One of the many favorite bits from The Producers:
"Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!
Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one? "
Recently at a private show, one of the actors , after being revealed as the killer, was "wrestled" to the ground by one of the audience members who was extremely intoxicated. This is the second time this happened to this actor and on another occasion, when he was supposedly "poisoned" and was "dying on the floor", an audience member insisted on giving him a very painful Heimlich Maneuver (it was hard getting her to let go of him).
On all three occasions, the show had to be stopped. It has been few but there are times when audience members, usually fueled with intoxicants, treat the cast as "things" for their amusement. But we are not things for amusement, we are not animals, we are human beings: "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?" (Shylock, Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1).
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