The mom says her son was cheering at appropriate times during the musical, just in his own way. The theater president says she should have taken him outside to 'calm him down.'
Blit said she didn’t want to cause a scene, so she agreed to move to the back, but suggested to the general manager that they begin offering sensory-friendly performances., a non-profit organization for the performing arts, hosts autism-friendly Broadway performances of shows including"The Lion King" and"Wicked."
The following day, Blit spoke on the phone with John Ioris, president of the White Plains Performing Arts Center. She recounted their conversation in her Facebook post. “He asked me what I wanted to get out of this call and I told him I had hoped for a sincere apology and for them to do better in the future and/or do autism or sensory friendly performances,” Blit shared. “He said that wasn’t going to happen, that it wasn’t his audience.”
In her Facebook post she wrote,"Isn’t it ironic that a theater putting on a performance encouraging someone to come out of the closet, was trying to push us into one."in an interview that he has two special needs children in his family so he is not “unfamiliar nor unsympathetic to the situation.”
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