Isa Briones plays Trinity Santos on The Pitt, the hit HBO show that was nominated for 13 Emmy Awards during its first season. Briones has also been appearing on Broadway as Connie Francis in the musical Just in Time. On May 2, she posted on her Instagram Stories to complain about a recent performance where fans in the audience were behaving inappropriately.
“HEY HEY HEY,” she said in the post. “Once again, Broadway is not a circus. Do not yell whatever you want at the performers. Yelling ‘when are you going to finish your charts’ before I sing ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’ is f—ing disrespectful to the performers onstage and your fellow audience members. Y’all are pissin’ me off.”
At the end of the post, she added, “Love and light and please remember you are occupying shared spaces and watching art.”
On April 20, when speaking with Broadway Buzz, the actress revealed why Just in Time was the right show for her. “When I saw it with Jonathan Groff [as Bobby Darin] and Sarah Hyland [as Connie Francis], I was like, ‘This is just two hours of pure joy." The Pitt is not really pure joy,” she said. “It's quite intense. Even the musicals I've done have been quite intense. Hadestown of course has a message of hope, but it's definitely a lot, and Next to Normal, my god. It's nice to do something where I'm just having so much fun.”
She continued, “I get to sing beautiful songs and wear a pretty dress and be with such wonderful people. The cast is so incredible. Everyone is so lovely. As soon as I left the theater—I was beaming, and my partner was with me—he was like, ‘I think you need to do this, because I haven't seen you smile like this in a second.’"
