Ever Fallen Asleep at a Show You Really Liked?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 4:36am

I was just remembering how much I enjoyed Caroline, or Change. Then I remembered that I saw it after being in NYC for 48 hours with zero sleep. I fell asleep. Not because it was dull, far from it, but because I was dead tired. I was so mad at myself! Didn't miss much, but more disappointed that I missed more than a second of that show. Ever fallen asleep at something you truly loved?

[Kevn520]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 4:46am

I found myself nodding off to Phantom when I saw it for the second time a few weeks ago. I had seen it over a decade earlier, and wanted to see it again. Big mistake.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 5:01am

Sweeney Todd and Company. Not asleep, but I kept zoning out. Both were on days I had gotten up very early to travel into the city.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 6:12am

For the same reason you mention. I don't sleep well when I'm away from home. AND when I'm in NY it's a whirlwind of late nights. So, sometimes, when I finally get a dark place to sit...I nod off. I do it a tht movies with my kids ALL the time!

I just hope I don't ever snore!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 9:32am

I couldn't stay awake during the fourth act of The Seagull at the matinee Saturday, and I really, really wanted to be awake. I was in the front row and I felt like a jerk.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 9:42am

Hasn't happened to me recently, but I went through a period some years ago when I fell asleep several times at shows, including some I really liked.

The worst was when I fell asleep in the first row center of No Man's Land, right where Jason Robards and Christopher Plummer surely could see me. I was just so tired. I kept trying to wake myself but then I'd drift off again. Fortunately, by the second act I was awake and fine. I just badly needed a nap.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:14am

Not a show I really liked, but I actually dozed-off at the 2nd viewing of Disney's THE LION KING. I wasn't tired, just bored out of my ass.

Ever since then... I now refer to it as a one-time-only show. Some shows you could see numerous times. THE LION KING ain't one of them.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:22am

I actually was falling asleep during Lion King...not because I was bored though. I was enjoying the show, but I had very little sleep. Same thing happened at Mamma Mia. I don't think I actually slept, just felt myself dozing off.

Both times I was in the front row...

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:22am

Too many times on Broadway as I'm usually totally jet lagged from the journey from London. trying to take in up to 5 shows in a weekend can be brain draining!

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:37am

Oh, you reminded me. The last time I was in London, I couldn't get over my jet lag and I fell asleep at Krapp's Last Tape with John Hurt and was fighting it (and not always winning) at A Song at Twilight. I think I stayed awake at everything else I saw that week. But Krapp's Last Tape is not a good show to see when you're tired.

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:42am

I loved loved loved the recent revival of Assassins, but I'd been up for 48 hours straight, and could feel myself nodding off. Luckily, my friend and I were in the bar stool seats at the very top of the theatre, so I got up and started pacing back and forth to stay awake.

[CurtisTaylorJr2]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:44am

I nodded at Wicked in LA the first time I saw it. I had almost no sleep the night before.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:44am

There are some shows i do want to fall asleep in!

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:46am

I'll admit I nodded off briefly during one of Richard Griffith's monologues in Equus. I had been working a corporate event all day and was not at all helped by the fact that I had three cocktails at the end of the event. And I felt bad, because I did like the show overall.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:48am

It was Grey Gardens for me. I loved the show but the jet lag won out.

[Neverandy]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 11:13am

1996-fell asleep at a matinee of Sunset Blvd on Broadway the day after my senior prom!

[Winston3]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 11:22am

I had made the mistake one day of going to the city to see a show when I wasn't feeling my best. I got a student rush ticket for Company and wasn't feeling well and was nodding off in the first act. I wasn't feeling well and I felt bad for those around me that I left at intermission making a promise to myself that I would return to see it at some point. Sad part is is that I never returned and never got to see it other then the PBS broadcast

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 11:30am

Equus. There are just too many scenes of Richard Griffiths sitting there talking, so I closed my eyes a couple times.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:14pm

The Light in the Piazza...the show was wonderful, but all that soothing string music, and I was SOOOO tired, I slept through maybe 20 minutes total! aack!

[Brick]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:19pm

[TITLE OF SHOW]. I managed not to, but I was so close....

[Jade]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 2:49pm

I almost fell asleep during Rent, thanks to jetlag. For some reason I thought it'd be a good idea to see Rent almost straight after a 7 hour flight to New York from London.

There was another time seeing Rent where I kept zoning out. It was the day before I received some critical exam results and I was really stressed about them.

[Elke]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:00pm

Gypsy. Because of the jetlag. I was scared to death though... Can you imagine Patti seeing you while you're nodding off? I'm sure she would have taken that little lamb and thrown it right at me!

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:14pm

I'm usually up at 5:30 a.m. to get a train that will get me into the city by 9:00 a.m. It is IMPOSSIBLE to sleep on the train, so I've learned to take a power nap before I go to the theatre. However, when Ralph Fiennes did Hamlet back in '95, I just lost it within 15 minutes and only the audience applause at the end of the first act awakened me. He was so good in the 2nd Act that I got a ticket for another performance so that I could catch up on what I missed and again enjoy the 2nd Act.

I wasn't tired when I went to The Seagull, but I was fighting the zzz's by Act 2 -- what a longwinded bore that was.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:24pm

I almost fell asleep at Les Miz in 2001 in St. Louis because I was tired from flying in. The show was good, though. From what I remember.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:41pm

I have a friend that often nods off during Act 1 of shows we go to. She justifies it by saying, "Act 1 is just exposition anyway."