<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10246381.post-7900922111602980520</id><published>2009-05-11T10:44:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-11T10:44:00.381-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exit the king'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='texting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='american buffalo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etiquitte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='twitter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='audience behavior'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='audience relations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eugene ionseco'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='west side story'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='absurdism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='david mamet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opening speeches'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broadway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cell phones'/><title type='text'>"Please turn off your f-king cellphones" - Broadway openings adjusting to modern times</title><summary type='text'>No matter what you thought of American Buffalo on Broadway last fall, there is one way in which it may have changed the theater going experience as we know it: It turned the pre-show announcement into a stylistic decision in its own right. The announcement was not written by David Mamet, either before or after American Buffalo, but it did invoke Mamet's most famous choice of word, one that can </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10246381/7900922111602980520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10246381&amp;postID=7900922111602980520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10246381/posts/default/7900922111602980520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10246381/posts/default/7900922111602980520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.tynansanger.com/2009/05/please-turn-off-your-f-king-cellphones.html' title='&quot;Please turn off your f-king cellphones&quot; - Broadway openings adjusting to modern times'/><author><name>Ethan Stanislawski</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11975668412824688967</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='11971176480868178412'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>