THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Starring Denzel Washington Now Playing!!!! — Page 3

Thanks uncageg! I'm reading it now.

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Geez,

This reminds me of a thread I started a while back and people were calling me racist because I described one of the men involved as a black man.

Jordan is not racist and neither am I.

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Oh wow you like totally just found that? Like searching on ebay and it just like popped up?! OMG and you like totes just popped on here to like let us totally know about it? That's like so cool. And you just totally bumped a thread that has like nothing to like do with Rocky Horror to let us know about this like incredible find?

Are you asked to bring anything with you to the show to throw on stage?

I will go ahead and post the interview I did and sent to Eos. The first part is about the show and the cast. It then goes into a conversation like the one we are having here. I did this interview in the afternoon and on the morning of the interview there was a conversation similar to this one going on here on the main board. (I posted it in that thread once it went live on the Denver page) I let the cast know about the conversation here and brought up a few of the questions in the conversation and well...here it is for those of you who haven't read it:

https://denver.broadwayworld.com/article/In_Conversation_The_Cast_of_Radio_Golf_at_the_Denver_Center_20090426

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I was wondering if anyone else has seen Fences recently, and if audience "interaction" has changed over the course of the run. I saw it just a couple of weeks ago, and nobody was shouting out anything or doing anything unusual. There was some gasping, but at expected places. I wonder if the skyrocketing ticket prices are changing the composition of the audience or the audience behavior.

(Slight spoiler below)




Okayfine, are you saying that people were laughing through Rose's big scene at the top of Act II? Viola Davis has tears pouring down her face and people are LAUGHING? That's weird.

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Updated On: 7/6/10 at 11:39 AM

I don't think the incredibly rude behavior referred to above is solely a cultural phenomenon; it's also an issue of education, manners and what the audience member has been exposed to. I had a similar experience--though thankfully not to the extent some have had at FENCES--at MEMPHIS. As to someone's mentioning a Hasidic family at MERCHANT, that would qualify as a hen's teeth rarity. Perhaps you were confusing them with Modern Orthodox? I'd wager few if any Hasidim ever attend public, mixed entertainments. The experiences with African Americans and teens are much more common, and it drives me crazy. That is why I decided not to attend FENCES, even via standing room.

Early in the last century, immigrant Jews who attended the Yiddish theater often gasped, cried, talked back and similarly threw themselves into the action. But with education and acculturation, that ceased. Those who behave like that today are not strangers to our shores. There's no excuse for that sort of behavior from any groups.

My apologies, mikem, for the delay in my reply. SPOILER ALERT...

SPOILER ALERT: The audience frequently LAUGHS through Rose's big speech in Act 2 when Troy tells her he's fathered a child. They laugh when Cory charges Troy. They laugh when Rose tells Troy he's a "womanless man". It's breathtaking.

Now, all of this said, audiences on Bway have very distinct personalites. Sundays are notoriously the worst crowds for behavior, much worse that Wed mats. Tuesday & Wed nites are not so bad. That goes for every show, not just Fences.