Theatre-goer jumped on to stage in attempt to charge his phone

An audience member at Thursday’s performance of Hand to God at the the Booth Theatre in New York, startled crew and fellow theatre-goers by climbing on to the stage before the show started.



Once on stage, he tried to plug a cellphone charger into a power point on the show’s set which, it turns out, was fake. Chris York, who was in the audience, said the incident occurred about two minutes before the show was set to begin.

There were no stairs to the stage so to get to it the man had to leap and then walk about 15 feet to the outlet that York said, was “clearly fake”. “The whole thing, it was very bizarre,” York said.


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At first, people thought it was a part of the show, he said, but once they realised the truth, the audience started laughing and heckling the man, who was in his early 20s. The crew stopped the pre-show music, removed the charger and made an announcement to the audience prohibiting them from charging their phones on stage.