Fan singing along 'loudly and badly' thrown out

27 October 2015 - 02:10 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A woman who sang along "loudly and badly" to the musical The Bodyguard was thrown out of a theatre in Nottingham in the UK. The audience member reportedly became aggressive when other theatre-goers asked her to be quiet. She was eventually ushered out.The actors continued at the final performance of the show in Nottingham while the woman sang her own renditions of the famous songs, including I Will Always Love You, for 20 minutes.The musical is based on the hit film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.The audience claimed the woman threatened people who complained.The atmosphere was "more like a football match than a theatre trip", said Sacha Gainard, who went to the show with his parents."We were a few rows in front of the woman, who it sounds like was being told off for singing along loudly and badly."She was swearing and being quite aggressive to those who were trying to shush her."It rumbled on and after every song it seemed to bubble back up to enough of a level most of us on the second tier could hear her."Gainard, of Wymeswold, Leicestershire, said staff at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall removed the woman "after a good 20 minutes of her carrying on"."It did ruin the first half for those of us on that tier, and was not really the kind of atmosphere you expect at the theatre."The touring musical stars former X Factor winner Alexandra Burke as Rachel Marron, the character made famous by Houston in the 1992 film ..

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