What Gives You The Right To Turn On Your Phone During The Show — Page 2

EllieRose2 said: "You can't exchange tickets normally, so thats not an option for people. Nor do they have another date they can go.

None of that is accurate in my experience. On my way to After Midnight,I got an emergency call from work. I went directly to work, called the theater and they were more than happy to exchange my ticket. You have no idea if people can go another time or date. You don't seem to get it, but luckily everyone here is telling you all the right stuff, so you will get that it's never okay to do anything like that. Have an emergency? Don't attend. It's a very easy decision if you are a decent person in the world."

This is Moulin Rouge, and not After Midnight. Moulin Rouge is a big ticket sold out hit, where After Midnight was not. No disrespect to After Midnight or anything, but with a show like Moulin Rouge I don't believe exchanges are easy or viable at all. Even if so, the amount of availability is lessened. Also I understand that, and everyone seems to ignore my comment where I've said he shouldn't have taken his phone out in the first place but thats fine.

EllieRose2 said: "Sadly Mike, you are focused on the wrong thing (After Midnight is different from Moulin Rouge). That is not the point at all. Any and all theaters. All shows. Turn your phone off. End of discussion."

Yes I understand thank you. But how am I focused on the wrong thing? You brought up ticket exchanges and I replied to that.

Mike Barrett said: "Also I understand that, and everyone seems to ignore my comment where I've said he shouldn't have taken his phone out in the first place but thats fine."

That comment is irrelevant, since you're also saying that the apology somehow lessens the offense. It doesn't. I assure you, I wouldn't have been nearly as understanding if I had been there.

"It’s not illegal to answer a text in the theater during a performance."

That's extremely funny, thanks for the laugh.

I saw Pretty Woman from the very top row of the Mezz a few weeks ago. I literally saw at least 10-15 phone light up during the course of the first Act alone. It was so distracting and mind-baffling. I spoke with the house manager during intermission (after I had tried to find an usher upstairs - there were none), and she assured me that she would take care of it; however, I'm pretty sure I didn't see a single usher in the mezzanine again after the lights went down.

Devil's advocacy and virtue signaling are always the perfect storm on BWW.

What is an emergency work text? If it's an emergency, they would have called 911.

Just turn your phone off. If you can't be untethered for 3 hours, you should either find a theatre that you can buy out a box or simply not go. It's not rocket science.

As for blood glucose monitoring: You don't have to use a phone to monitor. All models that can bluetooth to a phone can also bluetooth to a smaller, pager-like device that's a lot less noticeable, not as bright and will not accidentally ring when a phone call comes through.

Lifelong diabetic here... Yet I still think of others when I go to the theatre.

Mike Barrett said: "Yep, I agree. At least this guy apologized though. If he apologized for what he did then you continue to bring it up it says more about you than the original offender in this situation."

If they had apologized BEFORE, knowing the situation was likely to happen, I'd have given someone a little more wiggle room.

I don't buy into the 'I'd rather apologize than ask permission' ideology. That's bull****.