A “Wow” at the Symphony

• DATE: May 16, 2019
• POSTED BY: Jessica Koslow
• CATEGORY: Experience

Photo Credit: Kael Bloom via Unsplash

AV News reported on a cute story at the Boston Symphony Hall:

“The Handel And Haydn Society orchestra was performing at the Boston Symphony Hall. Just after the final rest of Mozart’s ‘Masonic Funeral Music,’ an unseen kid yelled out ‘wow!’ in apparently unvarnished appreciation of what he’d just heard. Everyone laughed and applauded the moment.”

While this is certainly a pleasant outburst, there are some behaviors that theatergoers do not appreciate.

Goldstar surveyed more than 1,000 members as well as theater experts about theater etiquette pet peeves, and you can see the insights from this survey here.

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