I’m sick of Broadway audience members behaving like jackasses
nypost.comshe interrupted a performance of “Death of A Salesman” at the Hudson Theatre — completely stopping the show. Unhinged and angry, she stormed the stage during Act 2 and demanded her money back from star Wendell Pierce.
The lights came up, and eventually the cops arrived to escort her out.At “Death of a Salesman.” Good lord.Truly, the Halcyon days of Patti LuPone and Richard Griffiths shouting at people for using cell phones are now looked back upon as more quaint than “Anne of Green Gables.” However, these troubling new incidents aren’t only loony — some are downright abusive.Last week, a controversial story in Playbill reported depressing accounts from several front-of-house staff, one of whom said they had been “spat on, shoved, had my ass slapped, and been screamed at more times than I could count” by despicable spectators.
Another recalled how they were stalked by an irate patron to the subway train after the show. Playbill’s clueless CEO Philip Birsh ordered the story be taken down because, as he told the Daily Beast, “We want people to go to the theater.
This piece exaggerated the issue in my opinion.”Is he running Playbill or Pravda?Anyway, Birsh is wrong. Usher horrors stories are easy to find, and anecdotally, more audience members than I have ever experienced before are talking loudly, getting angry and barging in and out of the theater during the show as they please.
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