Three Penny Opera - Lauper stops show to correct audience member

A friend of mine went to Saturday's evening show and he wrote:
three penny was great again,
but the big news was during the show when cyndi lauper stopped the show and told an audience member in the front row to stop taking pics.

then at the stage door, the teenage girls that were taking pics in the front row were there and cyndi read them for filth. telling them that they disrupted the show and made her forget her lines. she really went after them. The rest of the crowd clapped for Cyndi telling them off.

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If more stars began to stand up and dio things like that, the rate if incidents like that would drop dramtically.

Good for her!

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There was a few camera snaps yesterday. I HATE when people take pictures. The last time I saw Kathy Griffin this dumb bitch infront of me took about 20 pictures of Kathy. People can be very rude...

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I can so see Cyndi doing it too!

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I believe there was a performance of "Sunset Blvd." where, when coming down the staircase, Glenn was showered with flashbulbs from the audience. She lowered her sunglasses, and in character, said "We can have a press conference, or we can have a performance, but we can not have both." The cameras stopped, the audience went wild, and the performance continued.

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And in the front row- of all places!! They has to be just plain stupid.

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"I'm glad Cyndi did that as well, but it sucks for all the audience members. Moments like that really break the cathartic arch of a theatre going experience."

Actually the cameras do that already. As long as the moment's been spolied, the actor should take advantage of the break to try address the audience so it doesn't happen again.

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The question is why the hell would you take pictures of Kathy Griffin???

I wish I coulda seen that happen.

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She really should have had them thrown out.

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Not to mention, as BSO said, this IS Brecht. He was renowned for his use of the "alienation effect" in this work and others -- in which actors address the audience directly, break into songs and signs are used to announce scenes in order to always remind the audience that they are watching actors on stage performing a play, thereby preventing an audience from getting so caught up in the story and characters that they stop thinking critically.

I'm sure Brecht himself would have thoroughly approved of Lauper or any one else on that stage directly confronting rude and unengaged audience members who were treating the show like some fangirl photo-op, rather than respecting, ruminating on and thinking about the themes and messages that this show is attempting to impart.

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How can you people sit here and applaud a performer for doing this. Yes, it is wrong for an audience member to being doing it. BUT it is the management's job to up hold the "laws" of the theatre. If anyone should have been yelled at it should be Lauper for not doing her job.

It is not her job to teach theatre etiquette. I am sick of hearing these stories. The actors jobs are to perform. As a performer you must sometimes work in a ****ty condition but you have to keep going you don't stop the show and then make excuses and yell at someone.

Really what good did it do? The girls continued to see the show. NOTHING WAS ACCOMPLISHED.

Plus, hopefully those girls (and other audience members) will think twice about doing something like that again....during a perhaps less appropriate show.