Broadhurst Theatre Being SUED!!

[SakeDad]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:39pm

An 86 year old ex-actor is sueing the Broadhurst for being roughly treated by the ushers!! Can't wait to hear your thoughts!
NYPost article

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:41pm

He looks kinda crazy.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:42pm

Does anyone believe this? It's hard to say for me.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:44pm

It's Otho from Beetlejuice at age 80!

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:45pm

Sounds like his pension ran out...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:49pm

I wondered when someone would start the lawsuit parade against a theater

How about suing a critic who says a show is wonderful when you hated it? I think this will be the start of a flurry of suits as trial lawyers are ever vigilant to sue anyone & anything ( for the most trivial of reasons)in their quest for the green.

This country is suit crazy

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:52pm

Whoa. He looks scary.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 7:53pm

Looks like a deer caught in the headlights

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:16pm

The audience didn't hear this? The Broadhurst has no real lobby, except for the box office lobby, so this dispute would have happened directly behind their heads...

I highly doubt this happened as he put it.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:17pm

does anyone....still wear.....an ascot?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:18pm

Looks like an attempted money grab. This guy does not look like a brain surgeon

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:21pm

He should be suing The Post for using that picture of him.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:23pm

Totally agreed . You realise this may be his lawyers next target

[curly120]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:30pm

I read the article and then realized I was at a performance of History Boys (maybe about a month and half ago but I don't quite remember...pretty recently) where there was a bunch of shouting and the ushers came and took someone out. I was in a standing room spot at the complete opposite side of the orchestra, so I didn't actually SEE what happened. I wonder if this guy was at that performance. Weird...

[myManCape]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:45pm

Has anyone else been to the Broadhurst recently? When I was there a few weeks ago all of the ushers I saw were in their 50's and older. Personaly I dont think any of the ushers I saw could have lifted that man and carried him out of the theatre then beat him, or what ever he claims. So unless the Shurberts hired new ushers I doubt his story.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:48pm

curly120, I was at the stage door over a month ago and I heard scuttlebut about a brawl in SRO. I wonder were all three of these incidents one and the same, or is there something funny in the water over at the Broadhurst?!?!?

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:51pm

Probably. He will next sue the makers of his shirt...in the picture of him in The Post...for the article about him suing Broadhurst Theatre, for the alleged incident that took place there.

If anything, sue the ushers personally. Or is that not an option?

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 8:55pm

Something tells me he didn't tell them why he was standing, and instead probably went into some old bitchy rant. If so, then of course they have every right to kick him out.

Now as to the staff, I'm sure it wasn't the ushers - I mean, have you seen them? - it's probably the guys at the front who scan the tickets and control the crowd, that may have pulled him out. I know people that have dealt with Shubert security, and it's not kid gloves, I'll tell ya.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:00pm

Shuberts have probably the tightest security of the Broadway houses...they even go so far as to put a security alarm system for Belasco's apartment!

When I saw ITW at the Broadhurst...boy..I DID NOT want to mess with the ushers there!

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:00pm

does anyone....still wear.....an ascot?

I'll drink to that.

Hey. It's 2006. People sue McDonald's because it made them fat. Women sue their boyfriends because they bit their lip when they were making out.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:02pm

Okay, I don't exactly believe ALL of this, but I will tell you that a few weeks ago when I saw the show there, I was doing standing room and took a few steps back from the wall I was leaning against just so I could stretch out my legs for a moment. Not 5 seconds later, two ushers came RUNNING up to me and one said "You didn't pay to stand here, you paid to stand there" (Pointing three feet in front of me) "So MOVE"

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. This was in the middle of Act 2 and it wasn't as if they were whispering. I felt like I was in 1st grade! I had meant to say something to someone after the show but it got out later than I thought and by that time I was already late to meet friends for dinner.

So from my experience, I'm sure whatever the man did, the ushers WERE in fact rude to him.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:03pm

They also sue home accessory companies for not putting labels on CD wracks saying "NOTICE: THIS IS NOT A LADDER."

Sorry...I had to add that.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:03pm

I highly doubt it happened as he portrays it... Kinda like those women who say they got covered in ticks at the Ambassador Theatre while seeing CHICAGO.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:07pm

Jordan....the same kind of issue with me when I was there at ITW.

I saw ITW during its last 3 weeks...the show was not sold out, of course, but it was pretty full. A full two rows were pretty much 85% empty in the back. I decided during a pause in the performance to sit down (as the ushers said this would be okay, since it wasn't sold out and we didn't distract anybody)...well...IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOLF EATING LITTLE RED SCENE they come marching over to me and ask me "IS THIS YOUR SEAT?!" I said, of course, no, but I was SRO and I'd been told I could sit down if seats were empty...they pulled me out, had a latecomer sit there, and then moved me elsewhere...

Now, I understand that it was that person's seat, but they should have handled the situation between scenes, instead of distracting everybody. So I can see how there could have been a problem.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:14pm

So the Post told this guy to meet them in front of the Broadhurst so they could take a picture of him? And then he makes THAT face? I say make HIM pay the $300,000 to have that picture removed from existence.

OOPS, too late. I saved it to my computer and it is now my desktop.