Have you ever walked out of a show? Or seen others walk out?- Page 6

[mortgageguy79]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 8:24am

I have only walked out on college productions back in the day. I remember them doing a production of The Magic Flute, but it was just awful....and WAY too long. As far as professional theater, even the worst shows, I have stayed through. Albeit, not always awake by the end

[allyk]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 8:35am

The couple in back of my mother and I left in the middle of Chorus Line (right before Jason Tam's monologue.) They had been complaining the entire show and were just miserable to sit in front of. They finally just got up and walked out, in complete view of the actors. (right on the aisle about 12 rows back.) My mother and I were SO glad they were gone! Oh, and then last spring the guy next to me at Spelling Bee (last one on the aisle in the front row - next to Rona and Panch), also got up and walked out. I've never felt tempted to walk out of a professional show, but I've wanted to walk out of local productions of Anyone Can Whistle (my friend was in it, so I stuck it out) and Cats (hated it when I was seven, and again at seventeen).
Updated On: 6/12/07 at 08:35 AM

[jhonaker]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 8:53am

I've been tempted to leave during intermission before, but haven't yet. If someone isn't having a good time, then leaving during intermission seems like an entirely appropriate thing to do.

Emergencies aside, I'd never get up and walk out while the actors were on stage.

[misschung]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 9:10am

Exactly. I am surprised by the number of people who get up and leave before the curtain call. I mean I understand the show is technically over, but still! Its like the people who leave after communion at church, lol

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/12/07 at 9:27am

Quite a few:

STUFF HAPPENS--terribly glib, poorly written and acted, and offered nothing new about the subject it was trying to discuss.

MARY POPPINS--too many kids around (my friend and I specifically chose to go to a midweek evening performance because we thought we would avoid this; not so, apparently) and it just wasn't fun, which is the whole purpose of the show.

ASYLUM--a musical at the York about Mary Todd Lincoln. When the chorus of three came out and repeated the lyrics "Crazy Mary/Mary's Crazy" for five minutes straight, I knew I had to flee.

MR. FABULOUS--another show at the York, this time a developmental reading about a Liberace-like closeted pop star and his young lover. There were 10 people in the audience when the show started and maybe 3 left after the interval.

LES MISERABLES--the revival. Gemignani and Lewis were miscast, Salonga wasn't even trying, and the Marius and Cosette were basically just trying to see who could sing higher. The tour production is mind-numbingly awful. I couldn't wait to get out.

DI YAM GAZLONIM--this show billed itself as "The Pirates of Penzance in Yiddish". Not so. Basically, a Yiddish comic writer kept the music and rewrote the show with a bunch of unfunny schtick ("When Frederic was a little lad..." became "When Fyvush was a boy a shul...", and so on).

There have been others, but these are the most recent.