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Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
#25Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:22pm
Went off in our office. The last Amber Alert we had was louder. My phone was on silent and it vibrated.
#26Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:22pm
This actually wasn't that bad. As long as your phone was on silent there wasn't any noise.
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#27Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:23pm
adamgreer said: "I wish there was a way to opt out. I have no desire to receive any messages of any kind from that man."
Lol all it is a message in case we are getting nuked or some other major disaster
#28Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:38pmI kept my phone on airplane mode for 20 minutes (2:10-2:30). No message. It was apparently nothing special, just click the "ok" button and it's over.
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#29Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:38pm
Correct Broadway Joe, much like the old "emergency alerts" we received on TV when I was a kid. It's really a good idea to have a way to contact us in case of an emergency.
#30Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:41pm
First report I've found of it disrupting a show today was Max Von Essen, who posted an Instagram story saying that some alerts went off in the theatre during a very quiet moment in one of his scenes.
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#31Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:47pmNot a peep at Waitress. Everyone was asked to shut off their phones and they obviously did. Nice job everyone.
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#32Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 2:56pm
OkBroadwanFan said, "Correct Broadway Joe, much like the old "emergency alerts" we received on TV when I was a kid. It's really a good idea to have a way to contact us in case of an emergency. "
Old? They still do it. At least once a month I believe thru Comcast. And it's really loud.
We had a district wide meeting today, so 200 phones went off in my school.
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#33Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:00pm
dramamama611 said: "OkBroadwanFan said, "Correct Broadway Joe, much like the old "emergency alerts" we received on TV when I was a kid. It's really a good idea to have a way to contact us in case of an emergency."
Old? They still do it. At least once a month I believe thru Comcast. And it's really loud. “
Yes at Spectrum as well. In the middle of the night. If you accidentally fall asleep while watching tv and this comes on, you probably will wake up very quickly.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#34Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:06pm
KathyNYC2 said: "dramamama611 said: "OkBroadwanFan said, "Correct Broadway Joe, much like the old "emergency alerts" we received on TV when I was a kid. It's really a good idea to have a way to contact us in case of an emergency."
Yes at Spectrum as well. In the middle of the night. If you accidentally fall asleep while watching tv and this comes on, you probably will wake up very quickly."
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Updated On: 10/3/18 at 03:06 PM
#35Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:19pmNothing at HEAD OVER HEELS. They made a very loud and pronounced announcement prior to the show and most were seen turning it off.
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#36Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:23pm
Tweet from Alex Boniello of Dear Evan Hansen:
“Fun fact: The Presidential Alert text happened right after the key change in “Waving Through A Window.” Only one phone went off bc most of the audience followed the rules, and we couldn’t hear it because Evan was singing some B flats.”
#37Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:29pmhttps://twitter.com/AlexBoniello/status/1047554843613835264
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#38Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:30pm
natashalost said: "Tweet from Alex Boniello of Dear Svan Hansen:
“Fun fact: The Presidential Alert text happened right after the key change in “Waving Through A Window.” Only one phone went off bc most of the audience followed the rules, and we couldn’t hear it because Evan was singing some B flats.”"
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#39Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:35pmBecause Frozen started at 1pm it happened about 5 mins into intermission. But they still made it clear before the performance with a special announcement about turning your phones completely off!
#40Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 3:41pmMy phone was on silent and it still made noise anyway (I’m not at a matinee). Maybe it was because I had headphones in? Scared the crap out of me.
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#41Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 4:09pm
Someone on Twitter said that Frozen back-timed the curtain so that the alert would fall during their intermission.
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#42Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 4:13pm
That was Laura Heywood:
https://twitter.com/BroadwayGirlNYC/status/1047569074077798401
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#43Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 4:16pm
starcatchers said: "My phone was on silent and it still made noise anyway (I’m not at a matinee). Maybe it was because I had headphones in? Scared the crap out of me."
It was the headphones. My work phone went off buzzing but without any noise, but my personal phone had the alert sound buzzing through my headphones, but not the actual phone itself.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#44Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 4:17pm
I was shopping at Michael's when the alert went off. It was rather comical as shoppers scrambled to check their phones. As I was near the employee's break room I heard about a dozen phones going off behind the door.
I had shut the ringer off on my phone but the message alert sounded loud and clear.
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#45Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 7:07pm
LizzieCurry said: "That was Laura Heywood:
https://twitter.com/BroadwayGirlNYC/status/1047569074077798401"
Their Wednesday matinees are always at 1. They did not back time their curtain for this lol
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#46Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 8:13pm
Some phones will ignore the silencing feature for alerts like this. Mine was one of them. I decided to do a test of my own, silencing my phone for the duration of the alert. It went off loud and clear, scaring the hell out of my cat.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#47Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 8:19pm
GreasedLightning said: "LizzieCurry said: "That was Laura Heywood:
https://twitter.com/BroadwayGirlNYC/status/1047569074077798401"
Their Wednesday matinees are always at 1. They did not back time their curtain for this lol"
Perhaps what they meant was that they started at 1 pm exactly instead of the usual 1:05 to ensure the intermission would have started by then.
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#48Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 9:13pmSeveral phones went off at Lifespan of a Fact, even though all of the ushers kept telling us to turn off phones and they made one big announcement before the show started. Cherry Jones and Daniel Radcliffe just kept going as if nothing had happened. Where I was sitting, it wasn’t that loud - the audience members tsking at the noise were louder than the noise itself!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/15
#49Emergency Alert System Test Tomw During Matinees
Posted: 10/3/18 at 9:49pmMy phone was on silent and it went off and it was loud. My friend had his phone turned completely off and it turned itself on during the test.
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