Shows You Walked Out On ( If Any) — Page 4

I've never walked out of a show because it takes too much effort to see a show. IF I lived in New York, I might leave the show during intermission. I find it highly rude when people get up after intermission and leave the performance. If you're planning to leave, do it before the second act resumes.

Only one I've wanted to, it was a summer high school production of Fame. It was horrible. The worst was the singing. My friends and I came up with a new saying that we use when we see a show where the singing is not quite up to par. "My ears are bleeding!!!!!"

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I would never walk out on a performer, no matter how bad they, if I feel they are really working hard. I attended a cabaret performance at Don't Tell Mama years ago that was simply embarassing. I didn't leave because I wanted to give her some support that would perhaps encourage her to keep it up. She had talent, but the show was so poorly executed and on shoestring budget. But when I witnessed the tour of Hair in which the show was underrehearsed, actors paying no attention to their surroundings, knocking over equipment and set pieces, and just plain immature staging and performances, I was insulted. They had no business charging the public $55 (or anything, for that matter) for that mess. Everyone involved in the production was making fools out of the audience and it was obscene. I wasn't the first (or last) to walk out before intermission. When you pay for a ticket, it is your right to express your opinion. The politeness of sitting through a show that you hate is strictly a US/UK phenomenon. We also invented the idea of giving standing ovations for any show that seems to make it to the end. Back in the day, the audience used to directly express how they felt about a performance. Now, we're so concerned with being PC, we have to coddle every cast whether we like the show (or the performers) or not. No wonder actors today have reputations for being very thin-skinned. They're fooled into believing anything they do is ovation-worthy.

Oh well, it's your money. If you think lying to a cast is more important than your money or your opinion, then so be it. I facetiously applaud you. Just don't whine about a show you despise having a long run. Many of those standing and applauuding probably hated it too, but are afraid to let the anyone know for fear of being un-PC.

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