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For Richard Christiansen’s piece (“A wail of protest fills the air about the wall of sound,” Arts & Entertainment, July 21), in which he reports on criticism of electronic sound in the theater, shouts of thanks and even bravos are in order.
There was a time in acting class courses when students were taught that a stage whisper should be heard and understood by patrons in the last row of the second balcony. There were no classes in how to fasten a little electronic gadget to your person in order to enhance your own God-given, pear-shaped voice.
Advice wasn’t asked, but if it were, one might suggest that if your own trained, natural voice can’t fill a theater, get out of show business.
