Stop the show! Performers cracking down on cell phone filmers
NEW YORK -- Adele has made it clear: she doesn't want her audience to say hello from the other side of a cell phone.
"Can you stop filming me with a video camera, because I'm really here in real life. You can enjoy it in real life," she recently said at a concert.
And fellow artists are applauding.
"I appreciate that she did it, and if it gives it more attention, that's a good thing," said Wesley Schultz, lead singer of The Lumineers. He said he often interrupts a concert in the midst of the band's most popular song.
"We usually stop during 'Ho Hey' usually, because that's when most of the phones would come out," Schultz said.
"We've been doing it for a while now," he continued, "Just to let you know it's that important that we connect with you because that's why we all came here, you know?"
Broadway stars are also fighting back. The creator of the smash hit "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda, recently tweeted: "You don't pick up a phone when you're 'caught in the moment.' You stay in the moment."
In 2009, Broadway legend Patti LuPone halted her big number in "Gypsy" when she saw a camera.
"Stop taking pictures! Right now. You heard the announcement. Who do you think you are?" she shouted at an audience member from the stage.
"It's enraging," LuPone told CBS News. She is still fighting the cell phone craze.
But is it a battle she can win?
"Well, I'll die trying," she said. "I will give up the stage before I give up allowing phones in the theater."
Last year at Lincoln Center, LuPone also snatched a phone from a texting audience member.
"It has to do with concentration, respect, focus. And why you're there."
But more and more fans feel like they haven't been there unless they have the photo to prove it.
