Shows you've walked out of
Shows you've walked out of
#1Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 2:42pm
This came to me because the first reviewer of Falsetto's had walked off at halftime. Compared to everyone on this board I have seen the fewest shows, but I've still walked out on 3. Which ones did you walk out on and why?
1) Spamalot - Went in expecting it to be something other than old Monty Python sketches.
2) Revival Les Mis - It was about 5 years ago down here and it was strange.
3) Rock Of Ages - Hated the music going in and lasted 3 songs.
Stephanatic
#2Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 2:46pm
*intermission
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#3Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 2:49pm
Most recently I walked out of a return visit to Chicago at the Ambassador (It's a show and production that I absolutely love, but it has not held up well). I also left Motown at the Nederlander at intermission. Last season I walked out of Sylvia. For some strange reason I stuck it out through Our Mother's Brief Affair, but I REALLY wanted to leave at intermission. Then there was Long Day's Journey Into Night (I was seated on the right hand side of the orchestra and had a really nice view of the back of Jessica Lange's head the entire time, plus I found the play to be incredibly boring).
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Updated On: 10/2/16 at 02:49 PM
#4Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 2:59pm
I've sworn to never walk out of a show at intermission regardless of what I think of it. Although, I have been tempted to go against my morals. I saw the most recent tour of Anything Goes and after the synthesized tap dancing (which made the audience literally boo at the end of act one) I was one of the last people left in the theatre to see act two. I had to really resist the urge to walk out and maybe I should have considering that act two didn't get much better.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#5Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:00pm
Only one: All Shook Up
I would have walked out of Story of My Life if there was an intermission. (Or I wasn't in the middle of the row.) Ugh.
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#6Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:05pm
Bring in Da Funk, Bring in Da Noise back in like 98. Because I was young and antsy, not really a statement against the show, it just did not hold my interest
#7Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:08pm
We left School of Rock at intermission recently. The kids were very talented, but that wasn't worth sitting through this loud, lazy, pandering "musical".
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#8Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:11pm
Love, Loss and What I Wore with Brooke Shields. We had seen the show twice prior with diffeeent casts and loved it, but she was atrocious.
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#9Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:14pm
For some folks the list may be too long. Well done Mildred you kept it down to the last one.
Stephanatic
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#10Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:14pm
Pippin.
Was so sick of people talking/singing along.
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#11Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:16pm
I've never actually walked out of a show, but I was very tempted to do so at "the prom". I was stunned by how awful it was.
#12Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:22pm
Luckily haven't had anything that bad yet. Was tempted during a production of RHINOCEROS once tho. Just not for me.
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#13Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:33pm
The Show That Goes On- in London last year- saw some great shows- but a this one we left after 20 minutes- it was the Olivier Award for best comedy so I thought it would be good- it was the absolute worst thing I ever saw- torture- and I read it is coming to Broadway- eccccch.
#14Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:39pm
A long, long time ago, we left A Matter of Gravity at intermission (at the Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore). The play was awful. We at least experienced one act of The Great Kate and Christopher Reeve and had had enough. That's the one and only time I've left a theatre before the absolute end of the exit music.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#15Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:50pm
Only two, Forever Tango and off-Broadway, Far from Heaven. Far from Heaven was not my choice to leave early but my companion insisted but I didn't put up a fight. However, I almost left at She Loves Me but hung in hoping it would get better in the 2nd act. It didn't..
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#16Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 3:58pm
I've never walked out of a show, but I'm a huge Les Mis fan and saw it on Broadway 3 times. However, when I saw the revival (in 2008/9 I believe), when Daphne Ruben-Vega started singing I dreamed a dream, I was tempted to. I was there on a school French Trip though, so I couldn't, but half the class booed which may have been worse.
#18Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 4:07pm
The only one was the gay Swan Lake, and I did it on opening night, no less. I lived in California at the time, and read buzz about it, and that it was very gaygaygay since all the swans were male, etc., and I guess in all of that frenzy I forgot that I don't like ballet or all-dance shows. And, since this was back in the day where an opening night started at 6:30 or so, because the press were actually in the house and writing reviews that night for the next day's papers, as soon as I was having buyer's remorse, I was also realizing that a lot of other shows didn't start yet. So, with my limited time in NYC, I bolted... and caught some other show.
#19Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 4:14pm
icecreambenjamin said: "I've sworn to never walk out of a show at intermission regardless of what I think of it. Although, I have been tempted to go against my morals. I saw the most recent tour of Anything Goes and after the synthesized tap dancing (which made the audience literally boo at the end of act one) I was one of the last people left in the theatre to see act two. I had to really resist the urge to walk out and maybe I should have considering that act two didn't get much better.
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The tour with Rachel York the subsequent non-equity production?
Did they synthesize the tap in Broadway production too?
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#20Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 4:25pm
The Fiasco "Into The Woods" is the only show I've ever walked out of in years of theatergoing. I was tempted to do so with "Lestat" but I managed to stay through.
#21Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 4:26pm
@jorge- it was the non-equity tour. A friend dragged me to it. Absolutely dreadful.
zjb8
Chorus Member Joined: 6/23/15
#22Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 4:53pm
I walked out of the most recent tour of Mowtown at intermission....not a fan.
#23Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 5:08pm
Stuff Happens
Mary Poppins
Les Miserables (2006 revival)
Side Show (revival)
Pippin (revival with the replacement cast -- loved it the first time but the magic was gone)
Living on Love
The Gin Game (JEJ and Cicely Tyson)
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Updated On: 10/3/16 at 05:08 PM
indytallguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/08
#24Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 5:35pm
Wicked: too bombastic
Passing Strange: too loud (love Stew and the show otherwise)
If/Then in DC: too bored
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#25Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 5:39pm
Was contemplating leaving Holiday Inn...I was just not feeling it at all.
KateSam
Understudy Joined: 9/24/16
#26Shows you've walked out of
Posted: 10/2/16 at 5:43pm
I never walked out of any show. But Superior Doughnuts was terrible. And Fela was not good. But if I paid so much money to see a show. I do not want to waste it
