'Live' commercials before theatre?!? What level of HELL are we descending to now?- Page 2

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:32pm

*amused* I wonder if the Doctor Pepper folk and the other folk were paying Brooks for his in-show commercials, and that's how he kept the show open for so long.

[DG]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:19pm

"will appear in the three-minute production on the stage of the Gaiety Theatre [Dublin] on May 16."

This is supposed to start tomorrow night. I know it's a long shot, but if anyone happens to get to see it, I'd love to hear a report on how it went and what the response was.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 5:52pm

I feel kinda sorry for the actors tho. I mean they just want a gig( I presume they will not be using the shows cast!) and they will be caught in the maelstrom cos this just ain't gonna be well received!!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 6:06pm

Next on the agenda actors costumes festooned with company logos
sort of like Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

[hannahshule]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 6:16pm

At least in live theatre we can throw things at the actors to get our message across. In a movie theater, it's not as effective.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 6:29pm

It's disgusting, plain and simple.

[mlsheehan]

Posted: 5/23/06 at 9:46pm

So was anyone "lucky" enough to see this piece of nastiness?

I'd be furious if this happened when I paid $60 to $110 dollars for a ticket. I'm boo there a$$es off the stage.



It's tonight Updated On: 5/23/06 at 09:46 PM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/23/06 at 11:18pm

STOMP in the East Village is now having live commercials prior to each performance. Apparently, the audience ignored it, kept chattering and talking on their cellphones:

"Last night's ad began with a woman onstage putting the audience on notice that they would in fact be watching a commercial, "brought to you by Visit London."

The audience, mostly foreign tourists and students from a Brooklyn school, clapped and kept chatting.

The cellphone rang in the audience and the mother-daughter scene followed, with an almost-inaudible daughter, onstage, recommending London attractions. And the British actress Parminder Nagra (Dr. Neela Rasgotra on "ER") stood up for a cameo appearance.

Next, the audience was treated to an onstage couple on their London honeymoon discussing "a stroll along Shaftesbury Avenue," in the West End.

A disembodied voice chimed in: "Whatever you like doing, you'll love doing it in London."

And... scene.

"It took a long time for everything," said a Dutch-born New Yorker, Daphne van der Meulen, 29. "I think you can see from the people that it didn't really — how do you say it? — didn't really hit."



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/theater/24ads.html?hp&ex=1148443200&en=4827090515f81c85&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[mlsheehan]

Posted: 5/23/06 at 11:38pm

I believe I'll cancel the trip I had planned to London next year. I think Costa Rica instead.

Whatever I like doing, I'll love doing it in Costa Rica