Patti Lupone STOPING GYPSY DURING PERFORMANCE

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Updated On: 10/12/10 at 06:51 PM

If she did this during the final performance, she'll end up performing to an empty house.

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Okay, I'm not an advocate of picture taking nor did I take any but those ushers in the balcony needed to get a ****ing life. It was the last performance. It was history. If you don't understand its importance, GO HOME!
And I damn well sure hope they read this!

Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree fflagg.

A very amusing memory I have is of the ushers at Grey Gardens' final performance taking pictures. As Aunt Eller would say, the were just bending the rules a little.

I love Patti and consider myself to be a biased but objective fan. I think it depends entirely on how many pictures were taken, in light of its being the second to last performance. I'd say a couple per person is not bad. I dunno. I mean for some people, I can imagine for them it was an emotional thing, and, for them, probably the final performance. It just hurts me to think of a major fan being kicked out for only taking a couple pictures. Now someone snapping snapping snapping, those people need to exterminated. All of you people who show up at events and never put your camera down, you are idiots who do not know how to properly experience live events because you have no intellect whatsoever. Do us all a favor and stay home.

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I've always thought that the "law" against taking pictures in a broadway theatre is about as high priority as ripping the tag off of a mattress....

how many stories do i hear that drunk assed idiots plow down the interstates and serve a night in jail....but mean while the barney fifes of Broadway patrol the aisles looking for CRIMINAL Broadway fans and japanese tourists who probably cant even interpret the warning announcement. These people take their jobs way too seriously.

I once did an overdramatic short play about an actor who is trying to perform a one man version of Miss Saigon when an audience member flashes a camera and the actor becomes so disoriented by the light, not only can he not see where he is on stage, he has no clue what theatre he's in, what character he was just playing, if he's missed his call, if he is even a real actor, etc. .... Not to toot my own horn, but it got a huge response and probably more than anyone the theatre junkies that were there totally got it.

Is it rude to a performer to take flash pictures? Depends on the performer I suppose, but I don't Belle or Mickey Mouse stopping a show at Disney World to pull a diva moment...

TRY WEARING A MOUSE HEAD PATTI LUPONE!

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Updated On: 1/12/09 at 06:11 AM

She's just trying to one-up Glenn Close. When Close was in "Sunset Boulevard" (people took pictures regularly) she stopped the show one night and said: "We can either do the show or have a press conference."

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You do realize its the ushers job to stop photographers right? as in they will be told off if they aint doing their jobs?

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I was there on Saturday night at "Gypsy" and could not believe what was unfolding before my eyes during "Rose's Turn." I'd heard rumors but never expected to see it for myself. Kinda like seeing a unicorn!

But she did do the song up in style once she re-started.

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NYC_or_Bust...do you think that FOH staff are some form of police? Why would we be stopping drunk drivers? And I think a night in jail is a bit more severe than being removed from a theater or asked to delete the pictures from the camera, or whatever other consequence people face for taking pictures.

Anyway, though I am apparently a bit of a Theater Nazi, I think that it could've been handled differently on Patti's part. Why not just mention it to the stage manager or someone else who is on headset instead of stopping the whole show and affecting the experience of everyone else who was there? Although I guess most people with tickets were there to see Patti and therefore LOVED getting to see a "Patti breaks the fourth wall" episode firsthand.

It's just another false Patti-bashing story, givesmevoice. Any professional photographer would know that the stage lighting provides all the light needed for a photograph. They would also know that even if they did want the extra illumination, a flash is ineffective beyond 10 feet of so. I have never understood people in the rear orchestra or Mezz taking flash photos. In a case like that, the flash serves only to annoy others and will actually pinpoint the flasher's location. A self-defeating action.

Updated On: 1/13/09 at 02:28 PM