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#4

re: 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.
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Updated On: 12/29/06 at 11:23 PM

#8

re: 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.....

re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#10

re: 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.
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#12

re: 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.
#13

re: 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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#14

re: 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...
#16

re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?

Posted: 12/30/06 at 3:05am

The 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.
#17

re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?

Posted: 12/30/06 at 3:18am

I 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
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#18

re: 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.

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#19

re: 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.
Now all I see are cute boys with short haircuts in a maze of their own...
#20

re: have you ever or have you ever seen anyone walk out of a show?

Posted: 12/30/06 at 4:16am

I 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.
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#21

re: 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
#22

re: 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."


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Updated On: 12/30/06 at 08:49 AM

#23

re: 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.

#25

re: 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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