Sleep No More - what kind of shape is it in?

Every time they announce a 'final' extension, I think OK, I'll see it but I never get to it. Should I?

It’ll be closing this summer since their new show in FiDi is ready to open. If you don’t want to go for the expensive tickets try TixToday.

If you want to, I say do it. Otherwise you might regret it. There's nothing like it and most likely there won't be

ColorTheHours048 said: "I’ve seen it around 20 times over the years and the only bad shows I’ve had have been because of the crowds. And the crowds these days are bigger and more aggressive than ever. I would say if you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor and don’t bother. It’s too expensive now to risk all that truly awful audience behavior."

This is the same response I would have other than I have only seen it 3 times. :)

General word of mouth seems to be that they’re extending until Emursive’s (not Punchdrunk, the actual creator of Sleep No More) new show - Life and Trust - opens. A good number of SNM’s cast will be a part of that show, so smart to keep them employed in the interim, I guess? But they’ve been “closing” for months and went to their original marketing strategy of extending a month at a time.

Fun Broadway connection is that Life and Trust will be choreographed by The Kuperman Brothers, who choreographed The Outsiders.

Updated On: 5/14/24 at 10:06 AM

RippedMan said: "The new show is in a different space? I wonder what will become of that huge building then."

I believe they’ll continue to run the additional bar/restaurant/performance venues on the top floors post-SNM closing. They’ve become their own hot spots for various limited engagements and events, and they’re run mostly independently.

I did it two weeks ago and the crowds were ridiculous. It seems like they get worse every time I go. It's now impossible to follow actors or get one-on-ones. I've seen it eight times now and I think that's enough. It used to be my favorite thing but I don't find much enjoyment in it anymore, so I probably wouldn't go back even if it wasn't closing. Which is not to say I don't recommend seeing it if you've never gone. I think it's still worth doing at least once.

If you do go, you might've known this already and I very much did not and would've appreciated it: it's a DANCE show. When I heard "immersive Macbeth" I thought it would be one of those things where different scenes play out (with dialogue) and you would follow the characters around, but there are no spoken lines and the storytelling is fairly abstract (if you didn't know it was meant to be Macbeth, I think it would be somewhat hard to pick up on and you definitely wouldnt' be able to figure out the story of Macbeth if you weren't familiar with it beforehand). It's still a great experience but I just had totally different expectations going in.

Well. There are crowds and people who refuse to let go of the hand of the person they came with is entirely obnoxious and misses the point of the experience. But otherwise it's fantastic. I've been recently. Adore it.

I went the first time shortly after it opened, and I was intrigued by the uniqueness of an immersive experience. The physical settings are so detailed and varied, and occasionally the music has an other worldly quality. I thought it odd that so little of it was memorable.

I went back last weekend, and found the crowds to be amazingly pushy and inconsiderate of both the dancers and the other audience members. I had people shoulder their way in front of me during scenes and push by me on the stairways. But this time it was the lack of any through line or frankly much actual connection to the Scottish play that left me dissatisfied. Not sure why I bothered to go back.

People took off their masks? Did the audience start chasing them around, thinking they were dancers? Would have loved to see that -

I enjoyed the choreographed "Moonlight Becomes You" pas de deux but thought they should have used "Dancing in the Dark" instead.