Video: Deranged Juice Jackal Climbs Broadway Stage To Charge Cellphone From Fake Outlet
Hand To God (Joan Marcus)
Like the majestic osprey spying a glimmer of trout in brackish water, New Yorkers have mutated into a species that can locate empty power outlets in the most hostile of environments. Whether it's an ATM vestibule or a glass-strewn underpass, we will confidently insert our cellphone chargers and feel the tonic of security wash over us with the warmth of a thousand Likes. This impulse is so ineluctable that a man jumped onto a Broadway stage last week just so he could plug in his phone.
[SEE VITAL VIDEO UPDATE BELOW]
Theatergoer Chris York was about to enjoy a performance of Hand To God (it is in fact very good) when the juice jackal made his move:
(Part 2):I witnessed something tonight that I never imagined I would see in a Broadway theatre and Jessica and I were...
Posted by Chris York on Thursday, July 2, 2015
Playbill.com confirmed the incident (and that the outlet itself was fake). Several cast members made tweets.
A guy jumped on the stage and plugged his phone into the fake outlet on our set just before we started. @HandtoGodBway #fullmoon or #idiot ?
— Sarah Stiles (@Lulubellestiles) July 3, 2015Dear general audience, an electrical socket that's a part of the set of the play is NOT for you to charge your iPhone.....just an FYI.....
— Marc Kudisch (@MarcKuds) July 4, 2015And now we are making this blog. To review: Turn off your cellphone (it saves power!). Shut the hell up. If you truly cannot hack it, go to brunch.
[VITAL UPDATE] A theatergoer captured video of the incident, and it appears that, yes, the Juice Jackal Wears Khakis. Of course we don't condone taking out your cellphone to capture video of someone engaging in bad behavior with their cellphone, but we'll allow it just this once.