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.
Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:03pm
Most recently, The Nap didn't get one (at least for the performance I attended).
Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:16pm
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!
Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:35pm
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.
Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:45pm
Bernhardt/Hamlet the other night. A couple of people stood. But hardly an "ovation."
Posted: 9/14/18 at 12:50pm
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.
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.
Posted: 9/14/18 at 3:39pm
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.
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?
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...
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.
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.
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?
Posted: 9/14/18 at 8:05pm
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Posted: 9/14/18 at 9:20pm
Posted: 9/14/18 at 9:31pm
There was no standing ovation at The Play That Goes Wrong the day I saw it.
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.
Posted: 9/15/18 at 2:52am
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.
