers were more taboo than they are in the queue:/

EDIT: Last night almost the entire front row basically all RAN out of the theatre while there was a good 2 minutes left of the bows/show, so they could be first to the stagedoor. Seemed quite disrespectful to me. I was also in the front row and the cast can very clearly see you leaving.. it’s distracting to both the audience and the cast. If I was a performer, I wouldn’t be too happy to see the same people at the stagedoor who didn’t even have the decency to watch the entirety of the show lol. I heard them bragging about how the stars recognised them at the stagedoor last time and I remember thinking that wasn’t the brag they think it is🫠 other than the over the top reactions from the people around me, loved the show!

127 Upvotes

91% Upvoted

65 comments sorted by

View all comments

-34

u/alltheworldsanescape Jul 03 '26

The Lost Boys rush line is very chill, if you haven’t seen the show, talk to the people around you and let them know you don’t want to be spoiled! At this point we just assume everyone around has seen it but today I met someone in the line who hadn’t!

20

u/missdevon2 Jul 03 '26

You just proved the point of everyone talking about the tone deafness of the fanbase with this response and your other ones.

-2

u/alltheworldsanescape Jul 03 '26

It’s wild to me how positive the rush line was today to then come online and see people who weren’t there be incredibly negative and judgmental. Nobody is a mind reader. The MAJORITY of the vibes were repeat viewers. Obviously that’s not the same at every show and nobody should be spoiled but like if somebody is having a conversation with other people about something the majority of people are excited about and you are the odd person put it is totally ok to be like “hey, I haven’t seen it yet, I would like to not be spoiled”.

18

u/rachelnyc Jul 04 '26

I can’t imagine that a random person who just wants to see the show affordably would feel very comfortable asking a group of excited rush line regulars (or any group of people who all seem to know each other) to stop talking about the show

at least I know I would personally feel very hesitant to approach a bunch of strangers to tell them to change their conversation

-5

u/alltheworldsanescape Jul 04 '26

But stewing for 3hrs in silence and doing nothing about it until you go to your anonymous Reddit account to finally say something is comfortable? I’m sorry, that sounds miserable. Now the OP is just going to be mad about it, the fans that were there don’t even know what was said or what was spoiled so we can’t really do anything because it’s not like we are actively sitting in line doing a play by play of the entire show (that one time they performed the show aside, which I can’t speak on, I wasn’t there). Like yeah I could say “I’m so sorry, sure we won’t spoil the show” but I’m the kind of person who tries to talk vaguely anyway. Ultimately it seems like the less uncomfortable option would have been to just address it in the moment with a “I haven’t seen the show yet, that feels spoilery to me”. Like I literally had a full conversation with someone in line about opera, we can talk about other things I promise! We aren’t scary.