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Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#50re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:43pm
The 2nd time I saw Disney's THE LION KING.
I started dozing off about 20 minutes into the show and actually zonked-out before the end of Act 1. I snorted in my sleep which made my bf nudge me and I woke up. I dozed off again somewhere in Act 2 and made it fine until the curtain call as everyone started their standing ovation.
I tend to revisit shows numerous times. THE LION KING sadly is one of those only-for-one-time shows.
RoseStopnikCooks
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/07
#51re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:44pm
If I go to a show overexhausted, which I do often because nothing stops me from going, it sometimes happens.
Slept through most of "The Homecoming" and through some of "Enchanted April". Most times, though, I catch myself and sit straight up so that I don't.
ShiksaGoddess2
Understudy Joined: 1/4/08
#52re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:44pmI fell asleep at Les Miz, mainly because I didnt really sleep the night before, and I was forced to watch the show. And I almost fell asleep at Pirate Queen. I mean, Stephanie J Block was awesome, but everytime she's not on stage, I was struggling to stay awake.
#53re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:44pmI haven't, but the girl sitting next to me at the POTO tour slept all through Act 1.
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#54re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:48pmMy sister has, I think because she usually works night shifts and isn't used to being up late. I gave her an elbow in the ribs because she's a terrible snorer and I didn't want the whole theater to hear her!
#55re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:49pmI fell asleep during MILLIE. Don't remember much about it at all.
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Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#56re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:53pmIt seems that Wicked appears the most often on this list so far. I didn't have that problem -- I left after the first act.
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cannison101
Understudy Joined: 1/11/08
#57re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 7:58pm..I wonder what the actors would look like if they saw someone sitting in the on - stage seats fall asleep. That would be funny to watch from the audience. :)
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#58re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:01pm
The Phantom of the Opera. I was LITTLE. I was not digging it. I had a nice snooze.
Ok, so I fell asleep at Wicked once. BUT. I was in the very back and I had spent ALL night up with my friend and her roomate at her university. So..there was no hope of me staying up.
But I won't lie, I'm totally ashamed of myself. As a performer, I'd be devastated if someone fell asleep during my show.
But I really couldn't help it.
I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#59re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:06pmGrey Gardens. I was kind lost for a few minutes.
#60re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:09pm
My friend fell asleep during the first act of "Phantom of the Opera."
I don't blame her.
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#61re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:09pmI could have fallen asleep during THE LION KING. I was close.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#62re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:09pmLast night, during the UK tour of Hello Dolly! I'm sorry, I couldn't stop myself, the show was just so bad!
#63re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:10pmThe third time I saw PHANTOM in London ! I love the show but I was very tired from walking all day and I actually remember the scene I dozed off for a little ! It was the "Notes" scene in the second act !
#64re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:14pm
Normally I get a little sleepy toward the end of Act 1, but I am usually able to stay awake. The only time I can really remember falling asleep majorly was, ironically, during Awake and Sing! This was a problem for both me and my friend, who then dubbed it "Sleep and Snore" instead. It's not that it was boring (in fact, I love this play and I really enjoyed this production), but we had just had a long trip into the city.
Also, my mom, who is notorious for falling asleep during any movie she sees, managed to fall asleep during Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. :)
#65re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:15pmI haven't but my Mom fell asleep when we saw Sweeney at the Met with Elaine Paige, we were in the second balcony and she found it boring. A few days later she dozed off for a few minutes during Hairspray.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#66re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:27pmMy head was bobbing during Spelling Bee. We had flown in that morning, I hadn't slept, and we had seen Piazza that afternoon. I was wiped out. Of course when I got the cast recording later, I REALLY regretted not sleeping the night before.
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#67re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:32pm
cannison wanted to know if an actor noticed someone sleeping in the seats. I saw "Tru" years ago with Robert Morse in a one man show.
I was sitting in the second row stage right and the woman in front of me was fast asleep
There was a Christmas tree in corner of the stage and Morse had to hang an ornament on the tree was doing his lines and noticed the sleeping woman. He locked eyes with me sitting right behind her,
put his finger to his mouth and went "Sshhh".
No one else in the theater knew what was going on but him and me.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
henryt
Broadway Star Joined: 7/26/07
#68re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:49pm
Updated On: 3/7/08 at 08:49 PM
stageactor06
Chorus Member Joined: 5/17/06
#69re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:55pmAdd me to the "Wicked" list. I saw Ana Gasteyer and Kate Reinders twice in one day on Broadway their last Saturday in the show. I fell asleep during Defying Gravity at the matinee, and then I was in lotto seats for the evening and kept dozing off repeatedly. I love the show, but I hadn't slept the night before so I was quite tired. Kate told me she saw me from the stage at one point during the show. I hope it wasn't while I was sleeping.
#71re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 8:58pmIn the middle of second act of Rent (tour).
Broadway Shows I've Seen: Hairspray, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors (2003), The Wedding Singer, Spamalot, Riverdance, Rent, Beauty and the Beast, Spring Awakening, Wicked, Legally Blonde, Phantom of the Opera, Sweet Charity (revival), Drowsy Chaperone, The Lion King, Dreamgirls(2010 Tour).
#72re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 9:03pm
I fell asleep during Pippin, Hal Princes Showboat (after an all-nighter), the 90's revival of Company (another all-nighter), the revival of Nine (the day I returned from a cruise), Jane Eyre (1st row)...which isn't THAT BAD considering I've been to appx 350 shows on Broadway.
I've walked out on Marie Christine and Neil Simons I Ought to be in pictures.
#73re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 9:08pmI have never done it... but my mom and I always joke about the time we went to see 42nd Street (a tour of the revival) in Long Beach. She was basically asleep through the whole thing except the tap dancing scenes and the ushers were laughing at her the whole time.
bwayguy22089
Broadway Star Joined: 12/16/06
#74re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 9:10pmnever have and hopefully never will. i would be so upset if someone fell asleep when I'm on stage.
#75re: Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?
Posted: 2/24/08 at 9:29pm
now i don't feel so bad to admit that i dozed during OKLAHOMA (2002), THE KING & I (1996) and CONTACT (2000). I always get a little sleeping during the first act of Phantom during "All I Ask Of You"
Nice to know it's not just me.
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