Do you ever leave a show during intermission?- Page 3

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:41pm

" couldn't stomache seeing Charlotte D'Amboise kill act 2. "


some is clearly wrong with this statement.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:43pm

Not really considering her acting is GOD AWFUL.

[matt schneider]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:46pm

I would never do that. you pay for a whole show, you stay for a whole show. It is also rude and the actors may realize it.

[Weez]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:51pm

NEVER. Shows cost a LOT of money, I'm getting my money's worth or be damned! Also, it's well noted on here that certain shows/plays don't really pick up until the second act. Very few of them, but enough. I just wouldn't want to mssis anything. Plus it's super rude to the performers. :3

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:55pm

if the actors aren't doing there job why should i stay?

[brdwybound2]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 3:59pm

munkustrap178-Was Tyler Maynard in BBB at Encores when you left?

It's weird actually to think about how many people really walk out in the middle of a show. I have season tickets to our regional theatre and you wouldn't believe how many people you see leaving during intermission, espeically during shows which I think are absolutley fabulous. I was in Grease at this theatre last week, and during the last few numbers you could see several people getting up to leave. Understandable since driving out of there is impossible after the shows, but I thought it was horrible!

Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:00pm

My choral director leaves my shows not directed by her during intermission. She says she "wants to be in bed ontime."

...at 9:15?

I just noticed I talk about my choral director a lot. I think because she does so many stupid things.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:00pm

Yes, I too have left a handful of times at intermission for shows that were just too unbearable.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 4:04pm

I've only walked out of one Broadway show ever (at intermission), and I ended up spontaneously "second acting" another one... which was the only time I've ever done THAT, too.

Updated On: 8/2/06 at 04:04 PM

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:09pm

gustof i totally agree with you. I personally would never leave a performance. although i can be critical, i do not think it is fair to the performers. I know if i was doing a show i would not want someone to leave durring my performance. I totally also get there like 15-20 min early to examine every aspect possible of the show. I especially would not leave bway...if you are paying $100 for a ticket that is a complete waste...but thats my opinion.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:18pm

NO. I feel it is a huge insult to the performers in the show, and disruptive to the people around you- even if you do leave while the show is not going on. Unless I have a knife to my throat, I have never, and will never leave a show until its conclusion.

[rubyslippersxo]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:51pm

Never have, never will.

Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:55pm

Yes, I have. I don't like to but if it's bad...why not? I walked out of Fiddler and Copenhagen out of sheer boredom.
Updated On: 8/2/06 at 07:55 PM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 7:57pm

I've never walked out of a show during intermission. And I pray to God I never will. If I had to sit through In My Life, I would just leave during the show. I wouldn't give a damn about the intermission. I would just get the f**k out of there.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:05pm

i think that it is so rude to leave a performance. THe actors are trying, even if they do suck, so at least let them TRY to entertain you.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:05pm

i think that it is so rude to leave a performance. THe actors are trying, even if they do suck, so at least let them TRY to entertain you.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:05pm

i think that it is so rude to leave a performance. THe actors are trying, even if they do suck, so at least let them TRY to entertain you.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:05pm

i think that it is so rude to leave a performance. THe actors are trying, even if they do suck, so at least let them TRY to entertain you.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:08pm

"i think that it is so rude to leave a performance. THe actors are trying, even if they do suck, so at least let them TRY to entertain you. "

Sometime's it's the little material that actor's are given to work with.

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:10pm

lets just say this:
If YOU personally (I'm talking to everyone here) were starring in a show and thought you were damn good and were giving it you're all, how would YOU feel if everyone left during intermission?

just a thought

[RobR]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:11pm

Yes 1992 the Pit Theatre at the Barbican, London. The RSC's production of the Dybbuk directed by Katie Mitchell, a stage of varied shades of brown, actors directed to almost put a pause between every syllable, and a stage lit by candlelight. At the interval I realised I'd just lost two hours of my life I could never get back and I had a pile of ironing at home that would provide a better night's entertainment.

[gustof777]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:16pm

see to me it's not soo much that you owe it to the performers to stay. Sure, they will feel bad but that's the business and though I would never do it, I don't look down at those who leave at intermission (leaving in the middle of a performance is a WHOLE nother story) but they could do it for many reasons as have been mentioned above (family emergency etc.)For me what is rude to the performers are those who leave during the curtain call. I get soo pissed when I see people leave early!! But that's another thread. I guess leaving half way to me it's more...your review/trashing the show loses a lot of validity as you didn't see the whole peice. I think it's fair to say it was so bad I left but I just don't think it's fair to judge a peice w/o seeing the whole thing. But again, that's just me and as someone said before: for those of us that choose to stay, we get better seats sometimes!

Updated On: 8/2/06 at 08:16 PM

[Luvinbroadway]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:22pm

During the recent Three Penny Opera, the woman behind me had a seizure 15 minutes into the show and was helped out by her friends and ushers. I would have loved to leave during act ONE but didn't want to wake up my whole row which was sleeping soundly. I ran out at intermission.
The woman with the seizure was lucky one!...at least she was saved another 90 minutes of torture.

[Parks]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:45pm

My mom had a seizure while we were sitting front row during One Short Day at Wicked in October (in Dallas), so we had to leave during intermission. Kind of upsetting, seeing how we paid 225 dollars a piece for them. :-/

Somebody stole my camera during the chaos. How messed up is that? I had had it for less than a week--and I had a picture with Stephanie J. Block that I had just gotten about 2 hours before the show on there.

My mom wanted to leave RENT last summer at intermission--but I made her stay :-P

[jpbran]

Posted: 8/2/06 at 8:48pm

I wouldn't leave in the MIDDLE of an act, but have left a few shows at intermission. The first ones that leap to mind are The Life and Jekyll & Hyde.