Concert Etiquette

Suggestions for helping your students become good listeners in a large audience situation:

1. The chaperons should be seated with the students, preferably on the aisles to help control students and keep them in their seats.
2. There are differences between sports activities and cultural events; talking and cheering are permitted during the game at sports activities, while listening and applauding at appropriate times are mannerly for cultural events.
3. We encourage the audience to react spontaneously to the performance. Audience responses are valid as long as they refer to the events on stage. Undue noise or distractions not only spoil the performance for others in the audience, but also disturb the performers.
4. Audience involvement — sing-along, clap-along, move-along — is appropriate only when suggested by the performers.
5. DURING THE PERFORMANCE, STUDENTS ARE TO REMAIN IN THEIR SEATS. Students are to use the rest rooms at their schools before leaving or the facilities in the foyer of the auditorium before the concert begins. THEY ARE NOT TO BE GOING UP AND DOWN THE AISLES DURING THE CONCERT.