<p>I can count on one hand the number of professional shows I’ve seen in the past five years where I haven’t been annoyed by the audience at at least one point. I’ve kind of resigned myself to seeing cell phone lights, but my biggest pet peeves are people talking during the overture (just because there’s nobody on stage doesn’t mean it’s not part of the show, and the orchestra deserves just as much attention and respect as the actors do), and people chomping gum. I swear to god, nearly every show I go to, I end up having some cow chomping in my ear for the entire thing. It’s absolutely disgusting and completely distracting. One of the reasons I love taking my mom to shows is because she tells those people off for me, haha.</p>