the wonders of taking an autistic child to a Broadway show

The wonders of taking an autistic child to a Broadway show...we took him to see the Spiderman show whilst in NYC and it was difficult. He is Spiderman obsessed and a result of his disorder is that he has no patience with things being wrong in any way. He expected it to be fairly bad but I think it was worse than he thought. Obviously there is such a thing as dramatic license where shows like this are concerned but he cd not cope with the fact that they got so much of the story details wrong. Then there was the bit where they hint at a part of the storyline in a couple of places but he didn't understand about them dropping those hints for the big reveal later in the show. He got angry cuz they didn't explain it properly. He was also irritated by things like the fact that the newspaper office was all set in 60s style which it shd be but then there were lines written in about facebook and computers which most of the audience thought was quite funny but to him it was just wrong. Oh and the constant references to U2 songs when it was written by The Edge and Bono. All the first half he is sighing loudly and laughing at how stupid it was (he was not impressed with all the special effects, loudly expressing how pathetic it was) and ppl around us were very aware of him if you know what I mean. Then the second half really got him going. A great deal of this was frankly boring and tedious, centered around Peter and MJ and all very nice but yawn. My son, having been irritated to distraction by the first half, was now getting bored and that is soooo much worse. I managed to keep him under control for about 5 minutes but then he decided to get his psp go out and start playing a game, with the sound off so not bothering anyone. The usher shouted at him (and I do mean SHOUTED, even tho there was a show going on) to turn it off and he started to argue with the guy that it wasn't a phone, it wasn't hurting anyone but the bloke was adamant you shdn't bother the ppl around you...even tho it wdn't. So instead he spent the next ten minutes fidgeting constantly, muttering under his breath and generally making it very clear that he was not impressed by the show. I wanted to hold up a sign saying he has an autistic disorder, this is good behaviour by his standards! Unfortunately you can't explain this to everyone. The amount of looks ppl gave me as if to say "how dare you let him behave like that?" and "can't you control your child". Bless him, he did acknowledge that he wdn't say what he thought to his father (who cd only get a ticket on another level so wasn't sitting with us THANKFULLY) cuz he did appreciate that the tix cost a lot and his father wdn't want to hear that he wasn't impressed. Having said all that, he said the best thing as we were coming out.. he did say the one thing that made it a bit better was that "you 2" (meaning his dad and me) enjoyed it so it wasn't a total waste. He then laughed at his own play on words..."I just realised I said U2, I shd have said "you both" but U2 is appropriate". Funny and clever, I'm so proud.