Have you ever left at intermission? — Page 2

I never have. I can't see it happening, but you never know.

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Only once...Cymbeline.

I wish I had left Top Girls and Rock 'n Roll at intermission, however.

AIDA--the biggest piece of garbage to hit Broadway.

Years ago: the original PACIFIC OVERTURES.

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I haven't, yet. I really wanted to leave after Act 1 of Les Liaisons Dangereuses because I was so tired, and I only paid 10 bucks for the ticket, but decide not to.

I also wanted to leave Top Girls, but kept telling myself, this will get better, this will get better..and it never did.

I never have left a show at intermission ever. I feel that it would be disrespectful, but that's just me.

Actually, once at my college, I went to my roommate's dance show twice in the weekend it was playing to see how much of a train wreak it stayed. I'm not knocking anyone for getting up there and dancing because there were a lot of really good dancers. There were just a few, like my roommate who stuck out horribly, and were not good. However, she has absolutely no idea that nobody thought she was good at all. It was bad, because she was president of this dance group, which I'm still trying to figure out how she got the position. And I thought it was a bit rediculous how she let anyone who wanted to, have a solo. That's what sort of made the show drag a bit. There were just too many, for what it was supposed to be.

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Updated On: 5/3/08 at 06:43 PM

I saw Scrooge the musical at a local theatre by me, and left at intermission. I went with my friends and they wanted to leave, so we did, even though I wanted to stay. I just think it is very rude.

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oohshizz146, please don't be bummed at my personal opinion My Mum absolutely loved The Lion King and I haven't met anyone else who was as bored by it as I was. I did enjoy MP as a spectacle but it just seemed to drag on and on. God knows why, but I've seen Cats twice and each time I've thought WTF am I doing watching this ****?

I'm sure SA will do fine without my support. I did enjoy Forbidden Broadway's version 'Rude Awakening' very much indeed if that's any consolation.

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I've only left before the end once, but not at intermission. I went to a Saturday matinee of The Pirate Queen. I was planning to leave at intermission, but on my way back to the subway, I stopped at Grey Gardens to buy a rush ticket for the evening show (they'd just gone on sale about 20 minutes earlier, at 3pm). After being outside in the wonderful May weather and listening to the Grey Gardens soundtrack on my iPod and thinking about how wonderful the show would be that night, I started to think "oh, come on, The Pirate Queen wasn't really that bad, was it?" So I went back. As soon as the second act started, I was like, "Oh, yeah. Now I remember. It really is THAT bad," so I left about ten minutes into the second act, as soon as there was a lengthy scene change and an appropriate place to exit. As I was leaving, there were two different groups of people coming down from the balcony (I was orchestra level) on their way out as well. One of the ushers in the lobby commented on her surprise that we had made it this far.

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Rasberry you made it all the way up to the Walter Kerr, bought tickets, and back to the Hilton in 15 minutes? Impressive!

Once a month,

How could you have hated Fame Becomes Me?

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I actually haven't left at an intermission--- As others have said, I can't see it happening. I find it to be rude and also awkward.

That being said, I *nearly* walked out in the middle of a one-act play about the Holocaust--- It was VERY, VERY intense and emotional and I could barely handle it.

Oh, yes.

The ones that I can remember walking out of:
OKLAHOMA! (I loved it, but I got very sick).
RING OF FIRE
TARZAN
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
HEARTBREAK HOUSE
SOUVENIR


Seriously considered it:
XANADU
HIGH FIDELITY
PRELUDE TO A KISS
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'
HOT FEET
LESTAT
THE ODD COUPLE
WELL
ENCHANTED APRIL

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