LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
BWIDB Charlie
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/04
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:00amWay to go, Patti!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#2re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:02am
Ok, I guess I agree with her, this time...
"Ask the actor in "Hair" who recently grabbed a camera out of an audience member's hand and threw it across the stage."
Wait, what happened at Hair?
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#3re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:08amI haven't heard anything about an incident at Hair, but she's totally right. You rock Patti!
#4re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:09amLOVE HER!
#5re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:10am
^I've nearly done the same myself.
edit: This refers to Wishing's post.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Updated On: 6/23/09 at 11:10 AM
#6re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:11am
She sure loves milking this, but who wouldn't?
I'm more interested about the MARY STUART incident, I love those two women.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#7re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:15amwhat I've read about the Mary Stuart incident is right before *SPOILER WARNING TO NOT RUIN HISTORY!* Mary is to be executed, a cell phone rang. Janet McTeer didn't say anything until the stage door, but obviously a very powerful moment of theater was ruined by that cell phone.
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
#8re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:16amYeah, anybody know what happened at Mary Stuart?
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#9re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:19am
I find it sad that she even has to do this.
It's a sorry state in the theatre today.
#10re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:23amLol.
-Benjamin
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#11re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:34am
Wait, what happened at Hair?
Apparently an actor recently grabbed a camera out of an audience member's hand and threw it across the stage.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#12re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:44amWell, I got that. Although, as wrong as the audience member might have been if the camera broke the performer could get in trouble.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
theatregeek2
Understudy Joined: 1/16/07
#13re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:49am
here's the article about audience misbehaving in shows: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124424873407590721.html#mod=todays_us_page_one
i've got to admit those were atrocious! i'm on her side
#14re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 11:56am
Phyllis, where's your source? link? 
(only Phyllis makes me lol with every post).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#15re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:08pm
During a Saturday matinee of the Holocaust drama "Irena's Vow," a man walked in late and called up to actress Tovah Feldshuh to halt her monologue until he got settled. "He shouted, 'Can you please wait a second?' and then continued on toward his seat
Holy crap!
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#16re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:11pm
I don't understand why people are so rude during shows. I was at Into the Woods when I heard a guy's phone go off. And then to add insult to injury, the guy answered the phone during the performance. My cousin has admitted her phone went off while she was in the on the stage seating of Spring Awakening. And during Rock of Ages just last month, a guy was on speaker phone or walkie-talkie during the show and people started yelling at him to shut up. Then there's my favorite story of Phoebe Cates texting next to me during the entire performance of the Pillowman. I wonder if Patti LuPone would have threatened her and I still wonder why Kevin Kline, the impeccable stage actor that he is, didn't tell her to stop.
If I'm paying anywhere from $25-$125 a ticket, I don't want a show to get ruined by people who can't be separated from their electronics. I'm paying to escape the real world for a little while I don't want your insensitivity to ruin that fantasy, thank you very much. And if you want a picture of the actors, wait till the stage door and many actors are happy to oblige.
Waiting for tickets to Hair August 2008
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#17re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:11pmAs always, Miss LuPone is correct and right on the money!
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#18re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:13pmBut this guy wasn't doing any of those ridiculously disruptive things. He was texting. Yes, texting is annoying, but she's acting like the guy was doing a lot, lot worse.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#19re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:18pm
Then there's my favorite story of Phoebe Cates texting next to me during the entire performance of the Pillowman. I wonder if Patti LuPone would have threatened her and I still wonder why Kevin Kline, the impeccable stage actor that he is, didn't tell her to stop.
oh, Phoebe. really?
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
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#20re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:20pmI sat behind two couples the last time I saw 9 TO 5 who were texting and talking throughout the entire show. Why do people fork over so much money to sit in a Broadway theater and NOT watch the show? I just don't get it...
#21re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:21pm
I guess I don't see the need for calibrating just how disruptive stupid behavior like this is.
To me, it's pretty simple: If you're at a performance, face the stage and sit quietly. End of discussion.
#22re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:24pmI agree rocks.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#24re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:27pm
Oh, if only that man at Irena's Vow had done that to Patti. Can you imagine the LuPwning he would have received?
As an usher, I will happily join Patti's campaign. I love putting rude audience members in their place while on the job. My mother calls me "the Usher Police" because I still do it when I'm an audience member myself.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#25re: LuPone Issues Response To Showstopping Vegas 'Texting' Incident
Posted: 6/23/09 at 12:28pm
While attending Sondheim's evening up here in Boston, a young couple in front of me BOTH had their phones out texting the ENTIRE time. Why? If you didn't want to be there...why did you come????
At Shrek...a man across the aisle from me had his cell phone out the entire act, which I might not have cared about had I been "involved with the show. However, I found it entirely distracting. At intermission, I asked an usher to remedy the situation. I saw her walk IMMEDIATELY over to the man (with children--what a lovely role model.) The phone didn't appear once during Act II.
And while I agree its a horrid problem, may I say it is also NOT just a problem at the theater. At movies, at dinner, at WORK, in classes, in rehearsals, while with friends.....we have bought into the idea that we are the most important thing and all else is secondary. I have a cell phone. I use it. but when I am with friends or family, or at the theater, I promptly turn it off.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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