#51
Posted: 2/10/05 at 7:55pm
Copenhagen did it for me
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Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre? — Page 3
#52
Posted: 2/10/05 at 7:55pm
I fell asleep TWICE during Present Laughter. That show was absolutely dreadful. It found it completely unfunny.
#53
Posted: 2/10/05 at 10:44pm
Fell asleep during a couple local shows....with Broadway I dozed during:
-Into the Woods (2nd act)
-I Am My Own Wife (1st act- but I was desperately fighting it, I was just so worn out.)
-Mandy Patinkin's one-man Sondheim show, only waking to applaud between numbers. My mother was mortified.
-Cabaret, the first time, but only b/c it was also the first time I got plastered in public. I couldn't keep my head up during Married reprise and What Would You Do. I'm still embarrassed.
-After the Fall, the second viewing. No other words needed except that I'm the greatest best friend in the world.
-Into the Woods (2nd act)
-I Am My Own Wife (1st act- but I was desperately fighting it, I was just so worn out.)
-Mandy Patinkin's one-man Sondheim show, only waking to applaud between numbers. My mother was mortified.
-Cabaret, the first time, but only b/c it was also the first time I got plastered in public. I couldn't keep my head up during Married reprise and What Would You Do. I'm still embarrassed.
-After the Fall, the second viewing. No other words needed except that I'm the greatest best friend in the world.
#54
Posted: 2/10/05 at 10:54pm
Too bad during I Am My Own Wife, but it did take some work to keep up with it.
I dread seeing Les Miz this Spring lest I fall asleep in Act II.
I dread seeing Les Miz this Spring lest I fall asleep in Act II.
#55
Posted: 2/10/05 at 10:55pm
The only time I've ever fallen asleep in the theatre was during The Shakespeare Theatre's production of Henry IV part 1.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
#56
Posted: 2/10/05 at 10:55pm
i've never fallen asleep, but i came DAMN close during AIDA
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#57
Posted: 2/10/05 at 11:02pm
I'm seeing Les Miz this spring too! I really did not pay all that money for the tickets to see it, so I am hoping for the best, but with the way I fell asleep after the first number in Guys and Dolls, chances are against me.
I most definitely have issues with my word choices on this board.
#58
Posted: 2/10/05 at 11:06pm
i never EVER thought i'd say this about a BROADWAY show ... but i kept nodding off during AMADEUS at the MUSIC BOX with DAVID SUCHET. the show was excellent, but i was just EXHAUSTED after walking all over the city for days.
RIP glebby <3
#59
Posted: 2/10/05 at 11:07pm
I love Les Miz, but Act II is so long and enever ends.....
#60
Posted: 2/10/05 at 11:33pm
THE KING AND I - Revival with Donna Murphy
Boring and horribly done (and cast)!
Boring and horribly done (and cast)!
Updated On: 2/10/05 at 11:33 PM
#61
Posted: 2/10/05 at 11:40pm
I fell asleep during the Phantom movie...
We've all got our junk and my junk is you!
#62
Posted: 2/10/05 at 11:53pm
When I was in London quite a few years ago, I went to see An Inspector Calls I fell asleep but it was from Jet lag not because of the show.
#63
Posted: 2/11/05 at 1:07am
Beauty and the beast. good lord that was so dull!
#64
Posted: 2/11/05 at 1:58am
I've nodded off twice that I recall-- Taller Than a Dwarf and The Ride Down Mount Morgan.
"I know what the sunlight can be"
#65
Posted: 2/11/05 at 5:31am
beauty and the beast and oklahoma....terrible!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#66
Posted: 2/11/05 at 8:28am
Miss Saigon
It was due to lack of sleep and a comfortable seat, though.
It was due to lack of sleep and a comfortable seat, though.
#67
Posted: 2/11/05 at 8:41am
Everytime I went to CATS, which was twice, I fell fast asleep.
#68
Posted: 2/11/05 at 8:56am
The King and I (big yawn) and Kiss Me Kate.
What's that I smell in the air?
The American dream.
#69
Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:09am
Funny Story:
My ex had fallen asleep during Jeckyll & Hyde. During a set change, there was silence upon the stage and you heard a loud snore coming from the seat next to me (in the first row, mind you). The woman next to him (who was obnoxious from the beginning) elbowed him and he awoke. During intermission, he turned to the woman and said "You put your hands on me again, I'll break you're f***kin' arm!" Then he turned to me and told me he was leaving. He did, and after Linda died, I left, too. I hated the show.
My ex had fallen asleep during Jeckyll & Hyde. During a set change, there was silence upon the stage and you heard a loud snore coming from the seat next to me (in the first row, mind you). The woman next to him (who was obnoxious from the beginning) elbowed him and he awoke. During intermission, he turned to the woman and said "You put your hands on me again, I'll break you're f***kin' arm!" Then he turned to me and told me he was leaving. He did, and after Linda died, I left, too. I hated the show.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#70
Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:23am
Gosh, yes.
There was this production at the English National Opera, very blue in it's design - Glass or Adams or someone - dit,dit,dit,dit,dit. Nonsense about aliens or space travel with a rocket ship. Dress Circle. Snoring. Horrifying.
Then there's Act II of Phantom - I've never made it through awake.
Jesus Christ Superstar. Went to see a friend touring with Ted Neeley and I fell asleep. Woke up and Neeley was dying. Fell asleep again. Woke up and Neeley was still dying. Fell asleep again, and well, you get the idea. It just wouldn't end.
There was a season at Steppenwolf some years back featuring Closer, Hysteria and Valparaiso - the most expensive series of naps I've ever experienced. When the Closer trailers began showing for the recent film I thought, I know I was there, but I have absolutely no recollection of this play what-so-ever.
There was this production at the English National Opera, very blue in it's design - Glass or Adams or someone - dit,dit,dit,dit,dit. Nonsense about aliens or space travel with a rocket ship. Dress Circle. Snoring. Horrifying.
Then there's Act II of Phantom - I've never made it through awake.
Jesus Christ Superstar. Went to see a friend touring with Ted Neeley and I fell asleep. Woke up and Neeley was dying. Fell asleep again. Woke up and Neeley was still dying. Fell asleep again, and well, you get the idea. It just wouldn't end.
There was a season at Steppenwolf some years back featuring Closer, Hysteria and Valparaiso - the most expensive series of naps I've ever experienced. When the Closer trailers began showing for the recent film I thought, I know I was there, but I have absolutely no recollection of this play what-so-ever.
"Love Life. Live." Michael Bennett
#71
Posted: 2/11/05 at 12:00pm
MACBETH in Edinburgh, 1986 - slept from start to finish
RICHARD II in London, 1987 - wished I had been at RICHARD III
METROPOLIS in London, 1987 - jet lag
RICHARD II in London, 1987 - wished I had been at RICHARD III
METROPOLIS in London, 1987 - jet lag
#72
Posted: 2/11/05 at 2:11pm
I absolutely hate to say this but there was a point during Man of La Mancha where I was nodding off. It wasnt because I didnt like the show (I loved it in fact) but we had just flown a red eye from LA to New York with a layover in Pittsburg at 8:00AM then went straight from the airport to a bus where we toured around the city and walked all day and then went to the show. In those 24 hours or so, I got a total of 2 hours of sleep so being in a dark theatre didnt really help that much. :-P
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-Scrubs
#73
Posted: 2/11/05 at 2:15pm
Funny story here too...
I saw "Forever Plaid" when I was a kid, like 7 or 8, and it was late, so I fell asleep. Well, the actors are walking up and down, singing, etc...and one stops at me (lucky me I'm on the aisle), and sing in my hear with the mike to wake me up. This is the story I heard. All I remember is being scared witless and lots of laughter in the audience.
I saw "Forever Plaid" when I was a kid, like 7 or 8, and it was late, so I fell asleep. Well, the actors are walking up and down, singing, etc...and one stops at me (lucky me I'm on the aisle), and sing in my hear with the mike to wake me up. This is the story I heard. All I remember is being scared witless and lots of laughter in the audience.
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#74
Posted: 2/11/05 at 2:27pm
I fell asleep ONE TIME at the Berkley Rep Theatre and my mother was mortified. I was so scared that I never fell asleep again at any show.
#75
Posted: 2/11/05 at 2:40pm
I was at a god-awful production of Shakespeare's TWO GENTLMEN OF VERONA.
It was a regional production and the actors were so bad. I couldn't take it and I accidentally fell asleep.
It was a regional production and the actors were so bad. I couldn't take it and I accidentally fell asleep.
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