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I recently visited New York and saw Kinky Boots (delightful, apart from the dodgy accents) and the biggest, burliest character in the show appeared beforehand and basically threatened people into turning off their phones, being very specific that neither text messaging nor putting phones on vibrate were acceptable. It worked delightfully well, first Broadway performance I've seen in years in which I didn't hear or see a single phone-related thing.

At today's Cirque du Soleil matinee, I was sitting next to a young-ish couple who were generally well-behaved for the first half, a bit of chatting but I recognise that it's not Hamlet and some "Oh my God" and "That's amazing" goes with the territory.  After the interval, however, the bloke, who was sitting next to me, began speaking loudly throughout the entire first number of the second half, which was very distracting.  When I asked him to "please stop talking quite so much" the response was that I should move to the row in front, which was empty (but which had shown up as being booked and which the staff had used as a cut-through in the first half, so I didn't move - it wouldn't have affected my hearing them in any event).  Was it wrong to object?