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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 08:24 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:22 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - shocktheatre 07:27 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| I don't applaud him. Though I sympathize with him, I think it's time now for actors to ignore the phones and just keep going. Interrupting the show makes for a big news splash, which is most probably exactly what the offenders with the phones hope for. (At least some of the time.) | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:13 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 08:22 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| I don't applaud him. Though I sympathize with him, I think it's time now for actors to ignore the phones and just keep going. Interrupting the show makes for a big news splash, which is most probably exactly what the offenders with the phones hope for. (At least some of the time.) Are you saying that people whose phones ring during a performance and cause a performer to stop the show are "hoping for" that to happen and hoping for the news coverage that will follow? I think, and hope, that might possibly be the case with an extremely miniscule minority of mentally unbalanced troublemakers who crave attention at all costs. I will say that, back in the day, I did hear rumors that some people would take photos during Broadway performances by Katharine Hepburn with the specific goal of getting her to stop the show and berate them. But who knows if there was any truth to that. I sure hope not. |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 04:21 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Michael_Portantiere 02:13 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
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| I just tend to wonder how many people (mentally unbalanced troublemakers that they may be) see the stories of these things happening and think it would be "fun" to see if they can disrupt a show too. I would love to hope not - but attention getters are out there. | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 04:45 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 04:21 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
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| I really don't think that's what we're dealing with. It's mainly people who believe their communication is too important to turn off their phones. You know: dickheads. | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 05:10 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - MockingbirdGirl 04:45 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
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| I really don't think that's what we're dealing with. It's mainly people who believe their communication is too important to turn off their phones. You know: dickheads. Agreed, that's surely a large percentage, plus I'm sure many people who literally don't care enough to be considerate of the actors OR their fellow audience members. |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:55 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Michael_Portantiere 05:10 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
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| I will say that I'm sure a small percentage of people simply don't doublecheck to make sure their ringer is off (they think it already is, etc) - and then when it rings, they panic and aren't immediately sure what to do with it in the dark. Especially if they're not perhaps comfortable with the device. But yes - I do absolutely agree with both of you - I also just feel that some people may really want to do this sort of thing on purpose, specifically to get noticed. And to even brag that they were the one that "stopped the show." You never can tell with people these days... |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 10:25 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 08:22 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| Not a phone, but when I watched ALNM with BP, a child was screaming throughout “Send in the Clowns” and BP didn’t stop. I wish she had. I paid to hear her sing that song. I wasn’t able to do that. | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Sam890 07:05 am EDT 07/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - KingSpeed 10:25 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| I totally agree, whether it's a screaming child or a chorus of phones, it ruins the audiences experience. I think those that can, have duty to intervene because most of us cannot. And remember, when the disruption begins, we, as audience members, are put on edge because we don't know how long the disruption will last. Will the child scream for one song? Two songs? the entire show? I would MUCH prefer a brief 'intervention' so that I can relax and get back into the show | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 10:52 am EDT 07/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Sam890 07:05 am EDT 07/19/21 | |
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| The bigger question, where the disruption is a screaming child, is why the parent doesn't immediately take the child out of the theatre until it calms down. And, of course, the base question, why did a parent bring a child to see such an adult-oriented show? | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: mikem 07:27 pm EDT 07/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - JereNYC 10:52 am EDT 07/19/21 | |
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| Some parents are just on a different plane than the rest of us. When I saw Saving Private Ryan in the movie theater, there was a 4-year-old in the audience, who of course was shrieking throughout the bloody and violent opening portrayal of the D-Day landing at Normandy. And the parents did not take the kid out of the theater. |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - KingSpeed 10:25 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| KIngSpeed, I totally understand. I do. But for everyone who feels as you do, there's someone else who would say that they didn't come to see BP break character and stop the performance. Things can go both ways with this. | |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:18 pm EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| KIngSpeed, I totally understand. I do. But for everyone who feels as you do, there's someone else who would say that they didn't come to see BP break character and stop the performance. Things can go both ways with this. Yes -- but in my opinion, if the audience has already been taken out of a performance by a cell phone ringing or a child screaming, the actor(s) might as well stop the show until the disturbance is silenced, and then pick up where they left off or just before the spot where they left off. |
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| re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing | |
| Posted by: mikem 12:18 am EDT 07/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Michael Sheen stops National Theater performance due to phones ringing - Chromolume 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| I think that sometimes, the distraction is so distracting that the audience is focused on the distraction as much as what's happening on stage. If a child was screaming throughout Send in the Clowns, at a certain point, I think it would have probably been the central part of my focus rather than Bernadette Peters. I understand why she might want to soldier on through, but I think I would have wanted her to stop as well. I also think it must have affected her performance. It is a really emotional and poignant scene, and it was probably ruined. In the Michael Sheen incident, an audience member says that 5 phones went off in the first 45 minutes of the play. I can see why Sheen would feel like he should say something with that many instances so early in the performance. Each incident was causing the audience to lose more and more focus. |
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