Broadway Blog - Cell Phones in Theatres...
Below are BroadwayWorld.com's blogs from Thursday, February 11, 2010. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from BroadwayWorld.com's bloggers!
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Cell Phones in Theatres...
by Robert Diamond - February 11, 2010 Few things are more annoying (and are more easily avoidable) to both fellow audience members and to those on stage alike and that's when a cell phone goes off in the theatre. It means that the audience member (generally) has ignored both verbal and written reminders as well as The Common sense / respect for others to do so. You'd think that Ben Brantley, Chief Theatre Critic of The New York Times, and therefore a constant theatergoer would be amongst those to quickly and fully condemn such behavior, but you'd be wrong. In a new blog post, Brantley relays the tale of a theatre date of his forgetting to turn her cell phone off and cites the instant shame as punishment and reminder enough to prevent it from happening again (to her) in the future, noting that he's now more sympathetic to the other side of the issue.I also wonder if Brantley's opinion would be harsher if it hadn't happened to a friend of his or if theatre critics and writers (myself included) had to pay for their theatre tickets, thereby potentially making it more of a personal investment. Thoughts? |
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