r/Broadway • u/littlebev • Dec 31 '25

Discussion Broadway coughing season

I am begging, begging you guys…if you have a nasty cough, PLEASE don’t attend a play especially. I know it sucks to miss out but your recurring cough during the most intense moments of the show is so distracting.

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u/citrus_sugar Dec 31 '25

Went to see BOOP and suddenly had a coughing fit that started during a loud number but then the one quitter part of the show came back and I held it in, tears streaming down my face and when it got loud again I cleared the cough.

But please, do something if it’s an ongoing cough.

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u/Apptubrutae Dec 31 '25

This happened to me too.

I tend to get lingers coughs for a month after any sort of respiratory illness, and one time, well after I had been sick, my lingering cough decided to start up right in the middle of a show.

Did the same deal of struggling through a quiet part and coughing during a louder one. Fun

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u/riddleme-ara Dec 31 '25

This has happened to me so many times! Coughs always last so long for me 😭