Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
#0Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:02pm
If so, for which show?
I fell asleep during Grand Hotel. The show was good, but it was very cold outside and we did alot of walking. I fell asleep for about 5 minutes.
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#1re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:03pmMy father fell asleep during Titanic and I dozed for a bit during Brooklyn. I think that's it.
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#2re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:04pmI saw Street Corner Symphony when I was quite young. I had a crashing headache at dinner, and my mother gave me some medicine. Within the first 15 min of the show, I feel asleep on my mother's jacket, and didn't wake-up until the very end when everyone was clapping.
#3re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:06pm
Gem of the Ocean...
First act (Had to get a Red Bull during Intermission)
But it was due to lack of sleep.
42nd Street (1st Act)
That was due to boredom.
Take Me Out (1st act)
Due to boredom and warmth of theatre.
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#4re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:11pm
great topick!!! i fell asleep during these shows:
MOVIN' OUT
THE LION KING
PACIFIC OVERTURES
AVENUE Q- I KINDA LIKED IT....BUT IT WAS BORING-
THE PRODUCERS
RECKLESS
BKLYN
CATS
LES MIZ
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#5re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:14pm
Once where I actually completely fell asleep - Notre Dame de Paris.
I started nodding off during the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls.
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DramaKimm
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#6re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:17pm
yikes, you fall asleep in alot of shows!
me personally...Fell asleep in Life x 3 in London...overtired, and a little bored come the third time the same scenario is done
dozed a bit in the first act of After the Fall...until Carla Gugino came on. Then I was wide awake...and so was the show. She was such a shot of energy. Hope she is remembered come Tony Nomination Time
#7re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:19pmI usually leave at intermission, if I'm so bored I'm falling asleep. Only actually slept at one Broadway show - The Old Neighborhood (a Mamet show with Patti LuPone).
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#8re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:20pm
The recent revival of 'La Cage' had me sleeping through all but five minutes of the first act.
Fell asleep in the first act of 'Enchanted April' - which I regret. The second act was marvelous.
Slept through act one of my second time seeing 'Wicked'. Idina's screeching woke me up. Damn her.
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#9re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:26pmi forgot 42nd STREET too!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#10re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:29pmI was completely out for about 10 minutes during the second act of ENCHANTED APRIL. It was God awfully boring and terrible.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
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#11re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:32pmI feel asleep during Guys and Dolls, and I dozed off a bit during act II of the Phantom of the Opera
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#12re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:38pmme too...i forgot to include the entertaining show...THA PHANTOM OF THE OPERA....it worked better than any sleeping pill i have ever taken...and the movie has the same results.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
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Broadway Star Joined: 2/3/05
#13re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:40pm
I fell asleep during The Producers.
I also nodded off a bit during a really slow song in Good Vibrations.
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#14re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:42pm
We Will Rock You.
Don't ask me how.
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#15re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:46pmI fell asleep during phantom, it was summer and I walked around a bit but really it was because the show didn't hold my interest.
It's worth a shot/ :)
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#16re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:49pmI feel asleep during the Phantom movie too, I dunno, I also forgot to say I fell asleep during Cats and Evita.... Must have something to do with Andrew Loydd Webber?
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#17re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:49pmYup - during La Boheme on Broadway. I tried, but the lighting was so dark on stage it made me sleepy.
#19re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:51pmI also fell asleep during THE PRODUCERS on and off. It was just a terrible show.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#20re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:54pm
I started to nod off during two shows:
The Chicago revival(The courtroom scene) starring George Hamilton (I didnt like him at all)
And during the first act of the Bernadette Peters revival of Gypsy
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#21re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:57pm
I am ashamed to say that when I was in London this past summer I fell asleep during the first act of Les Miz. In my defense, the previous day I had left for the Philadelphia airport at 2 in the afternoon, got to London the following morning without having slept at all during the flight, then went on a tour of the city, then we took an hour to check into my hotel for an hour, then we went to dinner, and then we went to the West End and saw Les Miz that night.
I was exhausted.
But, I was definitely awake after One Day More.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#23re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:30pmI slept through most of the first act of CATS. It wasn't till Betty Buckley got on that I woke up.
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#24re: Have You Ever Fallen Asleep In The Theatre?
Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:34pmI've never fallen asleep during a play, but I did fall asleep during the film STAR WARS, in 1977. Sound asleep, I was so bored. When I woke up, I looked around, very embarrassed, and realized that my wife was sleeping as well. That it went on to become a phenomenon, has perplexed us to this day.
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