Hugh Jackman, seen here at an event earlier this month, did not respond well when a cell phone went off during a Broadway performance.
People, please. If you are going to go to a Broadway show, turn off your cell phone. Not only is it incredibly rude to your fellow theatergoers not to, but you run the risk of an actor turning all the force of his performance to a simple attempt to shame you mercilessly until you break down.
That's what happened when Hugh Jackman was interrupted during a performance (with Daniel Craig) of "A Steady Rain." Rather than express himself to the offender explicitly (like Patti LuPone), Jackman simply asked the person to please answer the phone.
But he or she did not comply. Apparently so horrified at the idea of being identified that it was preferable to simply let the ringing continue, the offender let the phone go, and that was what became appalling. "Don't be embarrassed," he finally said sarcastically, "Just grab the phone."
Perhaps you'd like to see it for yourself.
The video, after the jump...
Unless you want Hugh Jackman to devote a full minute to humiliating you — and unless you want to see your mug turn up on TMZ.com after a different kind of unscrupulous theatergoer catches the entire thing on video (someone who was taping before the phone rang, by the way) — just turn off your phone before you go to the theater.
Don't let this happen to you.
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