THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Starring Denzel Washington Now Playing!!!!

*Sigh* That bad?

Yikes, that bad? The house staff needs to try and get this under control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP122JqapE8

Ugh. Why do people think this is ok?

Updated On: 4/16/10 at 12:41 AM

Then don't go to the show.
Clearly, you've been warned.


kmc

ps-is your disgust with the talking in the audience... or the fact that you've posted an illegal bootleg? Personally I'm not sure how anyone can think either is ok... but... we're clearly different people with different standards.

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Updated On: 4/16/10 at 12:51 AM

"wildly racist"

Thank you.


kmc

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Ok, let's nip this in the bud right this second. NOTHING I've said here is racist. Not one damn thing, so you need to check yourself before making those kinds of accusations. That clip from the movie is funny. Find me a clip as funny with a white person, chinese person, indian person etc. talking in a theater and I'll replace it.

Let me add to the collective 'HUH?" of accusing Jordan's post of being racist.

Sorry about your experience at Fences.

That Color Purple vid is vomit inducing.

Am 'bout ta choke a bish, y'all.

KJisgroovy, your point is well made.

But, damn, that video is the most funniest thing I've ever seen. I almost expected someone to jump on stage and coach her through that final bit.

Updated On: 4/16/10 at 01:13 AM

Not racist. Not even a little bit.Just because it happens to INVOLVE a certain race doesn't make it racist.

Funny. And sad.


But other than than, Mr. Catalono, how was the show?

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Hit a nerve, eh, crazypants?

And I guess it's silly to argue with someone who's being hyperdramatic and uninformed, but you don't have to be saying something as extreme as "talking black people at FENCES should be lynched" to be displaying racism (And I didn't call you racist, for one. I said what you posted was racist).

You mockingly wrote a post comparing the talking-back at FENCES to the ROCKY HORROR experience -- so far, so good -- but then capped it off with that clip from "Scary Movie," a really funny parody of how certain stereotypical sects of the black community behave at the movies... from a movie made by black filmmakers. If the creators of "Scary Movie" had been white, they'd have been ripped apart for that sequence.

Keep in mind, I'm obviously not saying you/any white people posting that clip and/or simply finding it funny is racist act -- but you using it as a capper to your post about (obviously) black people talking back to the production and annoying/disturbing your theatrical experience absolutely has more than a twinge of racism to it.

"Not racist. Not even a little bit," dramamama? Come the f**k on. "Just because it happens to INVOLVE a certain race doesn't make it racist." No, reporting/joking/writing what he did and then posting a clip of an exaggerated parody of negative stereotypical black behavior -- those two things in tandem made it racist.

It's like me posting an online restaurant review/comment about certain people's eating habits during my restaurant visit, and then linking to the clip of Precious stealing fried chicken and running away.

I'm not saying you're a racist person. I'm not saying you want people lynched. I'm saying this specific posting, and then capping it with that video, has twinges of racism, and it kind of astonishes me that you can't even fathom why it came off that way.

But whatever, "doesn't even warrant a response" because you're SOOOO obviously not racist, right, got it.

I'm curious how the show itself was, too, since you omitted that info, but the stubbornness/refusing to acknowledge that your post could even POSSIBLY be deemed offensive is kind of amazing.

Let's really nip it in the bud. let's face it, this happenes at shows with predominantly black casts that star performers popular with the black community. Most of the black members in the audience are not theatergoers and are not familiar with theatre etiquette. Most do not listen to the announcement prior to the show or choose to ignore it.

Don't post the video (Which is a bootleg and I think there is a policy on this site that says you shouldn't post them here) to say what you mean, just come out and say it. We all know that this happens. It is annoying and, as a black man, I find it to be embarrasing at times also. While attending "A Raisin in the Sun" I was pleased that the mostly black audience was well behaved as far as talking back. But the kids in the audience, and there were a lot, were taking pictures with their cell phones. I was in the second row and there was a former teacher sitting in front of me stopping the kids in the front row. At intermission we both explained to all of the kids around us why they shouldn't do this and they stopped. The older lady next to me kept going through her purse and it was quite noisy. I turned to her and whispered that there was an announcement regarding candy wrappers and noise. She said was going to file her nails. I told her she is in a theater and that wasn't "proper". She stopped.

Quite honestly, I feel that at these shows the announcement should add that there should be no talking back to the actors onstage and if it happens during act one, they should repeat it at intermission. Interestingly, the day I saw "A Raisin.." they didn't make the announcement until before the beginning of Act 2.

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Updated On: 4/16/10 at 08:59 AM