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Since it's impossible to attend a theatrical performance these days without some bonehead's cell phone shattering the mood, this incident during a recent performance of A Steady Rain isn't exactly news. But what's surprising is how intense actor dudes Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman restrain themselves from leaping into the audience and thrashing the culprit to within an inch of his or her inconsiderate life. Also surprising is how long the friggin' cell phone rings—even after the frustrated stars stop the performance to beg the owner to shut it off. It's just so painfully awkward to watch, you have to wonder: How many celebrities have to be interrupted before we get those cell phone jammers like theatergoers in civilized Russia enjoy?!
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That's fucking awesome.
I have been at the Met (Opera) and seen people ANSWER the phone during the performance. And loudly announce "Hi! YEah I'm at the Opera! How are yoU!" Holy shit those people are scum.
Did you curse them out? I would.
amazing video. further proof that the idiocy of the cell-phone drone knows no bounds.
Even though Jackman and Craig are in this, I hope losers don't try this at other performances.
Wait, I thought you couldn't photograph or record live performances else Patti Lupone will personally come and thrash the hell outta you. So who recorded this?
Good question. I thought it might be the production's own official video but the quality doesn't seem good enough for that.
Yeah, I think that's the big irony here-- that some idiot recording the show captured some other idiot's cell phone going off.... then first said idiot sells his or her illegal footage to TMZ. What a bunch of assholes. Where IS Patti Lupone when you need her?!
I don't understand how hard it is for some people to just silence their phones BEFORE a performance starts. Its not that hard at all.
I've been lucky enough to witness the verbal thrashing & booting of those stupid enough to answer a ringing phone & have a conversation during a movie.
don't they have someone over the PA system address that rule before the show starts too?
some people are ridonkulous.
It's not enough to just set it to silent. People should turn their phones OFF. The bright glow of the screen in the hands of someone texting two chairs away from me is just as distracting as hearing it ring.
Not to mention the interference cell phone signals can have with audio equipment. If there's any kind of mic or speaker system you might as well just leave the thing on and let it ring because everyone is still going to hear it.
I'm amazed this doesn't happen more often. I feel even worse for the people who came to NYC for the trip of a lifetime, paid top dollar to see a Broadway show or opera then have the experience ruined by some twit with a cellphone.
It wasn't ruined. It was the most memorable theater moment of their lives. They'll never forget watching those two actors react like that.
Theaters should be equipped with tasers that automatically tase anyone with a ringing cell phone. The technology is out there.
Yes, tasering! No wait, tasering is too good for those people. The cell phone should blow up next to their heads. Or give them cancer, fast!
I pay a lot of money to go to a show, I'm the valued customer. Sometimes, I like to sit back and watch the show and sometimes, if there's like lots of dialogue and no action, I prefer to chat, text or twitter. There's no point in turning my phone off, the reason I bought my iphone was to have access to my friends all the time so why would I turn it off. If it goes off, not a big deal cuz I always make sure to have an epic ringtone (right now it's "What You Say" by Loon).
Chill out, Wolverine.
That'll do Mr. Monkeymafia...that'll do.
we're all valued customers you entitled monkey, and the light from your screen is highly distracting to others around you in the darkened theater. find another way to cope with your ADD or don't bother to attend civilized functions.
Are you serious? If so, I really feel sorry for you and for how you must have been raised. If you cannot pay attention to the performance for the 1.5 - 2 hours the actors are onstage, you should go somewhere else. Your lack of an attention span does not give you the right to ruin the performance for everyone else in the theater. It's really sad that you would think that it does.
. . . sometimes, if there's like lots of dialogue and no action, I prefer to chat, text or twitter.
That's just moronic. The dialogue in a play is the action. Why bother going if you can't appreciate the experience of a stage performance without spectacle? It's idiots like you that have created more of a demand for stupid gigantic musicals and the decline of serious dramas on Broadway.
And besides, I'm a paying patron, too, and the bright glow of the screen in your hands is just as distracting as hearing it ring.
The theater is not your living room, asshole.
Wow, so you're the dick.
He's joking, people.
So many people taking this seriously. Sounds like monkeymafia was just making a joke based on how inconsiderate people tend to think. Or, at least I hope so.
Methinks monkeymafia's tongue is in his cheek. Perhaps the responding INTENSE theatergoers might appreciate a bit of humor.
Also, I am a hipster and I've come with my army of bespectacled, bedraggled, be-skinny jeaned art-school grads and fellow band members to gentrify your neighborhood and I don't care about anyone but myself and my PBR and I secretly hate minorities and those who lived in Bushwick before me and I want to push them out with expensive coffee and luxury lofts because I'm shallow like that.
I am not an intense theatregoer but I am still waitin' on the humor...BE MORE FUNNY
knock knock?
why can't they have something in theaters where once you walk into the theater or once the show starts, you have no service or it just radioactively turns your phone/contraption off?
i know im asking for too much....apparently it's too much hassle for these numb nuts to press OFF>
Jammers now! Jammers everywhere public!
I think it would have been better if Jackman had gone into the audience, taken the phone and answered it. "Hi, this is Hugh Jackman. How are you? Listen, your idiot friend can't come to the phone right now because he's in a theater and your call is interrupting a live performance. How about you call him back in a few hours? 'kay? Thank you. Bye."
Jammers are all well and good until the first time someone whose phone is jammed in a theater doesn't get that "important call". Then it's lawsuit city.
What if it's a physician? Although I'm sure some people will argue that doctors don't have the right to go out and enjoy themselves because an emergency may come up at any time. Using common courtesy by using vibrate mode, checking the number discreetly (holding the phone as low as possible so only a few people around you can see the lit display) and stepping out to take the call is the way to go.
that's what voicemail is for
I think this person was a Wolverine and James Bond fan who had never been to a serious theater play in his life. I mean, really?
Cellphone jammers would be in place right now if the FCC weren't owned by AT&T, Verizon, and all the other phone companies. And it's simple: if there were an emergency, the jammers could be turned off. The only alternative are black market jammers which will someday be quite plentiful...
It is the plague of our lives. People who are so totally immersed in their insignificant meaningless lives, inflated with their own groundless self image and oblivious to the rest of humanity. It’s too bad some folks in the audience didn’t pick him up, drag him out kicking and screaming and toss him into the Hudson.
You said it; some people are so rude now: walking, driving, eating, etc. with their cell phones, our society has gotten to the point of no one caring about anything but their sorry selves ... do they still talk while they fuck too?!
Worse: they twit while they fuck.
thanx for the chuckle; they are all sad!!
Well said, sir.
Someone green-screen a set of claws into that vid....please!
i keep mine on silent 24/7. sure i miss calls sometimes when i dont feel the vibes, but i can always return them...
i just detest ringing phones period