Have you ever left at intermission?- Page 2

[broadwayrules]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:07pm

No, but when I saw Sweeney Todd on tour the couple (and the third wheel who was with them) who were siting next to me left. The guy left the theatre (I can't remeber if it was once or multiple times) during act 1. His girlfriend looked disgusted by the show, and the third wheel did not seem to care. Anyways more leg room for me!

[ashley0139]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:08pm

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

[JRybka]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:09pm

I have thought about leaving a show before but I never... oh wait I did... I took off after two shows in my life.

Nunsense at the Music Circus years ago..... And it was 'cause the heat was unbearable and I got sick

and

Jelly's Last Jam 'cause my dad HATED it and he was my ride.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:11pm

Only once...Cymbeline.

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

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:13pm

Stones In My Pocket
Copenhagen

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:18pm

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

Years ago: the original PACIFIC OVERTURES.

[once a month]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:22pm

Neil Simon's I Ought to be in Pictures, Marie Christine, and I left 15 minutes before the end of A Catered Affair. I would've left at Passion, HAD there been an intermission. I should've walked from Thou Shalt Not, Cry Baby, Tarzan and Fame Becomes Me.

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:30pm

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.

[TIGGOSAURUS]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:40pm

I've NEVER walked out of a show at intermission and probably never will, but I could have happily missed the second half of Cats, The Lion King and Mary Poppins without feeling deprived.

Don't flame me, but I could imagine walking out of Spring Awakening if I saw it (which is why I haven't). I've seen clips / heard extracts and it just doesn't appeal to me *at all*

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:43pm

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.

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

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:44pm

Tiggsaurus, I'm bummed to hear you didn't like those shows, I'm sorry. I thought the Lion King was gorgeous, and if you have ever seen me on the boards you'd know I am a HUGE Spring Awakening fan, but i've never seen Mary Poppins or Cats. But from what I've heard, I would leave Cats too.

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:45pm

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.

[timrobb]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:51pm

uhm, yes!

Footloose and Tom Sawyer

it was painful to sit through the first act - couldn't imagine staying for the second.

and should have left for Once Upon a Mattress - it was SOOO bad!

[TIGGOSAURUS]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:57pm

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.

[jpbran]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 7:46pm

As I said on the multiple other threads over the last year about walking out at intermission, I left The Life and Jeckyll & Hyde. (Plus a Chicago production of Kabuki Madea.)

I am amused by this thread with the people talking about shows they might walk out of IF they ever saw said show. (rolls eyes)

[Raspberry]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 7:55pm

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.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 8:00pm

I left the revival of Les Miserables at intermission because honestly it was ruining my memories of seeing almost the entire original cast at the Broadway when I was in high school. I decided it was better to try and keep some of those intact...and it was a student ticket (yes...I am a full-time grad student as well as full-time teacher), so I didn't feel that bad about it.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 8:09pm

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

[broadwaycat3113]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:08pm

i did it once during Movin' Out.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:22pm

Once a month,

How could you have hated Fame Becomes Me?

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:22pm

Never. I wanted to leave before the second act of "The Woman in White" but the person I was with didn't want to. And I was so bored out of my mind during last season's revival of "A Moon For the Misbegotten" that I considered leaving (and I had TDF tickets, so it's not like I spent that much money) but for some ungodly reason, I stayed. I'd like that hour and a half of my life back. (As well as the $31 I spent on the ticket.)

[springstagemanager]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:23pm

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.

[crzyray]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:25pm

I left during rent... not cause i wanted to but my friends really hated it... i was kind of mad that we left but they bought the tickets and they had the car so i wasn't going to fight and be stranded in NYC by myself

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:28pm

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

[amalou]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:31pm

After all the bad things I heard, I thought I would end up walking out on Cry Baby. Even though act 1 dragged a bit, I enjoyed it and by the end of act 2, I was really glad I stayed.

The closest I came to walking out of a show was Little Mermaid. I decided to stay simply because I paid to see it but through Positoovity, I was REALLY tempted to just leave.

Other than that, I've never seen a show I didn't like. I know everyone else probably thinks I'm just easily impressed and maybe I am, but I just don't see why I would bother paying so much to go see shows if I'm just determined to hate all of them. Where's the fun in that?

Updated On: 5/3/08 at 09:31 PM