Ma’am, I’ll make a deal with you, alright? You can stay, but we have a show to do.” Reaction on social media Hold on, hold on, I’ll make a deal with you. In a video posted to TikTok, Pierce can be heard saying, “Hold on! Talk to me, talk to me. While the other cast members were ushered off-stage, Pierce stayed on and attempted to mediate the situation, first trying to get her to stay and then offering to get her tickets refunded, per The Hollywood Reporter. The behavior was so intense that the play had to be suspended and the house lights brought up. Reports on social media have surfaced that the audience member was acting poorly during the first act of the play, before eventually moving to the front of the auditorium and beginning to heckle the actors on stage. The incident took place during the second act of a revival of Arthur Miller’s classic play, “Death of a Salesman,” at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. A performance of Broadway’s revival of “Death of a Salesman” was disrupted on Tuesday by an unruly and disruptive audience member until she was removed from the theater by police officers.Īctor Wendell Pierce, starring as Willy Loman in the play and known for his performances on the TV shows “The Wire” as Detective Bunk Moreland and “Suits” as Robert Zane, the father of Meghan Markle’s character, is being commended by audience members and fans on social media for “graciously and heroically” trying to diffuse the situation.
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