A star of The Pitt who is currently appearing on Broadway has called out fans for treating the theatre ‘like a circus’.
Isa Briones, 27, currently plays second-year med student Dr. Trinity Santos in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, which premiered last year and has already won five Emmy Awards.
A year earlier she made her Broadway debut as Eurydice in Hadestown and is currently playing 50s starlet Connie Francis in the jukebox musical Just in Time, which is based on the life of American singer Bobby Darin.
However, the actress has now expressed her annoyance after fans of her TV show have been yelling at her when she’s on stage.
Posting on Instagram, she declared: ‘HEY HEY HEY.’ Once again, Broadway is not a circus. Do not yell whatever you want at the performers.
‘Yelling “when are you going to finish your charts” before I sing Who’s Sorry Now? is f***ing disrespectful to the performers onstage and your fellow audience members. Y’all are pi**in’ me off.
‘Love and light and please remember you are occupying shared spaces and watching art.’
This post was the second time the actress – who joined the show in April – reminded theatregoers about basic etiquette.
Two weeks into her run in the show, she publicly called out on person who disrupted her while she was singing.
‘Some people need to brush up on theatre etiquette, and just person in the world etiquette in general,’ she shared.
‘Do not talk to the performers while they are performing on stage (unless you have been asked to).’
She continued: ‘And don’t talk to me on stage and call me Dr. Santos. I’m not Dr. Santos. I’m not even Connie Francis. I am Isa Briones, one of the actors in the show you have paid to enjoy.
‘So, watch it respectfully. You are not a kid at Disneyland. You are an adult man at a Broadway show. Act like it.’
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Isa is the daughter of musical theatre actor Jon Jon Briones, who was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a musical in the 2014 West End revival of Miss Saigon. She has also appeared in productions of Evita, Hamilton and Grease.
Her The Pitt co-star Patrick Bell is also currently performing on Broadway and recently spoke about fans of the show attending his theatre show.
‘When you’re making TV, we live in our little fluorescent box on the Warner Brothers lot – we’re sort of removed from the people who are actually receiving our work,’ he said.
‘Then you walk out of the stage door, and everybody who has become so supportive of The Pitt, they’re all there. It’s been such a blessing.’
However, Isa’s comments calling out bad behaviour in the theatre follows Cynthia Erivo also reprimanding someone last week for filming during a performance of Dracula.
The Wicked star is currently performing in the one-woman show on the West End but halted a show last week after realising someone had their phone out.
After noticing she was being filmed, Cynthia stopped the show to call out the attendee.
‘She straight up called the guy out! Put her hand up and said, “excuse me, are you filming right now?”, And the person said “sorry” and she said, “did you just say sorry?”. And was immediately surrounded by crew and walked off,’ TikTok user Katherine, who had been at the show, explained.
The attendee was then ‘kicked out’ by security, with the show stopped for about 10 minutes after Cynthia temporarily left the stage.
Her actions were later celebrated by many, who supported her addressing unfavourable behaviour.
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