On Broadway in the 1960's, he would interrupt performances of his work, drunkenly shouting from his seat and demanding in unprintable terms that the actors do the play the way he wrote it.
I had just seen three grand ballet performances in a row, but this harshly lit, uncostumed, and repeatedly interrupted performance was my favorite.
Sponsors pulled out, protestors interrupted performances and those associated with the theater (and not) received a barrage of death threats. .
Yet if you were to hopelessly butcher the music they would interrupt the performance and protest vocally.
"I was disappointed to see that a number of Ole Miss football players and others in the audience decided to interrupt a performance of the play using anti-gay slurs," said his mother, Judy Shepard.
After all, nobody would interrupt a performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony midway through the final movement to ask the conductor: "Could you just get the musicians to repeat that phrase, so that we may replicate the experience?" I may well be wrong in recalling the details of Platini's pass that night, but it doesn't matter: the higher truth, and all that.
Riff Raff and Magenta interrupt the performance, revealing themselves and Frank to be aliens from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Transylvania.
If people annoy, disrupt, or interrupt your performance, do not go on a tirade.
Clapping isn't a chance to interrupt a performance, it's a chance to celebrate it.
Use indirect remarks such as "Does anyone hear a bird calling?" An audience member may be motivated to help kick the heckler out, without you having to interrupt your performance.
