#101
Posted: 8/3/06 at 4:56pm
I came the closest I ever have to walking out of a show during intermission this summer. It was an outdoor production of the Merchant of Venice, and it was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life. And I would absolutely have left (something I never thought I would do), if I hadn't been with a school group. My teachers actually called us all together to try to decide whether or not to stay. One of the girl mentioned that it would be best if we left, because we couldn't get through the next half without laughing and that would be rude. (This prediction proved to be true; our teachers got a lot of complaints.) We ended up staying because we paid for it.
I would have paid twice the ticket price NOT to see it.
I think if you're really miserable during a performance, you should just leave (at the appropriate time- intermission). It's better for you, and for the rest of the audience. Me personally, I save leaving for absolute worst-case scenario (a "code black" as we called Merchant). I personally am much more apt to stick it out (although, in my experience, if a show has trouble in the first act, it *usually* falls apart even more noticeably in the second).
I would have paid twice the ticket price NOT to see it.
I think if you're really miserable during a performance, you should just leave (at the appropriate time- intermission). It's better for you, and for the rest of the audience. Me personally, I save leaving for absolute worst-case scenario (a "code black" as we called Merchant). I personally am much more apt to stick it out (although, in my experience, if a show has trouble in the first act, it *usually* falls apart even more noticeably in the second).
"I mean, how many of us could honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building?"
