FOLLIES performed with no intermission tonight! — Page 2

"What we need, is a drink."

If I remember correctly, in the original production of Les Miserables before they started making cuts to shorten the show, the first act alone was close to 2 hours.

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Now an intermissionless Les Mis? That would be painful.

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I wonder if the upcoming Chicago production of Follies will be without intermission.

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We don't yet know about Chicago's "Follies" (at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, directed by Gary Griffin), but that's a great question!

I wonder what the Widow Goldman thinks of all this. According to a reliable source, she has no regard for anyone involved with FOLLIES. But she must have approved, no?

This is fantastic news and I hope it sticks. This is the way FOLLIES was meant to be experienced.

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Wow, haven't seen you in a while WISHIHADATONY - welcome back.

I've never been a big Les Miz fan; once was enough for me. But that first act seemed interminable to me when I saw it.

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When spending a lot of money on a Broadway ticket, a lot of people make an event of it and go out to drinks and/or dinner before a show. Two hours and fifteen minutes in a theatre without an intermission therefore has the potential to turn your cramped little seat into a torture chamber if halfway through, some water or wine or cocktails want to make an exit, and you suddenly have to go to the restroom. A movie theatre is a different animal. You can generally get up and go without being disruptive. The seats in a theatre are usually so cramped together that you have to disrupt an entire row and the row behind you) if you have such an issue. So most people I know just sit there and suffer. If I knew this was being done without an intermission, I would not have bought a ticket.

It works much better without an intermission.

Scottsboro Boys had no intermission --- it ran 1:55... It is another example of a show that would have been completely ruined with an intermission.

I saw FOLLIES last night, and they were making such a big deal about the intermission - the ushers wouldn't shut up about "go to the bathroom now" ....

Jan Maxwell is wonderful, but Warren Carlyle should be fired for making her do that dance number that she is clearly uncomfortable with. She is perfect in every other way, so why make her do pirouettes?

Bernadette is an odd disappointment. I'm a huge fan of hers, but she gets lost. And it is clear that she has not been directed AT ALL - "Losing My Mind" has no arc... Give me Marin Mazzie singing it at the Sondheim concert over this Bernadette poerformance any day.

This production belongs to Danny Burstein. He is just wonderful. Hands down the best thing on that stage.

The other women are so pointless, and I was reminded about how the plot really goes nowhere... And not one person is a likable character. A very odd framing device for a bunch of great songs.

I was at the show as well and thought it did ok without the intermission. When we were given the playbills, a guy next to me made the comment that he always gets nervous when those inserts are in the playbill (expecting a lead actress/actor to be out) - but it was just to announce that there was no intermission.
I have to say that the cast is superb. Bernadette singing Losing My Mind brought a tear to my eye. And she was so nice at the stage door. She was taking pics with people who requested and signing playbills. Can't say enough about the show. It was amazing and I wish I could see it again.

I was also told that Sondheim was in the house last night too. I didn't see him with my own eyes but did anyone else who was there see him? He was supposedly in Center Orchestra around L-P rows on the left side.

Updated On: 8/24/11 at 01:29 PM