TWITTER WATCH: Andrew Keenan-Bolger Has a Clever Parting Shot For AT&T #FUNHOME
By: Michael Dale Sep. 15, 2015
What's done is done and, as reported on BroadwayWorld, AT&T removed their advertisement depicting someone watching a football game on their phone while seated at a play after Twitter exploded with responses from angry theatregoers and theatre professionals.
It was a sensational performance by the theatre community, but Broadway favorite Andrew Keenan-Bolger wasn't available to join in when the controversy broke. But every great performance deserves an encore, so he humbly submits, and we happily post, this clever creation.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger is an actor, director, author and filmmaker. He created the role of "Crutchie" in the Original Broadway Cast of Newsies (Outer Critics Circle nominee). Other Broadway: Mary Poppins, Seussical, Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol. 1st Nat'l Tours: Spelling Bee, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Mary Poppins, Ragtime. Theater: "Jesse Tuck" in Tuck Everlasting at The Alliance Theater (dir. Casey Nicholaw),Ever After at Papermill Playhouse (dir. Kathleen Marshall), Family Furniture at The Flea Theater (dir. Thomas Kail). Film: "Billy Frazier" in The Rewrite starring Hugh Grant, Marci X, Are You Joking? TV: Nurse Jackie (Showtime), Looking (HBO), Naked Brothers Band (Nickelodeon), One Life to Live. B.F.A. from the University of Michigan. His work as a filmmaker has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, The Associated Press and New York Magazine. Co-director of the upcoming short films The Ceiling Fan and If Love Were All. Along with collaborator, Kate Wetherhead, he is the co-creator the critically acclaimed webseries, Submissions Only(www.submissionsonly.com) and co-author of the new children's series Jack & Louisa (Penguin Random House).
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