HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
#1HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:45pmAre they really taking glasses off of people's faces? Now I'm excited to see the show when I come this Fall or Winter but man, I'm blind as a bat, and the thought of having my glasses torn off my face really terrifies me. I mean it's my version of having snakes or spiders run over my body. Are they really doing this? Seems a bit much.
#2re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:47pm
Wear contacts? 
#2re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:50pm
I've worn both glasses and contacts and have had neither torn off my face. Maybe you should just put your hands up and they won't? Actors know how to take a hint that out of hundreds of people, you want to be able to see.
Or just take them off yourself when you see them coming
#3re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:52pm
LOL, my vision is so poor I'm "not eligible for contacts".
Good idea kryst. My fear of losing my glasses is very crazy.
#4re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:53pm
I guess you'll just have to be blind then. 
#5re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:54pmThose damn draft-dodging hippies! Never respecting people's personal space.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#6re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:54pm
#7re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:55pmIt's not like they keep them. Unless you're using the glasses to take illegal pictures of the show, then they delete them first.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#8re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 5:58pm
Yeah, they aren't cash.
Oh no, wait, am I allowed to post in this Hair thread? I don't know where my home is!
#9re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:00pmI know they give them back. But my glasses cost about 1,000 bucks and aside from that, having them removed from my face for any amount of time other than by myself will cause a panic attack that isn't likely to end quickly. I know it seems silly but this just seems to cross the line of audience interaction.
#10re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:02pmIn all seriousness, I think if you feel like you're in a compromising position and you make it clear that you don't want to be messed with that way, they'll leave you alone. They're having fun, but they want you to have fun, too; they don't want anybody to get upset.
#11re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:03pmI thought it crossed the line when Will put his balls on my shoulder. He didn't mess with my glasses, though.
#12re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:03pm
It doesn't cross the line for everyone. That's like saying your haircut cost $1000 so for them to mess with it is over the line, but maybe the person who paid $5 for theirs wouldn't care.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#13re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:03pmIt's not like they find every person that wears glasses and removes them! The odds of that happening are pretty slim.
#14re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:07pmIt'd end up happening to me lol. And I'd hardly compare a haircut to expensive eye glasses necessary for daily survival.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#15re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:09pm
Where are you sitting? (or is this just a "for future reference"?)
I understand how you feel: if there are a hundred people in a room and ONE mosquito...it will bite me. And only me.
#16re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:11pmDon't buy a ticket on the aisle.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#17re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:12pmHaven't chosen seats yet. I know sitting further back or on mez would prevent less interaction but thing is I need to be close to see. Am I safer on the inside?
#18re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:13pmYeah, just don't sit on an aisle. You'll be fine.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#19re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:13pmMost definitely. Front rows and aisles get MOST of the attention. A few of them venture further in, but not too often.
#20re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:14pm
It doesn't cross the line for everyone. That's like saying your haircut cost $1000 so for them to mess with it is over the line, but maybe the person who paid $5 for theirs wouldn't care.
Unless the actor decides to pull some shears or a razor out of his or her pocket, you can't mess up a haircut. If you're rocking a $1000 hairstyle, which COULD get messed up, at an interaction filled Broadway show, you deserve to get it.
A pair of glasses, when one is legally blind, is a whole different story. They could be dropped, damaged and have to be replaced. In the off chance that an actor approaches you, just put your hand to your glasses and they will get the point.
#21re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:24pmJust lawyer up if anything happens. HAIR's doing well. They can handle it.
#22re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 6:37pm
Ty Jersey, well said.
Lol Broadwayboy.
#23re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:04pmOn the subject of audience interaction/participation, when I visit from London, in October, and see 'Hair' for the second time (from the front row) would it be inappropriate to get naked at the end of act one?
#24re: HAIR Audience Interaction-Taking Glasses Off People's Faces?
Posted: 8/25/09 at 7:07pmInappropriate? Psh. Absolutely not.
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