Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:08pm
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:12pm
I could hear the Phantom overture when I did standing room for God of Carnage.
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:13pm
I was watching the all-female Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy in London, and at one quiet moment I could hear "Absolute Beginners" coming from Lazarus playing right next to us.
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:25pm
American Psycho actually had to offset the start time of their show by a few minutes because a particularly loud part of that show happened at a quiet part of The Color Purple next door, and it could be heard in the Jacobs.
Posted: 2/7/18 at 7:41pm
I could definitely hear a bit of Bandstand when I saw A Doll's House Part 2 last summer.
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:19pm
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:22pm
Emmaloucbway said: "I could definitely hear a bit of Bandstand when I saw A Doll's House Part 2 last summer."
I came to say I had the same experience.
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:37pm
Posted: 2/7/18 at 8:43pm
Not exactly in a neighboring theater, but I clearly heard Once on This Island while waiting for my car in between the Gershwin and Circle in the Square.
Posted: 2/7/18 at 9:05pm
I heard Les Mis during a performance of Pippin
Posted: 2/7/18 at 9:22pm
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Posted: 2/8/18 at 12:28am
I remember doing standing room for a performance of Once and being able to hear the (albeit somewhat muffled) overture to Phantom.
Posted: 2/8/18 at 2:37am
mailhandler777 said: "When I was at Eclipsed I could hear whatever show was playing next door(I forget which one it was)."
I sat all the way on the left for another show at that theatre and could hear the music next door.
Posted: 2/8/18 at 6:28am
Posted: 2/8/18 at 7:53am
While not quite what the OP asked about, it seems like NYPD car and ambulance sirens like to make themselves known during the quietest passages of a show. This is particularly irksome when the show is a period piece (e.g, Phantom, Les Miserables, etc.), so the siren is an anachronism.
Posted: 2/8/18 at 9:10am
Posted: 2/8/18 at 3:04pm
whatdoesntkillme said: "American Psychoactually had to offset the start time of their show by a few minutes because a particularly loud part of that show happened at a quiet part ofThe Color Purplenext door, and it could be heard in the Jacobs."
That's not true. American Psycho didn't start any later than usual. The Schoenfeld has a tendency to hold the house more than 5 minutes past the ticketed performance time for latecomers.
Posted: 2/8/18 at 3:10pm
Lot666 said: "While not quite what the OP asked about, it seems like NYPD carand ambulance sirens like to make themselves known during the quietest passages of a show. This is particularly irksome when the show is a period piece (e.g, Phantom, Les Miserables, etc.), so the siren is an anachronism."
In my experience, hearing sirens and other such street-noises are pretty par-for-the-course with Broadway theatres. Far more common than hearing other shows next door.
I remember during King Charles III, during a very quiet, very tense moment at the end of the play, we could hear several drunk women hooting and hollering just outside.
Posted: 2/9/18 at 3:14pm
I remember you could hear a loud sound cue from The Perfect Crime from downstairs during The Fantasticks.
Also, in An Iliad they actually wrote in an ambulance sound cue to make it sound like it was coming from the street.
