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NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Morgaine885
Featured Actor Joined: 4/4/06
#25re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 11:50am
I can understand this show stirring-up crazy reactions, though...I think that's the whole point...that there is NOTHING "regular" about the word "regular."
As a very insecure young woman, I absolutely got where Steph was coming from and why she flipped-out the way she did...her irrationality was very rational to me, even though it seemed over-the-top. I don't think there was anything bitchy about her...a lot of girls would have went crazy the way she did.
I think it's really interesting how this play is getting different reactions from different people, men and women.
I like this play a lot...I think it's much stronger than it was at the Lortel, and even though I thought Alison Pill was the strongest part of the Off-Broadway production and was worried about the change, I think Marin is AWESOME and very, very believable.
Updated On: 4/6/09 at 11:50 AM
#26re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 12:13pmI was at Saturday evening's performance and my friend I just assumed it was part of the performance. The actors didn't seem interrupted by it, they just kept playing the scene. I honestly thought that since Steph's character is talking to the 'people in the food court' (or, the audience) that the guy who yelled "B*tch!" out was an angered 'mall patron.' It just seemed too staged and not real at all. But now that I'm reading this, I can't help but wonder if somebody put this guy up to it. Oddly enough, I was at the performance of The Graduate (back in 2002) when the guy stood up and yelled out to Kathleen Turner. I found that way more disruptive and offensive. Then I heard a couple of days later that Opie and Anthony had planted that guy in the audience with a tape recorder so they could play it over and over again on their radio show. It was awful.
stageishome
Understudy Joined: 12/22/05
#27re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 12:33pmThis was not staged or planned. The guy was removed from the show and is being arrested and brought up on charges. There are now extra security measures in place for each of the production members.
#28re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 12:38pmJust because he's being charged, doesn't mean he didn't PLAN on going into the performance and yelling out to Ireland at that exact moment. I'm just sayin... the guy at The Graduate planned to disrupt the performance he went to. The producers of that show did not choose to press charges, however.
harper4
Understudy Joined: 6/9/08
#29re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 2:25pmI'm sure that HE planned it, of course. I'm refuting the idea that the PRODUCERS did. I mean, look, the folks that I know who went to the stage door said there were at least 4 uniformed cops with cars as well as Shubert Organization security standing inside the stage door, and amongst the stage door crowd. I'm just sayin that's not walking out on to the street and grabbing a cop and having him stand there. If you bring out that kind of response, a call has been made. If that call is fake, you're in a world of trouble. I think the producers (Jeffrey Richards, right?) are a lot smarter than that.
#30re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 2:44pmI agree. I think the guy acted on his own volition. It doesn't seem, in any way, to be a publicity stunt. The show doesn't need it. It received glowing reviews and word-of-mouth by now must be very strong.
#31re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 3:01pmharper4, thanks for the information and encouragement. I am not familiar with LaBute's work so I have no prior experience to draw from. You have changed my mind; you sound pretty objective. :)
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#32re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 6:12pm
Ah, the benefits of live theater.
True audience participation .
harper4
Understudy Joined: 6/9/08
#33re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 7:45pmSure thing Rudy2. Would love to hear your thoughts after you see it.
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#34re: NYTimes: Audience Member Throws Tantrum at REASONS TO BE PRETTY
Posted: 4/6/09 at 8:15pm
Sounds like a publicity stunt, like the one David Merrick staged for Look Back in Anger. He hired a woman to jump up on stage and slap one of the actors.
There was something similar to that in YOU'RE WELCOME AMERICA. He had some guy in the audience he kept giving the eye to, and he kept going back to that again and again and again, until he finally got him to run out of the theatre.
As chances would have it, he came back for his final bow (he was really an actor in the show).
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