The Rittenhouse Review

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Friday, January 05, 2007  

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
On Popcorn, Other Snacks in Broadway Theaters

Here's Patti LuPone's observation on the growing prevalence of food and beverage concessions on Broadway, as quoted in today's New York Times ("Noises Off: Playgoers Sip, Munch and Crunch," by Cara Joy David):

Broadway is about a theatrical experience. It’s not about pulling out Marie Callender's chicken pot pie and a Sterno. Would you go to church and pull out a ham sandwich? I don’t think so. Then why would you do it at the theater?

Sing out, sister.

[Post-publication addendum (January 6): I might add here that I once sat in a pew behind two women who shared a snack -- something noisy, a granola bar, perhaps -- during the homily of a 5:15 p.m. weekday mass at Philadelphia's St. John the Evangelist Church, after which, anon and all that, believe it or not, both women went up to the altar and took the Eucharist, which, as any halfway decent Catholic knows, is just not done so soon after eating.]

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