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| - We had a terrible experience at the Comerica Theatre last night, and we definitely weren't the only ones. We were in the audience for a live taping of the radio show "Wait! Wait! Don't tell me!" and the echoes produced by the sound system were so terrible that it was difficult, and often impossible, to understand what was being said onstage.
The very, very beginning of the show was fine. Then, suddenly, everything said onstage was repeated in a big, booming echo coming from the back of the theatre. We were on the extreme end of the auditorium, stage left, close to the stage, so when it wasn't resolved in a few minutes, I grabbed a security guard, who relayed the message to someone else. The sound got worse for a while, then back to it's original form of bad.
People in our section began to get up and go to the lobby to complain. Halfway into the show we were still missing at least half of what was happening on stage, so my husband got up to find someone. When he returned, he said there were many people in the lobby complaining about the sound, mostly people sitting at the sides of the auditorium, like we were.
We had really been looking forward to seeing our favorite radio show performed live, and my husband bought really good seats as a Christmas present to me. We are extremely unhappy about our experience.
Another problem with the Comerica theatre was whatever happened to delay everyone's entrance into the building. My husband and I arrive just before showtime, expecting to rush in to our seats. We were surprised to find huge crowds waiting outside, with a massive line at Will Call, and no particular direction for the way we were supposed to enter. We had seen many shows at this facility when it was the Dodge Theatre, and I never remember anything like this. It wasn't so bad for us, because by the time we arrive people were finally getting in, but I know the crowd who were there earlier were very unhappy about having to cool their heels outdoors.
I doubt that "Wait! Wait! Don't tell me!" will ever tape there again. The host apologized to the crowd for the late start because the people were just getting into the theatre (although it certainly wasn't HIS fault!) and he made some jokes about the bad acoustics, so he must have realized that some of us were struggling with them. It must have sounded terrible to him onstage. Oh, and they had a stage-monitoring problem too; when they brought up audience members, they couldn't hear things that were being said on another part of the stage!
I left a message with the management, but I haven't heard anything back. We definitely will not return to the Comerica Theatre until we hear that they've fixed their sound problems.
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