Patti Lupone

[Chaoster]

I was not able to provide a link but if you google Patti Lupone and click the New York Times you can read the article. I saw on the news last night that she had it with an audience member who was texting during the show. She went and grabbed the phone. How can you not look at your phone for 2 hours. Why bother going to the show. The tickets are not cheap.

 

[Uncle Remus]

On Wednesday night, two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone snatched a cell phone out of the hand of a woman LuPone said was nonstop texting in the front row during a performance of "Shows for Days" at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. LuPone was already on edge after a matinee performance earlier in the day in which four cellphones rang, creating what she called "a cacophony of noise."
In a statement she released on Thursday, she said she is seriously questioning whether she wants to work onstage any more.

"It isn't changing, it's only getting worse,'' she said. "And it takes, it's stressful. It's incredibly stressful. So, I will think twice before I sign another Broadway contract. I really will."

http://www.today.com/popculture/patti-lupone-cellphones-audience-may-make-me-quit-broadway-t31281

And then there's the fool who tried to charge his phone on the stage prop that he thought was an outlet.

 

[kaytieeldr]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainm...-mid-performance/ar-AAcMmAC?ocid=ansEonline11 "LuPone indicated that this whole cell phone thing has spiraled out of control.... 'I don't know what to do anymore. I was hired as an actor, not a policeman of the audience.'"

 

[eliza61]

Start tossing people out, until the establishments start enforcing the rules, nothing will change.

My church pastor had to ask someone to leave last summer because they kept getting up in the middle of service to take a call. Now the problem is parents give children the cell phones to keep them busy and all you hear is goofy music from the game app.

So annoying

 

[donac]

The NY media has been filled with stories about cell phones the last three weeks. Besides the plugging of the cell phone and Patti Lupone there was another one mentioned at another show. It seems that Madonna was texting all during a performance last week at a show in NY. This came from the cast who could see her face with the light from the cell phone.

Something has to be done. I love when the lights go down in a theater and the show begins. Too many people are ruining it at all types of shows.

 

[Chaoster]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/theater/hold-the-phone-its-patti-lupone.html?_r=0
okay I think I got the link

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

We were at Harry Connick, Jr. No texting. But he had a strict no Photography or video policy. Audience members did it anyway. And at one point, he stared straight I to the phone of one guests and made a comment and then a joke about wanting to make sure he caught it on YouTube.

It was so funny because once they were "busted"--they and several other guests who had their phones out videoing out them down so fast.

 

[crazymama]

I may be wrong but I think that it was Patti Lupone who, a few years ago, lost it with an audience member for talking on their phone. I remember being quite shocked at the time but I sure get the frustration. I do a fair bit of acting and it really bugs me to hear phones going off. Usually our front of house manager is on them promptly but its distracting both for the actors and the audience members who paid good money to be there.

 

[chartle]

And then there's the fool who tried to charge his phone on the stage prop that he thought was an outlet.

I thought that was hilarious then realized in order to get that video some one had to PULL OUT THEIR PHONE TO TAKE THE VIDEO.

 

[JenM]

The NY media has been filled with stories about cell phones the last three weeks. Besides the plugging of the cell phone and Patti Lupone there was another one mentioned at another show. It seems that Madonna was texting all during a performance last week at a show in NY. This came from the cast who could see her face with the light from the cell phone.

Something has to be done. I love when the lights go down in a theater and the show begins. Too many people are ruining it at all types of shows.

The thing with Madonna happened a few weeks ago, at a performance of Hamilton, when it was still off-Broadway (it starts previews on Broadway tonight). The star of the show refused to let her come backstage and meet with the cast because she was so distracting and rude with the phone during the performance.

And trying to get tickets to Hamilton when it was downtown was like the Hunger Games, that show was totally sold out. She was luckily enough to get in, and played on her phone the whole time.

I love that Patti grabbed that phone. I see a lot of theater, and people haven't gotten worse and worse with them. It's out of hand.

 

[JenM]

I may be wrong but I think that it was Patti Lupone who, a few years ago, lost it with an audience member for talking on their phone. I remember being quite shocked at the time but I sure get the frustration. I do a fair bit of acting and it really bugs me to hear phones going off. Usually our front of house manager is on them promptly but its distracting both for the actors and the audience members who paid good money to be there.

It was someone taking pictures, and it was epic. It's up on YouTube somewhere. She's amazing.

 

[chartle]

It was someone taking pictures, and it was epic. It's up on YouTube somewhere. She's amazing.

Its it the piece from the Today show linked above.

 

[crazymama]

It was someone taking pictures, and it was epic. It's up on YouTube somewhere. She's amazing.

Right!! I forgot the details! Yes it was indeed epic. The Grande Dame took some bites out of that patron lol!

 

[chartle]

It was someone taking pictures, and it was epic. It's up on YouTube somewhere. She's amazing.

Which again is ironic because it also means someone else was using their phone when they shouldn't have been.

Where does it all end?