Have you ever walked out of a show? Or seen others walk out? — Page 4

i walked out during and all white version of "once on this island" it was awful and just did not work. h community theater for some reason you insist in doing things your own way.

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I walked out of the rent movie. I talked to a couple at the intermission of wicked who were leaving because, "this show has too much singing."

"I really don't understand why people leave at Sunday, it is such as brilliant peice of work, one of somdheims best. I can sort of understand Sweeney becuase of the violence and cannobolism and Passion becuase of the nudity but I just don't understand why people would leave at SITPWG."

I love Passion and Sweeney, but hate SIPWG. It the same old story male artists have been saying about themselves for centuries. The only reason why I got through the dvd of it was because of Mandy and Bernadette. Other than that, it said nothing new to me about the artistic process that I haven't already heard 5000 other male artists spew in the various field that they are artists in.

As a protest, tons of people walked out when the Falsettos tour came through town many years ago. The news had covered the fact that a lot of people were walking out of performances so I was prepared for it. It still made me sick though.

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I walked out of Amy's View with Judi Dench in, I think, '99. Worst play I have ever seen. I adore Judi Dench but even she looked thoroughly bored and embarrassed to be in it.

When I saw Sweeney in the front row, the couple next to me,(one of which was NOT dressed for a show, he was wearing a Wicked T-shirt, shorts, and sandals)left at intermission. Their loss.

Slightly O/T, but at the stagedoor that night, Mano told me that the cast was glad when they left, apparently they were very figgedty and distracting. Go figure.

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I've walked out of films and shows that bored me to tears or were dreadful. That's every patron's right.

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I have been tempted to walk out on tons of stuff in NYC, but never have, in hopes that it can just get better, or I paid for these seats, so let's not waste it. I have even muddled thru some baaaad comm. theater in the past, only to support pals.

I came incredibly close, though. In Nov., 2004, I saw Woody Allen's "A Second Hand Memory," at the Atlantic Theater Company. Allen directed. I usually dig Allen's work, some of the cast members were folks whose work I dug, and I have enjoyed the Atlantic's work in the past. These all seemed to be good signs. Well, this Allen play was simply AWFUL. Bad writing and "direction", some lame performances (while a few cast members did do splendid work. Beth Fowler and michael McKean were lovely. Elizabeth Marvel's 'work" was an utter embarrassment.) Laura Bauer's costuming was heinous and this woman must be stopped. I was mortified by many of her "designs", which were grossly inappropriate and looked to be pulled randomly off a Salvation Army clothes rack. The piece was se tin the 1950's, but she didn't even seem to be cognizant of the fact.

We wer ein the first row and basically stayed to see how this horro show would end. It wrapped-up in a glum, and INCREDIBLY abrupt fashion, to the point where we, as an audience, did not even know the piece had ended. It seemd that Allen had hacked-off the true final scene. So, the cast came out for bows and we all sat there stupefied. About a minute into bows we all realized the time has arrived to clap. We all left in a fog wondering how he could have wrapped up the piec ein such a silly, cauterized fashion.

Well, if you muddle thru shows and loathe them, at least you can have fun mocking them over drinks afterward, far, far from the theater. Oh yes, and I saw a pathetic attempt at ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN midtown a few years ago. Bottom drawer production, no pacing, bad set, bad casting. My pal begged to stay as he had never seen it before (and I had), and he wanted to know the ending. When they play the EXACT same music for the preshow and the TWO intermisisons, WATCH out!

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"Yawn. The story as a whole---process and love story---has been written about by 5000 male artists so many times that either you are not well read or you are just too impressed with Sondheim for putting it on a Broadway stage."

So, I bet you haven't watched closely to the second act which is absolutely nothing to do with the process of the painting and the love story. The whole painting process ended in act 1 (which I think the process is not any normal one because pointilism is actually an invention in painting, a revolution in impressionism) and the love is over because of Dot's leaving. Act 2 is about George's legacy fell to his younger generation (an inventor) who was lost about his vision. How he was supported by a soul in his heart that he never met before and move on.

Even though you may think it's a traditional story about a painter, have you ever listen to the songs they sang? Each song is a philosophy address. "Finishing the Hat" is about how artists approach to new creation simultaneously decribe the character of George. "How you watch the rest of the world from a window while you finish the hat."

"Putting it Together" describe how the younger George treated the thing art. Sondheim used different kinds of phrases to show to George's point of view.

"It's Hot Up Here" tells us about how the "people" in the painting feels? As being immortal and unspeakable, do they have the right to question or complain why they have to be in the painting? Who are they? Do they existed as the normal people we saw in act 1 or just dummies created by the dead painter?

This musical actually has a lot of philosophical elements, not as shallow as just telling you about a painter's love story and how he paint! Actually, the 2 musicals you like: Sweeney Todd and Passion have the same elements in Sunday. They all are about relationship and the question of what we are living for.

Btw, hasn't a love triangle story like Passion written again, again and again? How the guy finally loses both girls with a girl having deadly disease? I really don't know why you like it if it was so often written.

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Updated On: 11/6/06 at 01:00 AM

I would never walk out either. I mean, I'm not able to get completely free tickets to anything and my money is valuable to me so I would sit through just about anything if I was paying for it. Plus it's not like I would be doing anything better with my time if I did leave.

Although I was counting down the minutes to the end of Lestat when it was here in San Fran, and I was so tempted to go to the bathroom and not go back to my seat. I stuck it out though, lol.

I would've walked out of Heartbreak House if it were at all possible that evening (it wasn't), and I've seen people leave during intermission at The History Boys and Sweeney Todd, behavior that I will NEVER understand.

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I've seen the standard old people walk out of RENT. I remember one of them walked past my friends and I and we heard them say, "It must be some sort of cult thing. . ."

Now we say that to each other any time someone makes a reference to RENT.

I saw quite a few people leave at intermission during previews of The Pirate Queen. I liked it, but I was about to join them if they would have made reference to her "balls" once more.

~Jacob.