have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#1have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:59pm
have you?!
i almost walked out of all shook up and chicago! lol
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:01pmnope. Why waste money to walk out?....why do you start so many threads
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#2re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:02pmboredom...
#3re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:23pm
I would NEVER walk out of a show!
When I saw RENT in Frankfurt, there were many seats empty when Act II began. One family left after an extremely lewd (and entertaining!) rendition of La Vie Boheme. I actually heard the girl say, "But Mommy, I want to know what happens!" To which her mother replied, "NO. We're LEAVING."
Of course, the girl looked about nine, and her brother was younger.
I also saw an elderly couple leaving the theatre during the interval with disgusted looks on their faces.
I had to chuckle.
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#4re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:25pm
You almost walked out of Chicago?
Not only are you annoying, but you have bad taste too.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:34pm
When I was single, I walked out on Travesties & Utter Glory Of Morrisey Hall
My wife & I jointly walked out of Copenhagen & Stones In My Pocket
Lizzya9
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/06
#7re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:40pmChicago is like my 3rd favorite theatrical thing EVER! How could you not like it???
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#8re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:41pm
Many, many people did not return after Act One of the greatest debacle of 2006.....
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:44pmWe did
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#10re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:45pm
We did
Sadly, I did, too! The worst show ever.
#11re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 1:33amabout 500 people saw me walk out of act 1 of Little Women
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#12re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 1:39am
Ya know, as horrible as any show may be, I can never bring myself to actually walk out.
I always feel like no matter how horrible the first act was, there's still hope for second! I also find myself feeling sorry for the performers, I would hate it if someone walked out on one of my shows.
#13re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 1:55am
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All I typed into the search was "walked out". It's really that simple.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#14re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 2:07am
Zeitoujo, first you insult Zazu and now Chicago? Wow...
Anyways, I once saw an old man walk out of Wicked when they brought the flying monkeys out, called it anti-christian or something. Kind of makes you wonder why he went to a show aobut two witches...
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#15re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 2:59amwalked out on Bourne's Swan Lake and Millie, hated Millie
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#16re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 3:05amThe people next to us and the people in front of us walked out at intermission of Spring Awakening. The group in front of us had younger kids, and the show wasn't appropriate for them. Don't know why the adults next to us left. Guess they didn't like it.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#17re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 3:18amI walked out of sweet charaty and all shook up. Both great peaces of SH*T that should not have been on Broadway. Charaty maybe but not with applegate
#18re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 3:24am
No, I don't think I have, not while in an audience anyway.
OH! But when I was doing a local production of "Register Here" there's a scene where one of the detectives pretends like he's directing everything going on while everyone is reconstructing a crime (just go along with me.)
At our second performance and without warning, the actor playing said director pulled out a beret from his back pocket and played up the homosexual-ness at that part more than we had seen him do.
2 people walked out, so our director told us.
Felt so bad, he's such a great guy who never hurts anybody.
Oh, and winston89
It's "PIECES" dear, not "peaces".
Sorry, Really bothered me.
=)
#19re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 3:28am
And group of women walked out on a production of Seussical that Fullerton University did this past year. The just up and left.
Too bad too, because it was the greatest production of Seussical I have ever seen.
#20re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 4:16amI was at Wicked in Chicago and I had won Limited view seats, which are still amazing I must add...anyway we had met 2 sisters who won the front row tickets and at intermission they came up to my and my date and said they were sick and wanted us to have their seats. so techniqually they loved the show. I have never walked out of a show and I don't think I ever would no matter how bad it was.
toomeytwopiece
Featured Actor Joined: 1/30/06
#21re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 5:02am
I remember seeing a man get up from an aisle seat as soon as I had finished singing "Lucy's Aria" in THREEPENNY OPERA earlier this year... it was weird - he clapped heartily and then got up and left... LOL
-BCR
#22re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 8:49am
I've walked out of many shows - my time is worth more than the money I've spent. But I always wait until intermission to leave. I can be rude, but not so rude as to call that much attention to myself during a performance.
Thursday night at "Company" someone left just as Raul Esparza was beginning "Being Alive." Just got up and walked out.
And several years ago at a performance of "The Music Man," an entire family got up and left just as the final scene was beginning. When one of the kids complained, ("Daddy, I want to see how it ends") the father said, LOUDLY, "We have to get the car out of the garage before everyone else gets there. I'll rent the movie for you."
#23re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 9:20am
Now that's rude.
I walked out only once and you can "Blame It On My Youth." I was 21 andhad been listening to the OBC album of Chorus Line since I was 17. I imagined "I Can Do That" with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Chita Rivera all roled up into one.
It was 1987 and I sat down and I could tell as soon as it started "...a five six seven eight!" that something was not quite right. The actors seemed to be going through the motions. In looking back at it I should have stayed but as soon as my dream number, "I Can Do That," failed to live up to my unrealistic standards, I left.
I'm 41 and I know better. There must have been things that evening I might have enjoyed but...I'll never know.
Stay. You might get a surprise.
#24re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 9:23ami have not walked out, but my mom told me years ago when she saw les miz in london, the couple in front of her walked out in intermission because they didn't like the show.....she took their seats! hehe
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#25re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 9:28am
I love that mentality of rushing out when you knowit's the final scene so you can get to the parking lot in time--you see it a LOT at major rock/pop concerts (always makes me laugh as usually the song that most of these casual fans most want to see is saved for an encore) but I'm seeing it more and more with theatre too which, considering the size of most Broadway theatres shows how little patience people indeed have sometimes--horrible.
If I liked a show one of the parts I find the most enjoyable is the curtain call--seriously
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