Patti LuPone snatches texting audience member’s phone

HA. That is pretty badass. Good job, Patti. I wonder if it was Bernadette's phone.

It was Madonna's of course.

now she's threatening to quit the theatre altogether!

How dare she! HOW DARE SHE!!!

Please don't ever use "Patti LuPone" and "snatch" in the same sentence ever again!

I know the paying public is king. But I think enough ticket buyers would support a ban on cell phone use. As in, all cell phones are checked at the door, just like schools kids have to do at some schools. Extra work and bother and expense but I don't see an alliterative. Some people CANNOT bear more than few minutes away from their screens.

alliterative? damn this spell check. Also my HD screen has such a small font.

Patti LuPwned

Theaters should employ cell phone blocking technology from the time a performance starts until the end. End of problem.

LOL R5. I kinda thought "snatched" was perfectly appropriate in this case.

some assholes would still look at their screens. I think the light is more distracting than the occasional accidental ring.

[quote]Theaters should employ cell phone blocking technology from the time a performance starts until the end. End of problem.

1) I think that's illegal. 2) Don't many of the wireless mics use the same frequencies?

lol, R8

Playbill should do a Shaming feature, with pictures of theatregoers and their cell phones - with the caption/headline

"You've been LuPwned!"

Yes, the paying public is king, and if I shell out $200 for a ticket, I don't want to be sitting next to an asshole who can't go 90 minutes without looking at his phone.

I hear Lupone is in talks with Obama to authorize drone strikes on any member of the audience caught with a phone in his hand.

Watch, the person will probably now sue her or the theater for her touching their personal property.

Good for her! Why someone presumably pays for a ticket and then can't ignore their phone for a couple of hours is weird. Patti rules!!

Bitch please. You know your ego won't allow you to leave the theater because you can't hear the applause when you're working tv or movies.

I love this woman! She says and does whatever she thinks is right! I hate when people stare their cell phones near me in theater, it really disrupts like she says. I hope she will continue performing on stage.

Good for her!

I can't even walk thru the goddamn supermarket without some self-entitled twat standing in the middle of the aisle, ignoring reality, while she checks InstaMoron or NSAbook or whatever idiocy you cell phone zombies waste your time on. Or the idiots who walk down the street with their idiot faces stuck in their phones. I walk into them on purpose.

I hate the cell phone addicts.

I first read this as "Patti LuPone snatches audience's member."

That texting cuntlette should have been tossed out of the theater and horsewhipped in Shubert Alley.

LuPone's right. They need to adore her, so no cell phone for her!

People and their cell phones are Public Enemy #1.

I go out three to four times a week and I just expect to experience annoying behavior and that's my defense mechanism as an audience member. The most well behaved crowd is definitely at the opera, followed by concert performances and then the theater crowd. The theater draws more tourists who just don't know how to behave in a performance space. Many a time I've told people during an intermission that I'm not enjoying something because of, you fill-in-the-blank and since I never do it in an angry way, I almost always get an apology and an end to the offending behavior. If the person looks strange/abnormal I ask an usher to deal with it or if it's really over the top I'll find the house manager. I never yell or lose it, ever.

Maybe if patti was more talented, she would captivate the audience with her performance and they would forget about their cell phones. Go back to guest spots on law & order you no talent, grubby handed cunt

How do you afford to out to theatre, opera and concerts 3-4 nights a week, Daddy Warlocks?

spellcheck! Warbucks!

[quote]I hate the cell phone addicts.

Well, obviously the offending phone user has showed up at r26.

I applaud LuPone. I never make it up to New York because ticket prices are so high, but yesterday I was fortunate enough to see Curious Incident and On The 20th Century. Neither show could go 10 minutes without a phone ringing, a texting sound, the vibrate of a phone, or the glow of a someone checking their texts.

I've come to expect experiencing human arrogance in every facet of my daily life (just look at r26 thinking he's cute), so I actually didn't let it upset me when these technical devices kept going off. Of course, nothing really bad happened around my seat. If it was someone behind me or next to me, I'd probably pull a LuPone myself.

I'm proud of LuPone. I'm looking forward to seeing Shows for Days in August.

R30: whines about human arrogance, then swells with pride over someone snatching the private property of another right out of her hands.

Yeah, nothing arrogant about that...

Nothing hypocritical on your part either...

There's something to be said for the points that 1) IF she were captivating, they might not be peeking and 2) the idea of blasting their picture.

I think the solution is much cheaper and far more effective. Hire off duty cops as security, or thugs...take your pick...who will simply function as ushers that have a zero tolerance policy. End.Of.Discussion. Make this fact plain instead of acting like the passive-aggressive drama geeks you guys are. The rest of the audience has the right to have their desire to be entertained honored. If someone's time and life is SO critical, then they need to see the play when it's NOT. EOF god damn it!!!

Sometimes I feel like moving to NYC just to straighten you morons out. No god damned actor in ANY of my plays will be distracted nor the audience bothered by one filthy little nitwit! What? You want to become the AMC theaters of Broadway? Hmm?

WHAT DO YOU WANT?!

OK THEN. Fucking ask for it and in advance, and if the shit heads DON'T comply you throw them out at first pass. Take their picture and post it n a wall of shame so people can see you're not playing around. OTHERWISE, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT!!

And look here pipsqueaks...if you are in the audience and some filthy little nitwit starts playing with his or her phone, open your damned mouths and complain about it. Throw something at them. Are you in NYC or Candyass Land? DON'T BE A CANDY ASS!

You find out who that theater manager is, and put their head on a pike. YOU GOT ME?

OK then.

r30=r26=loser

Yes, good for her. There really is no excuse short of an emergency for people doing anything on their mobile devices in a dark theater, movie house, or concert venue. And if it is an emergency, take it to the fucking lobby.

The exception would be pop and rock concerts, where cameras used to be banned but now it's apparently expected that everyone can record stuff and take selfies during the show. But even that is annoying if it's the person in front of you, distracting you from the stage with constant camera work

r31, I don't think anybody on this thread cares what you have to say.

R32 is off her meds

(sorry for not being more clever - but seriously, I got frightened by her post)

R35: well, I am not an 80 year old drama club reject queen who pinches pennies all month to be entertained by patti fucking lupone. As a result, you are probably correct.

Start pinching your nickels and perhaps you can afford the facial surgeries to look like patti in time for your campaign for treasurer of the Shady Pines Broadway boosters

add R37 to the Rx Re-Fill list.

Can't they just make an annoument that anyone caught using their cell phone while seated during the preformance will be escorted out and will not receive a refund? If you need to use your cell phone because of an emergency or profession, then you have to get up, go to the lobby and will not be reseated until intermission or if after intermission, you are shit out of luck...you watch it on a closed circuit TV in the lobby.

Brava Patti!! And r39!!!

And now r37 you're just being an asshole.

[quote]If the person looks strange/abnormal I ask an usher to deal with it or if it's really over the top I'll find the house manager.

And has an usher or house manager ever done anything about the problem? I doubt it.

I say, Good hands, lil Pat

Those of you who think that texting and using cell phones should be forbidden have never been a mother. You have never had to leave your child for what seems like an eternity. Mothers must check to make sure the children have eaten and are doing their homework. Besides, no performance by a washed up actress can approach the thrill a mother can get when she gets the news that her child had scored the winning goal in the 5-6 yr old soccer league. You just wish you could know that thrill. So, if a mother wants to do her duty, it's none of your business, It's a free country, so get over it.

Good for her. Why are people that stupid even going to the theatre? Did someone drag them? These phones are a real addiction, and the people constantly checking them look like stupid, hopeless addicts. Phones don't have the "cool" mystique of heroin, though. They just look like addicted chumps.

R44, Hallelujah! If I don't get texted by my daughter and respond, every 20 minutes, we both get fidgety and downright scratchy! (And where's that hot 1st class meal I asked to be delivered to my seat?) You're lucky I don't bring my sparkle pony special needs toddler to the theatre. He really deserves a night out like everyone. Mother's and children's rights!

A mother such as you attempt to describe or satirize would not be attending a play during little Caitlyn's soccer game R44. Patti rocks! I loved it the first time she said it, I love it everytime she says it.

If you spend $300 to see one of your favorite recording artists in concert these day, 10,000 people in the audience feel it's okay to sing along to every song. Is this okay too? I yell Shut the Fuck Up and carry a shiv.

Yes, R42, always. I've never been refuse assistance from an usher or house manager and I mean never because I'm reasonable and the complaint is reasonable. I also point out that I'm not the only one who is being disturbed. Some Broadway theaters will make an announcement to shut off electronic devices but most don't. Concert halls always do it and at the opera, never, because they know they are dealing with adults.

I once got drunk (at Beefsteak Charlies!) and sang along with a Broadway show that my high school friends and I went to - we must have been so obnoxious. I remember a few disapproving glances from nearby patrons.

33 years later, and I am still completely ashamed of myself and our behavior.

Maybe so R41, but my original point was a true reaction. The asshole part came after I was personally attacked for daring to have a different opinion.

While I agree that cell phone use during a performance is obnoxious, I also believe there to be more legitimate ways to address the nuisance other than having a wannabe diva commit battery and theft on a paying patron...

If cell phones are such s scandal, where are the theater managers and production producers to put a plan in place? If they can charge hundreds of dollars per seat, they can also better protect the artistic integrity of their actors and experience of their guests!

Good Luck with that.

Scuttlebutt at LCT is that Patti has agreed to perform tonight only if she is allowed to wear a taser around her waist--and employ it if the need arises.

Patti LuPone is a "wannabe diva," r41? You are not long for this Earth if you keep posting here

All on her side! Wonder if she got huge entrance applause tonight.

R33 See, this is why we need troll-dar on the new site!

Especially since R26 & R30 aren't even the same poster

Three cheers (during intermission) for Patti LuPone. Tossing celphone offenders out of the audience is long overdue. It's time to start that now.

LOL at the image of you walking around shiving everyone singing along, badly.

"LA LA LA..OUCH! LA LA LAHHH, OUCH!"

ROFLMFAO!!

[quote]then swells with pride over someone snatching the private property of another right out of her hands.

You're not that special to think everyone gives a shit about YOUR PHONE!

Entitled cunt.

R50, with each post you are sounding stupider and stupider.

" If they can charge hundreds of dollars per seat, they can also better protect the artistic integrity of their actors and experience of their guests! "

How? It's unenforceable. Patti may have the brass balls to stop a show and put an audience member in his place, but lots of actors cannot. And what are theaters supposed to do, have armed security in the theater patrolling the audience for phone abusers?

You can eliminate technology all together, but selfish assholes like you who only think about their own experience will always find a way to continue being assholes. You've probably even answered your phone in the theater before, because it's all about YOU.

Also, your wannabe diva comment, bitch, piss off.

Let me get this straight R60:

First you call me stupid for demanding the theater and production staff do something to protect their shows from the intrusion of cell phones. Then you assume (incorrectly of course) that I am the type who answers my phone in the theater. This obvious contradiction is under the umbrella of claiming I am the stupid one.

If your IQ ever climbs over room temperature, you just might see the absurdity of your logic.

My criticism was NEVER about cell phone usage in theaters. It was ALWAYS about the entitled cunt who thinks its ok to assault someone and steal their phone because the delicate genius must not be interrupted during her 'art'

This is the same cunt who has resorted to pathetic tactics her entire career to seem edgy. My favorite is when she showed her saggy tits in that spike lee movie back in the late 90s.

Wannabe diva all the way...

If your emotions rise and fall over whether patti fucking lupone is a wannabe diva or an actual diva, you might want to take stock of your life.

After all, the only thing worse than a wannabe diva is the pathetic blathers of her portly elder gay sycophants.

You go girl!

How is she not a real diva and only a wannabe?

R63: she isn't a big enough star to be a true diva. B list at her peak. Not to mention she tries way to hard. Don't be surprised if it comes out how this broad who got stripped of her cell phone was a plant...

The suggestion she is on the same level as Cher, Barbra, Madonna, Beyoncé, even Naomi Campbell is silly

R64 your gaycard has been revoked. Patti is a Diva of the Theatre, numbskull.

She murders every lyric she screeches.

Jr. Mary, bravo!

R65: this is 2015, not 1915. Hell, this isn't even 1975. If the main part of your resume is on Broadway, you aren't a huge star and certainly not a diva.

It's not as though patti rises to the level of Ethel Merman or Bernadette Peters who also made it big in movies & TV. The best patti could do was third banana occasionally in other mediums.

She just doesn't rise to true diva status. I'm sorry you had to find out this way

Lupone IS a musical theatre DIVA, or the world is flat.

Ok dear, if you say so. R68

R60, "unenforceable"? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

It's not that fucking hard to see a brightly lit object in a relatively dark space. Ushers just need to look around and go over to the row with the brightly lit object, shine a flashlight in the fucking eyes of the offender and scream, "GET OUT NOW"!

It seems hard to believe that the gal who's phone was snatched by Patti had nothing to say back about it. How would you react if someone took your phone no matter where you were?

R68 is an idiot. The theatre world is the theatre world(ie pretty small) and that's all we're talking about.

It may sound shocking but some people go to the theatre even though they aren't interested. They go to socialize with their friends in the foyer and only put up with the show because they have to. I know people like this. I'm not defending texting during the show but I am aware of the mentality.

These are adults acting like children and they should be treated as such.

Yes dear I happily sit out opera acts to chat and drink but we aren't the New York 400 and I'm not in my family's loge so... take it outside the theatre....

Having blocking that requires the actors to shake hands with the front row is a bad choice and asking for trouble. Especially with Lupone in the cast. Wonder how she would have reacted if one patron didn't want to shake her hand or was reading the program?

Anne Bancroft responded to a man that left his hat on the stage of The Miracle Worker by stomping on it.

When I saw Evita apparently my friend got sick of me saying how fabulous Patti was in it. When the number "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" came up and people dropped pieces of paper for her, my friend suggested I drop a note to Patti on the stage as well. I didn't.

R68 First, you know this is a gay forum, and Patti is the Broadway belter. She plays and sings big way. Her action was right and it was noticed all over the press from Broadway.com to CNN. People have praised of what she did.

So we've discovered that r68 doesn't really care about anyone's phone being snatched, he's just one of those tired "I hate Patti LuPone and anyone who likes her is tasteless" people that we're heard from for years. I'm sure if it was one of his non-"wannabe" divas who committed this treacherous act, he'd be singing another tune.

Truly, truly pathetic.

"These are adults acting like children and they should be treated as such. "

Absolutely. And some of the posters here are clearly children as well. I'm glad LuPone did what she did - these clueless, entitled Smartphone addicts need a wake-up call and have a little courtesy and respect for the performers and the audience members around them...if that's not too much trouble for the poor dears.

LuPone didn't commit true "theft" - the audience member got her phone back after the show, and hopefully learned a lesson in basic manners. Clearly she didn't want to be at the theater if she was texting throughout, so why did she bother coming in the first place? Some people have completely lost the ability to grasp anything outside of their own person orbit, no matter where they are, at home or in a public place.

On the Today Show this morning, Matt Lauer mentioned a tweet from CURIOUS INCIDENT... star Alex Sharpe who said he has never had one performance of the show where at least one cell phone didn't go off.

I personally can't stand Patti LuPone. But yes, she is a true diva - in every sense of the word.

Patty needs a good punch in the face, the grandstanding whore.

People might just start doing stupid things in the theater, just so they can say they've been "disciplined" by Patty Lupone.

Her antics will become "the show."

She needs to settle the fuck down, and just do her fucking job. Leave the security to SECURITY.

Fucking bitch.

You know it's a problem, R84, when they sell t-shirts in the theatre lobby that say "I've Been LuPoned"

It would be a great practical joke or April Fools Day prank to arrange for an entire audience to pull out their cell phones and text during a Patti LuPone performance.

This is the age of attention whoreing, both by the actors and by the audience.

Everybody wants to be the "stah."

Fucking pathetic.

Let's listen to the lady herself. What she did and how she did it, looks superb!

R84 = ignorant asshole, highly unlikeable,.

Ugh. The TCG crowd (American Theatre magazine and the fraus & elder gays that attend their conferences) is trying to portray the Hand To God moron, and all cell-phone users in the theatre, as some kind of folk heroes who are brave, edgy and young - defying elitism and conformity!

makes me want to slap people

R66 that's not her. That's an impersonator.

"She needs to settle the fuck down, and just do her fucking job. Leave the security to SECURITY. "

As if Security would actually do anything about the situation. Boy are you naive.

The stupid bitch who was texting should be told: "If you want to be treated like an adult, then act like one."

Same goes for R84.

I think she's tremendous.

It's a fine line. What's more distracting? cell-phone use or the ushers pouncing and creating a bigger scene?

One thing that many ushers are Nazis about is people taking pictures. I was at a show recently where some boob was taking a picture of the stage and the ushers and security guards were all over it. Of course, I found myself watching the whole scenario and missed out on some very important plot points in the play as a result.

I hope a person who taped this clip, followed LuPone's orders.

OT, but who's the guy sitting in the right (in the studio) at the end of the clip of R88

I was there at that fateful performance of 'It Shows for Days", a show i have been eagerly awaiting to attend , having been an ardent admirer of La Lupone since her incandescent definitive portrayal in "Evita" many years ago.

The incident started off seemingly innocuously enough, Ms Lupone , who was positively electrifying in her performance thus far, , stroud out into the center left orchestra rows, still Irene, in character as "Irene", the supreme impresario of the small community theatre group in the play, where she relieved the inconsiderate harpy of her offensive blue-lighted beacon of distraction, holding it triumphantly over her regally coiffed hair, her long flowing gold lame peignoir flowing like the Greek goddess Nike brought to life. The audience clapped in admiration, even the ill-mannered offender smiled sheepishly as she acknowledged her own folly as she suffered did her public attornment as decreed by this modern day Goddess of the American theatre.

It was not until Ms Lupone took that first fateful bite of her seized trophy that she realized it was not the delicious pastrami on rye she could smell from backstage since Act I , but an inedible cellular telephone (kudos by the way , to the productions costumers on their excellent camouflaging of Ms Lupone's notoriously ample carriage)

Only then, as she spat out the chunk of electronic offal she nearly ingested did ms Lupone truly become enraged and the audiences admiration applause quickly turned to concerned murmuring and a sense of impending doom. Those of us who pride ourselves in being veteran New York Theatre habitueés had the good sense to remain silent as we gathered up our Playbills and sweaters and began our retreat, trying to remain as inconspicuous as possible, But by then it was already to late. The great Lupone let out a mighty blood curdling roar as she rampaged through the theatre, trampling all who had the misfortune to cross her path of destruction. The doomed audience members rushed to exits, many of those trapped on the mezzanine chose to leap rather than face the unthinkable alternative that awaited them in the carnage below. I myself had nearly made it to the main doors when I foolishly paused , much as Lot's wife paused to gaze back at Sodom as it burned, taking a quick "selfie" to record this moment for posterity and for my twitter feed ,#tiredoldtheanyctrequeen, unawares the furious Behemoth blazing her way through the rubble of the once glorious Lincoln Centre.

I awoke days later at one of the many army field hospitals set up in New Jersey to deal with the many injured that had managed to escape across the Hudson . The medics told me I was lucky to be alive, even though my right arm had be torn off at the shoulder and my iphone had to be surgically removed from my upper colon.

Gazing across the darkly flowing waters towards the still smoking ruins of my once mighty Manhattan , as jet fighters screamed over head to join the ongoing Armageddon brought forth upon us that fateful day , I find myself envying the dead....

If the ushers don't do anything about people making illegal bootleg videos, why would they do anything about cell phones?

I devoutly hope someone slaps R44 soundly,then shoves her cell phone up her snatch.

They should have muff punched that tired old bitch.

If you spent $200 for a theater ticket that means everyone around you spent $200.

For $200 they could do any thing they fucking want even playing charades or singing the entire score of Molly at the top of their lungs.

If you are such an idiot you get what you deserve.

No, R101. Paying any amount of money for a theatre ticket does not give someone the right to disrupt the experience for all others in attendance. The problem is the entitlement today, and a lack of common courtesy.

Considering that movie tickets have gone up 400% and theater tickets 1000% and drinks and food can be brought to the seats you have got to be kidding me about common courtesy. Producers from pure greed have turned the theater into a circus with the complicity of those attending. It is no longer 1956.

I meant my percentages from 1975.

Oh dear, R97, oh dear. Patti fanfiction? You must be an ATC regular.

And apparently, a complete lack of understanding of just what that $200 ticket actually entitles you to do and not to do at the theater, R102.

R81: if patti were a true diva, she wouldn't need to snatch a phone. One icy look of laser beams would have done the trick...

If patti was even moderately talented as a performer, she would have captivated the entire audience and no one would be compelled to check their phone...

Stop projecting your personal limitations and low IQ onto others. For most (other than you and your outdated ilk), it is entirely possible to manage multiple concepts concurrently such as finding cell phone behavior in theaters obnoxious, thinking performers (any, my faves included), have no right to steal another person's property, and the realization that patti is a desperate cunt..

You and your patti queens calling anyone pathetic is akin to the people in line waiting for the Golden Corral buffet calling someone FAT...

Unprofessional. Good actors learn to ignore such things. Methinks she was just doing it to appease her fans, who love her in full bitch mode. She got a lot of mileage out of that GYPSY moment.

If Patti stole my phone, I'd wipe it for DNA and sell her DNA all over the internet.

"One icy look of laser beams would have done the trick..."

Since the offending texter was looking at her phone rather than the stage, no icy look of any kind would have gotten the needed attention.

Frankly I'm astonished that anyone would criticize LuPone. Clearly a bunch of infantile, clueless, entitled infants who can't see past their own navels have invaded DL.

"Good actors learn to ignore such things."

Why should they? I think it's gotten to a point where more actors should be doing this sort of thing. There are announcements made prior to the show to turn off your FUCKING CELLPHONES! It's very easy to comprehend.

We go to the symphony a lot and the ushers (mostly women) are always on the ball looking for that fucking blue glow. There is just so much trash out there today, I hate to even leave the house anymore because I always call people out on this and I know one day it will turn physical if someone gets in my face. I'm just finished with these parvenus who finally - in the history of their family - have two cents to rub together and think that entitles them to act like their Trump/Kardashian heros. You can take the person out of the shit but you can't take the shit off the person.

R112, you could just as easily be talking about R107.

[quote]Daddy Warlocks

You've been looking at my Grindr profile again, haven't you, R27?

R112 & R113 need theater tickets to try and convince their fragile egos that they are superior to the unwashed masses.

I think the inbreeding has affected their reading comprehension as well.

I am the one defending decent behavior:

NO cell phone use during the performance

NO assault and theft of patrons by the performers

They are the ones cheering on patti for behaving like a boorish tavern call girl, yet they throw around the notion looking down on people who save up and emerge from the shit hole to watch the show.

Fellas: beg the breeder wing of your line to find a mate other than a half sister for the next generation. It might help then surpass your dodgy record of critical thinking and use of logic

Wrong, R115 (and speaking of "reading comprehension", I never said anything about you!). I do not have a fragile ego - in fact, there hasn't been any "money" in my family for over 50 years! I'm talking about knowing how to behave in public, and you don't have to be rich or poor to know that manners are free. However, more often than not these days, those who just crawled out from under a rock think that people with money act like trash because they've never met anyone with manners before - all they see are the piece of shit "celebs" on TV or in the Enquirer. Why the hell should one ignorant asshole have to ruin things for everyone else, all the fucking time?! I adapt to my surroundings: if you treat me like a pig, I'll treat you like one, and if that means grabbing your phone and shoving it down your throat, the jail time/community service would be more than worth it!

What you fail to understand R15, is that these aren't automatons on a stage, they are PEOPLE and they are WORKING. They are at their jobs, and their job is to perform for the audience. But the customer is not always right, and neither is the audience. It is outrageously disrespectful and shows a lack of human compassion to not pay attention to people on stage doing their job for YOU.

With every post, you show how selfish you are and also that you just flat out hate LuPone so you're biased to begin with. I personally would applaud any actor, even those I detest, for standing up for their WORK.

That was directed to r115, not r15

R117:

I am actually starting to feel sorry for you. It's clear you cannot keep up with the conversation and that patti's repugnant behavior is all you have left to warm your soul.

I am indeed no fan of Ms. Lupone. I have made no secret of that here. I think she is a fraud and I'll mannered.

On the other hand, I have written nothing on this thread to promote selfishness: not one single thing. You are now making things up out of desperation. You, like your hero patti, are showing your desperation in the battle against Father Time. You will both realize, as have billions before you, that he always wins. He is undefeated.

If anything it is you who are selfish:

You expect anyone who doesn't uphold your standard of behavior to be subjected to illegal assault and theft. What patti did was no different than what bieber and his bodyguards did to those fans snapping pictures. They were brought up on charges as should Ms. Lupone.

You are also the one who made your attacks personal toward me in the first place. All because I dared to have a different opinion than yours about patti's awful behavior.

Patrons should not use cellphones during a performance. And, if they do, performers should not have carte Blanche to break the law as a remedy.

Why is that reasonable take so hard for you to understand?

oh honey, sit down.

"All because I dared to have a different opinion than yours about patti's awful behavior. "

Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at yer rear end.

Yawn

My, the trolls are yappy today

No need to ignore R122. I am officially done trying to educate the portly elder gays. I will recede into my weekend and leave you to your boxed wine and 8 tracks of evita

The texter musn't have been a New Yorker. They wouldn't let go of their phone and Lapone would've have had her arm wrenched out of its socket.

Ya, R123: your weekend of texting: ignoring the people you are with and irritating the people around you. We are done trying to educate you on how to behave. Your parents are/were certainly useless.

PS: make sure you take selfies with all your meals because you know everyone is sooooo interested.

[quote]PS: make sure you take selfies with all your meals because you know everyone is sooooo interested.

Oh yes, especially pictures of meals...because I've never seen one before!

Wasn't there a scene in Birdman when the audience exploded with cell phone and camera lights after a fight on stage?

She spoke to the press about it, a good sport

I guess her need to do so, or her being asked to do so, was more important than her need to prepare before she went on stage to act.

For crying out loud, she didn't steal the phone, she confiscated it and it was returned at the end of the show.

Please stop using the "Person X must be off his/her meds" again to try to shame someone's opinion. For one, it's a played out and unfunny reply. For two, it's not an argument and only reflects your OWN intellectual laziness. Besides, mental health issues are real and our culture ALREADY shames people who have them. It's a cowards response. If you don't like someone's opinion, get over yourself and either respond maturely OR choose the one with the least effort: don't bother replying at all.

I've been a LuPone fan since my teenage years, but the fact is she is in serious danger of being generally remembered for this kind of behavior. She has a LONG history of unprofessional and harridan like drama trailing her stage career. She's not a complete cunt as of yet, but is damned close.

Update - Patti's curtain speech from yesterday.

Let's add Celexa to R131's daily regimen, to help curb these kinds of outbursts.

Gee, Thanks for the Update, R133!

Stupid bitch, she'll never get famous that a way

If you're going to tour with Mandy Patinkin you had better be a badass. You go, girl.

Ummm... why the random bump of this thread nearly 1 1/2 years after the last response? Did she do something today?

There's been a minor epidemic of old threads today, r138.

Lol r5!

R139 not everyone reads as fast as you.