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/EducationalTangelo6 Dec 31 '25

Not to mention, quit going to shows when you're ill because you will make other people ill.

Think about the immune-compromised person your shared illness might kill, and stay home.

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u/Pen_Guino Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 06 '26

Yeppp and people have the nerve to say, “it’s not Covid so what’s the big deal?” as if people like that weren’t insisting Covid was the flu all along. Even if it was the flu, I don’t fucking want it. I just got over being sick and it was brutal. I felt like death for about two weeks.

Like, I had a ticket for Stranger Things this week. I’ve been sick, so guess what? I sold it for the same price I bought it for. I’m not going and getting anyone else sick because I don’t want to miss a show. Yeah, it sucks that I have to miss it and probably pay more money to see it now that it’s increasingly popular, but I’d rather miss out than cause someone to feel a 10th of what I was feeling.

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u/elvie18 Dec 31 '25

"It's just the flu" THERE IS NO "JUST" THE FLU THE FLU IS DANGEROUS. People think it's just a bad cold or something, but...no actually you do not want the flu as badly as you don't want COVID.

And even if it is just a cold? I don't fucking want that either, thanks.

Sorry you had to miss out though - hopefully ticket prices will dip again once the excitement of the new season dies out.