Trends Forbidden Broadway: Ovation inflation

There are all sorts of theories to explain this phenomenon. There's the Cartesian: I spend; therefore I stand. People who lay out upwards of $90 a ticket need to justify, at least rationalize, the expense. It's for themselves more than for the show. There's the Caesarean: I came, I couldn't see; I had to stand. There is the Pavlovian:
· You stand so I stand. [Opion Journal / Wall Street]