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

[flippyshark]

And at my interactive theater venue (Sleuths Mystery Dinner Theater in Orlando) - tonight, JUST after the murder had occurred, an audience member had a seizure. The show was halted as an ambulance was called. It took the cast a while to reestablish what was part of the intended mystery and what was actual emergency. (I hear the guest was just fine, thankfully.)

We often have to hush, ask, cajole, nudge or blatantly demand polite consideration from certain drunk or obnoxious members of the audience, and we are usually helped a great deal by the other paying guests. Not long ago, one intoxicated lady was so offended by one of our characters asking her to be quiet, she picked up her key lime pie and threw it at the actor.

Perhaps we shall add a new line in such situations - "Please be considerate of others, or we shall be forced to go Patty LuPone on your ass!"

[Snowflake]

Reminds me of the great Canadian tenor John Vickers during a performance of Tanhhauser (I think) when an audience member was incessently coughing. "Stop your damned coughing" he yelled, the audience applauded and the opera resumed.

[Tref]

I may be in the minority, but I think LuPone showed a complete lack of class and civility. LuP could have easily solved the problem by notifying the management or dispatching an usher to collect the offending camera. If I had been in the audience, I most certainly would have left and asked for my money back, but then, I never would have been at a show starring Patti LuPone in the first place. My God. Never. Never.

Mercy.


Never.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Tref

LuP could have easily solved the problem by notifying the management or dispatching an usher to collect the offending camera.

Just a quick note on that point. "Rose's Turn" (the song she was singing) is the last number in the show. She would not have had an opportunity to tell an usher or stage manager until the show was over.

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Just a quick note on that point. "Rose's Turn" (the song she was singing) is the last number in the show. She would not have had an opportunity to tell an usher or stage manager until the show was over.

Hence my comment, "What, she couldn't have dealt with it for 10 more minutes?"

[Deebs]

Originally Posted by bewitched

While it is amusing to listen to someone get their comeuppance

Oh, not to me, it makes me horribly uncomfortable.

Originally Posted by bewitched

if a had I been at this performance, I would have been really pissed off...at Patti LuPone.

Me too.

Originally Posted by bewitched

If this person had been taking pictures the whole time, she should have sent a message to the front of the house to deal with it. TOTALLY unprofessional

Exactly.

Originally Posted by Tref

If I had been in the audience, I most certainly would have left and asked for my money back

I don't think I would have gone that far, but I would have been uncomfortable and annoyed.

Originally Posted by Tref

but then, I never would have been at a show starring Patti LuPone in the first place. My God. Never. Never.

Mercy.


Never.

Hehehe

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Reminds me of the great Canadian tenor John Vickers during a performance of Tanhhauser (I think) when an audience member was incessently coughing. "Stop your damned coughing" he yelled, the audience applauded and the opera resumed.

I wonder if the great Mr. Vickers ever had an uncontrollable tickle in his throat?

Several years ago, I had plans with a group of friends to go see Dance Theatre of Harlem at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. Trouble was, I was getting over a cold, which had a nasty lingering cough. I felt fine, but I sounded like Harvey Fierstein. I didn't want to cough and be a distraction during the performance. I went anyway. I loaded my pockets full of lozenges. It was fine.