Shows You Walked Out On — Page 2

I walked out on Hollywood Arms. I was bored stiff. How that play made it that far in that godawful condition is beyond me.

I very nearly walked out of Thou Shalt Not, and am actually glad I didn't, just so I could see how low it finally went.

I almost walked out of Vincent In Brixton, the single worst play I have ever seen on Broadway. It got a bit better toward the end, but not good enough to justify the nearly three hour running time.

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You walked out of Hollywood Arms? I loooooooooved that ill-fated little show! Then again I could really identify with a lot of it... and I saw a lot of myself in Helen... but yeah -- loved that show. I might have been one of the few, and I might have been biased, but had Hollywood Arms stayed open it could very well have become my new Chicago lol

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I also loved "Hollywood Arms." I'm sure there were things that could have been fixed to make some scenes shorter, but I adored it. I like the fact that the story was based on Carol Burnett's real life, the fact that she and her daughter (who sadly passed away from cancer) wrote it together, and the fact that it had Linda Lavin and Michelle Pawke in it!

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The only show I have ever left was a high school production of Camelot. SOOOOOOOO boring!

I should have walked out on Les Miz but refused to because I paid so much for ticket...slow,over-blown and boring...kind of like Dollypop.

I have never walked out of a show (not that I could...I'm only 14) but when I went to see the tour of Titanic...my family wanted to leave during intermission- we were all bored out of our minds, but I wanted to stay and watch the show...I mean...boat...sink

Also...when I was 9 my parents brought me to see Aida (the opera) at the Met...and I fell asleep.

I fell asleep during "Riverdance" (before it was officially on Broadway). I don't know how I fell asleep when I was in the 5th row orchestra and all that tapping was going on. I didn't hate it, but I was young and I had a headache.

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I took my mother to see "Chicago" and she fell asleep! I wanted to kill her! I know she was just overworked that week and really exhausted, but...it's Chicago! & then she said she liked it!? I don't take her to Broadway shows anymore. LOL

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LOL theaterbaby! How could anyone fall asleep at CHICAGO?! I mean I was exhausted from not sleeping from excitement and all the things I had been doing for the past few days, so I was yawning a bit during last nights show.. but I couldn't have fallen asleep! Maybe if DMA was Velma I could have just kidding.. I couldn't have even fallen asleep then -- there still would have been the ensemble to watch/entertain me.

I'm practically falling asleep here at my desk right now.. but that's another story entirely.

On a slightly related note, I had the theatre patrons from hell sitting around/behind me last night. They talked to each other very audibly throughout the whole show and then had the nerve to get mad at me at the end because I was cheering wildly and stood up for a very much deserved standing ovation. They told me quite bluntly that I was too loud and they didn't like that they couldn't see as a result of me standing up. I told them I didn't care. I wasn't screaming through songs, I wasn't talking the whole time and if they thought I was blocking their view -- they could get over it. I also told them, quite candidly that the two leads were two of my best friends and I was there supporting them.. and if they had a problem with that, OH. WELL.

To top it off, they didn't even like the show... well maybe if they had shut their big mouths long enough to actually pay attention to it, they would have liked it a lot more.
:)

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Well I dunno WHAT they were saying because they were talking in another language.. and it wasn't spanish, because then I would have known what they were saying... it was just absolutely infuriating... and the woman sitting behind me kept kicking my seat everytime she moved, and kept leaning forward to talk to the guy sitting next to me. AND everytime she leaned forward, she hit me in the back. I had to ask her to be quiet a number of times and it didn't do a thing.

Ah well, I enjoyed the show anyway

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I would like to have seen Dance of the Vampires... but only for Max Von Essen and the elaborate sets.
I walked out of a regional production of The Wizard of Oz that was on a mini-tour. I remember that it satrred Kathryn Manning as Dorothy. She was good, but the production was terrible overall. I normally enjoy the stage version of the movie. It struck me as funny that the tour starring Jessica grove, Mickey Rooney, and Eartha Kitt was also essentially a regional production and it was sooooooooooo much better.

Never anything in NYC, since I paid so much to be there. Although I would have left James Joyce's The Dead if there had been an intermission! But professional productions here in Chicago...

1) Copenhagen
2) Gem of the Ocean (the new August Wilson)
3) A Tuna Christmas (if you can call that a show)

Alice was the only reason I even saw The Dead (and the reason I just got back from Coral Gables). I never understood the critical acclaim or the move to Broadway.