Banned from going to Theaters?- Page 2

[folkyboy]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:34pm

what did Vanessa Williams say to them when they did that to her?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:50pm

I did it to Bernadette Peters once, people joined me. She gave a horrible performance that evening.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:53pm

That's a rather rude response, regardless of what you thought of her performance.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:56pm

Im sorry, I paid for a good performance, and she phoned it in completely.

I don't see how it's rude to express my displeasure, especially when I paid a ridiculous amount of money.

She was bad, she did a bad job, she didn't hit a lot of the notes, she flubbed lines, it was obvious she didn't care

It was rude of Ms. Peters to give such a terrible performance.


PS, this was The Goodbye Girl, not Gypsy.

Updated On: 5/15/07 at 09:56 PM

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 1:30am

Fenchurch, you actually booed her?

Not clapping is one thing but actually booing someone is another- and immature and inappropriate!

Maybe something happened to her, maybe she was ill. You don't know... and even if she was phoning it in, booing is completely rude and totally uncalled for!

How would you feel?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 1:34am

There's noting immature or inappropriate about it.
I got a raw deal, not her.
If it's ok to express one's pleasure with a performance with a loud display (applause, hooting and hollering, Brava, etc) then it should be a two-way street.
And if I EVER gave a performance as bad as she did that night, I would have expected more than boos, and I would have accepting them as my just desserts.

Where I come from, if you don't do a good job, you get booed, nobody quietly applauds or just does nothing and pretends it's okay that you basically stole $100 of my money.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 1:40am

BUT WAS SHE WHITE?!

[Mistress_Spouzic]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 1:59am

ive heard of a few people being banned from rushes & lotteries... but not the entire theatre

[mll85]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:07am

I've seen people being kicked out of a theater, but I don't know of anyone who has been banned.

ive heard of a few people being banned from rushes & lotteries

Now that I've never heard of happening.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 3:52pm

Fenchurch, I don't care if she gave a performance that made Hayden Christiansen's performance in Attack of the Clones look Oscar-worthy, you do not boo a performer, be it a star like Bernadette Peters or an ensemble member. I don't care if it was a bad performance. What you did was uncalled for!

Updated On: 5/15/07 at 03:52 PM

[Kalimba]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:08pm

The earlier posts of flinging panties both baffles and intrigues me. Am I supposed to be flattered if someone flung their panties at me while I was performing? What is one supposed to do with such a sovenir? I always heard that women did that at Tom Jones concerts. I just don't get it.

[Justin D]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:09pm

was at phantom in london and saw a guy sitting a few rows infront of me, all bundled up with a hoodie and scarf (it was warm inside) and in the middle of the first act 2 ushers grabed him up and hauled him out, totally embarrasing for him. Apparently he was filming the show.

Im glad i saw this happen because it was a slow day and the level i was in was ablut half empty and i thought to myself, dam, if only i brought my camera. lol.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 4:19pm

oh yes, i have heard of several people being banned from rushes/lotteries.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:19pm

Mattbrain,

I see no law where it says I can't boo a bad performance. I see nothing wrong with it. I paid for a service (entertainment) and when I don't get it, they will know about it.

All I can say is that you better be sure to give a good performance if youre in a show that I'm watching.

Mind you, I've never booed before, and something has to be EGREGIOUS for me to boo.

That performance of the Goodbye Girl was a nightmare...and deserved fruit thrown at it (and her). NO matter how uncomfortable she was in that show, she should have quit rather than give the performance she gave.

[HumATune]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:35pm

Fenchurch, would you boo someone who is black if you found their performance abysmal?

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:37pm

wow, fenchurch, you sound incredibly spoiled and immature.

[mll85]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:39pm

The earlier posts of flinging panties both baffles and intrigues me. Am I supposed to be flattered if someone flung their panties at me while I was performing? What is one supposed to do with such a sovenir? I always heard that women did that at Tom Jones concerts. I just don't get it.

It happened at a few performance of Jersey Boys in San Francisco. After the guys playing the Four Seasons finished singing, someone in the audience would throw a pair onstage during an applause break. I guess they forgot they were at the theater and were at an actual Four Seasons concert. But one guys would pick it up and stuff it in their jacket pocket. I have no idea what they did with it after.

[Traci]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:44pm

I think I remember Hugh Jackman talking about a woman who threw panties at him during a performance of The Boy From OZ.

Also, during the performance I was at of the show I got to see a woman from the audience bite Hugh's butt. That was a sight I never thought I'd see.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 5:50pm

Fenchurch, would you boo someone who is black if you found their performance abysmal?

This is stupider than Fenchurch's original post. If Fenchurch didn't boo the black person, he'd be racist.

Updated On: 5/15/07 at 05:50 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:06pm

I saw GOODBYE GIRL three times and she was "on" every time. I had no problem at all with her performance. Maybe she wasn't feeling well the night you were there, Fen.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:16pm

I'd just like to state that when I saw my cousin's production of Joseph, I wasn't crazy about it. I thought it was bad. But I put on my happy face and told my cousin she did a great job. I did not boo.

If anyone should be banned from a theatre, it's Fenchurch.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:19pm

Well, I was told by a company member of a show that someone in the front row was booing a cast member - I don't know if it happened for more than one performance or not - and was banned from that theater for a while. That's all I know.

Updated On: 5/15/07 at 08:19 PM

[HumATune]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:21pm

Orangeskittles, that is my point. There are undertones in things Fenchurch has said now and in the past that make me wonder if he would boo the black performer. Look how in the Color Purple thread he said it was acceaptable to holler during the show simply because that's a part of black church culture. I’m black and I’ve been to plenty of church. But church is church and theatre is theatre.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:21pm

I keep an extra pair of panties in my pocket, just in case...



Well, you never know!

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:33pm

Look how in the Color Purple thread he said it was acceaptable to holler during the show simply because that's a part of black church culture.

Are you frickin' serious? What the hell?