Cell Phone Nightmare: Laura Benanti Stops the Show — Page 3

Phones come with user's manuals. Take the time to read it, take time to know your phone especially how to turn it on and off. 

Why are people so damn lazy. It isn't brain surgery.

Humans....SMDH

 

Why thank you for that charming remark.

https://twitter.com/LauraBenanti/status/726821087191961600

She rocks!

People are boors. We see it in the way they dress. We see it in their behavior in legit and movie theaters. It's obvious in restaurants. It's proven by their vulgar,  grammatically abysmal speech. We see it in their totally self absorbed world of technology. And let us not forget today's sad political candidates and their crass supporters.  To quote a Michael Stewart lyric: "Thank God I'm old." 

"Sorry, folks. I understand the frustration (both as a performer and an audience member), but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was handled professionally. Stopping the show because you're annoyed is just as distracting, if not more so."

 

The beautiful moment was already ruined by the incredibly inconsiderate, dumb moron who allowed their phone to ring...what 5 times?  Oh my God.  The person should have been thrown out of the show, just like if anyone's cell phone goes off.  It's posted in the lobby, it's in your Playbill AND it's announced before the show.  There is zero excuse, ever, for having your cell phone on in the theater.  They need people to check their cell phones at the door before entering (some movie theaters do this now) but I guess it's not feasible considering there is no desk to check in your phones at most Broadway houses.   

 

If you are an inconsiderate person with no respect for other patrons, the cast, crew and every one else involved in theater, do not attend the theater.  

In my experience, it's been people my age in their 20's that have behaved the worst  Older people tend to talk though, which can be just as disruptive.  

In my experience, the millennials are the bigger offenders by far re cell phones. They are the ones who are addicted to their phones and literally can't last a minute without using them. I remember having to tell a young person to shut their phone off three times, as she turned it back on after each time.

". Why should she have to continue when someone has no respect for what she's doing?"

 

Because the other 1499 people do have respect.

"Plus everyone else who has worked SO hard in creating a show." 

It's wrong for them all to stop the show because of one person. It's almost impossible to get 100% audience cooperation with phones and the like in a theater audience. 

Well, after holding every foh position, including lots of ushering, and ten years of it observing audiences in five different stages at a time, I'm going with what I've seen.

 

oh, and by the way, what do you base your statement that it is "inaccurate" on?

Updated On: 5/1/16 at 03:21 PM

Saying millenials 'literally can't last a minute without using' their phones is as stupid as saying all old people don't know how to use their phones.

 

Jane2 said: "In my experience, the millennials are the bigger offenders by far re cell phones. They are the ones who are addicted to their phones and literally can't last a minute without using them. I remember having to tell a young person to shut their phone off three times, as she turned it back on after each time.

 

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I'd blame non-theatre people to be the worst at it. We theatre fans know how painful it is to have a show go off and disrupt  a performance, but the suburbanites on their big trip to NYC think it's okay.