preshow recording...a single cell phone, then another, then more, then a cacophony of cell rings to a crescendo, then silence and "please turn off all cellphones and pagers. Thank you, and enjoy the show."
Usually here, in my theatre anyway, audience folk will start reaching for their cells when the recording first starts.
If a cell phone was a necessary communication tool for me, and I was needed in an emergency for some reason, despite trying to go enjoy myself for a while, I'd want the signal to get through. Jamming is too problemmatic, plus I can see where the jamming would stray beyond the theatre walls, and also open us up to possible lawsuits. Not worth it.
Now, if we could just do something about the candy-wrapper crowd and the geriatrics with loud oxygen packs in the front row who say "what'd he say!?" between every other line... |
