Twittering at a Show- Page 2
Twittering at a Show
#25Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/17/10 at 8:58pmIs it me you are saying is being idiotic? If so, I am not against twittering, Twitter away. Just don't do it in the theatre, no matter how much you think your Social Network needs to know your thoughts scene by scene, Act by Act.
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Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#26Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:15pm
This is so wrong!!! Turn your mobile device off! You're in a theater!
I vote for either torture to those who's mobile devices go off during a performance, or a device that blocks all signal during the performance.
UGH!!!!!
#27Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:23pm
Sorry snafu I wasn't responding to you but WayWicked. I was going to post that after what they said but got distracted. I am actually against doing at the theatre also.
#28Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:30pm
No problem. I personally think the twitter/ Social networking thing has gotten way out of hand. Almost to the detriment of real life interpersonal relationships. I have sat and watched a table full of people in a restaurant not saying a word to each other because they are each involved with twittering or text messaging. Really rather sad.
Now reading that there are theatres experimenting with the "Innovative and creative" (yeah, RIGHT!) of sanctioning this during performances make me very very angry.
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RockyRoad
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#29Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:04pm
They're even talking about this in North Carolina! Its at the bottom of the blog:
http://nctc.typepad.com/blog/#tp
And according to the SF Playhouse Facebook site, the twitter Playhouse Pluggers nights are coming back:
http://www.facebook.com/SavvyAvenueSanFrancisco#!/pages/San-Francisco-CA/SF-Playhouse/36443847667?ref=search
Glad they are keeping them. Love a theatre that actually does something innovative. And I hope this pisses you off even more!
#30Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:17pm
Rocky, how is it innovative? Please explain. How does it make theatre better?
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#31Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:22pmI really don't see how Twitter is so innovative, but that's just me. If I wanted to tweet, I might as well stay at home.
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#32Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:25pm
If this were facebook I would Like it. 
-Benjamin
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#33Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:28pm
Exactly Marianne. Like the woman next to me who was texting the entire first act of Grey Gardens one night who when I confronted her snapped back, "MY son is deathly ill and I need to know how he is doing!"
"If your son is That Deathly ill what the hell are you doing here at the Theatre annoying everyone around you?" was my answer. She stayed for the second act and she didn't text so I guess he survived.
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#34Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:36pm
"OMG Aaron Tveit just came on! SO HOT!"
"LOL! Elfie just owned Galinda! SNAP!"
"@littleedie-im first row mezz. u?"
"catch my twitpic of show curtain.,,lame"
SPARE ME!!!! This is the last thing we need!!!!!!
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#35Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 5:37pm
INNOVATIVE!
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#36Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 6:01pm
I love how neither the SF Playhouse nor Rocky Road (if they are different entities) know how to link directly to a blog post.
http://nctc.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/twitter-twitter-everywhere.html
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Scott Briefer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/04
#37Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 10:33pm
A few years ago, I saw a wonderful dance performance at the Joyce. The company was VOX and the evening's dances were themed around technology. As a part of the opening piece, we were reminded to turn off all cell phones. This wasn't done in the traditional fashion, but integrated into the dance piece it self. This was accomplished with projections on a rear screen. Before intermission we were given permission to turn back on our mobile devices.
At the beginning of the second half, this time we were asked to keep our cell phones on and the screen actually flashed the phone numbers of the dancers who were all sporting their own cell phones. We were asked to call them. It was absolutely brilliant. I actually got through to one of the dancers and we spoke throughout the piece. Simply wonderful fun.
If there is an artistic reason for integrating technology, I'm all for it. What I abhor is those people who interrupt the process when it is totally inappropriate. You're in a theater. Turn your phone off... well, unless you're asked to keep it on...
I stand by my earlier comment: People who's phones go off should be removed from the theater and tortured. At the very least be legally mandated to attend a class in appropriate cell phone usage. Or, theaters should be allowed to block the signal during performances.
Doctors and other people who need to remain connected could be required to sit on the aisle and report their location. If there's an emergency, an usher could notify them and swiftly remove them with minimal disturbance.
TURN OFF YOUR PHONES!!!!
#38Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 11:20pm
Whoah. That's a great idea. Not suitable for all venues or live entertainment genres, but I really like it.
(BTW, it's "whose," not "who's." 
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ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#39Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/20/10 at 11:57pm
See...THAT'S an interesting, intriguing way of using technology at the theatre. It's being used to connect the audience and the actors/dancers. I would be interested in seeing something like this.
The use of Twitter that has been debated about here in no way is innovative. It does not connect actor and audience member in a dynamic way like in Briefer's story, and is really encouraging people to not be active participants in the theatre. And don't say it's to enable, because that's one of the worst things that can be done. Theatre exists because it is about human connection and perception. No one would go if it wasn't about that. That's why people still go despite the availability of TV and movie theaters. You can't recreate reality.
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#40Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/21/10 at 3:37pm
When I first started going to Broadway theatre many, many years ago, everyone got dressed up, including young people. That was the norm, and no one questioned it. Then society's attitudes and wants changed, and today people enter a theatre as if they were going to the beach. Can I say I think this was a change for the better? No, I can't. But society changes, norms change, and there's no point gnashing one's teeth over it, or pretend one's teeth-gnashing is going to stop evolution. It's like the dinosaurs- adapt, or die out. The theatre is not exempt from this reality.
So, I would say just learn to live with the changes evolution brings, and enjoy whatever you can on stage.
chellie
Stand-by Joined: 6/7/10
#41Twittering at a Show
Posted: 7/22/10 at 12:20amI don't have one - don't see the appeal in any situation, ESPECIALLY not during a performance - but the term is "tweeting", not "twittering".
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