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blainedapperson:

Some of the posts in the Darren tag really worry me about the kinds of fans who are lucky enough to be seeing him in H2$

You cannot liveblog the whole show, you cannot ~~!!~secretly record anything, you cannot take pictures. You cannot wear your pink sunglasses and your ‘MRS BLAINE ANDERSON!!!!<3XDXD’ shirt.

It is a BROADWAY show, not a silly set of his in a coffee shop or a theme park or whatever, it’s a respectable event. If you get your phone out or start squeeling or -and for the love of god if I find out anyone does this I s2g, yelling ‘I LOVE YOU DARREN!!!!!!’ you will get kicked out, you will piss off the people around you, you will distract Darren on stage, and you will embarrass every fan that walks through the door within those 3 weeks. 

It’s basically like nothing you will ever see Darren do, solely for the fact that it is serious. 

Please don’t ruin it for everyone involved.

Reblogging because ^this for one, but also because I know exactly what this is like. Lizzy and Nikko and I went to the Yale Benefit in San Francisco in May and ran into people like this. People behaved like this. It was a Yale. Benefit. Alumni were there. People were dressed up. I was dressed up. It was a benefit. People should not have gone in there dressed in homemade t-shirts and pink sunglasses. People should not have yelled out during the show. It’s not cool to yell out, “Darren, you’re supermegaawesomefoxyhot!” It’s embarrassing, it’s childish, and it’s rude. Save your cliche shirts and jokes and gushing for another event, another venue, or even the fucking stage door. When you’re in the theater, sit, watch, listen, and enjoy. Do not ruin the experience for other people, and don’t regret something you do in there later on. Just… have common sense. Have tact. It’s okay to be excited and act your age, but recognize the atmosphere and environment you’re in and the people around you.

And I’m making the D: face right now regarding the SF Yale Benefit.

I mean. I understand excitement! I don’t want to tell people not to feel their feelings but, damn, there are different levels of public behavior, just as there are differences in how I may react publicly versus privately. The kind of venue also matters. I have been to many, many concerts in 2011. The attitude of going to see some band play at the Mercury Lounge is a totally different animal from someplace like the Beacon Theatre and that’s not even bringing the Glee Live concert experience into play, where screaming loudly for everyone is often the point. To contrast a concert with a Broadway show? A different animal and being “on your best behavior” does not mean that you have to be stifled when it comes to showing your excitement.

It just means be considerate of those around you. Even if you’re seated in huge group of fans and/or friends (hey I’m doing likewise!), there’s going to be people around you who don’t know why you’re so stoked and aren’t “in” on the whole shebang and why it matters so much to you. And that’s okay! But if you’re not polite to them or thoughtless about your own actions, you’re being rude. If you want to be rude, it’s not like anyone can stop you. Posts like this above and stories like Tina’s are reflecting on something I have personally witnessed: inconsiderate behavior at Darren’s shows.

Like. I was stunned at how fantastic the crowd behaved at Joe’s Pub. I shouldn’t have to be surprised by everyone being chill, that shouldn’t be a shocking bonus to an already cool event.

Now, please don’t accuse me of being mean to Darren’s fans, I’ve experienced much worse crowd behavior at other events (I got into a nasty argument with a guy at a Foster the People concert when he and his two female friends kept pushing me during one of the opening acts). But I am definitely hesitant when it comes to shows revolving around Darren or the Starkids nowadays due to what I’ve seen with my own eyes (and how much screaming my ears have heard). I didn’t go to the Starkid NYC shows during Thanksgiving weekend because I was a little wary of the crowds (I mean, I had to be drunk at Irving Plaza to handle the fannish entitlement as well as the disgusting littering that was left on the streets, god I was not pleased).

It’s just. Come on, guys. Be cool.

And you are free of course to use your phone and/or camera during the performance in that, it’s not like it’s taken away from you once you enter the theater. But if you get kicked out, you can’t really complain because it is breaking the rules. Because it’s not a concert experience, where Darren openly acknowledges that everyone’s recording him.

Again. Be excited! If it’s your first big Broadway show, I hope you have an awesome time and feel all the feelings about one of your favorite people getting to perform on the big stage. But if you could spare a second to think, hey, is it the decent thing to be respectful of other people? and conclude why yes it is, that would just be stupendous.

Quality people saying things so quality I don’t even have anything to add.