They’re defying gravity — and testing my persistence.

The brand new film “Depraved,” primarily based on the long-running Broadway present, is doing huge enterprise on the home field workplace. Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the musical “Wizard of Oz” riff is anticipated to gross greater than $100 million over the five-day Thanksgiving vacation weekend, including to its already sturdy $144 million take.

I believed it was simply OK — please maintain yelling at me about that. However Hollywood wants robust performers after a tough yr, and getting again audiences who’ve given the cinema the previous heave-ho is a win for the trade.

Sure. Besides once they sing. 

Or whip out their telephones to movie the display screen. 

Or typically behave like spoiled, mannerless brats.

Viewers members at “Depraved,” stories say, are culture-less barbarians who can barely comprehend that they’re exterior of their very own house. They’re a pack of whiny preschoolers who paint their faces inexperienced and make a scene as they shriek the songs of Stephen Schwartz to the intense irritation of these round them.

Sitting with a whole lot of paying strangers, the egocentric jerks rudely belt out “Defying Gravity” and patter alongside to “Standard.” 

How obnoxious.

This annoying glee membership has been so coddled and socially disadvantaged, they suppose they’re within the bathe or doing karaoke in Koreatown. Or at Marie’s Disaster within the Village on a Tuesday.

“They don’t know the right way to be in public locations,” one peeved ticket purchaser advised The Publish.

My guess is that they most likely don’t know the right way to sing both.

The impromptu showtune-fests have gotten so uncontrolled that AMC was pressured to ban crooning of their theaters like they’re the city from “Footloose.” 

Good on them, however it’s a disgrace the scenario needed to come to a proclamation.

Is America so enamored with fixed self-expression and my least favourite fashionable phrase — being “seen” — that folks can’t politely sit nonetheless and watch a movie for two ½ hours?

Should they make each second of this communal expertise all about them?

The unhealthy habits isn’t restricted to concert events no person requested for both. Self-absorbed photogs are capturing entire scenes with their cell gadgets to submit on-line — a follow generally referred to as, um, piracy.

So, we get to pay $20 to look at anyone’s blindingly shiny telephone make an unlawful TikTok video for minutes on finish.

Hollywood, seemingly happy with all of the fan enthusiasm and the revenue it generates, hasn’t decried any of this madness. One “Depraved” star outright inspired the rotten pattern on nationwide TV. 

Pouring fuel on the hearth, Erivo, who performs future Depraved Witch of the West Elphaba, gave the hell refrain the inexperienced gentle. 

“I’m OK with it,” the Tony Award winner stated throughout the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “We spent this lengthy singing it ourselves, it’s time for everybody to sing.”

Fallacious! After the previews are over, it’s time to sit down down and shut the hell up.

I’ll echo what Patti LuPone shouted after she stopped a efficiency of “Gypsy” on Broadway in 2009 when a person within the entrance row began snapping images of her:

“Who do you suppose you’re?!”