Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Broderick pulls a Lupone?
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#1Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 9:54pm
Apparently he stopped the show to call out an audience member.
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#2Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 9:56pm
He was filming the show from the front row?
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#2Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 10:36pm"Steve Pozgay"?
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#3Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:02pmWow, that just out-examiner.com'd every examiner.com story I've ever read.
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#4Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:11pmHe did the same thing to someone filming when I saw The Producers during the beginning of the run years ago.
Whatever happened to class?
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#5Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:15pmVery very unprofessional.
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#6Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:27pmHe stopped the show when someone was taking a picture in The Producers when I saw it. It TOTALLY ruined the show for me...
Borstalboy
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#7Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:28pmGood for him. People are entitled and obnoxious about these things.
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#8Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/20/13 at 11:31pmUshers and house managers can only do so much.
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winston89
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#9Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 12:37am
Borstalboy,
I don't think that anyone is coming off as entitled about an actor yelling from the stage at one audience member who is doing the wrong thing. Now, for the record, I haven't been at a performance where this has happend. But, the reason why I am saying that it is unprofessional is that if I were paying to see a show and this did occur, I was paying to see the show, not to have an actor spoil it for me by yelling at one audience member. It's kinda like that old saying, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of a few. In other words, there are more people who paid to see a performer in a show that don't know that the filming is happening then people that do.
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Bueo
Chorus Member Joined: 2/21/13
#11Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 2:29amI feel it's unprofessional as it breaks the fourth wall and ruins the scene- why coulden't he have just alerted the stage manager or someone else backstage to alert the staff of the theatre to deal with it?
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#12Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 3:29am
I congratulate Broderick and actors that do this, obnoxious audience members like this should be told and made to feel guilty. It's not unprofessional at all.
It's bad luck if your in the audience and its ruined the natural flow of the production, but for me, having some idiot with camera on would have done that. It's live, it would be the same if light didn't work, or the set stalled, its just unlucky if you we're attending that show but for a few seconds breaking the fourth wall it shouldn't ruin your evening too much surely and stop idiots filming not ruining theatre by posting that video around so people don't come and experience the show in its natural glory.
Bueo
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#13Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 4:06am
they did something illegal and Matthew did not like it so he responded so what ?
its his right
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#14Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 5:42am
This should be retitled Lupone pulls a Broderick. He's been doing thus for ages - and I don't have a problem with it. If the front of house staff isn't able to do their job discretely, then someone has to do it blatantly.
I also don't get this "Oh, I'm such a fragile flower of an audience that it totally ruins the experience for me when an actor breaks the 4th wall for a moment to address something that is distracting him" and, btw, is ILLEGAL.
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#15Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 6:52amGood for Matthew!!! This HAS to stop.
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#16Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 8:39am
Some of those responses are ridiculous. "Actors need to be more appreciate of audiences"? So that means actors should just let someone seated in the front row continue doing something they've been explicitly told not to do, which is also illegal?
To me, there's no difference between a teacher who interrupts a lecture to admonish a student for texting & an actor stopping a performance. Broderick was within his rights.
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#17Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 9:44amIf you want to see actors incapable of being interrupted by the audience, go see a movie.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#20Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:16amWhy couldn't Broderick tell someone to nab the guy when he's next offstage? I'd ask for my money back if an actor did that. And I'd get up in a quiet moment.
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#21Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:18amWhen I saw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, three cellphones went off during the show, INCLUDING the very last scene. Both Tracy Letts and Amy Morton were visibly annoyed about it during the curtain call, and I wish one of them had said something (about any of the phones). Theater patrons need to realize that they're out among other members of society and can't just do whatever they feel like doing.
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#22Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:22am
Right. And once that's happened, I'm already taken out of the moment, so the actors might just as well address it. I imagine that would be more of a deterrent than a quiet reprimand by an usher at the next opportunity.
(Of course, I can understand why folks would feel the opposite.)
#23Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:26am
Right. And once that's happened, I'm already taken out of the moment, so the actors might just as well address it. I imagine that would be more of a deterrent than a quiet reprimand by an usher at the next opportunity.
There's never a good moment for a cell phone, but that last one was so poorly timed that I could have cried. It broke the moment for me, and I kind of wanted Amy Morton to break from the scene and tell that person that they had ruined the momentum of the play for so many people.
(but then of course she would've been deemed unprofessional for not going forth)
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#24Broderick pulls a Lupone?
Posted: 2/21/13 at 10:34amShe could have done it in character. It would have been terrifying.
