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

[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.