New Poll - Dress Run?
Sat, 19 June 2004, 02:17 pmcrgwllms11 posts in thread
New Poll - Dress Run?
Sat, 19 June 2004, 02:17 pmNew Poll topic:
Do you make an effort to dress up when you go to see theatre?
The Poll-tergeist
Do you make an effort to dress up when you go to see theatre?
The Poll-tergeist
Re: Casual rates
Sat, 26 June 2004, 06:15 pmI think there's possibly an element missing in the poll topic - whether or not you get dressed up any differently for theatre than you would to go anywhere else...to the movies, for example. If you get dressed up every time you step out of the house, that's a different concept to making a specific effort for theatre.
I recently went with my parents to see "We Will Rock You" at Burswood. (a bit disappointed by it, by the way). Mum (being Mum) was a bit disappointed I was wearing jeans, rather than dressy pants. She expected I'd have dressed up more to go to a big venue. (At least I was wearing a classy jacket, and a collared shirt, rather than my perrenial t-shirt and a flannel). But honestly, if I'm going to sit in the dark for two hours in a place where all the focus is elsewhere, my main concern is comfort (especially if the entertainment turns out to be less than desired). Even the jacket and shirt were chosen for comfort rather than look, and the jeans I'd been wearing already and so didn't need to go home to change before going to the theatre.
Now I admit there's a certain lack of effort involved in the equation...but there's an inbuilt spontaneity as well. I HAVE been to His Majesty's and elsewhere in shorts, simply because I was wearing them at the time and found myself in the city and bought a ticket to a show.
That's not to say I don't occasionally 'get tarted up' if I'm going on a date or want to look smart - I'm really posting this because I'm surprised at how low those options are scoring on the poll, while 'Yes, always' is now up around 75%.
My mum (who rarely doesn't look smart anyway) has on occasion commented that she can't be bothered going to see a performance because she's ''too tired to get all dressed up". Because her concept of seeing a performance is so tied to making it an event to get dressed up for, she doesn't make the effort to see as much as she says she'd like to.
My concept of a performance is that neither the audience or the performers are going to be looking at me, so I'd rather be comfortable, casual and spontaneous. It also means I see a lot more theatre.
Cheers,
Craig
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I recently went with my parents to see "We Will Rock You" at Burswood. (a bit disappointed by it, by the way). Mum (being Mum) was a bit disappointed I was wearing jeans, rather than dressy pants. She expected I'd have dressed up more to go to a big venue. (At least I was wearing a classy jacket, and a collared shirt, rather than my perrenial t-shirt and a flannel). But honestly, if I'm going to sit in the dark for two hours in a place where all the focus is elsewhere, my main concern is comfort (especially if the entertainment turns out to be less than desired). Even the jacket and shirt were chosen for comfort rather than look, and the jeans I'd been wearing already and so didn't need to go home to change before going to the theatre.
Now I admit there's a certain lack of effort involved in the equation...but there's an inbuilt spontaneity as well. I HAVE been to His Majesty's and elsewhere in shorts, simply because I was wearing them at the time and found myself in the city and bought a ticket to a show.
That's not to say I don't occasionally 'get tarted up' if I'm going on a date or want to look smart - I'm really posting this because I'm surprised at how low those options are scoring on the poll, while 'Yes, always' is now up around 75%.
My mum (who rarely doesn't look smart anyway) has on occasion commented that she can't be bothered going to see a performance because she's ''too tired to get all dressed up". Because her concept of seeing a performance is so tied to making it an event to get dressed up for, she doesn't make the effort to see as much as she says she'd like to.
My concept of a performance is that neither the audience or the performers are going to be looking at me, so I'd rather be comfortable, casual and spontaneous. It also means I see a lot more theatre.
Cheers,
Craig
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