Should have tazed the asshole. Or anyone who talks during live theater.

Did he start drinking before he bought tickets to the touring show of RENT?

BA-DUM-CHING

Damn those druggies and their glass (wine) paraphenalia!

it's not a touring show - it's a local version. and damn good.

I'll just assume he's white otherwise SPD likely would have executed him on the spot.

another great victory for the american way! soon the scourge of alcohol will be a distant memory. we should see about a constitutional amendment to ban it!

Sounds likes he's a Romney/Ryan voter, but his vote will be cancelled out by his wife.

i thought seattleblues spent the summer in tuscany.

They should have congratulated the drinker for his foresight, and tazed the show's producers.

...and the show was suddenly improved exponentially.

Entitlement is so sexy.

It's bad luck to leave wine in a glass...

Viva la vie boheme?

I don't know if she had seen the play before, but something tells me she was quite familiar with her husband's act.

This guy sounds like an asshole, but if he'd started moo-ing at the cops, he would be my hero!

Although, I'm guessing he's probably more of a 'Patron of the Arts," and less a Rent fanatic.

Wow! Good job, Mike Gore.

I hope they give him 525,600 minutes of community service.

I hope he gets 525,600 minutes of community service.

God dammit, comment delay.

When you're 18, this sort of thing is pretty funny.
When you're 35, it's just kind of sad.

At 72...I gotta say, I think it's kind of funny, again.

This is completely great and should be your next cover story. In twenty years that's gonna be Dan Savage.

@21 Agreed. If I ever make it to that age, I will be way past the point of having any fucks to give.

@8...

Awesome!

Wait, something exciting happened during a performance of Rent?

Peter O'Toole was in town???

@21/23: Right on! I'm so looking forward to a few years from now when I can stand on the street corner and yell insults at people!
(Doing it with a glass of wine in hand sounds like an even better idea.)

Hold on...yes, I remember that...it was 1970 and I was going to Camp Don Bosco for the sumer....

Spill the wine,
Slap that ass

Spill the wine
Slap that ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i0DMbCKn…

And they say that marijuana is more dangerous.

Other than that, Mr. Myers, how did you enjoy the play?

This guy is my new hero. Theater in every form is so incredibly bad, I would have been so happy so see this authentic drama if I was forced to be in that theatre during this. Bravo, encore. Cheers to drunk jerks who know how to put on a real show, free of charge. I salute you.

@18, 19, 20 - You win the internet for the week. Congratulations.

-Mike the Intern

Would have been terrible had he smoked too much marijuana. He would have violently ripped everyone's face off.

Listen up kids... I'm the man's aforementioned wife.

I picked him after I got off work and drove directly to the theater. I did not observe how much alcohol he had consumedd at home before I picked him up. As we usually do, we bought a glass of wine to enjoy before the show started (I paid--big mistake). I finished my glass before he did and advised him he needed to finish his drink. He then informed me he did not want to "chug it." I also mentioned to him that wine was not allowed in the theater. He chose to ignore my advice.

After sitting down--he with his plastic cup of wine--several other patrons excused themselves because they wanted to get by us to reach their seats. I don't know what he said to one of the women, but I did hear her response, which was a playful, "Hey, give me that wine."

I was just as shocked as everyone else when he replied, "You try to take my wine and I'll stap you on the ass." The two women then sat down right next to me (on the right) and I apologized for his bad behavior. These were NOT the same women who asked to be seated in another area--those two were sitting on my husband's left side and obviously were nervous about his behavior.

Anyway..... the narrative is pretty much as described above. He did throw the plastic cup and then refused to apologize for his rudeness. I urged him to "man up" and apologize but he declined. At that point I realized he was beyond listening to anything I had to say and I decided he would get what he deserved.

I stayed because I wanted to see the show and I didn't think it was fair for me to have to suffer for his bad behavior. I had the support of the women around me who clearly saw that I was not defending his behavior.

I did enjoy the show, despite the drama, and hope my espousal unit learned a valuable lesson. We have attended numerous cultural events throughout the Seattle area during the past ten years and believe me, this is a first outburse of this nature at any of those venues. It will also be the last!