Broadway shows with no Standing Ovation

[bradwalt]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 11:45am

Are there any shows currently on Broadway that do not regularly get standing ovations?  I see about ten shows a year and I can only remember one recently:  Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:03pm

Most recently, The Nap didn't get one (at least for the performance I attended).

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:16pm

That dreadful play with Patti LuPone and Deborah Winger.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:29pm

Dollypop said: "That dreadful play with Patti LuPone and Deborah Winger."

People who weren’t asleep already probably thought it was intermission. That play ended so abruptly and was only like 70 minutes long!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:35pm

What eas the name of it?

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:41pm

The Anarchist, presumably.

[TrulyOutrageousJem]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:43pm

This is really really embarrassing and I still have moments where I relive this and cringe but I saw Miss Saigon during the final week of it's original Broadway run back in the early 2000s. I was only 16 at the time I think and had seen other shows so I thought that was just what one did. At the end of the show you stand and applaud. I don't recall the show being bad.... So, the show ends, I stand ...... and I'm literally the ONLY person standing. I felt so awkward I just stood there alone clapping like an idiot ... I am still mortified by this.

[wonkit]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:45pm

Bernhardt/Hamlet the other night. A couple of people stood. But hardly an "ovation."

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:50pm

Yup. THE ANARCHIST

Thanks

[dramamama611]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 2:52pm

The Velocity of Autumn  (Estelle Parsons & Stephen Spinella)

 

I feel plays, in general, get far fewer SOs than musicals.

[Huss417]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 2:56pm

TrulyOutrageousJem said: "This is really really embarrassing and I still have moments where I relive this and cringe but I saw Miss Saigon during the final week of it's original Broadway run back in the early 2000s. I was only 16 at the time I think and had seen other shows so I thought that was just what one did. At the end of the show you stand and applaud. I don't recall the show being bad.... So, the show ends, I stand ...... and I'm literally the ONLY person standing. I felt so awkward I just stood there alone clapping like an idiot ... I am still mortified by this."

I was at the closing performance and it was just the opposite. The few times I saw it during the initial run I don't ever recall not seeing a standing ovation.

If anyone recalls Blood Brothers, the weekly ad in the Times use to state how many standing ovations as the run went along.

[bfreak]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 3:39pm

The performance of 1984 I attended last year did not get a standing ovation. A few people stood, but I agreed that a standing ovation was not deserved for that show.

[Danielle49]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 3:52pm

Not on Broadway anymore but last year when I saw Charlie & the Chocolate Factory it certainly did not get a standing ovation - more like claps and looks of confusion from the crowd, although I enjoyed myself. Everyone stayed firmly seated until Christian Borle came out, who received an almost immediate standing ovation.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 4:04pm

Almost everything gets a standing ovation now. So,  what shows got a standing ovation that you felt should NOT have?

[Impossible2]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 5:02pm

South Fl Marc said: "Almost everything gets a standing ovation now. So, what shows got a standing ovation that you felt should NOT have?"

I never stand if it isn't deserved and I always sit on the aisle so I can get out quickly if I can't be arsed to even clap...

 

[starcatchers]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 5:11pm

dramamama611 said: "The Velocity of Autumn (Estelle Parsons & Stephen Spinella)



I feel plays, in general, get far fewer SOs than musicals."

All 30 people in the audience (only a slight dramatization) when I saw it seemed confused, so no one stood st the end. 

[msmp]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 7:29pm

dramamama611 said: "The Velocity of Autumn (Estelle Parsons & Stephen Spinella)



I feel plays, in general, get far fewer SOs than musicals."

Agreed. When I saw Time and the Conways there was applause at the end, but no one stood save a smattering of Elizabeth McGovern fans.

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 7:31pm

I recently didn't stand for one of the best shakespere productions I have ever seen (The War of The Roses at California Shakespeare Theater) because I was in the front row and couldn't tell if the crowd would stand with me or not. I wonder if the standing O's ubiquity is starting to die off?

[matty159]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 8:05pm

Passion right after it opened. The lights came back up for the curtain call and I don’t think people had any idea what to make of it. You could have heard a pin drop as people filed out of the theater. It was a bizarre experience. It was also a Wednesday matinee. But still bizarre.

[markypoo]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 8:41pm

High Society with Melissa Errico. Not only no standing ovation, but the cast came out and took one bow, and then the curtain fell - never to rise again; at least not that afternoon.

[quizking101]

Posted: 9/14/18 at 9:20pm

I really only give standing ovations because it’s the end of the show and, having been very cramped for the past few hours (I’m 6’8), it gives my legs a chance to regain circulation so I don’t wobble out of the theatre like a baby horse.

Most of the time, they are deserving though

Posted: 9/14/18 at 9:31pm

There was no standing ovation at The Play That Goes Wrong the day I saw it.

[geoffreyC]

Posted: 9/15/18 at 1:42am

TrulyOutrageousJem said: "This is really really embarrassing and I still have moments where I relive this and cringe but I saw Miss Saigon during the final week of it's original Broadway run back in the early 2000s. I was only 16 at the time I think and had seen other shows so I thought that was just what one did. At the end of the show you stand and applaud. I don't recall the show being bad.... So, the show ends, I stand ...... and I'm literally the ONLY person standing. I felt so awkward I just stood there alone clapping like an idiot ... I am still mortified by this."

I think I was there that night, but don't worry not many people noticed.  I'll check to see if I caught it on video.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 9/15/18 at 2:52am

I don’t want to give a standing ovation at every show and I hate being pressured into it

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 9/15/18 at 8:56am

"I recently didn't stand for one of the best shakespere productions I have ever seen (The War of The Roses at California Shakespeare Theater) because I was in the front row and couldn't tell if the crowd would stand with me or not. I wonder if the standing O's ubiquity is starting to die off?"

Unless a show is amazing, I think it is the people up front who determine if the show gets a standing ovation. IMO it is like follow the leader - lol.