Have you ever left at intermission?- Page 3

[pli1018]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:33pm

Haha munk, you were gonna leave Xanadu? It doesn't have an intermission! :)

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:36pm

I never have since I get to NY so unoften I pick what I know im going to like and thus havent ever walked out. However I saw the Movin Out Tour and if I hadnt been a chaperone on a field trip for it I woulda left at intermission. It was the biggest piece of garbage that I have ever seen. I liked Lestat a thousand times more than I did Movin Out.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:47pm

Wanted to leave at Intermission of Spring Awakening. Hated the show, thought it was highly over rated. Should have known after hearing the OBC recording and couldn't make it through that. The person I was with decided he wanted to stay however. Would have walked out of Brooklyn had there been an intermission with NO REGRETS

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 10:26pm

Pli:

The only reason I didn't walk out of Xanadu was because it didn't have an intermission. If if did, I would have, in the words of our dearly departed MelissaErricoFan, "fled the theatre like Anatevka."

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 10:42pm

I almost left Curtains at intermission. It was kind of cute but I was getting bored. Luckily it picked up a bit in the second act.

[ahimsa]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 10:49pm

I left at intermission of CATS to watch the Westminster Dog Show on TV!

[bschneid76]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 10:56pm

So far Passing Strange is the only Broadway show I have left at Intermission. I would have left Brooklyn: The Musical but there was no intermission.

[Thomas14850ny2]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 10:57pm

I left at the intermission of THE WEDDING SINGER.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:02pm

I loved the first act of Next to Normal, butat intermission this little voice in my head said, "Get up and leave." From now on, I'm listening to the little voice.

[puppetman2]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:33pm

Yes for the horrible JELLY'S LAST JAM

[D2]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:35pm

Many times, most recently PASSING STRANGE.

As was stated in an earlier post, my time is worth more than the money I spent on the ticket, and if I'm not enjoying it, I'm out of there.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:37pm

I would have left at intermission for a few shows, but I was always with someone who wanted to stay, so I made the sacrifice...and, believe me, in some instances "sacrifice" is the most appropriate word.

The worst show I have ever seen was SO awful that couldn't wait for Intermission to end so I could get back into my seat and continue to be AMAZED (not in a "good" way)!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:42pm

I wanted so badly to leave at Dr. Doolittle (and I wouldn't have minded leaving at The Lion King either).

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:50pm

well rent once, but i had already seen it 12 full times before that and i had to leave, not because i wanted to (it was luther mark)

[Tag]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:25am

I would have left during Chicago (National Tour) and Spring Awakening had I not been with other people.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:51am

I left a show at intermission for the first time in my life this past January and it was because a family member had passed away that night. Otherwise I can't ever imagine leaving during intermission. Even if I don't like a show I'm always too optimistic that act two will be better. A great example of that was a regional production of a play called "Detective Story" that bored me to tears during act one, but in act two things got more exciting and I was glad I stayed. Now it's one of my favorite plays. If I'd left I would have missed out.

[KrissySim]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 1:48am

I try to pick shows that will be worth seeing and anyway I like to give a show a chance. Sometimes things get off to a slow start or seem uncertain at first but pick up or become comprehensible after the first act. So the answer is NO, even though I have felt that I wasted my time once or twice. At least I can then pan it intelligently.

Occasions where I could walk out:
Feeling sick (not because of the show)
Already knowing the show and knowing this one is an inferior interpretation or production.
Not wanting to lose the memory of a great production of same show.
Earthquake, tsumani, tornado, meteor, volcanic eruption, act of war, etc. (In other words, it would take a lot to get me to leave a show I had decided to see.)

[Mrs.LinkLarkin2]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 2:00am

The Homecoming-I felt bad leaving cause part of me thinks it's pretty disrespectful, but my family and I were sooo bored.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 2:44am

I've walked out of several festival shows at intermission. Been tempted to leave a few others. Never walked out of a broadway show.

[bestinshow2]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 3:10am

I walked out of CORIOLANUS at The Globe in London.

I dearly wanted to walk out of THE TIMES THEY ARE A'CHANGING on Broadway but couldn't because my company couldn't leave (we were comped by the producer).

[Marinacat]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 6:43am

We left "Speed the Plow" during intermission. I couldn't bear sleeping in that cramped seat anymore.

Came close to leaving "Doubt" as Jena Malone's accent was like nails on a chalkboard.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 8:11am

The first play I ever fled at intermission was COASTAL DISTURBANCES. Crushingly boring, even Tim Daly in swim trunks couldn't enliven it. My friend and I had front row seats, too.

I fled HOLLYWOOD ARMS, I just couldn't take it any more.

I wanted to flee the horrors of NEXT TO NORMAL, but was not allowed to, I was a guest and had to writhe through that interminable second act.

The same with the even more horrific RING OF FIRE. God what a trainwreck that was, those dreadful songs.

[chrysler99]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 9:55am

I mostly think it is disrespectful to leave at the break but I confess I have done so a few times: at Dance of the Vampires (free tix) and just a few months ago at the early intermission for Crimes of the Heart (Roundabout subscription that was paid long ago). almost left Coram Boy (my friends wanted to go, I wanted to stay) but we stayed and were happy we did so. Oddly, both of the last two times I was at Studio 54, people near me left at intermission - during the Ritz (by people who obviously had no idea at what they had gotten themselves into) and recently when I went to see Sunday.

[once a month]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 10:11am

SB4E: I wanted to leave Fame Becomes Me because, as good natured as Martin Short is...I felt I was just seeing a glorified Carol Burnet Show, but with salty language. I was bored, I didn't care for the music, and no matter how I wanted to laugh, there was nothing funny enough for me to laugh at. I stuck it out to the end...but in my mind there's a blank slate...I recall none of it. THEN I had to face the train out of town, I wish I left at intermission!

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 5/4/08 at 10:20am

What in God's name is disrespectful about it? If you paid for your ticket, you have every right to leave or stay. There is NOTHING disrespectful about it.

Anyway:


I walked out of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA September of 2004. I went to give it a second chance, and when I realized there were parts that Christine was lipsynching, I grew so disgusted that I walked out.

Left in the middle of the second act of THE HOMECOMING. I was in the very last row of the orchestra on the aisle, so I, luckily did not distract many people. I still felt awful about it, but I can be a bit prude-ish and some of the sexual nature of it disgusted me beyond belief.

Left during the intermission of RING OF FIRE. I should rephrase that. Ran for my life during the intermission of RING OF FIRE.

Almost left during the intermission of ENCHANTED APRIL. My mother and I were bored out of our minds, but were curious to see what happened when they reached Italy. We were thrilled we stayed because the second act was stunning!