A Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has been cancelled and one of its actors sacked after he confronted a vocally homophobic audience member.
Actor John Lacy, cast in the role of Big Daddy, was sacked by producers Mikee Schwinn and Ovington Michael Owston for his direct physical confrontation with a drunken audience member hurling homophobic slurs during the performance. According to Lacy in a Playbill interview, both Schwinn as well as fellow actor Anton Troy had expressed their concerns over the intoxicated man – who, despite continuous harassment, was not removed by theatre management or the producers.
