Have you ever fallen asleep in a Broadway show?- Page 7

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:44pm

I fell asleep in a community production of "Importance Of Being Earnest." I fell asleep on my armrest.

[justafan2]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 1:47pm

I've never fallen asleep, but yesterday, during the opening scene of "Phantom", a big woman (I was squished) arrived late---to take the one empty seat next to me (center of the row----of course, making everyone get up to let her get in) and then promptly fell asleep for the entire show----

[Guillermo Ugarte]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 1:55pm

I cannot tell you the number of times I have looked down from the stage and seen people sleeping in the front row. I imagine I could probably see them all over the theater if only I could see this far. This is nothing new. Early in my career I was crushed to see someone sleeping through what I thought to be a brilliant execution of a monologue.

Since then I have had to accept the fact that some people pay a lot of money to sit in a theater and sleep in the dark. Perhaps they are sleep deprived or they have just had a hard week or maybe they were dragged to the show and have no interest. I do not know and I cannot afford to be distracted by them - unless of course they are snoring and then it is really distracting.

[greybaby231]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 2:57pm

I know it's not technically Broadway,yet, but I fell asleep during Equus last May.