Stars That Walked Off

I was watching the Rosemary Clooney Story starring Sondra Locke (remember her?) During one of her concerts, Rosemary started a concert, then started yelling at the audience, then walked off.

What other stars have walked off in the middle of a performance?

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Fiona Apple

Gallagher was basically booed off the stage in Vegas in the early 90s. I remember because I was reading about it in the newspaper the next morning while staying at the Sands and he happened to be having breakfast at the table next to me. He looked like defrosted death.

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According to the TV movie about the Monkees Jimi Hendrix walked off stage when opening for them because he was tired of the fans drowning out his music with their screams "We want the Monkees" and such.

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"According to the TV movie about the Monkees Jimi Hendrix walked off"

Who would have Jimi Hendrix open for the Monkees? They seem like two completely different styles of music.

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I saw Sandra Bernhard essentially walk off the stage. I was a freshman at a Catholic College and they booked her (what were they thinking??!!??) She was hot on Letterman at the time so college kids knew her. Well she got onstage and just no one was "getting her". She was riffing on topics and tried to sing a song and the audience was just crickets. She then berated the audience a la Sandra's schtick and they just didn't get it. She finally had enough, criticized the hall, "is this a f@#cking chapel, where the f@#k am I?" and proceeded to say, "this place sucks, you kids suck, good luck with everything! You all can just move the chairs outta here and do the f@#ckin' mashed potato or whatever you kids do. Im outta here."

I loved it. The Student Association was not happy. I guess she got paid if she lasted 20 minutes.

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I don't know if she's ever actually invoked the clause, but part of Dionne Warwick's rider, at least back in the late 90s, did include a clause that she could cancel the gig without penalty if any of the staff or crew brought up the Psychic Network around her.

Wasn't there some sort of issue a few years ago at Forbidden Broadway when an actress (I wanna say Valerie Fagin?) started yelling at the audience?

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Re: the Alagna incident. Morosco and Goth, you should read the linked blog post. Palombi (the tenor who replaced Alagna in street clothes) wasn't "pushed on stage"; he went out on stage and started singing while the actual cover, Walter Fraccaro, was backstage, in costume, getting ready to go out there.
"We Saw What You Did There"

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That whole Alagna thing is fascinating (thanks for the link, AC).

No wonder the mezzo looked surprised.

I was a a performance of "The Wiz" after it moved to the Broadway Theater where Stephanie Mills walked off the stage after a patron took a flash picture about a minute into "Be A Lion". She didn't just step off of the side of the stage she was on, she walked clear across the stage to the other side. The house staff came down the aisle, escorted the person out and Ms. Mills walked back across the stage and picked up exactly where she left off. The orchestra continued playing while this was going on. The whole incident took about 4 minutes.

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