Broadway shows with no Standing Ovation

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. 

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.

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.

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 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...

 

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.

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.

"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.