What Makes a Good Audience Member?

What Makes An Appropriate Audience? There are a lot of things that make a bad audience member: Chewing gum, talking, being loud and obnoxious, taking pictures, not focusing on the performers, etc. However, I am here to talk about what makes a good audience member. There are many necessary components to being a good audience member, and I like to sum it into one big word with many categories: attention. This word symbolizes many things that show what a good audience member is. The audience member should first of all, stay quiet (unless laughing at a comedy performance of course.) This means no talking to your neighbor, or making comments, even if it is a compliment. They should do this because if a performer is on stage and sees two audience members whispering to each other, the performer will never know if it is something nice or something mean, which can get them off focus. I have been a victim of this and it’s not a good feeling to see people talking to each other instead of concentrating on you. Secondly, they should refrain from any cell-phone use whatsoever. I know a lot of people have them but when you’re trying to perform and see people on their phones it makes you feel bad to think that Facebook is more important than your performance. Lastly, the audience should not be eating any food. This is very distracting to watch when you are trying to put on a show. Please handle all of your snacking before or after the show, and during intermission. These times of the show are given to you so you can eat, or go to the bathroom, or make yourself look better, or whatever it is you have to do. Stay in your seat, don’t eat, and enjoy the show. These are a few things that make a good audience member. There are many things that make a good audience member, and I covered only a few. No talking, no technology use, and no eating or leaving the theater. These all fall under the word I used at the beginning: attention. If everybody in the audience paid attention to