Stop The Insanity! Rude Audiences Revisited! Whoopi Fights Back!

I must applaud Whoopi Goldberg. The woman rocks.
At the theater this afternoon a woman talked on her cellphone in the middle of her performance.
CAN YOU F'BELIEVE THAT?
And WHOOPI told her to give her cell to the usher or leave the theater.
The show was great, but the audience drama was better!
I applaud WHOOPI.
This was the worst case of rudeness I have seen. In addition to that there was a woman behind me unwrapping candies.
Stop the insanity. No talking on cells during a show please!

It is really pathetic.
How would you feel if someone chatted on a cell during your show.
I can't believe that.

Lived normal lives

Cell phones are a status symbol. People feel important with them

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Had that happen at "Brooklyn" in Denver. And the woman refused to get off of the phone until our entire row and the row behind and in front of her just turned and looked at her and two of us had to say out loud to get off of the phone. Had there been an intermission, I am certain she would not have returned. She dashed for the door as soon as the show was over. Had 2 ladies next to me at "A Raisin in the Sun", second row dead center, commenting during the whole 1st act. Drove us crazy. After the announcement before the second act to open candy before curtain, of course, they dug into their purses right after the second act curtain went up. Stares did not deterr them. Shh's did not deterr them. But the final straw was when the one right next to me dug around in her purse for about 30 seconds and came up with a fingernail file!!! I grabbed her hand and said "I'm sorry but that is the last straw. You have been very rude during the performance and I will not have you filing you nails next to me during the show. It's rude". She put the nail file back and didn't say a word to her friend for the rest of the show! Everyone around me noticed what I did and thanked me when the show was over. I know that "A Raisin..." drew a lot of people to the theatre that don't normally go or have never been. But that is no excuse for manners. And these ladies had to be in their 60's!

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I have be very lucky to not have rude people around me during a show. My dad makes sure his phone is off. Also my watch beeps on the hour and I don't know how to turn it off so I go far enough to put it in my bag so it won't bug people around me.

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Sorry about that Corine...but on a lighter note...how was "Whoopi"? I've been wanting to see it.

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I loved it. She really took some shots at George.
I loved everything about her show. She had me in stitches.
But the audience was the rudest bunch I have seen in years.
It is worth the trip.

Has the Whoopi audience become less 'choir?' To whom she can preach comfortably? When I saw it in Nov, 99.9 % were people who welcome any negativity on the Bush Regime. But that we 2 1/2 weeks after the election. By now, she may have more 'mainstream' folk, and some of them might find the opening piece, a bravura political reworking of that great character who went to Anne Frank's house and loaded with barbs at W, not to their liking. Hope so, because it must be electric to watch the Whoopster handle em. She's fearless, and of course, I think she's 200% right, so I'm with her in spirit.

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Actually, you can be fined for using your cell phone in a theatre. Where were the ushers?!

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I hope they took her cell and stomped it to bits!
And threw in a $500 fine.

I've found that a rolled up playbill, used as a head thumping device, works as a great deterrent to that kind of behavior.

Yeah whoopi! I hate cells and not just in the theater. In movies, in restaurants they just piss me off.

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Not that I'm personally recommending this handy device (it is illegal in the U.S.), I'm just pointing out its existence, in case anyone was interested...

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