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theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#2Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:03pmThis is...not going to go well. Just a hunch.
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#3Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:11pm
Editing as what I said offended some.
Updated On: 3/13/12 at 04:11 PM
#4Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:12pmWow- this thread is really going to happen...I didn't realize the Govenor of Arizona posted on this board...
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#5Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:14pm
This is going to go as well as the "Fences" audience discussions.
*ducks for cover and grabs the popcorn*
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#6Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:15pm
Oh wow I guess I should deleate it?. I really meant no offense. Just basing it on my experience. My bad. SOY BORIQUA Y QUIERO A MI GENTE.
Updated On: 3/13/12 at 04:15 PM
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#7Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:16pm
I am latin.
And I find this post the most offensive , racist post in a very long time..
it's fear mongering heinous closed minded, jaded, racists like you that continue to show a wonderful 'light' on latinos.
Do yourself a favor and DON'T GO!
you can be as puerto rican as you want to be- it's still a racist comment.
and speaking about 'your people' doesn't excuse you from how little minded that comment is.
You have a whole pile of whoop-ass coming your way.
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#8Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:19pmThat's ok. I am bored. Take it whatever way you want. And I love me some whoop ass.
followspot
Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#9Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:23pmOh no you di'int!
#10Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:26pm
Theaternut has a viewpoint, that is all. Perhaps in form, rather than substance, the view can be construed as racist (though it is not necessarily so).
Prove him wrong with opposite viewpoints rather than cut to the racist card: that is far to easy an oratory tactic and name calling is really no better.
My 2¢
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#11Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:26pmI did. I edited my comment already. Upon re reading it I can see how one can read it as being offensive. Sad that we can't talk about things without going to the easiest way of getting up in arms.
#12Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:28pm
I never experienced any of what you describe at In The Heights.
I think the bigger issue is all the gays who are gonna scream like tween girls every time Ricky Martin shows up on stage.
Not to sound racist or anything but why can't homosexuals behave like normal people when they go to the theater?
#13Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:31pm
"I think the bigger issue is all the gays who are gonna scream like tween girls every time Ricky Martin shows up on stage."
HOW DARE YOU, SIR (or, MADAM)! NOW I AM OFFENDED!
(Does it make it better because I am Latin?)
#14Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:32pmI really wish I didn't have rehearsal tonight, I'd get a bottle of wine and just keep hitting refresh all night!
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#15Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:33pmI thought behaving like a queen was normal theater behavior?
#16Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:36pm
Only backstage.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#17Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:37pm
Sad that we can't talk about things without going to the easiest way of getting up in arms.
What is there to talk about but your racism? Sorry that every time you see Evita, the latinos will unwrap their stinky tacos as they sit on their smelly ponchos and chat in Spanish throughout.
Wait until the Met puts it on, on White People night.
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#18Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:39pmBlaxx you are the one being a racist. I didn't say anything like that . Just what my experience was.
#19Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:41pm
"Wait until the Met puts it on, on White People night."
Is there any other night at the Met?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#20Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:42pm
It was a very heavy Latin crowd with entire family's. Food, wrappers , and conversation going full swing during the show. With Ricky Martin in it...I am sure once the show settles into its run it will get a similar crowd.. This time with the addition of cell phones in hand. I am wondering if the aggravation would be worth it.
Well, sorry that the "heavy Latin crowd" ruined your experience.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#21Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:43pm
"Wait until the Met puts it on, on White People night."
Is there any other night at the Met?
They were considering "heavy Latin crowd" night, staged on a shack by the alley behind the Met.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#22Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:48pm
"Prove him wrong with opposite viewpoints rather than cut to the racist card: that is far to easy an oratory tactic and name calling is really no better."
I'll take up the gauntlet.
It may well not be racist or otherwise offensive to complain about arguably distracting and inappropriate audience behavior.
It's a question of debate whether it's racist/homophobic/fill in the blank to call into question the fact that members of certain demographic groups are behaving in arguably inappropriate ways during a performance. A debate I'm prepared to concede, for the sake of the argument, may well be worth having freely but courteously should the occasion arise.
But what is undeniably racist and offensive is judging that an audience will likely prove to be objectionable based on noting its BEHAVIOR DURING A CURTAIN CALL and its ethnic makeup.
Thank you.
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#23Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:49pmThey were a Latin crowd. That is just the way it was. They could have been a Japanese crowd and been just as bad a audience.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#24Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:52pm
Maybe you should e-mail the producers and let them know the Latin crowd ruined your experience, so they can get them banned from entering - NO LATINOS ALLOWED!
theaternut
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/4/03
#25Audience behavior at Evita. ( especially with the Latin community)
Posted: 3/13/12 at 4:55pmHenrik I see your point. my reference to the on line clips was not intended to single out last nights audience during the curtain call. When I saw the **** load of cameras and lit objects pointed at the actors it reminded me of when I saw the Paul Simon show ( what the heck was it called) at that same theater. It just reminded me of my bad experience.
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