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Hamilton actor lashes out on Utahns

I would have waited to check the score or watch it after because it was game 1. Games 4, 5, 6, or 7 though and I would be at home with the TV on, watching the game while on my phone with no worries.
 
bigmike said:
This sort of made me chuckle.

I get it from the standpoint of a patron. If someone were checking their phone near me, I'd be annoyed for sure.

From the performer standpoint? Don't understand it as much. People pay good $ to be there and IMO can do whatever they please in the theater. If they choose to be distracted, so be it.
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Are you kidding me? Buying a ticket does not give you the right to break the rules and annoy everyone else. It bothers the performers because they are in the middle of immersing themselves in a performance and are suddenly taken out of it by lights in the audience. You don't think that is a problem?
 
JazzGal said:
Are you kidding me? Buying a ticket does not give you the right to break the rules and annoy everyone else. It bothers the performers because they are in the middle of immersing themselves in a performance and are suddenly taken out of it by lights in the audience. You don't think that is a problem?
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Did you not see the first part of my post? I just said as a fellow fan, I would be very frustrated/annoyed.

But I don't think it gives the actor credence to blast an entire fanbase on Twitter. We have all had to do our jobs with a distracted audience or fanbase before. It's one night with a major distraction for the city happening at the same time - not the end of the world.
 
bigmike said:
Did you not see the first part of my post? I just said as a fellow fan, I would be very frustrated/annoyed.

But I don't think it gives the actor credence to blast an entire fanbase on Twitter. We have all had to do our jobs with a distracted audience or fanbase before. It's one night with a major distraction for the city happening at the same time - not the end of the world.
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If I had been able to get a ticket to Hamilton, a play I desperately want to see but cannot afford, I would be beyond furious if a person next to me couldn't wait until intermission to check the score. Not only would it take me out of the experience, but if it causes the actors to give less than their very best performance, that is not fair to me or anyone else that a few selfish people cannot control themselves.
 
JazzGal said:
If I had been able to get a ticket to Hamilton, a play I desperately want to see but cannot afford, I would be beyond furious if a person next to me couldn't wait until intermission to check the score. Not only would it take me out of the experience, but if it causes the actors to give less than their very best performance, that is not fair to me or anyone else that a few selfish people cannot control themselves.
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I hear you but also think that’s a bit of a stretch. Not going back and forth on this. Agree to (sort of) disagree.
 
Thee jazz fan said:
The question I have is if they are so worried about the game, why go to the play on the same night.

I mean what jazz fan goes to a play during a playoff game, idiots!!!
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Tickets were really hard to come by and were almost certainly purchased long before the playoff schedule was set. I love Hamilton and was able to see it on a non-game night, fortunately, but you better believe I would've gone to see it even if my tickets happened to coincide with a Jazz playoff game. Despite my die-hard Jazz fandom. Hamilton could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Now, if I was there on a game night you better believe I woulda been checking my phone in the hall at intermission. Not in the theater, though. Come on, people.
 
Bulletproof said:
Me too, but I also know several people who don't pay a few hundred a month for cable service. Crazy, right?
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I do very much wish the NBA would get it figured out for non-cable subscribers. I'd happily pay $200 for access to all Jazz games without blackout restrictions, and with the ability to pick up the stream any time after the game begins. This shouldn't be so hard in our digital era.
 
bigmike said:
This sort of made me chuckle.

I get it from the standpoint of a patron. If someone were checking their phone near me, I'd be annoyed for sure.

From the performer standpoint? Don't understand it as much. People pay good $ to be there and IMO can do whatever they please in the theater. If they choose to be distracted, so be it.
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Actually, seeing a face glow up in the audience when a phone engages distracts the actors and pulls them out of their craft. Acting in that setting requires a mindset that the audience can screw with in bad ways.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
Actually, seeing a face glow up in the audience when a phone engages distracts the actors and pulls them out of their craft. Acting in that setting requires a mindset that the audience can screw with in bad ways.
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It's like golf, you get kicked out if you yell certain things.
 
LifeOnaPlate said:
I do very much wish the NBA would get it figured out for non-cable subscribers. I'd happily pay $200 for access to all Jazz games without blackout restrictions, and with the ability to pick up the stream any time after the game begins. This shouldn't be so hard in our digital era.
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I know they offer individual games for pay at the NBA website. They don't offer a package?
 
Thee jazz fan said:
There are ways around this, it's called DVR I do it all the time, I turn all my notifications off and don't want to know anything about the score, then I watch the game.


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That works as long as some jerk doesn't come around with "Nice win/loss for the Jazz eh?"
 
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