Shows You Have Walked Out On- Page 4

Posted: 7/22/05 at 11:29pm

It still baffles me why someone would spend 100 dollars on a show on Broadway and walk out. I baffles me.

[~Jer~]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:09am

I just watched "Rent" for the first time and I was quite unimpressed with what I saw. I didn't walk out though (i believe its rude)so I watched the whole thing. I must admit that I am glad that I stayed for the second act because it was 10times better then the first.
So all in all, I guess i set my expectations to high and it was an ok performance...

I am TOTALLY in love with the guy who played Angel (Justin Johnston)---- mmm...so hottttt

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:11am

"OH GOD DONT GET ME STARTED ON WAITING FOR GODOTTTTTt"

Actually, I'd like to get you started. What was it you couldn't deal with about Godot?

[Joshua488]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:12am

Why would I stay and watch something that was completely unentertaining and disappointing? I pay $100 to be entertained; if I'm not, I will leave.

Now, mind you, I have never left during a show because I usually find something to make me stay. But I see nothing wrong with it. I'd rather perform for an audience of five people that really like the show than a dead audience of 500.

[MissElphie]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:12am

I've never walked out of a show. I did consider it, however, duting Fame and Jane Eyre. But I refuse to give up on something. I always hope something will redeem it. I'm the same with books and movies. No matter how much I'm disliking it, I have to see it till the end.

[~Jer~]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:19am

Updated On: 7/23/05 at 12:19 AM

Posted: 7/23/05 at 12:28am

High school production: West Side Story [didn't, but I would have only the person who drove all of us there refused to leave]

[DefyingEDCT]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 1:18am

Probobly its because my theatre class did a whole expert from waiting for godot, and I had high expectations, but the sheer absurdity of it wasn't for me. The play itself in terms of "Theatre of the Absrtact" is a masterpeice, just not my cup of tea.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:59am

Walking out in the middle of a show says more about the person than the show.

Someone who slips away at intermission (due to any number of reasons: not feeling well, not liking it, emergency at home) isn't trying to draw attention to themselves. Unlike those who get up and leave in the middle of the performance. Then there are the ones who loudly advertise the fact that they left a show in the middle and often pick big hit shows that have won awards. They have some twisted logic that it impresses people.

For anyone truly interested in theatre, sitting through flops can be quite instructive. You can consider where the authors/producers went wrong, ways it could have been improved.

Professional obligation prevents me from leaving ANY show that I am reviewing, but even so I have never left a show before the final curtain call. Even SUNST BLVD I stayed to the bitter end hoping against hope that there would be a moment somewhere in it that made the rest worthwhile. (There wasn't.) I would never go back to see the show of my own volition, but if a revival comes along and the paper sends me to review it I will have to go. (I hope it NEVER happens.)

[grizzabella]

Posted: 7/23/05 at 1:24pm

I've never walked out of a show. I've found that even if the show is utterly miserable, I can usually find something interesting to look at. It might be scenery, lighting, one redeeming actor, anything. In community theatre the cast and crew are often not getting paid, so deserve support for their efforts, even if it isn't professional quality. Who knows, next time might be better. And for professional theatre, I'm too cheap to throw away the price of a ticket!

[Thespianchick87]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:24pm

I walked out on Caroline or Change and Mambo Kings... only because I was with my father who doesn't like musicals anyway

[MrBungee7]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:33pm

Not me, but when I saw Rent, Warren Beatty and Annette Benning were there with their kids and Warren and the kids left at intermission.
They did come back for the bows though.

I thought it was funny.

[James885]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:42pm

I've never walked out on a show before because like so many people have already said, if I'm paying good money for a show, I'm going to sit through the whole thing whether it's bad or not.

Not to mention that it's extremely disrespectful to the actors.

[MrMarkCharlieBrownCohen]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:44pm

I walked out of the national tour of THE CIVIL WAR at Intermission - HORRIBLE HORRIBLE waste of a show.

I wanted to walk out of The Dead, but it's a One Acter. Christopher Walkin has no business in a musical. Or should I say, "musical"...

I also wanted to walk out of Titanic in NY, but I saw the tour a year or so later and loved it... go figure.

I walked out of a community theatre production of Godspell. ZERO passion, zero drive, zero talent.

I saw Charity 4 times here in Minneapolis before Bway and LOVED it. What don't people like about it? It's not meant to BE Fosse, is it?

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 10:46pm

In no particular order:

PURLIE

DESSA ROSE

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE

FLOWER DRUM SONG

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

LITTLE WOMEN

and many, many more...

AddisonDeWitt
New York City, NY
Updated On: 7/25/05 at 10:46 PM

[jczelyph]

Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:30pm

I have never walked out of a show but have come close twice. Once in Fiddler On The Roof with Harvey. Most boring show ever and I could not have cared less about any of the characters. I knew no good songs were coming up so I thought about leaving but decided against it in case the show redeemed itself.

Second time was at a performance of a UK tour show called 'Love Shack'.It was a jukebox musical of the worst kind with some awful faded pop stars, a dire book and the most dismal and lacklustre choreography ever to grace a stage. I would have left had my friends not wanted to stay.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:27am

i actually liked good vibrations. :shrug:

but i did walk out on a god-awful summer MT production of A Chorus Line last year because not even the Cassie could dance.

and if i hadn't brought someone to The Boy From Oz as an xmas gift, i would have been out of there before you could blink at intermission; i loooaathed it. the worst part was that i really went for jarrod emick and his shining moments were in the second act, so i had to endure the atrocious first act just to see him. he was wonderful, i must say.

[teth]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:42am

Never walked out of any show but I really wanted to walk out of Big River. I knew it was trouble when I was struggling to stay awake (while one of the people I went with was already sound asleep before the intermission).

[devonian.t]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:42am

I agree with Joshua that there is a big difference between quietly leaving at the interval, (which I have done once- Anything Goes- just not my cup of tea) and a queeny storm-out (which I have only ever witnessed at the Edinburgh Festival).

Best bet is choose wisely if you're paying full price, experiment if you can get cheap tickets. What kind of a person would pay $100 to see a show they thought they would hate and had heard was awful? Not me, so I avoid Mamma Mia.

[Parks]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 7:24pm

This last week, my mom wanted to leave Rent at intermission so bad. I wasn't exactly enjoying it either...but I wouldn't let her leave. My mom enjoyed act II much more than Act I.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 8:17pm

I've walked out of several shows (Always at intermission though). If my attention is not held at a show it just makes me cranky and claustraphobic. It's better for me to leave.

There was a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf at my college with a male in the role of the leading lady. Not that I particularily minded it, but it was a bit odd. I didn't think there was enough tension amoung the actors though, and the only reason I stayed for the second act of the show was a brilliant performance by the leading male.

A REALLY bad production of Cabaret. Now, it's not one of my favorite shows but I can enjoy it enough. Few of the actors were focused and it was being performed in a very small little cafe type thing we have. There was no room for the dancers to dance. I was embarassed for them.

A production of The Shape of Things. The acting wasn't great, but moreover, I just hated the show.


The only Broadway shows I've wanted to walk out on but couldn't because they were school trips were Bring in the Noise, Bring In The Funk (I was 11, and they were making fun of my idol Shirley Temple. How dare they! It was my second Broadway show and it was certainly not the R&H I grew up with. I didn't really get satire then), The Invention of Love (I was probably about 16...but I'm still not a huge Stoppard fan. This show bored me to tears. And The Sunshine Boys...I was fairly young...probably 13-14?