Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
#1Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:08pmHave you ever been to a performance where you were able to hear the sound coming from a neighboring theatre?
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#2Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:12pm
I could hear the Phantom overture when I did standing room for God of Carnage.
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#3Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:13pm
I was watching the all-female Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy in London, and at one quiet moment I could hear "Absolute Beginners" coming from Lazarus playing right next to us.
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#4Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:25pm
American Psycho actually had to offset the start time of their show by a few minutes because a particularly loud part of that show happened at a quiet part of The Color Purple next door, and it could be heard in the Jacobs.
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#5Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:41pm
I could definitely hear a bit of Bandstand when I saw A Doll's House Part 2 last summer.
#6Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:19pmOnce while sanding house left at Phantom of the Opera, I could hear Cynthia Erivo belting it out in the Color Purple.
#7Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:22pm
Emmaloucbway said: "I could definitely hear a bit of Bandstand when I saw A Doll's House Part 2 last summer."
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#8Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:37pmSittkng in tbe rear house right at the Broadhurst we could hear American Psycho at the Shoenfeld while attending Tuck Everlasting. I was told that is common between those two theaters when musicals are in tbose houses.
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#9Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:43pm
Not exactly in a neighboring theater, but I clearly heard Once on This Island while waiting for my car in between the Gershwin and Circle in the Square.
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#10Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 9:05pm
I heard Les Mis during a performance of Pippin
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#11Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 9:22pmWhen I was at Eclipsed I could hear whatever show was playing next door(I forget which one it was).
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#12Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/7/18 at 10:51pmThis was a real problem when The Roundabout had two theaters in the Criterion Center. They had to stagger start times so the other theater wouldn't be disturbed by the opening number of COMPANY.
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#13Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 12:28am
I remember doing standing room for a performance of Once and being able to hear the (albeit somewhat muffled) overture to Phantom.
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#14Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 2:37am
mailhandler777 said: "When I was at Eclipsed I could hear whatever show was playing next door(I forget which one it was)."
I sat all the way on the left for another show at that theatre and could hear the music next door.
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#15Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 6:28amAnd a few times, when in a longer show, I've heard squeals from stage door fans.
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#16Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 7:53am
While not quite what the OP asked about, it seems like NYPD car and ambulance sirens like to make themselves known during the quietest passages of a show. This is particularly irksome when the show is a period piece (e.g, Phantom, Les Miserables, etc.), so the siren is an anachronism.
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#17Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 9:10amWhen the Bailiwick Arts Center was still in existence, on a few occasions I'd be sitting in the bigger theater watching a show, and I could hear cheering and applause coming from the studio theater right next door during the opening number of Naked Boys Singing!
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#18Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 3:04pm
whatdoesntkillme said: "American Psychoactually had to offset the start time of their show by a few minutes because a particularly loud part of that show happened at a quiet part ofThe Color Purplenext door, and it could be heard in the Jacobs."
That's not true. American Psycho didn't start any later than usual. The Schoenfeld has a tendency to hold the house more than 5 minutes past the ticketed performance time for latecomers.
#19Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/8/18 at 3:10pm
Lot666 said: "While not quite what the OP asked about, it seems like NYPD carand ambulance sirens like to make themselves known during the quietest passages of a show. This is particularly irksome when the show is a period piece (e.g, Phantom, Les Miserables, etc.), so the siren is an anachronism."
In my experience, hearing sirens and other such street-noises are pretty par-for-the-course with Broadway theatres. Far more common than hearing other shows next door.
I remember during King Charles III, during a very quiet, very tense moment at the end of the play, we could hear several drunk women hooting and hollering just outside.
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#20Hearing another show, while at performance in a neighboring theatre?
Posted: 2/9/18 at 3:14pm
I remember you could hear a loud sound cue from The Perfect Crime from downstairs during The Fantasticks.
Also, in An Iliad they actually wrote in an ambulance sound cue to make it sound like it was coming from the street.
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