tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731242543254491491.post5790137371639902829..comments2023-12-20T17:20:22.032-05:00Comments on 99 Seats: One interesting thing...99http://www.blogger.com/profile/11955916620902994495noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731242543254491491.post-17391095582161193832009-10-01T10:28:25.996-04:002009-10-01T10:28:25.996-04:00I agree with Mark on this one ... I think someone ...I agree with Mark on this one ... I think someone noticed the run the Patti LuPone incident got and thought this would be great marketing.<br /><br />I wonder when this backfires? I wonder who's going to go to the show now and purposefully trigger their phone to get a personalized bitch session from Wolverine?Mark Fossenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623615263972844957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731242543254491491.post-62258067445313166402009-10-01T10:25:42.545-04:002009-10-01T10:25:42.545-04:00Very good point, Mark. Very, very interesting...Very good point, Mark. Very, very interesting...99https://www.blogger.com/profile/11955916620902994495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731242543254491491.post-88165907380476323962009-10-01T10:25:42.271-04:002009-10-01T10:25:42.271-04:00Very good point, Mark. Very, very interesting...Very good point, Mark. Very, very interesting...99https://www.blogger.com/profile/11955916620902994495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731242543254491491.post-52250621548133591252009-10-01T10:15:48.870-04:002009-10-01T10:15:48.870-04:00I actually think that the interesting thing here i...I actually think that the interesting thing here is:<br /><br />a) The video is of an awfully professional quality for a supposedly surreptitious audience member video.<br /><br />b) It dropped the day before they opened and increased the buzz about the show substantially.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07030787796014030055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6731242543254491491.post-48229064827970521332009-10-01T09:55:42.148-04:002009-10-01T09:55:42.148-04:00Certainly taping the show was illegal. But I think...Certainly taping the show was illegal. But I think allowing this limited clip to proliferate is a useful turning of a blind eye. Video footage of a cell phone going off at one of my shows wouldn't get the same attention from the public, but it's just as damaging to the show and no one I work with is a millionaire. <br /><br />The idea, to my mind, is to get this message out to the ones whose cell phones usually go off: the non-habitual theater-goers. Most avid playgoers turn off their cell phones by instinct. (Hell, I'm so fussy about it that when they make the announcement, even though mine is always off by that point, I always take it out and *pretend* to turn it off to reinforce the idea that others should do the same.)<br /><br />A lot of non-regular-theater-goers will see this clip, and maybe if one or two of them end up at your show or mine, maybe it'll instill enough residual fear to benefit us as well. <br /><br />Certainly this isn't health care or climate change, but if we're going to love theater we might as well be protective of the experience.macrogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00763086848960021250noreply@blogger.com