{"id":285,"date":"2009-06-22T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=285"},"modified":"2009-06-22T15:42:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T15:42:39","slug":"go_go_gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/06\/go_go_gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Go go gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has anyone tried the New York Phil iPhone app<\/a>? I’m told it currently has 2.5 out of 5 stars. Reviews, please! As previously mentioned, I can’t get an iPhone because I refuse to let go of my Verizon family plan, and my cheapness haunts me daily. All I hope is that the iPhone app is more successful than the Philharmonic’s previously secret Facebook page<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Recently, my clients David and Hilary weighed in<\/a> on Tweeting, etc. during concerts.  Life’s a Pitch<\/i> devotees may also remember the report of the Patti LuPone incident<\/a> from this winter, during which Santa Evita stopped singing ‘Rose’s Turn’ in Gypsy <\/i>to yell at an audience member while my friend Maureen and I sat horrified in the left orchestra. Well, according to The New York Times<\/i>‘ arts blog<\/a> (via the Las Vegas Sun<\/i><\/a>) the Rainbow of Argentina has has done it again:<\/p>\n

\n

Broadway star Patti LuPone hadn’t even finished lowering her arms in
\nthe iconic introduction to the song “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina,” when
\nshe waved to her 10-man orchestra to stop the music. LuPone was already
\nat the lip of the stage, chewing out some doofus in the third row, who
\nwas brave and foolish enough to be caught using an electronic gizmo
\nduring her show at the Orleans showroom.<\/p>\n

“What<\/em> were you doing?” LuPone demanded of her captive. “I
\npromise not to be mad at you. Just tell me, what were you doing —
\nvideoing? Taking photos? Texting? I really want to know.”<\/p>\n

…Sitting near me in the capacity crowd was freelance journalist and
\nblogger Steve Friess, who was itching to post about the eruption to his
\nTwitter feed. “I want to text right now so bad it’s killing me!” he
\nwhispered, laughing. Friess quickly jammed out a blog post<\/a> and a tweet<\/a>, apparently while waiting for the valet to retrieve his car. [Las Vegas Sun]<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I don’t care what the bourgeoisie say; I’m not in business for them, but to give all my descamisados a magical moment or two!” <\/p>\n

Of course the internet is a magical place, and the great irony is that audio from her Gypsy <\/i>spasm has been listened to 200,000+ times on YouTube<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Update from my friend Jeff, 6\/23!! LuPone, from whom I’m still awaiting monetary reimbursement for the Gypsy ticket to the performance she ruined, has responded to the New York Times<\/a>. It seems she’s both read the recent Wall Street Journal article<\/a> on the topic and doesn’t know who Will Swenson is. Yes, photos\/texting\/Tweeting\/eating during performances are a problem, but where are the ushers? The house managers? There are systems in place to police these things that don’t ruin performances for the rest of us. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has anyone tried the New York Phil iPhone app? I’m told it currently has 2.5 out of 5 stars. Reviews, please! As previously mentioned, I can’t get an iPhone because I refuse to let go of my Verizon family plan, and my cheapness haunts me daily. All I hope is that the iPhone app is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}