Shows You Walked Out On

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 6:54pm

There have been shows my wife & I walked out on; despite the critical raves. The ones I can remember

1. Travesties - Me only, prior to me getting married
2. Stones In My Pocket
3. Copenhagen

I wish I had walked out on Dr Selavy's Magic Theater

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 7:03pm

SPECIFIC UNDERWEAR..errr...PACIFIC OVERTURES a whole evening of kabuki-style music when I had a sinus headache!!!!!
VIEUX CARRE (Tennessee Williams at his worst!)
THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS--vile and disgusting
AIDA--Giuseppi Verdi turned to trash.

...and that dreadful play in which Faith Prince played a dead woman who returned to her family and spent the whole evening in a shroud. It was horrible beyond belief! (Why can't I remember its name?)

[magruder]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 7:12pm

The Faith Prince vehicle was "What's Wrong with this Picture?"

[Alvin and My Sheepdog Rex]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 7:29pm

Although I didn't walk, my date did during the performance of Godspell. The reason was she found the material offensive. Personally, I thought it was a wonderful. Needless, to say we did not go out again. Alas, she wasn't a keeper!

[Dame Edna]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 7:48pm

Perfect Crime
Def Poetry Jam
House Of Flowers
Le Miz-(food poisoning)
Birdy's Bachlorette Party
LIST WHERE I WANTED TO LEAVE:
Imaginary Friends
Line
Urban Cowboy
Master Harold and the Boy's

Updated On: 5/31/03 at 07:48 PM

[DofB5]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 8:09pm

I've never walked out of a show but I sure did look at my watch at "Cats". It was cute for about the first 5 mins but quickly lost its charm.

Hey, I'm a "dog" person---what did ya expect?

D

[CourtneyM]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 8:54pm

ma raineys black bottom

Posted: 5/31/03 at 9:16pm

Which Ma Rainey did you walk out on? Updated On: 5/31/03 at 09:16 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 10:00pm

I've never walked out on a show, but there have been several that I've wanted to. I guess I'm just optimistic that it will get better. (My walk out instinct is always right, it never gets any better).

I one time sat through a college production of Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind". I honestly think time stopped. I was trapped in theater hell. Later I read the play and thought it was interesting. But the production was so boring.

[CourtneyM]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 10:04pm

the most recent version of ma rainey

[Amneris]

Posted: 5/31/03 at 10:51pm

SQWANK... i had no idea what the hell I was watching.

[luluhed]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 8:13am

Sweet Smell of Success

[JakeB]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 9:06am

I'm trying to think, I don't think I ever have walked out on a show in London, it's too expensive to do that!

Otherwise:

1. The Borrowers
2. Shell Connections
3. Loot

And wanted so much to walk out of A Chorus Line but the damn show had no interval.

[KB]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 9:11am

I've never walked out either. Usually the cost of the tickets + the false hope that it might get better stop me. For musicals at least there's usually a showstopper in Act 2 worth staying for.

KB

[bongoboy]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 9:50am

I've walked out on a couple...
Swing (Not bad..but not good enough to keep me in the seat)
and most recently...
Joe Egg. It started promisingly...great set, interesting dialogue...then the set rolled back (cool) and Eddie and Victoria as the parents started monologues that made time stop...literally...We had a debate about it at intermission and finally felt that the 2nd act couldn't possibly erase the memory of the 1st. I don't blame the actors...the play itself delved into the minutae of the daughters disability...and it was so UNinteresting. Oh well...big disappointment

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 10:32am

I came very close to walking out on "Rent" but I too was optimistic that it would get better. It did get better, but I still didn't like it. Oh well, the tickets were a gift, so it's not like I paid to see it. I certainly wouldn't see it again....and I know the "Rent-heads" will kill me for this.

The sad thing is, I went in expecting to see a good show (it's not like I went with the mind-set that it would stink), and I really didn't like it. AHHHH, live and learn.

Updated On: 6/1/03 at 10:32 AM

[CaTheatreGirl]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 12:18pm

At the intermission of The Music Man (with Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Harold Hill), I started to take a little walk and never returned for the second half. I just kept walking! I was bored with the show, but I'm sorry I didn't see the rest. At the moment, I just wasn't into the show.

[Winsome one]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 3:25pm

It took me 40+ before I ever walked out on a musical and the one that pushed me beyond my tolerance was JEKYL AND HYDE. A filling without novocaine would have been less painful to me than the agony of sitting through its second act.

[Alvin and My Sheepdog Rex]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 3:28pm

I only wish I had had the foresight to walk out on Imaginary Friends!

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 6/1/03 at 7:13pm

Only once -- a regional production of Man of La Mancha where Quixote looked and, more importantly, sang rather like Andrew Lloyd Webber.

[Amneris]

Posted: 6/2/03 at 8:47pm

what about shows you fell alseep at and in view of the actors? For me sadly it was OKLAHOMA...my mother got me a front row seat and I was really sick that night not to mention bored by the cardboard production.

[Rypm25]

Posted: 6/2/03 at 9:47pm

I have never walked out on a show before, but I wanted to walk out on Thoroughly Modern Millie last summer. I thought it was so mediocre, but I stayed because I knew Forget About the Boy was in the second act and I was really hoping the show would get better...I should have left during intermission.

[Dame Edna]

Posted: 6/3/03 at 12:47am

Did you see Sutton Foster or an understudy?
Walk out of Millie. WOE IS ME!

[King Stevos]

Posted: 6/3/03 at 1:41am

A college "Oklahoma" I normally fall asleep at the ballet this time I left before it came up...
Other than that nothing...

TDKS

[Rypm25]

Posted: 6/3/03 at 8:07am

Dame edna,
I saw Sutton, she was very good, but I thought the show was blah!
I'd like to see her star in something else!:)