OLG Fallsview is a great concert venue. Excellent sound system, good sight lines, leg room for once, clean, sleek and overall excellent. The concert was very good. Amanda Marshall was energetic, engaging, communicative, and by all accounts, into it. The band was great.
The only negative, and by that I mean the only negative was the two people directly in front of us in the 200 Section who stood up and remained standing for 4-5 songs. During that period it appeared to us that nobody else in the venue was standing except for a few folks down by the front of the stage. Their ample backsides obscured the entire stage. I leaned forward and asked them politely if they could please sit for the encore which they refused, telling me I should stand instead. As you might expect, a few "pleasantries"followed but they adamantly remained standing. They finally sat down when there was a chorus of "Sit Down!"from those behind and beside us who also were unable to see. The encore started and they remained seated for maybe a minute and then stood up again giving us the finger while doing so.
That was when we decided to leave, moving to the back of the section and standing for a couple of minutes so that we could at least see something but then left before the concert was finished. The boorish and inconsiderate behaviour of this couple put a damper on an otherwise excellent concert.
I know there are some who think that I'm being overly critical but I paid for a seat, I didn't pay for standing room. There were times during the concert when many of the stood for extended applause etc. at which time we stood too, no problem. However I don't think we should be expected to stand for extended periods of time because of the whims of two other people when nobody else was doing so.
There are some venues where everyone stands in the main area or there is "festival seating". I get it. I didn't think OLG Fallsview was that type of venue, I thought it had a little more class.