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Jackman & Craig give audience member a serve! | Quote: | Pity the theatregoer whose persistently ringing mobile phone caused Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig to stop their Broadway show and ask it be answered.
The actors, two of Hollywood's biggest stars, were part-way through a preview performance of intense two-hander A Steady Rain in New York last Wednesday when a mobile phone's high-pitched trill became too much.
A video of the performance surfaced overnight on celebrity gossip website TMZ.com.
It shows Jackman, still in character as a Chicago cop pacing the stage and halfway through a monologue, address the audience member directly, saying: "You wanna get that?"
"You wanna get it, grab it, I don't care, grab it, grab your phone, it doesn't matter."
Co-star Craig, seated at the time, watched on as the phone kept ringing.
Jackman, 40, eventually pleaded, to rousing applause: "Come on just turn it off ... it doesn't matter, unless you got a better story, you want to get up and tell your stories".
As the phone kept ringing, 41-year-old Craig relieved his frustrated co-star, asking the audience member to answer their phone.
"Can you get that, whoever that is, can you get it," he asked.
"We can wait, just get the phone."
The phone was eventually silenced. A relieved Craig said: "Denny [Jackman's character's name] took it hard."
The audience inside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre applauded again.
Producers of A Steady Rain could not be reached for comment.
The interruption occurred during an intense moment in the play, when Jackman's character, a Chicago policeman, reveals haunting memories.
A customary loudspeaker announcement reminds theatregoers to turn off their phones.
Since the incident, ushers who seat patrons and pass out playbills at Schoenfeld are also instructing patrons to silence their phones.
A Steady Rain, a taut drama about the relationship between two policemen, opens on Tuesday for a 12-week run through to December 6.
The play by Keith Huff already has proven to be a potent box-office winner, playing to capacity audiences since it began previews on September 10.
Jackman won a Tony Award in 2004 for his performance as Peter Allen in the musical The Boy from Oz.
Craig, filmdom's latest James Bond, is making his Broadway debut. |
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fjays
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Interesting. At least it works in context, and Hugh keeps his character.. It almost works.
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Buff Daddy
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The other question is: Why was someone videoing it?
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fjays
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| Buff Daddy wrote: | The other question is: Why was someone videoing it?
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Haha, yes! I was like.. the irony... and I can't help but imagine if it had happened to Patti, who she would be more mad at.. hehe
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Yakko
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 Good for you Hugh!
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Beagle On Stage
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That's a stupid thing to do. It's disrespectful to have your phone on during a show, but he reacted like a child. He stopped doing his job in order to be cutesy. I would have more respect for him if he were committed enough to get through a scene when a distraction occurred.
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Dax
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| Beagle On Stage wrote: | | That's a stupid thing to do. |
No. It wasn't. 
Use your head for once and imagine if you were in the audience when some idiot's phone goes off...
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Beagle On Stage
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Haven't we all been in an audience where a phone went off? I would rather have the show continue than have the evening come to a grinding halt in response to one person's inconsideration.
And don't tell me to use my head for once. [mod edit - no personal attacks]
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Felix Felicis
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I think this is the best response - addressing the issue while still staying relatively in character.
At the other end of the scale, you have your LuPones and your Griffithses, which is slightly more awkward.
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aworthyboyishe
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Well, its a spectrum.
Hugh Jackman is at one end of it, trying to fix the problem within the context of the show, and then there's Patti Lupone at the other end, eating babies and breathing fire.
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| aworthyboyishe wrote: | Well, its a spectrum.
Hugh Jackman is at one end of it, trying to fix the problem within the context of the show, and then there's Patti Lupone at the other end, eating babies and breathing fire. |
<3 OMG I love you.. "Eating babies and breathing fire" that is SO patti.
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Yakko
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| aworthyboyishe wrote: | Well, its a spectrum.
Hugh Jackman is at one end of it, trying to fix the problem within the context of the show, and then there's Patti Lupone at the other end, eating babies and breathing fire. |
You officially win in life for that comment.
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| Beagle On Stage wrote: | | That's a stupid thing to do. It's disrespectful to have your phone on during a show, but he reacted like a child. He stopped doing his job in order to be cutesy. I would have more respect for him if he were committed enough to get through a scene when a distraction occurred. |
So let's say that you're on the operating table. One of the nurses is having a chat on his/her cellphone. Would you expect the surgeon to carry on operating - doing his/her job - regardless? Or would you expect him/her to stop the nurse and create an environment in which he/she can do the job he/she is paid to do to the best of his/her ability?
I have no patience for people who use their phones in the theatre. Whether an actor points out the culprit or whether one of the FOH staff does it, the show will be disturbed. But it's ridiculous that anyone should get away with it for the sake of not disturbing the show. The second that phone went off, the show was already disturbed. End of story. There should be a zero tolerance attitude towards this kind of thing. Any condoning of this behaviour for whatever reason only perpetuates it.
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| Yakko wrote: | | aworthyboyishe wrote: | Well, its a spectrum.
Hugh Jackman is at one end of it, trying to fix the problem within the context of the show, and then there's Patti Lupone at the other end, eating babies and breathing fire. |
You officially win in life for that comment. |
FTW!!!!
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Beagle On Stage
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So nobody else thinks that if a phone rings, it's appropriate to just go on with the show? For real?
| RainbowJude wrote: | | So let's say that you're on the operating table. One of the nurses is having a chat on his/her cellphone. Would you expect the surgeon to carry on operating - doing his/her job - regardless? Or would you expect him/her to stop the nurse and create an environment in which he/she can do the job he/she is paid to do to the best of his/her ability? |
You can't possibly believe that this is really a legitimate comparison, can you?
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