Bigger Butts Force Theaters to Widen Seats


According to the Wall Street Journal, theaters are playing to larger audiences than ever before - just not in the way you think. A renovation at New York’s City Center revealed that from the 1990s until today, the average width of a seat has grown 3 inches to accommodate larger American backsides. The paper says an area that could hold 20 seats in the late 19th century can now only fit 10 “super-sized” seats. Many of the country’s theaters were designed decades ago and haven’t been updated to reflect the changing proportions of the population.

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Theatre Projects Consultants created an extensive study of the changing size of America’s seats

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