Mobile Phone Ringing During Performance- Solution!

My solution is an expert marksman in the royal box. They could also deal with talkers and people with wrinkly sweet wrappers. We would need to up the cleaning budget a bit though.

Like 'Rent Remixed'

Yes, I believe there was not too much of a problem with the audience making noises in Rent 'remixed'.

is the solution not just to switch off your BLOODY phone! As a front of house manager who has to deal with annoying people with annoying phones on a regular basis i'm waiting for someone to develop a blocking device which will stop mobiles from being used inside the auditorium.

lol, i want something that will stop them taking photos too. :)

In a couple of theatres in London, i noticed them in Gielgud, are infrared lights, they have no effect to the eye except a VERY low red glow, but they emit a very strong white light to cameras, however, technology has moved on to, and most digital cameras and camcorders have infrared filters, rendering the lights usless except to some mobile phone cameras and cheap digital cameras, at the moment, there really is no answer to stopping cameras, yes there is tech. availible to block phone signals, BUT it is VERY expensive and hard to come by, i have a feeling you also need special permission in this country as it has been argued it intrudes on certain human rights and current laws, along with the fact certain people, as said above, need to be reached at all times, the biggest problem is price though, theaters would make NO return on having this device, but it would cost them a HUGE amount of money to implement in such large venues, and finally, it would have effect on certain types of radio mics as well, they use different bandwidths in the air, but in testing, they have been found, on occasions, to cause some disturbance!

lol@eastwickian, too true. It's hard to remember that there was a time pre mobile phone

Pagers have been around for much longer for the doctors out there, and before that presumably they had to stay at home or stay at the hospital or people just had to wait.

My old consultant used to put her mobile phone and pager onto silent and stick them under either bra strap. They might have been quiet, but she always made a right show of getting an IMPORTANT phonecall. Other people do manage to be more discreet and hopefully would get seats at the end of an row and leave the auditorium before starting to chat.

I know in NYC it is against the law to have signal blockers in place because while they do block the signals of mobil phones, they also block the signals around you as well. So, while they would want the signals to not be found in theatres why should some guy who is walking down the street outside the theatre be punished for talking on his phone whilst going for a walk if he isn't in theatre seeing the show himself?

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