text: We had a terrible experience at the Comerica Theatre last night and we definitely were not the only ones We were in the audience for a live taping of the radio show Wait Wait Do not tell me and the echoes produced by the sound system were so terrible that it was difficult and often impossible to understand what was being said onstagennThe very very beginning of the show was fine Then suddenly everything said onstage was repeated in a big booming echo coming from the back of the theatre We were on the extreme end of the auditorium stage left close to the stage so when it was not resolved in a few minutes I grabbed a security guard who relayed the message to someone else The sound got worse for a while then back to it is original form of badnnPeople in our section began to get up and go to the lobby to complain Halfway into the show we were still missing at least half of what was happening on stage so my husband got up to find someone When he returned he said there were many people in the lobby complaining about the sound mostly people sitting at the sides of the auditorium like we werennWe had really been looking forward to seeing our favorite radio show performed live and my husband bought really good seats as a Christmas present to me We are extremely unhappy about our experience nnAnother problem with the Comerica theatre was whatever happened to delay everyone is entrance into the building My husband and I arrive just before showtime expecting to rush in to our seats We were surprised to find huge crowds waiting outside with a massive line at Will Call and no particular direction for the way we were supposed to enter We had seen many shows at this facility when it was the Dodge Theatre and I never remember anything like this It was not so bad for us because by the time we arrive people were finally getting in but I know the crowd who were there earlier were very unhappy about having to cool their heels outdoorsnnI doubt that Wait Wait Do not tell me will ever tape there again The host apologized to the crowd for the late start because the people were just getting into the theatre although it certainly was not HIS fault and he made some jokes about the bad acoustics so he must have realized that some of us were struggling with them It must have sounded terrible to him onstage Oh and they had a stagemonitoring problem too when they brought up audience members they could not hear things that were being said on another part of the stagennI left a message with the management but I have not heard anything back We definitely will not return to the Comerica Theatre until we hear that they have fixed their sound problems