Clay Thomson's tweet

I think that this tweet that Clay Thomson (actor in Matilda) wrote is worth bringing up and ranting about.

Last night he tweeted: "Since our sound dept is nailing it, the entire audience just heard me talking about gay shoulders instead of hearing the balloon man solo" (with nail painting emoji after) (I don't know how to put images on here so if someone does, feel free).

I find that him writing this is extremely unprofessional and degrading to the other departments in the show. It actually makes me wonder if he knows the names of the people who run the sound. Whether he is writing this as a "joke" or not, I find this behavior happening more and more with actors (specifically guys who are in their 20's with "beautiful bodies" who feel like they are inferior. Thoughts?

https://twitter.com/ClayThomson/status/681561325785464832

All the gay theatre twinks think they're irreplaceable, to be honest. It's almost laughable.

My thought is that it's not worth bringing up or ranting about, and that maybe people should stop bringing us every little tweet they come across and read too much into.

Why are you trying to make a mountain out of a 'mo hill? It's just a tempest in a tweet pot.

It's not making a mountain out of 'mo hill. As Call_me_jorge said, this actor has young followers and whether he intended to or not, made an extremely unprofessional comment to his peers who work just as hard on this show. He should be called out. Forgive me for not believing that this topic isn't important as there are posts all the time on here asking to dream cast Frozen the Musical. Good Grief.

Do a large number of people even follow him?

I can't think of something I could care less about than a random chorus boy's tweet.

It's not unprofessional. If you were performing in a show, and the entire audience heard you talking about "gay shoulders" (I'm assuming it made sense in context), wouldn't that be a funny and slightly embarrassing anecdote you'd want to share? And isn't Twitter the easiest way to do that? And isn't "sound dept" easier to fit in a tweet than the names of the entire sound department? And even if he doesn't know their names, so what? Do you know the names of everyone who works at your place of business?

Updated On: 12/29/15 at 01:23 PM

"I can't think of something I could care less about than a random chorus boy's tweet."

I think he plays Michael Wormwood. But also... what are gay shoulders???

The sound design in Matida is pretty terrible. But still, what a douche.

seriously what the heck are gay shoulders? and why should we care what Clay thinks about them? I've never heard of him or them ??

those are some gay shoulders right there