{"id":1136,"date":"2015-07-13T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2015-07-13T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T07:25:04","slug":"dont-piss-off-patti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/dont-piss-off-patti\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Piss Off Patti!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people can ignore misbehaving audience members.\u00a0 But some people ain’t Patti LuPone<\/strong>.\u00a0 I’ve warned you – don’t fuck with Patti.\u00a0 I know you want to capture her brilliant performances, but unless you can do it surreptitiously, don’t risk it – that woman has eyes like a hawk.\u00a0 She’s currently appearing off-Broadway <\/em>in Shows for Days<\/em><\/strong> (a performance the London<\/em> Guardian <\/em>calls “never less than watchable”).\u00a0 It seems a woman was using her phone during the show – happily not taking photos or videos, but likely texting.\u00a0 Patti spotted the glare and she glared back.\u00a0 Because timing is everything, LuPone waited until the perfect moment – an exit line – to snatch the phone away as she walked off-stage.\u00a0 No word if the woman was brave enough to ask for her phone back.\u00a0 Patti re-enacted the moment (which she called a “slight of hand”) the next evening in a pre-show speech which was posted online by the theatre.\u00a0 PHEW – an officially sanctioned video!!\u00a0 Check it out on BillyMasters.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people can ignore misbehaving audience members.\u00a0 But some people ain’t Patti LuPone.\u00a0 I’ve warned you – don’t fuck with Patti.\u00a0 I know you want to capture her brilliant performances, but unless you can do it surreptitiously, don’t risk it – that woman has eyes like a hawk.\u00a0 She’s currently appearing off-Broadway in Shows for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}