Something I'm still surprised about (maybe a possible chat topic if anyone else cares): There's a new practice of having vendors go up and down the aisles before a show and at intermission, with candy, wine, soda, and other concessions. This seems to make it clear that it's fine with management to eat, drink and rattle wrappers during the show. This didn't really disturb me at a show like "Beautiful" which while emotional in its intimate story is mostly funny and light in its style. But all the M&M's, etc, seemed all wrong at FIDDLER, with lops of chomping and slurping going on during deeply felt, emotional moments.
In London, even as far back as 1990, they used to roam the aisles with ice cream, but ice cream was relatively quiet.