Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
#1Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 8:53amI was sitting in stage seats AA3 at the matinée today and after Touch Me, the man in BB8 and a stagehand were physically fighting, the man was screaming "get Your hands of me you f***ing c*cksucker!!" over and over. It took about two minutes to get him off the stage. It was quite scary. Apparently, he was touching himself/ the 5 girls behind him. When he sat down at the beginning of the show his shirt and pants were buttoned, his shoes were on and his tie was tight. By the time they dragged him off he had no shoes, his shirt was partially unbuttoned, his tie was loose, and his pants were unzipped and unbuttoned. They had to evacuate the stage seats and took a short break before resuming the show. Before the show, he ran on to the stage during the announcements and tried to sit onstage left and was hitting people to get to a seat. An usher lady tried to grab his arm but he shook her off. He then realized that he should be on the other side to he ran over to the other side of the stage right before Alex started to sing. Feel free to ask any questions.
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#2re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 8:57amI've said from the beginning: on-stage seating + a song called "Touch Me" = BAD IDEA.
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#2re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 9:10am
I want to say, 'Oh My God', but it would make me sound like Elle Woods. That's hilarious/scary all at the same time! And you were sitting on the stage, too...
Trekkie2, xD Hahahaha. I bet if he were in regular seats, it would've been the same, no?
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Brian07663NJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#3re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 10:26amToo bad this didn't happen at Gypsy! Patti would have backslapped the guy, dragged him off, blew a kiss to him in the direction of where she threw him off the stage and resumed "...for ME!"
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 10:44amPatti ain't no Ethel and this ain't 1959. Ushers and house management have to be extremely careful how they handle patrons. All it takes is one lawsuit.
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#5re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:08am
What is it with these people?
We had a couple having sex during Legally Blonde, a guy masturbating during Spamalot, and now this.
I mean, really. Can't we wait until we get home?
#6re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:13amBroadway - Surprising new aphrodisiac?
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#7re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:19am
Sex during Legally Blonde? How did I miss that? What's the story?
As for SA.... How disgusting! Mental to say the least.
#8re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:19amIt makes the guys who sit with their coats on their laps during "Naked Boys Singing" look downright innocuous.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#9re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:24am
Wasn't there some weird guy who went to SPRING with his shirt unbuttoned alot?
Is this the same guy?
I can only imagine what's going on over at EQUUS.
#10re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:27amHaha, I agree. Imagine someone reading this thread had a ticket for that guy's seat?! I would die. x]
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Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:27amMasturbating during Spamalot is the one that really perplexes me...
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#12re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:33am
Sex during Legally Blonde? How did I miss that? What's the story?
It was first reported in her blog by Kate Shindle. She said there was a couple in one of the box seats quite obviously having sex during the first act of the show. The cast noticed, reported them, and the police came and arrested them, all while the show was going on.
From that point on, the first mezzanine box, stage right, became known as "the sex box."
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#13re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:40amIt's about time something interesting happens on the stage of Spring Awakening!
#14re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:40am
Actually the Blonde sex box happened during Act II- they got started during Whipped into Shape, and were being kicked out by Take it Like a Man. hee.
/was there that night
// no, not in the sex box :)
#15re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:50amHmmmm... so is this why Box 5 is kept empty???
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
#16re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:53amBut, of course. Phantom's always bringing the android that he is rumored to be sleeping with in Phantom 2: Coney Island Adventure.
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broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#17re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 11:55am
I was there yesterday afternoon as well. It was pretty surprising, and sadly, maybe the most exciting part of the show. From the audience...it was equally scary, except we didn't have the benefit or knowing (or were lucky enough not to know) what was going on. It went from the "Where the wind sighs...." fade out of "Touch Me" to "What the f*ck? Get your hands off me, c*cksucker!" People were like, "Is this part of the show?" For those who hadn't seen it, it became apparent that it wasn't pretty quickly. Not quite the normal thing. Everyone onstage just sat there for a while not knowing what to do; then eventually the girls in that section of seats ran off when the scuffle got a bit more intense, and Kim Grigsby ran offstage....Parrish had pre-set himself for the the next scene and was laying on the ground with the book and just got up and walked offstage with a sigh.
Poor girls! Apparently, according to the girls sitting in front of me, this guy was sitting in the student rush line that morning reading a Playboy and talking about how he was seeing this for the sex. I'm surprised this man was given a student ticket at all...I wonder why he was onstage in the first place. It definitely brought the show to a screeching halt.
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#18re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:21pmIf the guy was online reading a playboy, then might he be just a little to old to get a student rush ticket?
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#19re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:26pmMore importantly - why would they give any sort of ticket to a guy reading a playboy in line?
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#20re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:29pmmichelle3, Now, we all know that he was reading it for the articles.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#21re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:31pmYes, 'cause the TV advert for a prescription drug(Viagra? Hmm...) advised him to, "Look out for our ad in Playboy!"
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#22re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 1:59pm
Mentally unbalanced individuals have been attending the theatre forever. I rememeber there was a regular at the Houston Ballet who would masturbate in the upper balcony of the Wortham Center. I was an usher there and we all knew who the guy was and would keep an eye on him during the performance. Luckily, there was a police officer on site for every performance and we would make the call as soon as he whipped it out.
But any show that has onstage seating is practically inviting the crazies to perform. Having worked on interactive shows, I'm not a particular fan of anything that allows the audience to steal focus unless it is the nature of the show (i.e. Tony and Tina's Wedding, Awesome 80s Prom, etc.). Spring Awakening simply wanted to boost its potential income. There is no other benefit to having audience members sit on stage. It adds nothing artistically or dramatically.
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SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#23re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 2:13pmUghh, that's very creepy.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#24re: Onstage commotion at SA mat yesterday!
Posted: 11/3/08 at 6:22pmMen have been going to porn theatres for ages to jerk off (think PeeWee Herman). There's something sort of classy about buying a ticket to a real Broadway show to do it instead of using a sleazy porn theatre.
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