Carrie Hope Fletcher on the LES MIS Bootleggers

[carriesparkle]

Posted: 1/16/16 at 12:18pm

I think the West End needs its own Patti moment. This is becoming a real problem and pre-show announcements and post-show social media is ineffectual.

Carrie Hope Fletcher on LES MIS Bootleggers

[nataliealana]

Posted: 1/16/16 at 6:04pm

The worst I have ever seen was somebody filming an entire second act with an iPad held above their head. No usher intervention. 

[Whileshesleeps]

Posted: 1/18/16 at 6:45am

Its awful behaviour to film a performance. It's beyond me of the audacity of people.

The worst I've seen it was in one of the previews of Made in Dagenham at a performance where cast members family and friends were invited (all on freebees) much to the annoyance of the paying Saturday night audience. They generally behaved terribly talking over scenes and then applauded inappropriately when their loved ones came on stage filming their scenes - and the theatre staff did absolutely nothing yet had had the audacity tell off someone before the show started for taking a photo of the stage area. 

There was some poetic justice at one matinee last summer I saw of Miss Saigon when someone at the front of the balcony positioned their ipad on the cushioned balcony rail and filmed the entire first act (almost impossible for staff to stop without disturbing things for everyone else), but they made it clear as soon as the lights went up they knew what went on and in her panic to put the ipad away the woman dropped it into the stalls. I think the woman and her partner must have been asked to leave (or did so out of embarrassment) as they weren't there in act 2. 

From my experience there seems to be more of this type of filming on phones and ipads going on at musicals and from tourists wanting some sort of holiday momento. 

Surely its another case of theatres as a whole looking at a common etiquette and explicitly stating what they expect from patrons during performances from the point of booking tickets (a box to tick they have read and agree to comply with), rather than just giving a lame announcement at the start of the show. 

[Dave19]

Posted: 1/18/16 at 2:08pm

Sounds to me that she is just insecure about her performance by using the "not how I normally perform" phrase.

 

Like any insecure girl at an audition uses this phrase too.

 

She is filming herself all the time, even the most lame performances in her bedroom and puts it on Youtube.

 

If I were her I would download the video as soon as possible and keep it carefully, as it will be her only trophy that lasts, to show her grandchildren any success she had when she was younger. And send the person who filmed it a thank you note.

 

 

 

 

Updated On: 1/18/16 at 02:08 PM

[ShoesForRent]

Posted: 1/18/16 at 3:11pm

I have to agree with Dave it seems like she is saying "in case you happen to watch that video and my performance is not to your liking, just know I was focusing SO HARD, and Im usually a lot better".

There is a discussion to be had about bootlegs, but not the way she's put it out there,.

[nataliealana]

Posted: 1/18/16 at 3:58pm

Not to make a sweeping assumption of her fan base but I feel as though Carrie Hope Fletcher might be bringing this issue to a younger audience. I'm just basing that opinion on the time I took a sulky teenager to see Wicked and had to listen to her whining "I don't understand WHY I can't video it though, I do it all the time at concerts".

[SallyJones123]

Posted: 1/18/16 at 5:15pm

I really dislike Carrie. She is so self-serving and attention seeking and manipulates her many needy "hopefuls" - she certainly knows what she is doing in terms of marketing herself! The sad thing is that the people who follow her every move and worship her don't realise she is using them to further her career and doesn't give two hoots about them. She is obviously an intelligent girl and no doubt her voice is good but I am not a fan (couldn't you guess that!? lol)

Also, I doubt she saw the person recording her on the video she is talking about. She is just trying to excuse her less than subtle performance.

 

[Dave19]

Posted: 1/19/16 at 8:43am

I totally agree.

 

Yet, she is not intelligent enough to realize that her "constant attention seeking attitude, with all the bedroom video's of her singing "on my own" to a lame tape, and to spread such negativity about this subject "so people in the business know how seriously she takes herself/extra attention" works out in a more negative way than she can imagine.

Hundreds of girls have played Eponine on the West End and the only ones that will be remembered are the ones with bootleg clips on Youtube. Even if she is insecure about her performance. 

 

Edit: If you youtube her now, she comes across as a fan singing in her bedroom with no career at all.

Updated On: 1/19/16 at 08:43 AM