"Who do you think you are!?!" LuPone throws jerk out of the theater

[Gemini Cricket]

I mixed feelings about this.

1. The person should not have been taking pictures and some should have stopped them before LuPone had to do it herself. The house manager should have been the one to kick this person out.

2. An actor should never break character ever. Ever. Who does LuPone think she is to stop the show just because she thinks she can?

3. It's an actor's dream to wish they could do this.

4. LuPone is a wonderful actress but is a horrible monster of a diva. I personally can't stand actors whose heads are so big they take up all the flyspace on stage.

5. If this becomes a common thing that actors will now do, I will barf.

Someone passed out in the audience during a performance I was in. We kept the show going. During the incident, we were given the high sign that everything was being taken care of by the house personnel, we felt confident that we did the right thing. We made an announcement at intermission about it and the show went on.

A friend of mine stopped mid scene during a production to reprimand someone in the audience for talking. I don't blame him for doing it, but it was freakin' awkward. In the end, it made him, the actor, look bad. I can't really describe why, but it made him look like he had a big head.