A great use for phones in the theater!
A great use for phones in the theater!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#1A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 5:31am
Check this out!
What a great opportunity for the hearing impaired.
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Updated On: 2/12/18 at 05:31 AM
#2A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 10:02am
For those afraid of URL shorteners, it's an NPR link (this is the longer version): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/11/582527472/its-ok-to-look-at-your-phone-at-a-broadway-show-if-your-hearing-is-impaired
They talked about this quite a bit at BroadwayCon last year and this. I'm really impressed. I didn't get to ask, though, what resources they might have for a patron who doesn't have a smartphone — would theatres have a stripped-down spare smartphone in the house?
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#3A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 11:15am
LizzieCurry said: "For those afraid of URL shorteners, it's an NPR link (this is the longer version):https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/11/582527472/its-ok-to-look-at-your-phone-at-a-broadway-show-if-your-hearing-is-impaired
They talked about this quite a bit at BroadwayCon last year and this. I'm really impressed. I didn't get to ask, though, what resources they might have for a patron who doesn't have a smartphone — would theatres have a stripped-down spare smartphone in the house?"
Yes, at one of the Shubert talks they said there are providing devices that patrons can use if they don't bring a compatible device.
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#4A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 11:22am
So good to know!
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#5A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 11:28am
How will everyone around them know they're not being an idiot, though?!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 11:32am
The way it works is without glowing light, so it shouldn't bother anyone...and other than that.....I doubt too many particulary care what strangers may think of them.
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#7A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 11:47am
dramamama611 said: "The way it works is without glowing light, so it shouldn't bother anyone...and other than that.....I doubt too many particulary care what strangers may think of them."
Yes, but a lot of people do keep telling people to turn their phones off during shows, etc.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#9A great use for phones in the theater!
Posted: 2/12/18 at 1:24pm
But who's to yell if they don't notice it's being used?
PT...didn't know it was already in use! How's it being rec'd?
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