Shows You Have Walked Out On

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:29pm

What shows has anyone walked out on? And why? Honestly I havent seen it but I really do think If I went to Avenue Q I would walk out at intermission or T25PCSB

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:33pm

I regret this, because now I have no real judgement of the show.



Mamma Mia!

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:34pm

Why did you walk out on Mamma Mia?!

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:36pm

Why would you walk out on Avenue Q? LOL.

[Georgeanne]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:38pm

EDCT, you would walk out on Avenue Q but not Mamma Mia?

Okay, that's a bit topsy turvy.

[loganp37]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:42pm

Avenue Q is too funny to walk out on.

If I left after Act One then it would kill me for any show, simply because I didn't know the ending.

I would lose sleep even if it was the worst of the worst shows.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:43pm

Recently, Sweet Charity.

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:45pm

Im just not into that kinda humor.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:46pm

Bee is definitley not walk-out-on-worthy. The humor is not at all similar to that of Q's as it is much more witty and appealing to many different age groups. Give Bee a chance.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:48pm

Ive never walked out on a show because I figure I did pay $100 to see it so I might as well just sit back and suck it up. If I was alone at Good Vibrations, however, I would have walked out. It was an embarrassment to the Broadway musical.

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:52pm

I've never been to a show that was bad enough to walk out on.. (and that includes Charity!)

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:54pm

Why is Sweet Charity that bad?

[got-a-light]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:56pm

years and years of shows and just one holds this honor.....

Jerry Springer the Opera (west end)

[hypertruffle]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:56pm

It was around the time whe I started freshman year of high school and I was stupid thinking that you needed to have an original score by an actual composer (I was a theater-snob wannabe, you can say). I tried to enjoy a afternoon of actually seeing a show (we got the tickets through Tkts). It didn't work for me, and then the ABBA music played. During intermission, people were excited and mentioned something about the audience'll dance in the last scene. I thought 'F*** it' and left.

If I had a chance to go back in time, I'd go up to my 14-year old self and slap her.

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:57pm

Sweet Charity isn't bad. It's quite fun. People just like to overeact and say that it's so bad because they didn't use Fosse choreo/direction.

95% of the people that see Charity - will tell you that it's not nearly as bad as some people say.

[RustyJusty830]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:01am

I never could be able to bring myself to walk out of a show- I'm very OCD about those kind of things and it would bug the hell out of me! Although I did come close to walking out of Mamma Mia...

[Pinguin]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:02am

I've never walked out on a show, I must be a masochist. But even if I'm critical of something I want to at least be able to say I'm critical of the whole thing!

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:04am

I've never walked out either, though I've wanted to leave a fair few (the 1997 revival of The Life comes to mind...). I just figure that if I paid for a ticket, I'm going to suck it up and see the whole thing. Well, that and what Pinguin said about being critical of the whole thing.

[focusingonmoviesmatt]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:06am

I walked out of i love you, your perfect now change.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:08am

A terrible regional production of Man of La Mancha.

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:09am

I made the smart decision and never walked INTO Mamma Mia.

And believe me, unless you are a complete prude you wouldn't walk out of Avenue Q. It's hillarious that some of these kids still resent that show after all this time.

Oh yea... I did walk out of a touring production of West Side Story once. Very amaturish. Though I think if I had paid for my ticket I may have stayed.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:12am

If you aren't into that humor, don't see it.

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:15am

Are we talking about Q still, Thenardier?

What does "that" kind of humor mean? Sounds condescending.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:17am

I didn't say it, he did.

"Im just not into that kinda humor." - DefyingEDCT

P.S. I saw AQ twice, and love it...live.

Updated On: 7/22/05 at 12:17 AM

[TheColorOfFlame]

Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:20am

I would never have dreamed of walking out on a show before I saw The Blonde In The Thunderbird.

I just kept dreaming of the beautiful sunset I was missing outside. It was a gorgeous evening.

My friend and I made the agreement that we would skip the curtain call. It was a compromise, since my date was/is even more theatrically religious than I am.

The lights blinked out after what we thought was the final number, and we ran out. But we were wrong. There were twenty minutes left.

I felt free.

Then I had to go back to get my cellphone.

I feel fortunate that I caught Suzanne's final number, in which she decides that her father's alcoholism was a blessing.