What is the peanut gallery?
Although many people connect the term peanut gallery with the TV program of early children Howdy Dooda , its origin can actually be traced until Vaudeville. Many theaters charged readers for different prices for different sessions. The most expensive seats were usually located near the stage at the ground level, while the least expensive seats were found high in the back rows of the balcony. Because these seats were so cheap and distant, they often attracted a much more liney crowd that enjoyed Heckling or mocked the artist. Peanut shells soon became a popular weapon for a loud mouth that routinely lasted with them with lower seats and artists. Confidential artists soon learned to "play on the crowd" or "play cheap seats" to avoid the beris and Catcalls peanuts.
Due to the association between peanut shells and the distance from the stage, this area of the theater has become known as the peanut gallery . Section of the peanut gallery followed by theaterThe tradition of ground ground, poor members of the audience who was milling in front of the stage during Shakespeare's productions. For many people looking for available entertainment, the ticket in the peanut gallery was the best they could do.
Finally, the popularity of Vaudeville disappeared by the arrival of television and film pictures. Because most of the chairs, even on the balcony, gave viewers a decent view of the film screen, many theaters have stopped charging different prices for different sessions of sitting. Instead, balconies in segregated theaters were reserved for African -American patrons, which has become one of the focus of the Civil Rights movement.
When the children's television pioneer "Buffalo Bob" Smith introduced his program Howdy Dooda American viewers, his studio audience consisted of 40 children selected of thousands of candidates. In fact, there were many of the selected members of the TV Children's Childrenh workers and serial sponsors. Buffalo Bob called this captive audience of enthusiastic young people in the peanut gallery, both by the Vaudeville reference and the commentary on the size of the audience members.
The concept of an artist's heckling or the offer of unsolicited advice is still referred to as "commenting on the peanut gallery". The performer or speaker can initiate a preventive strike against critics by not requesting any comments from the peanut gallery or recognizing the presence of hecklers on cheaper seats. The peanut gallery often serves as a hypercritical Greek choir and informs the artists to know whenever they fail on stage.
Today there are other popular names leased and least desirable seats at the venue. Some unfortunate patrons Sports events or concert may find themselves "sitting with angels" in the highest series of the section Furtest of the stage or field. Others call these seats nosebleed section due to the high altitude that may be triggered by Nosebleeds. There are also "noctures",sitting found so far and above the action that the telescope would be a requirement.