This morning's Times carries a front-page article about professional actors needing help from off-stage with their lines. Apparently, some people are scandalized at this thought. While I would prefer to think that professional actors who are good enough and lucky enough to appear on Broadway will know their lines flawlessly, I also would prefer to have an actor be fed a line than have him miss it and possibly throw other actors off course, missing plot points or other matters of importance.
Still, in this age of tiny transmitters and earpieces, it seems ridiculous that Matthew Broderick was being fed lines by a prompter sitting in the front row.
