Leaving Evita at intermission- Page 3

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:32pm

I agree with hervajesty. If you only eat half of a poop sandwich you have no right to comment on it if you never eat the other half. That half might have tasted better.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:33pm

"PalJoey, I'm guessing the best part is when she dies?"

"HE, rainbowhigh"

I'm pretty sure rainbowhigh was talking about Evita, hermajesty, not you.

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[BroadwayStore.com]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:35pm

I think there's truth to that. How many times have you seen a show with a great first act and felt super left down by the second act? It happens the other way around too.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:39pm

Leaving "Grey Gardens" at the intermission would certainly give you a very poor idea of what the show actually is.

[hermajesty]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:39pm

I've never walked out, if I am bored or don't enjoy, I put that down to me and not the performers/play

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:40pm

you left in the middle of her character's story arc!!!!

I love this comment. I can't even say exactly why, but I do.

And I agree that people should be able to leave at intermission if they want. I've only done it a few times, but I've never regretted it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:42pm

This reminds me of that tired old "this show shouldn't be on Broadway" or "that show doesn't deserve to be on Broadway" nonsensical crap. Despite quality, reviews or opinions, any show that can raise the money to open on Broadway can be a Broadway show. Broadway may be a brand identified with prestige, but anyone with deep enough pockets can put a show on. Any remember In My Life?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:42pm

"I've never walked out, if I am bored or don't enjoy, I put that down to me and not the performers/play"

So, hermajesty, if you've not enjoyed a show, and it got bad reviews and subsequently closed, your assumption is that everyone is wrong and the show was actually good?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:43pm

How does someone walking g out of the theater at intermission lead to the death of Broadway? They already have my money and its not likely I'm going to give the show any positive word of mouth as soon as the idea of leaving enters my head - even if I don't go.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:43pm

"I agree with hervajesty. If you only eat half of a poop sandwich you have no right to comment on it if you never eat the other half. That half might have tasted better"

Scatological and simplistic, equating something you don"t like with "poop". I hated PASSING STRANGE. Hated it - but I had friends whose opinions I respect that found it heartbreaking. They liked it, I didn't. I would never go so far as to say something is really bad, but only not my taste.

Except Matthew Lombardo's HIGH with Kathleen Turner. That was really really bad.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:45pm

And yes, I know you're tweaking hermajesty. The deliberate misspelling tipped me off, but I wanted to respond to the sentiment anyway.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:52pm

"yes they are Eric"

Oh, well then. I admit my world is a bit shattered now that you've convinced me that a show like Good Vibrations is still superior to anything put on in a theatre anywhere else in the world, but I suppose I'll have to live with that.

[hermajesty]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:57pm

### "I've never walked out, if I am bored or don't enjoy, I put that down to me and not the performers/play"

So, hermajesty, if you've not enjoyed a show, and it got bad reviews and subsequently closed, your assumption is that everyone is wrong and the show was actually good? ###

Absolutely not, it's each to their own, I am just trying to say that I would never walk out as I believe every performer does his/her best to entertain. Whether they are good/bad/indifferent is another thing, but I regard all as doing the best they can. ..... and with the script they've got

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[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 5:58pm

Do you feel the same way about bad doctors?

[hermajesty]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:00pm

Nimo. you are all just spoiled brats regarding Broadway, you just don't know when you have the best

[finebydesign]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:01pm

I'll say this, even if you didn't understand Elena, why walk out? Whenever I travel "abroad" I LOVE to take in shows, especially regional productions of broadway shows. Who care's if you can't understand?

[WestVillage]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:02pm

hermajesty sounds a little too gaga over Broadway shows/performers to form an honest objective opinion. I mean, really, if EVERYTHING and EVERYONE on Broadway is the best ... Rose colored glasses, anyone?

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:04pm

Funny, I think hermajesty sounds just like a troll.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:04pm

Leaving "Grey Gardens" at the intermission would certainly give you a very poor idea of what the show actually is.

I get that part of it, but if they hate the first act enough to WANT to leave, then there simply wasn't a compelling enough reason to them for staying, regardless the nature, structure or concept of the show. They had seen enough to form an opinion that they didn't want to see any more. If I find a production so intolerable that I want to leave, then I can say with confidence that I hated the production and I can explain precisely why. I might have "missed the good part" or whatever, but it was the production itself, combined with my own personal preferences and tastes, that MADE me want to miss it. If that makes any sense.

[hermajesty]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:06pm

and Matt, people don't invest in something they don't believe will be a hit. It's the public that eventually decides if a production closes early or not. I say look after Broadway and support it or you will lose it.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:06pm

It just seems a bit of a defeatist attitude. "Oh well, that wasn't a very good play and it wasn't well performed, but gosh darn it, I know it's the best available out there in the whole world so who am I to not like it??"

And Matt, that makes perfect sense to me. If you really aren't enjoying something, you don't owe it to anyone to sit there hoping that it just might get better in that third hour, or whatever...

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:09pm

That makes perfect sense, Mister Matt. It just has never happened to me. Different ways of looking at things, I expect. I don't encourage anyone to stay if they're not enjoying something. I don't quite understand, but if someone wants to leave, they should, providing they're being unobtrusive, of course.

[hermajesty]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:09pm

ghostlike sounds like a troll to me

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:12pm

"Except Matthew Lombardo's HIGH with Kathleen Turner. That was really really bad."

High is the only show that I have ever walked out on at intermission. Though to be fair, I was exhausted even before getting there, completely slept through the first half right in my seat, and felt that it would be more comfortable to sleep through the second half in my own bed rather than upright and in public.

I normally do stay for the second half even if I didn't like the first half, just in case it does get better, and I am usually curious to find out if it will or won't.

But I certainly have no problem with anyone walking out at intermission - no need to torture yourself if you would rather be using your time differently.

[WestVillage]

Posted: 7/11/12 at 6:13pm

Did you ever hear of vanity piece? Suzanne Somers ... The Blonde in the Thunderbird ... no one in their right mind would have thought that show had any chance in hell of being a hit. And people who invest in shows do it because they love that aspect of the business (and have the money to burn) ... they all know they're taking a huge financial risk. If people only invested in things they believe would be a hit, there'd be a helluva lot less shows on Broadway. People invest in shows they personally believe in, and take their chances on whether it is successful or not. Hoping a show will be a hit, and believing a show will be a hit are two different things. Your logic is like saying everyone who gambles in Vegas believes they're going to win big.