| the man with the coat | |
| Posted by: oddone 08:15 am EDT 03/22/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Billy Porter injects life into “The Life” (not really) and Ledisi stops the show (she sure did) - Singapore/Fling 12:47 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| So for those who are interested... I was sitting almost right behind said man, and was appalled by what he did. It completely took me out of the end of the song, ruining the moment for me. (Having seen the original, I wasn't in love with this revisal, but was trying to appreciate it for what it was, and was fully there for Ledisi's performance, even if I strongly disagreed with the change in placement of her song, and even more, with taking it out of the group setting and her telling war stories to her friends (as a way of community building) and making it instead a deep introspective moment - which isn't what the song is. And I was wondering how they were going to deal with the absence of Lacey's calculator...and then Sonja says "Oh, I've always been good at math." Talk about a clunky fix.) ANYWAY, right as the applause started I leaned forward and told him very sternly that he had to remove it. His response - "It's too loud!" I kept insisting, he kept saying "it's too loud", and eventually an usher walked up and told him to take it off, and he did. But that moment really took away from the rest of the show. At the end of the show, after the bows were done and the exit music was playing, I leaned forward again and tore into him. No holds barred - I told him he could never ever do that, and if he didn't like the volume he shouldn't buy a ticket for the front row. And I told him he was distracting both the performers and the audience. "Shame on you," I said. "Shame on you." He just sort of sat there and nodded. I have seen a lot of terrible audience behavior, but this was perhaps the worst. Putting aside the fact that his thin coat wasn't going to do anything to lower the volume in any noticeable way anyway (that isn't how sound design works), there's also the fact that I believe he may have been covering up a monitor (I was too upset to investigate more fully) - meaning, he was potentially making it more difficult for the cast to do their job. Not to mention potentially distracting them, or perhaps interfering with the wiring, or any number of other reasons why you should never DRAPE YOUR OWN CLOTHING OVER SOUND EQUIPMENT. |
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