Sutton Foster pulls a Patti Lupone

Props to Sutton. Apparently at Violet this week, tsome people in the audience were yelling over a cell phone and she stopped, looked at them, and said "We'll wait" and then just looked away and waited until they shut up.

CORRECTION: pulls a *mild and incredibly watered down in comparison* Patti Lupone :)

Updated On: 7/12/14 at 12:51 AM

I want to know why every a-hole who leaves their cell phone on always has the same stupid default iPhone ringtone "marimba." It shouldn't surprise me I guess, since they aren't smart enough to figure out how to silence or turn it off. Changing settings is VERY hard.

Good for Sutton. I wish ushers would take care of things so the performers could do their job.

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I feel deeply conflicted that every time a performer chastises an audience member for using a mobile device, I hope someone else is using theirs to record the exchange.

Updated On: 7/12/14 at 03:03 AM

"Not to thread jack but is Violet planning an extension?"

No. "The Real Thing" doesn't come in until October, but I don't think there is a high enough demand for tickets to extend.

Oh, I thought Sutton was a part of creating a new musical, but when her character comes on, sings one song and dies, she does everything she can to stay out of doing any chorus work, all the while being as demanding as she can possibly be and then acting unprofessionally during the run by missing entrances.

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The above is the accurate account, based on multiple reports. This bears no resemblance to the infamous meltdown during "Rose's Turn." Odd to hear the circumstances compared.

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The last word ^.

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"I wish ushers would take care of things so the performers could do their job."

There's not much the ushers can do until the phone goes off, and then it's too late.

"There's not much the ushers can do until the phone goes off, and then it's too late."

As soon as the ushers heard the commotion, they should have intervened, not a performer. That's their job and I noticed when I was at Violet, they don't really do anything or even try to find cell phones ringing.

http://youtu.be/WruzPfJ9Rys

Because it's just worth listening to again.

"And each and every one of you has respect, except for that one person!" (and the guy with the audio recorder who put this on YouTube)

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Except Sutton enunciates.

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" "CORRECTION: pulls a *mild and incredibly watered down in comparison* Patti Lupone :) "

Like all of Sutton's performances... "



Yes I am sure Lupone would have made a much better Violet (She just IS that confused Southern girl!) and...

Eponine (Lupone would have made us hear the lyrics of "On My Own" as never before!)
Millie (Lupone would have tapped and sang her way into our hearts as Sutton and Ruby Keeler never could!)
Jo (Lupone was BORN to play her!)
Janet (Lupone has always been the ideal Ziegfeld girl!)
Inga (Roll in the Hay with Fräulein Lupone!)
Fiona... (Lupone simply has it all over Sutton as a comedienne!)
Reno (How dare Sutton play Lupone's role!!!!)

*Thus, my contribution to this post following this board's rules that state that any post that even mentions Sutton must also include a healthy dose of comments on her mediocre talents.