Frozen tonight

[theaterlyfe19]

Posted: 1/31/19 at 9:52pm

I cant figure out how to post a link so Im just going to quote what Caissie Levy tweeted:

If you were the young woman about 8 rows back, center orch, filming our entire show on your iPhone tonight, please know you completely distracted me & made me almost go up on my lyrics. Its scary when we see people filming us. Please stop & just enjoy the dang show.

WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN??? The actors can see you. Fellow audience members can see you. Because you live across the world doesnt entitle you to a recording of a show. They literally say at the beginning of the show that filming is PROHIBITED.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/31/19 at 10:17pm

Okay but how is it scary?

[theaterlyfe19]

Posted: 1/31/19 at 10:21pm

CATSNYrevival said: "Okay but how is it scary?"

Does it matter?? It’s WRONG. 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/31/19 at 10:29pm

I’m not arguing that. I’m just curious what it is that scares her.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/31/19 at 10:33pm

If she was filming the “entire” show, why didn’t Caissie or any other actor who saw, alert the SM who would have front of house take care of it. I’m not saying she’s exaggerating but it’s standard practice to let someone backstage know and they get someone to remedy the situation. Happens all the time.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/31/19 at 10:39pm

To be fair, Caissie's “entire” show is about 20 minutes of stage time.

[LuPita2]

Posted: 2/1/19 at 12:15am

No one gets to decide what is scary to her or not.

That being said, the ushers should have seen it or been alerted by someone from backstage.  A tweet (just like Sara's Insta rant) will help nothing.  

[Phillytheatreguy10]

Posted: 2/1/19 at 12:57am

I think we picking on her word use, which is her choice. Scary may not be appropriate, perhaps jarring would be a better choice, distracting even especially with so many moving parts, even dangerous. They do have bomb sniffing dogs that check each theatre before performances. There have been threats of violence at shows in the past- I seem to remember a night in the past Groundhog Day and Cats couldn’t leave their theatres due to threats. People are getting shot at Ariana Grande concerts, live performance venues are not safe, it’s sad, but true- and isn’t there a man currently banned from Frozen due to political outbursts. Give her a break, it is her prerogative to use whatever word she’d like to describe the fear or panic she felt in the situation, it’s not entirely her job to alert anyone, there are Ushers for a reason. She may not be Patti or Sara so a lot of folks are attacking her and not praising her for speaking out which is her right to use her platform to speak out and not be attacked. It’s an issue, she’s making a statement, let’s not belittle her thoughts or feelings, the world has enough of that! Besides, if she was a doctor I certainly wouldn’t expect a camera to be with her in the OR- she may not be saving lives but she is bringing joy and escape in trying times and at the end of the day she has the right to a safe work environment. 

Updated On: 2/1/19 at 12:57 AM

[Fetus]

Posted: 2/1/19 at 1:17am

I don't think there is anything wrong with how Cassie addressed this situation and she's perfectly in her right to call out any audience member distracting her performance, but damn the OP's posts on bootlegging are tiring. The random capitalization throughout makes me feel like I'm reading a tweet from a Fox News Panelist.

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