Playbill: U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado reportedly attended a recent performance of Beetlejuice's national tour in Denver. But instead of the smiley photo ops usually granted to VIPs, Boebert's visit resulted in grainy security cam footage of her and her party being removed from the venue mid-performance.
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The story about U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert getting kicked out of a "Beetlejuice" show in Colorado brings up some interesting issues. It's about whether politicians should be treated like regular people when they go out for fun or whether they should be held accountable for their actions all the time. Some people say that politicians, like Boebert, should be allowed to enjoy entertainment without any fuss. However, I believe that because they're public figures, they should always be watched and criticized for what they do, even in their free time. This situation shows how tricky it can be to balance personal freedom with the responsibilities that come with being a public figure. The theater should be a place to relax, but it also reflects what's going on in the world. It reminds us that nowadays, politicians are always in the spotlight, and can so easily pull focus from what is important happening in front of us.
Serves her right. Even beyond the fact that I hate her as a person and a politician I am glad she was kicked out. Far right republicans may cry that it was levied against her to attack republicans and that her being kicked out was politically motivated. That is obviously untrue however. Anyone can be a public nuisance regardless of political leaning and affiliation. Drunken stupidity and annoyance should not be allowed in theaters especially with these being international issues at this point. The huge swaths of people who are disorderly at the theatre is frankly shameful. And it honestly does not surprise me that Lauren Boebert is just one of the many people who is ruining the theatre experience in the last couple years. Although it is fair that politicians and celebrities should be treated as just regular people they should also be held accountable for their own actions just like everyone else is. Neither unfairly demonized nor held up on a pedestal.
I mean, I think that probably anyone who was partaking in disrespectful audience behavior during a show should get the same treatment of being removed from the performance. A few months ago, I watched a person sitting a couple of seats away from me get kicked out because she was recording the show. She complained and argued that she didn’t know it was a rule, that she could just delete the footage and therefore stay, but she still got removed. It’s a pretty well-stated rule at the beginning of any show. It’s also really not that difficult to comprehend the concept of just sitting quietly and watching. There are a lot of reasons why I would imagine she would understand that concept. 1. Because she’s a full-grown adult; 2. Because she’s a public figure, who I imagine has had some sort of media training and knows how to behave in public areas. I know that every public figure has their private life, but still, an aspect of being a public figure is that you have to give up some of that privacy and accept that there will be a lot of eyes on you. There are a lot of reasons why I wouldn’t want to be on Lauren Boebert’s PR team, but yikes, I really wouldn’t want to be on Lauren Boebert’s PR team.
It seems to be very on-brand that U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert was so disrespectful and disruptive that she was asked to leave the performance. I always enjoy it when there are consequences to actions made by celebrities and others with social influence who often act as if basic social etiquette does not apply to them. At first I thought it surprising that Representative Boebert would be a little more concerned with how Colorado natives in the audience would feel about her showing so little respect, but I guess most of her voting base is not the type to attend Broadway tours. I wonder if this is just Representative Boehert’s personality or if this is part of a shift of disrespecting public spacing that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Based on my experience, people seemed to have forgotten what decent human behavior was while they were stuck behind a Zoom screen.
I’m glad that house management took the proper procedures to remove Boebert from the theater if she was being a distraction; theater is an art form for all and just because Boebert is a congresswoman, she should not be able to ruin other people's viewing experience. I’ve noticed that post-covid, theater etiquette has varied. I attended Moulin Rouge on Broadway last year, and while watching a jukebox musical, I was shocked by the amount of “audience karaoke” participation. Back to Boebert’s altercation, I’m very glad that this situation was handled by house management staff and not the actors onstage. While I recognize how audience disruption can frustrate and distract actors, as a house manager, I know that I’m the one who has had proper protocol approved and is trained to handle these situations. It can go quite wrong when actors “call people out” and audience members were actually just using an accessibility service or other theater accommodation. At the end of the day, theater is a welcoming place and distractions must be handled properly; I’m impressed with Beetlejuice’s professionalism and public comment about the whole Boebert situation.
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