Tuesday, July 7

Man jumps onstage before a play to charge his phone—from a stage outlet

A man attending a performance of the Broadway play Hand to God decided that he needed a little more juice on his iPhone—just before the play started. So, because any outlet is fair game when your battery icon is flashing red, he climbed up onto the stage and plugged his phone into a prop wall with a prop outlet and walked away. Of course, the outlet—like the wall—was fake.

According to the New York Post, the crew had to stop the pre-show music and make an announcement to the audience that that sort of thing isn't allowed. One audience member copped to “loudly heckling the idiot” when the ushers removed the phone and asked him to take it back.

It's unclear whether the act was done on a dare or whether it was in earnest. Attendees speaking to the website Broadway Adjacent say that when the ushers gave the man his phone, the man asked, “Well, where can I charge it?”—a statement brazen and absurd enough to suggest that the man was performing his own one-man play.

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