I'm
going to open the floor to suggestions from the audience on this one
(pause for laughter.) I just don't know what to think, so I ask for
your thoughts. I'll give them right back.
My mother lives in a
senior high-rise; she is in the independent living area. There are also
assisted living and nursing care components where she lives. There is
also entertainment galore. A movie every Saturday night, concerts and
musicales, book clubs, lectures, all sorts of things to do.
But
she told me about some odd entertainment that took place the other
night. A local man - a professional, not some goober who just rode in
on a turnip truck - showed up to sing a program of show tunes. And he is
not a guy who lives there, although any regular visitor to most of the
malls in this area would recognize his surname. Accompanied by a buddy
on piano, he warbled his way through the usual "Send In the Clowns," "If
I Loved You," and "Shipoopi."
And so then, his cell phone rang.
And he takes the cell phone out of his pocket and takes the call!
And holds a personal conversation, while the audience sits puzzled and somewhat restive (several people got up and walked out.)
At
length, the man's wife - if she really was his wife - came up on the
stage and mildly upbraided him for wasting everyone's time. She told
him to end the call and get on with the show.
And then he says, "Time for an intermission, folks," and sticks his cell up by ear and makes a call.
And then when he was finished with this call, he closed the phone, put it back in his pants, and went on with the show.
Now,
again, this man is not under treatment that we know about, is not a
resident of the home, and in fact continues to ply his profession here
in town.
I think this leads to only two possibilities:
a) he is about the most rude entertainer ever, completely self-involved, with not a whit of interest in his audience or
2) it was all some sort of post-Andy Kaufman latter-day Dadaistic performance art concept piece.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I await your verdict.
1 comment:
I AM GOING TO HAVE TO GO WITH "A", HE WAS RUDE, HIS CELL PHONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TURN-OFF AND IF HE WAS EXPECTING AN ALL IMPORTANT CALL HIS WIFE COULD HAVE HELD IT IN HER HANDS AND CALL FOR AN INTERMISSION OFF STAGE. OUR OLDER GENERATION SHOULD AS ALL HUMANS, THE UP MOST RESPECT. THEY MOSTLY LOOK FORWARD TO ENTERTAINERS TO COME AND GIVE A PERFORMANCE. WHETHER IT BE SINGING, SOME MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, ARTS AND CRAFT OR READING. IT'S PART OF THEIR THESE RESIDENTS ROUTINE. WHAT HE DID WAS MEAN AND NOT NICE. I IF I WERE THE ENTERTAINMENT PERSON FOR THE ASSISTED LIVING HOME, I WOULD NOT INVITE THIS PERSON ( GENTLEMEN, WHICH HE IS NOT) BACK .
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