This post and others seem to imply that if there was no fight, there's no need to report or discuss the observations the o.p. reported.

The o.p. has a right to bring up a situation that was leading up to a fight, and the people with authority to do something about that ought to know. I hope the management of The Sharon are reading and responding.

Also, other readers who see something like this happening in the future ought to have a plan in mind for how to deal with an escalating situation like that, such as get the ushers to intervene, ask for the manager to come, etc.

They probably won't have a reasonable plan in mind if nobody reports that such things are going on in the first place!

From what I experienced in my 4 visits to The Sharon, the ushers make no attempt to enforce anything and evidently management has no intent to change that. The ushers are in the theater and then can see the violations as well as we can. IMHO, getting an usher will accomplish nothing and the inmates will dictate behavior.

All the more reason to voice concerns here, out in the open, to inform concertgoers as to how apparently uninformed or apathetic management appears to be. It seems letters need to be written to inform The Villages and the developers of the low-class behavior that is being given silent approval by doing nothing about it.

True, but it's another instance of rules being made but not enforced. Seems to be the modus operandi. The rules only seem to apply to those who would follow them.

I say let the clubs' tour buses meet up in the square & rec center parking lots anyway and see what happens!

probably the ushers are aware that some villages may be packin and they ain't paid to die

Didn't used to be.....we respected each other....now, we crawl away from confrontation......it's no big deal because we either have some fear but more likely "we don't want to get involved". The sad part is we grew up in a generation where we wouldn't let that happen, now we pass on to our kids and grand kids that behavior doesn't matter.

You never can tell who you are dealing with now a days in certain venues on any given day. Is the person you're about to deal with mentally stable or armed? It's like poking at a possible dead animal with a stick if you're into that sort of thing. Every day could be be a fun one!

I agree.

The point I think some are missing or ignoring is that the customer/audience should not have to confront or correct another customer/audience member. That's what the employed ushers and managers are for! They should be present to see what's going on.