Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
#1Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:28pm
Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show? It could be considered a sin (I Know!), but I have committed it twice. Once in "Butley"......and I had moved up to the front row too! I think I was just a bit tired that afternoon.
Then (and just a bit) during "The Year of Magical Thinking".
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:35pmThe recent revival of Cymbeline is the first and only time I've ever dozed off during a show.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:37pmI came extremely close during The Seafarer
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#3re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:39pmI fell asleep during the first Act of "Butley." Just a bad show. No fault of the actors........very talented cast. Just a bad show.
#4re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:39pmWhen I saw Curtains, I fell asleep for like 5 minutes. A friend was staying with me and surprised me with tickets to the show. I had been at school from 7:30am-6pm and was exhausted.
#5re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:39pm
The Pirate Queen. My friend didn't even bother waking me up since it was that bad.
I also fell asleep during The Color Purple because I didn't go to sleep because I was going to go get rush so I had to leave my house at 5am and I thought if I went to sleep I wouldn't be able to get up.
Updated On: 2/24/08 at 05:39 PM
#6re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:40pm
Haha I read the title (obviously the wrong way) and pictured someone on stage falling asleep during the show. Imagine if that happened!
I haven't... the only time it was possible for me was during LoveMusik, but sitting front row I felt I couldn't let myself show how bored I was.
::bust a move::
#7re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:40pmi ALMOST dozed off in The Year of Magical Stinking. i came THIS close. especially when she picked up that book
george95
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/1/08
#8re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:40pmI fell asleep during "Noises Off" on the West End. I had flown in from NY the night before; didn't sleep on the flight, by the time I dropped my bag off at the hotel it was about noon and I went right out for some lunch and onto the theater. I saw "The Mousetrap" first and I was fine, and then later that day I saw "Noises Off" and I kept being startled by the sound of snoring. I would look around thinking "oh man who would snore during a play, how rude" And then it kept happening until I realized that it was me who was snoring and waking up! I left the show during intermission cuz I was getting a lot of icy stares from other audience members.
#9re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:40pmDidn't "Lestat" become the de rigueur show to sleep through for a while?
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#10re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:41pmWell, glad I wasn't alone! I might have done it during both acts! I felt bad because I felt like Nathan Lane had saw me dozing off, but I couldn't help it!
#11re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:43pmI have yet to dose off in any live show, but I have fallen asleep at in a movie theatre once. It was a late showing of the Departed. That might have been why I was confused and thinking Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Dameon were the same character...
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:44pmI have before but not because I was bored. Usually it is from a sleepless night. One time my friend and I were going to see the 3 pm Mary Poppins last May but we got into the city around 9 am so we could rush Spring Awakening (so we had to take a 7 am train). By the time we got to Spring Awakening, I was dead tired.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Chrissy*J
Featured Actor Joined: 1/2/07
#13re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:45pmI almost fell asleep on Thursday night at 'The Homecoming'...but it was my own fault. I'm anemic and forgot to take my medicine that day.
SweetSoprano
Understudy Joined: 9/23/07
#14re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:47pmDuring Aida, but in my defense I was 10 or 11 and tired. Then I saw it again a few years later and loved it!
You're that little girl with her wings unfurled, flying again.
Back in your backyard dancing...I found a way back to then. - [title of show]
#15re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:48pm
The one and only time was Rock 'n Roll.
I've been hideously bored at a number of other shows, but Rock 'n Roll was the only time I actually fell asleep.
"Haha I read the title (obviously the wrong way) and pictured someone on stage falling asleep during the show. Imagine if that happened!"
I swear that several of the supporting players in Spring Awakening who have been there too long have looked thisclose to dozing off a couple of times when I was there.
#16re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:50pmadam, at a production of The Threepenny Opera i saw, Brian Charles Rooney fell asleep backstage and Alan Cumming kept calling for Lucy Brown OVER AND OVER until someone woke Brian up. it was funny
BlueWindSadness
Stand-by Joined: 12/28/07
#17re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:53pmhaha this is a fun thread....a couple of weeks ago my parents went to go see te Homecoming...and there was 2 british guys sitting next to them, who had apparently just stepped off the plane that morning or afternoon...and the one kept falling asleep and was snoring really loud until the usher came and got him and escorted him to the lobby to get a drink and wake up, because he just kept nodding off!!!
"that's what my date said."
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#18re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 5:59pmWORD TO THE WISE: NEVER drink before seeing a play by Shakespeare, Shaw or Stoppard -- it's a killer. Major Barbara a few years back at Roundabout did me in. Of course, I could be sober as a judge with a full 12 hours sleep and Stoppard could kill me off ANY day.
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Bwayfan4
Broadway Star Joined: 10/11/06
#19re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 6:01pmI have almost fallen asleep during a few plays: Pygmalion, Mauritius and Grey Gardens. And of course I TRIED to fall asleep during The Homecoming, but couldn't (I didn't want to walk out)....go figure! In my defense, it was a LONG day...and I have since learned to see plays during the afternoon and musicals at night!
dancinfan
Broadway Star Joined: 8/9/04
#20re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 6:03pmCats at the Winter Garden.
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#21re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 6:05pm
I love this thread...because I DIDN'T start it, and I can still state that WICKED was the first (and only) Broadway show that I ever fell asleep during.
Yes, that's right folks....WICKED.
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
#22re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 6:20pmActually i fell asleep in wicked too not gonna lie, but it was because i was so excited the night before to see it that i stay up all night and then when i had to get up at 6 to get on the bus to go see it i was so tired, i didn't really fall alseep i just dozed off for a few moments during the school scenes (something bad part)
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#24re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 6:22pm
I fell asleep in Phantom, but it was in London. And I blame jet lag. Not that Phantom is my favorite show- far from it, but I generally don't fall asleep during shows. 
So, that was the Drowsy Chaperone. Oh, I love it so much. I know it's not a perfect show...but it does what a musical is supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue. Ya know?
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