Here’s one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long time:
‘Virtually every theater makes a pre-show announcement about turning off cell phones, beepers and watch alarms. Soon after, the audience delivers the first laugh of the night, after a disembodied voice tells them to unwrap their candies now.
But here, at Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, there’s an announcement I’ve never heard, but one that hits the spot: “And please don’t talk during the overture.”’
Peter Filichia’s blog on the Ohio Light Opera’s production of Marinka