Prince William paid tribute to his mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 61st birthday on Friday.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who won a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out, said the leaking of a naked photo of cast member Jesse Williams from a performance hasn’t made him less trustful of Broadway audiences.
The cell phone video, shot from the audience and then posted on social media despite measures that were in place at the Second Stage Theater to prevent access to phones, enraged the theater, Actors’ Equity and Ferguson. Last month, the theater told Deadline it would install infrared technology aimed at detecting cellphone malfeasance.
“Take Me Out is a very unique play in which there are shower scenes and celebrities — I don’t think those two match up too often onstage, Ferguson responded when asked in the press room about whether the episode would diminish the connection he feels with those in the seats. “Maybe we’ll see a surge of those plays, though, who knows?”
The arrival of technology is partly to blame, he continued. “Broadway’s certainly changed. I’ve been in this business for 25 years and it’s changed substantially since I first started,” Ferguson said. “Cell phones make things a little trickier but we were in a very unique situation. That was an isolated event and I certainly love and trust all of my theatergoing fans just as much as I did before this. That was one person.”
Perhaps it was the afterglow of winning a major award (which Ferguson described as an “out-of-body experience”), but the actor’s comments were dialed back a few notches from his initial reaction a month ago.
“I’m appalled by the disrespect shown to the actors of our company whose vulnerability on stage ever night is crucial to Take Me Out,” Ferguson tweeted earlier this spring. “Anyone who applauds or
Prince William paid tribute to his mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 61st birthday on Friday.
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