Have you ever left a show at intermission?- Page 3

[Proper Villain]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 10:43pm

Jekyll & Hyde (the revised version national tour that eventually led to B'way) I laughed so hard I cried and annoyed the people around me.

The Pirate Queen in Chicago (this needs NO explanation).

Big the musical (also needs no explanation).

[chewy5000]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 10:48pm

I would have left any of our school's productions had I not been in them

[musicalman2]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 11:38pm

I have left two shows at intermission. I left "On Your Toes," and "Crazy for You," both of which I absolutely hated. Could not care a whit about the characters. As for Crazy for You, just reminded me of Lend me a Tenor (which I loved), but was disappointed that Ken Ludwig did almost the same thing in this show.

[Yes, I'm Chance]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 11:40pm

I've never left a Broadway or Off-Broadway show at intermission, but I have left a handful of festival shows (NYMF and Fringe) at intermission including the (apparently) well-liked Guttenberg! The Musical, which I couldn't stand.

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 11:41pm

When I have nightmares I just imagine escaping Bombay Dreams, then I sleep like a baby.

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 7/3/10 at 11:43pm

No, I have not.

[amoni2]

Posted: 7/4/10 at 12:38am

Only once, Liza Minnelli in "Victor/Victoria". I also make a point of never staring at the wreck on the side of the road too.

[Leia947]

Posted: 7/4/10 at 12:53am

taylor, me and you both! That really was horrible. Just epicly awful. Painful. You couldn't pay me to sit through the second half of that show

[jpbran]

Posted: 7/4/10 at 6:35pm

(Blaxx: I think you know who's gonna respond to that...)

I left "The Life" and "Jeckyll & Hyde" at intermission.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 7/5/10 at 3:19am

I have only left two shows at intermission. The first was Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. This show was part of the Broadway Series in my hometown a few years ago and I did not want to go, but it was included in the season ticket package. I am not a fan of ballet and I did not like the production at all so I left.
The second show I left was a dreadful community college production of Guys and Dolls. Everything about this production was just mediocre and boring.
I wanted to leave at intermission at the current national tour of Annie, but my friend insisted on staying. It was the worst live production I have ever seen in my life.

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 7/5/10 at 8:26pm

"American Idiot" is thrilling, and I highly recommend it (if you don't mind a loud score and scenes involving simulated sex and drug use). I loved it.

Do not sit in the left box if you can at all avoid it, though--I was unlucky enough to lose the lottery but "lucky" enough to be allowed to purchase a box seat for $40, and I missed a full third of the action.

[Musiquer]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 12:17pm

Only once, during 33 Variations, but I was also sorely tempted to leave "Impressionism."

[Elphaba43]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 2:08pm

I left In the Heights......it just wasn't my kind of show. I only went because Priscilla Lopez was in it. And she couldn't even make me stay. I just wasn't into all the hip hop, call me old fashioned and I will probably get bashed to death for my honesty.

[quitetheatrical23]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 6:30pm

I left at intermission of "Why Torture is Wrong" was I really the only person who found that show horrendous? Everyone else I talked to loved it...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 6:45pm

I've only done it once, and it was because the theatre had no AC and was unbearably hot to the point that I felt sick. If I bother to go see something, even if it sucks, I like to see it through.

I left at intermission of "Why Torture is Wrong" was I really the only person who found that show horrendous? Everyone else I talked to loved it...

Maybe because they saw the whole thing.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 6:53pm

I also left a community theatre production of Singing In The Rain at intermission.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 7/6/10 at 11:35pm

OH yes!

I fled RING OF FIRE, TARZAN, and WELL.

It took everything in me not to walk out of THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN', BROOKLYN, and GOOD VIBRATIONS. And those are only the ones that spring immediately to mind.

[wcoyote]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:48am

The look of Love

[Yes, I'm Chance]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 2:05am

As i mentioned earlier, I haven't left a professional production.

However, I FLED a community production of Anything Goes in a suburb of Portland, Oregon that I attended as means to get extra credit in my Drama class. It wasn't worth the bonus points. HEINOUS is the most accurate word I can come up with.

[tommigyrl5]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 9:32am

quizking101 -

I think American Idiot is AWESOME. I LOOOVE IT!! (I'm a green day fan so not hard to please me there) It can be rough for little kids....

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 9:42am

A friend and I had comp tickets to "Tango Argentino" on Broadway in the 1980s, and we left after the first act. It was too much of the same thing for an hour and fifteen minutes. Didn't feel the need or desire to stay.

We second-acted "Big River" instead. We had already seen the show twice, but we had a friend in it and decided to go again.

That's the only time I've left a Broadway show at intermission, though.

[kc2]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 9:45am

No, never. The only time I've witnessed it was at The Addams Family. I like to see things through so my opinion can be fully formed, even if it's a negative one.

[JBSinger]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 11:39am

Only once. I left the American Stage (St. Petersburg FL Equity house) production of HAIR after Act 1. It got great reviews, but I failed to see how it lived up to them. It was done outdoors (which i thought I would like), but I had more problems with what was happening on stage (tempos, pacing, acting, arrangements). It was not to my liking.

[Katarina2]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 1:39pm

The only show I left at intermission was the Chicago production of "Bounce." It was a disaster.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/7/10 at 3:42pm

Big the musical (also needs no explanation).

Broadway or tour? They were completely different shows. I enjoyed the Broadway production, but the tour was hideous.

The only show I left at intermission was the Chicago production of "Bounce." It was a disaster.

Smart move. We stayed, hoping it would get better. It never did.