Phones are back - Glenn Close stops performance half-way

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/188720/glenn-close-stops-sunset-boulevard-mid-show-due-to-photo-taking-audience-member/

Good for Glenn. God, some audience members are just insufferable these days.

She could also walk off stage after her song 3 minutes later and inform someone backstage and have this person removed from the audience discretely. Then at least the rest of the audience wasn't taken out of the journey by an actress breaking character in a show for which they paid a lot of money.

Updated On: 5/28/17 at 01:01 PM

Dave28282 said: "She could also walk off stage after he song, 3 minutes later and inform someone backstage and have this person removed. Then at least the rest of the audience wasn't taken out of the journey by an actress breaking character in a show for which they paid a lot of money.



This argument gets trotted out a lot in these situations but the people all around the person taking pictures had their experience ruined. If I was one of those people, I would have greatly appreciate a restart.

Dave28282 said: "She could also walk off stage after he song, 3 minutes later and inform someone backstage and have this person removed. Then at least the rest of the audience wasn't taken out of the journey by an actress breaking character in a show for which they paid a lot of money."

If the "photographer" wasn't being such an a$$hole, the show would not have needed to be stopped. The blame rests solely on the moron who selfishly decided their experience was more important than everyone else's.

"We can have a show, or we can have a photoshoot..." Great line!

That's been her go-to retort since 1995. She said it countless times during SUNSET BLVD.'s original Broadway run.

KJisgroovy said: "Dave28282 said: "She could also walk off stage after he song, 3 minutes later and inform someone backstage and have this person removed. Then at least the rest of the audience wasn't taken out of the journey by an actress breaking character in a show for which they paid a lot of money.



This argument gets trotted out a lot in these situations but the people all around the person taking pictures had their experience ruined. If I was one of those people, I would have greatly appreciate a restart.





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Not to mention that removing that person would probably be even more disruptive. Also, I highly doubt that someone taking pictures during a performance would just simply comply and say: "ok, I'll leave".

Slightly separately...and I'm not encouraging the phot-taker but...Isn't a person coughing once loudly more disruptive and disrespectful to an audience's being in the journey than some fan snapping a photo or five? A cough can be heard from anywhere in a 1900 seat theatre and I always grimace when it happens, while I would never know if a photo was or wasn't being taken in a 1900 seat theatre.

Why aren't coughers made to know how much they disrupt performances? We've all been disturbed by them, no?

I'd love a campaign that encourages sick people to stay the F home.

Edit to add: I know something may get in your throat and you have no choice but to lightly cough it out, but there are sick people who should stay home, and then there are people who just want to be heard in the theatre and that's via a cough. Losers. We are guests there. It's not your living room.

Updated On: 5/25/17 at 02:01 PM

People don't tend to make the choice to cough.

Mister Matt said: "Just remember, it's only a bad thing when Patti does it.



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No one is saying she shouldn't have done it, I'm glad she did SOMETHING, but screaming about it doesn't help anyone. It's like parents screaming at their kids about something they did wrong. It's psychology, It doesn't work. The way Glenn, Laura, and a few others have done it was tactful and still made a point. They used more of a guilt trip which usually works. Patti is just a self serving and entitled snot who has let her high career status go to her head over the years. Almost every "I met Patti" story I've heard is like this, she's rude, ungracious, and exemplifies the negative diva stereotype that gives this world one of it's many bad reps.

No one is saying she shouldn't have done it

Oh, there were PLENTY at the time (even before her "final straw" rant, but especially after) who said that breaking character or stopping the performance at all was SO UNPROFESSIONAL (and worse) and rips her to shreds, calling her self-serving entitled snot yadda yadda.

Almost every "I met Patti" story I've heard is like this, she's rude, ungracious, and exemplifies the negative diva stereotype that gives this world one of it's many bad reps.

Glad you qualified it with an "almost". Met her twice (New York and London) and she was lovely and gracious to me (and everyone else around us), signing, posing for photos, and even stopping to chat with me a bit both times. What did she do when you met her?

But yes, there were many many people who said she shouldn't have done it, screaming or otherwise. I'm glad she screamed, especially in that instance. She talks about how it happened that way. She also talks about when she doesn't scream, but addresses the issue.

Stop the show, point out the offender and shame them until they are escorted out the door. Enough is enough. I don't think a witty quip is sufficient any longer.

Mister Matt said: "No one is saying she shouldn't have done it

Oh, there were PLENTY at the time (even before her "final straw" rant, but especially after) who said that breaking character or stopping the performance at all was SO UNPROFESSIONAL (and worse) and rips her to shreds, calling her self-serving entitled snot yadda yadda.

Almost every "I met Patti" story I've heard is like this, she's rude, ungracious, and exemplifies the negative diva stereotype that gives this world one of it's many bad reps.
Glad you qualified it with an "almost". Met her twice (New York and London) and she was lovely and gracious to me (and everyone else around us), signing, posing for photos, and even stopping to chat with me a bit both times. What did she do when you met her?

But yes, there were many many people who said she shouldn't have done it, screaming or otherwise. I'm glad she screamed, especially in that instance. She talks about how it happened that way. She also talks about when she doesn't scream, but addresses the issue.

Stop the show, point out the offender and shame them until they are escorted out the door. Enough is enough. I don't think a witty quip is sufficient any longer."

You know what's unprofessional? Answering your cell phone and talking loudly in the middle of production. Like Lupone did when I sat behind her during a production of Assassins in Boston.

Erik - What did you say to her?