Broadhurst Theatre Being SUED!! — Page 2

Tell me Im the only person who thought to IMDB him.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0119728/

Maybe someone can do the "add photo"

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He's also listed on IBDB:

http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=33590

I think he was in the original company of Hamlet...

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Why did a click that link? The last thing I needed to see was a huge picture of a scary looking opportunist.

This thread is making my night.

I think hes hes still bitter about his bad memories at that theatre. As far as I can tell he never worked for the Shuberts. However I can tell that none of his shows were sucessful. Most closing before 10 preformances.

Side Note: Does anyone know anything about these productions? Or was Donny just realy good at picking flops?

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I'm totally in the Broadhurst's corner here.

I've been to plenty of shows where latecomers have thrown veritable tantrums when they've been told they have to wait (ah, the joys of getting standing room tickets...you hear Everything and then some...). I've heard people actually curse at the staff. I don't think I'll ever forget seeing "Enchanted April" and watching an old man get thrown out because he was cursing and swinging his cane at people, trying to hit them.

If anything, I'm guessing he was verbally abusive to the staff, disrupted the show and was angry they actually kicked him out. Hope the lawsuit is thrown out.

He looks like he'd sue if he tripped on someone's sidewalk or something.

I doubt this would happen and no one else see it / say something.

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I am not defending the old goat or anything, but he can be as noisy as anything and be a total tool, but that doesnt give the ushers the right to put their hands on anybody, let alone throw/cause them to be thrown to the floor. If thats what happened, of course. I can be a the biggest jerk in the world, ( which BTW I sometimes am), but if you punch me, you open yourself up for the lawsuit. Thats what the jury is for.

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Am I the only one who thinks that picture is cool in a weird way and the ascot just makes this bizarre personality match the article?

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Updated On: 4/10/07 at 12:45 AM

C you are not alone. I think (as I said before) his pension ran out and really is just auditioning for the show...or any show.

Or he's just putting the A$$ in Ascot...

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PhillyActor, I thought you weren't defending the "old goat". I'm taking no sides, because I don't know the facts, but it sure makes for a fun thread to vent about something that really doesn't harm anyone. I'm 44 and truely don't care what I wear anymore (unless I'm in Rome where it counts!)lol

We've experienced both sides of this story, I assume. Being "handled" by rude people, and maybe being rude to "handlers". Oh well, I never thought of suing...

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WHatI find funny is that most people are choosing to side with the ushers who are probably typical NYC hardened employees over the 88 year old guy who worked FOUR decades in film TV and Broadway, from the era of style, class and manners. So he wears an ascot...lol...they wore them back then. Hugh Hefner wears a sailors cap and a n ascot and its cool. Leave the old coot alone!!!! LOL Im 35 and I dont care what sneakers I wear already..Ill prolly have parachute pants on when im 90.

What pray tell is a "typical NYC hardened employee?" In general, the tourists I've met have been far ruder than the natives at the theatre. It doesn't matter if the man was a Nobel Prize winner or the best actor in the world, he still had no cause to act as he allegedly did. Age does not confer wisdom, and as I said, I have seen plenty of ill-behaved seniors at the theatre. If there was an era of "style, class and manners" back then, it seems a lot of people missed out...

If the ushers actually touched him, of course they were in the wrong. However, I really can't see this being the case. A majority of Broadway ushers are little old ladies, for Pete's sake! I doubt they're picking up and throwing anyone. From the theatre's own response, the cops were called, they were the ones that escorted him out.

Updated On: 7/10/06 at 02:16 AM

I love you phillyactor. We are on the same page.

I really can't imagine the theatre staff would have thrown him down, per se (although they are capable). That would have been wrong. Removing him from the theatre--and God and the judge will only know the truth--was probably less dramatic than he remembers. But what an image! Like a nun stuck in the revolving door with a spear in her head: what is red and white and goes around and around and around...

I still think it's all about his own agenda. IMO.

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