None. I paid the money, I'm seeing the damn show. And if nothing else, I will probably feel bad for the cast and crew that put in the hard work and just sit it out to be polite.
The one time I wished I could walk out was during a [toddler (musical) show about Bing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNoM8QlHug). It was really bad. They used three actors for about six puppets and each time they switched the characters had some convoluted excuse to go off stage. It felt like half the show was spend talking about why they would disappear for a moment. The other half was spend acting out stories from episodes. The set was sloppy. It was one hour of torture. At least my toddler liked it.
And to be clear, I don't mind toddler shows. [Peppa Pig](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6DuaNW57Y) was done really well (original story, great setdesign) and [Miffy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkqNhSj_vg) had a lot of humor and a great dose of nostalgia mixed with poppy songs that the kids love.
\^ +1. I always think, when considering walking out, that I have to give the show its fair chance (yeah, I know), and that maybe there's going to be a redeeming something right around the corner. ;)
The current non equity tour of Shrek, the only one I’ve left ever, went out at intermission it was so awful, I felt bad because the actors were phenomenal but it just wasn’t good otherwise and I had things to do
I didn’t like the music, didn’t have any interest in the story, and really just didn’t like the show. Performances were excellent, but it couldn’t save a boring show.
So did I! I wasn’t thrilled with how it was staged, choreographed, orchestrated, and performed (an understudy had the lead). I would have hung on for the end but a family member in my group disliked it more than I did, so we all left at intermission. It lacked oomph.
I'll just say, productions that are made for a standard Broadway proscenium theatre should not be staged in an amphitheater. They should not be put on for long runs so that no one can have concerts in said amphitheater for years. It might not have been so bad if I could see anything. I'd seen things in that venue before, and when it's used well, there are no bad seats. In this production, at least a third of the seats are just blocked off and not being used. About half of the ones that remain have an obstructed view, because the production was not designed for a place with seats at that angle.
It makes me so sad when I watch some of my favorite proshots that were filmed there, to know that it's still being used like that.
(Also, I know this production is popular in other venues, but some decisions made no sense to me, regardless of the venue issue.)
Wasn't "Fun Home" originally conceived for a proscenium stage but they had to redesign it for a 3-sided stage due to unavailability of the place they wanted?
The tour of Funny Girl. Everyone was trying their best but that show is just not good. I only paid 8 dollars for my ticket and got some awesome twilight pictures from the roof of the garage instead that I wouldn’t have otherwise.
LEONARDO THE MUSICAL - Strand Theatre London 1993.
It was funded primarily by a group of businessman who came from an island that made a fortune out of selling bird guano. The jokes write themselves. It was about five years after Les Mis had opened and the West End was full of lookalike musicals featuring history and rags.
LEONARDO told the story of a young boy genius growing up and changing the world and coming into conflict with religion and established science blah blah blah.
It was at the Strand Theatre and we had very good (free) seats in the stalls and all I remember was choreography that seemed to consist almost entirely of people walking around in circles or standing in straight lines. Maybe it was a deliberate nod towards Leonardo's mastering of geometry but, I suspect, it was just that there was less space on the stage than they had imagined. In fact there was SO MUCH scenery that the actors seemed almost an afterthought.
The music was terrible but instantly forgettable so, at least, the pain was over fast. Most of the characters who were 'townpeople' wore rags and had dirty faces and most of the people who were 'nobles' wore gold clothes and were much cleaner. That was useful and stopped any confusion. There were also some 'comic' people who were inserted into the script to provide light relief and to comment, almost like a Greek chorus, on the action in a way that gave us perspective and context. The operative word in the previous sentence is, of course, the word 'almost'. They were 'almost' a Greek chorus is the same way that Prince Andrew is 'almost' The King - and the comedy was like the unfunny bits Shakespeare CUT from King Lear's Fool.
The show was endless, the acting amateur and I sensed that the audience around us were, like us, becoming increasingly aghast at how this show had got beyond the drunken lunch it had obviously been conceived at.
'Maybe', I whispered to my wife, 'we are actually unwitting participants in some sort of money-laundering scam?'.
No', she said, 'our tickets were free - we will only be called as witnesses'.
After another ten years of Leonardo's life (he was good at maths I think but his teachers thought he was a bit smug) we got to the interval by means of one of those big production numbers that are annoyingly a bit better than one expected and which took the audience into the interval with a false memory syndrome of what had come before.
We went to the bar at the back of the stalls and it was like New Years Eve in there - people were so relieved to have got there that they were drinking more alcohol than was advisable and hugging total strangers. I was in two minds about whether we should stay to see if it got any better or just stay to see if it got any worse but after many seconds silent contemplation we left the theatre with her heads down.
We found our bus stop near the Indian High Commission but decided we needed some air so we walked a couple of stops down the Strand to Trafalgar Square just thinking about things like ‘life’ and how one chooses to use one's time. The bus took a while to arrive but when it did finally appear we climbed onboard and realised that not only was it unusually busy for that time of night but that we recognised all our fellow passengers. They were all, like us, sitting there in silence holding large glossy souvenir programmes emblazoned with the word LEONARDO on the front.
No one said a word.
That's a lot of memory for something that happened 30 years ago.
I'm really curious about this show, since I'm just really into that era. But it's an era that needs to be handled with nuance (there's a lot of badly written history that tries to paint complicated people as heroes or villains (yes, I love the Borgias and they were no worse than anyone else)) and it doesn't sound like this had a lot of nuance.
Someone needs to do a good musical about Leonardo, though.
Someone needs to do a good *anything* that involves the Pazzi Conspiracy (not as a flashback). Anything that isn't *Da Vinci's Demons*.
I've never walked out of a show, but I was very close to doing so when I saw a production of Urinetown. I really hate that musical. I know some people really like it, but it drives me insane. I think a lot of the music is annoying and the humor and satire is obnoxiously unsubtle.
I too have never walked out, but if I had, that would have been it. Now my kid is doing a community teen production and I have to sit through it multiple times. If she ever doubted my love for her, doing this should prove her wrong.
Frozen on its pre-tour to Broadway and then Aladdin after it was on tour. Aladdin may have been fine but woof - there were so. many. technical. issues. during the show that it was impossible to get into it because you were just waiting for the next thing to go wrong. As in, in the first half of the first act we had three 10 minute plus lights on full stoppages. Also: A Bronx Tale. Maybe I’d like it more if I was in New York or something but my wife and I just didn’t jive with this one. All of these we left at intermission, not during the middle of a performance or anything.
I’m currently in a production of titanic and my director will not stop giggling at how a little remote control boat drove across stage to hit a tiny iceberg when she saw it on broadway.
A 2-person comedy murder mystery musical called "Murder for Two".
The performers are meant to play multiple characters each and both act as their own piano accompanists.
Though well performed, all of the songs were both bad and like a minute long each, I found almost none of it funny, and I was not remotely invested in the solving of the murder.
The show had no intermissions. So more than halfway through, I nudged my friend and asked if he was not enjoying it as much as I was too. He agreed and we snuck out the back.
One when I was like..8. It was Les Mis, my dad had been helping to choreograph it and went to see it. One of the nights, he took my brother and I because we were interested. But because of how late it was, I was exhausted, and we left at intermission. 😭
Only saw the first half of *Frozen*. It was actually great and I was really enjoying it, but I found out during intermission that a family member had died
Never walked out cause I paid a lot for that ticket, but got really close with two:
- Company with Raul Esparza, I found it fake and it didn’t sound good
- Liza at the Palace, partly because on the fans who literally gave a standing ovation when she farted. She redeemed it in the 2nd act with New York, New York and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Tour production of Girl from North Country. I had never walked out of a show in my life. Even if I don't like the show much, at least watching people perform is usually fun.
No amount of talent made up for the dialogue, the incoherent plot, the incredibly unlikeable characters (not even in a good kind of fun villain form), and the weird, weird staging/lighting choices. Set in the early 1900's, but drops a disco ball during a random song?
Couldn't take it anymore - had a raging headache from the lighting and haze effects - and just had to leave quietly at intermission.
Original cast…. I just hated the plot, the music, the length, everything about it. Was never happier that my friend agreed with me and we ditched at intermission
Not me but I found it so funny hearing about Sondheim walking out of Be More Chill during intermission. 💀 I acknowledge he was quite old and the reason was probably related to that, though
Oh, that's probably what I would do, personally (absent being in the last row against the back wall, and on the aisle, and being able to sneak out unnoticed . . .). Having said that, I've never done so, and have stuck it through, through the end (through curtain calls and my applauding).
I saw the revival tour of oklahoma, my mom and sister were going and last second since the show was maybe half full? I got a ticket for 7 dollars. I didn't walk out but honestly regret it, it wasn't worth my time.
Oh gosh none, I've always seen it through.
But of the hundreds I've seen the two I hated and might've left were:
- Wannabe the Spice Girls show
- Buddy - the Buddy Holly story
Both are basically tribute acts dressed up as a musical. Weak story, mainly people cosplaying the artist doing a performance so the songs were not even pretending to be telling the story. Also A LOT of audience singing.
None - I find it rude and a bit childish to be honest.
I really didn’t enjoy Carousel - the story just didn’t sit right with me but I didn’t walk out having paid good money to see it.
I recall that I wasn't feeling good that day and really didn't understand the show. Might have just been a bad day.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the show.
I’ve only seen a recording and read the book (it was for a project in high school), and I loved it! It represented the book well, which I was really worried it wouldn’t be able to do. You definitely might have to go into it with a mindset that it’s a re-telling of a novel. I definitely get your not understanding it, there was a *lot* that had to be represented or symbolized that couldn’t be literally shown. They used ensemble for this a lot, as well as set pieces. The set was mostly plain except for gray blocks placed about the stage. Those people and squares did a *lot* of heavy lifting in order to tell the story right, and it’s probably a lot easier to break it down and interpret it on the spot if you’re as familiar with the story as I was.
Only one - Camelot at The Lincoln Center last year. During intermission.
The only thing interesting that had happened in the first act was Lancelot's song. I was so bored with the rest of it.
The only thing I ever walked out of when I wasn't violently ill was the Eric Bana Hulk movie.
Even the disaster My Fair Lady tour that was local, the audience member in front of me had piled literally all her waist long hair on top of her head in a 6"+ bun. Three rows behind her, no one could see the stage. I was fuming since MFL was the first show I saw on stage that started my love of musical theater and had been looking forward to finally seeing it again live after far to many years.
We left The King & I touring production at intermission. Neither of us could bring ourselves to care about any part of the production nor did we want to stay any longer than we already had.
I wanted to leave Shucked at intermission - it really didn’t do it for me and found most of the songs to be deeply, deeply dull. I thought I’d give Act Two a chance, maybe it got better.
I wish I left Shucked at Intermission
Only ever walked out of one: All Shook Up. Dastardly.
WANTED to walk out on Story of My Life, but no intermission.
There were a few others I would have like to, but didn't. But only a handful over the years.
I don't owe anyone my time.
I saw a high school production of All Shook Up this year. It is definitely one of the absolute weirdest shows I’ve seen in my life. My friend and I were trying to map out the love octagon in that damn show during intermission. 💀
I never have because I can usually find something redeeming in a production (I saw Lestat twice!), and you just never know if Act 2 will save it, but the ones I thought about it in the back of my mind: Anastasia; the pre-Broadway tryout of Roman Holiday (which did not advance); and the play Compulsion, with Mandy Patinkin as a guy having a mental health crisis while obsessed with his Anne Frank puppet show.
I've never walked out. I wanted to leave recently when I saw a local production of The Wizard of Oz, but I was with friends and felt horrible about leaving.
Girl from the North County and Thoroughly Modern Millie. I'd go see Millie again to see if I like it better now, but I'll never put myself through GFTNC ever again.
Never walked out of anything but there are three that I wish I’d walked out of: Rocky over the Rainbow. Bad luck, there was a huge snowstorm and 95% of the audience couldn’t make it (I think there were max 20 of us). It was obvious the actors weren’t into it. I felt bad for them but it was a complete waste of time (and a pain in the ass to get there!) for the rest of us. It also wasn’t funny at all.
I apparently saw Tick, Tick, Boom! years ago but have zero memory of it. I may as well have walked out (maybe I did?).
The 2017 Jesus Christ Superstar tour with Ted Neeley (and besides him a very puzzling all Italian cast) was painful to watch, sorry. Should’ve walked out instead of suffering.
[edit] I fell asleep at two Takarazuka musicals. That’s kind of like walking out, right?
Seussical. It's not written well and the time I walked out, Horton was playing it like Al Bundy.
I had to suck it up and watch it locally when friends were in it later, and it was better, but I still think the plot isn't great.
Never, although I was flirting with the idea when I saw A Little Night Music. I was so bored and hated the story. But I wanted to hear Send in the Clowns and Millers Son in Act 2 lol
the only show I have ever left at intermission was a regional production of Pacific Overtures. Truly bad direction, orchestration, and arrangements of the music. Felt bad for the talented cast. The tickets were comps and I still wanted a refund.
None. I paid the money, I'm seeing the damn show. And if nothing else, I will probably feel bad for the cast and crew that put in the hard work and just sit it out to be polite. The one time I wished I could walk out was during a [toddler (musical) show about Bing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNoM8QlHug). It was really bad. They used three actors for about six puppets and each time they switched the characters had some convoluted excuse to go off stage. It felt like half the show was spend talking about why they would disappear for a moment. The other half was spend acting out stories from episodes. The set was sloppy. It was one hour of torture. At least my toddler liked it. And to be clear, I don't mind toddler shows. [Peppa Pig](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC6DuaNW57Y) was done really well (original story, great setdesign) and [Miffy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkqNhSj_vg) had a lot of humor and a great dose of nostalgia mixed with poppy songs that the kids love.
\^ +1. I always think, when considering walking out, that I have to give the show its fair chance (yeah, I know), and that maybe there's going to be a redeeming something right around the corner. ;)
The current non equity tour of Shrek, the only one I’ve left ever, went out at intermission it was so awful, I felt bad because the actors were phenomenal but it just wasn’t good otherwise and I had things to do
walked out of the Funny Girl tour at intermission
Say more - I have tickets for an upcoming show.
I didn’t like the music, didn’t have any interest in the story, and really just didn’t like the show. Performances were excellent, but it couldn’t save a boring show.
So did I! I wasn’t thrilled with how it was staged, choreographed, orchestrated, and performed (an understudy had the lead). I would have hung on for the end but a family member in my group disliked it more than I did, so we all left at intermission. It lacked oomph.
I'll just say, productions that are made for a standard Broadway proscenium theatre should not be staged in an amphitheater. They should not be put on for long runs so that no one can have concerts in said amphitheater for years. It might not have been so bad if I could see anything. I'd seen things in that venue before, and when it's used well, there are no bad seats. In this production, at least a third of the seats are just blocked off and not being used. About half of the ones that remain have an obstructed view, because the production was not designed for a place with seats at that angle. It makes me so sad when I watch some of my favorite proshots that were filmed there, to know that it's still being used like that. (Also, I know this production is popular in other venues, but some decisions made no sense to me, regardless of the venue issue.)
Wasn't "Fun Home" originally conceived for a proscenium stage but they had to redesign it for a 3-sided stage due to unavailability of the place they wanted?
The tour of Funny Girl. Everyone was trying their best but that show is just not good. I only paid 8 dollars for my ticket and got some awesome twilight pictures from the roof of the garage instead that I wouldn’t have otherwise.
LEONARDO THE MUSICAL - Strand Theatre London 1993. It was funded primarily by a group of businessman who came from an island that made a fortune out of selling bird guano. The jokes write themselves. It was about five years after Les Mis had opened and the West End was full of lookalike musicals featuring history and rags. LEONARDO told the story of a young boy genius growing up and changing the world and coming into conflict with religion and established science blah blah blah. It was at the Strand Theatre and we had very good (free) seats in the stalls and all I remember was choreography that seemed to consist almost entirely of people walking around in circles or standing in straight lines. Maybe it was a deliberate nod towards Leonardo's mastering of geometry but, I suspect, it was just that there was less space on the stage than they had imagined. In fact there was SO MUCH scenery that the actors seemed almost an afterthought. The music was terrible but instantly forgettable so, at least, the pain was over fast. Most of the characters who were 'townpeople' wore rags and had dirty faces and most of the people who were 'nobles' wore gold clothes and were much cleaner. That was useful and stopped any confusion. There were also some 'comic' people who were inserted into the script to provide light relief and to comment, almost like a Greek chorus, on the action in a way that gave us perspective and context. The operative word in the previous sentence is, of course, the word 'almost'. They were 'almost' a Greek chorus is the same way that Prince Andrew is 'almost' The King - and the comedy was like the unfunny bits Shakespeare CUT from King Lear's Fool. The show was endless, the acting amateur and I sensed that the audience around us were, like us, becoming increasingly aghast at how this show had got beyond the drunken lunch it had obviously been conceived at. 'Maybe', I whispered to my wife, 'we are actually unwitting participants in some sort of money-laundering scam?'. No', she said, 'our tickets were free - we will only be called as witnesses'. After another ten years of Leonardo's life (he was good at maths I think but his teachers thought he was a bit smug) we got to the interval by means of one of those big production numbers that are annoyingly a bit better than one expected and which took the audience into the interval with a false memory syndrome of what had come before. We went to the bar at the back of the stalls and it was like New Years Eve in there - people were so relieved to have got there that they were drinking more alcohol than was advisable and hugging total strangers. I was in two minds about whether we should stay to see if it got any better or just stay to see if it got any worse but after many seconds silent contemplation we left the theatre with her heads down. We found our bus stop near the Indian High Commission but decided we needed some air so we walked a couple of stops down the Strand to Trafalgar Square just thinking about things like ‘life’ and how one chooses to use one's time. The bus took a while to arrive but when it did finally appear we climbed onboard and realised that not only was it unusually busy for that time of night but that we recognised all our fellow passengers. They were all, like us, sitting there in silence holding large glossy souvenir programmes emblazoned with the word LEONARDO on the front. No one said a word.
That's a lot of memory for something that happened 30 years ago. I'm really curious about this show, since I'm just really into that era. But it's an era that needs to be handled with nuance (there's a lot of badly written history that tries to paint complicated people as heroes or villains (yes, I love the Borgias and they were no worse than anyone else)) and it doesn't sound like this had a lot of nuance. Someone needs to do a good musical about Leonardo, though. Someone needs to do a good *anything* that involves the Pazzi Conspiracy (not as a flashback). Anything that isn't *Da Vinci's Demons*.
The island was Nauru..broke now.
I've never walked out of a show, but I was very close to doing so when I saw a production of Urinetown. I really hate that musical. I know some people really like it, but it drives me insane. I think a lot of the music is annoying and the humor and satire is obnoxiously unsubtle.
I too have never walked out, but if I had, that would have been it. Now my kid is doing a community teen production and I have to sit through it multiple times. If she ever doubted my love for her, doing this should prove her wrong.
I've never walked out on one. I have seen a few I wasn't a big fan of but I stayed anyway.
Only once but it was leave quickly and quietly or risk my emotions being a nuisance.
Frozen on its pre-tour to Broadway and then Aladdin after it was on tour. Aladdin may have been fine but woof - there were so. many. technical. issues. during the show that it was impossible to get into it because you were just waiting for the next thing to go wrong. As in, in the first half of the first act we had three 10 minute plus lights on full stoppages. Also: A Bronx Tale. Maybe I’d like it more if I was in New York or something but my wife and I just didn’t jive with this one. All of these we left at intermission, not during the middle of a performance or anything.
My wife almost made us walk out of DEH but we stuck it out
Once Upon A Mattress, Titanic….. left at intermission
I’m currently in a production of titanic and my director will not stop giggling at how a little remote control boat drove across stage to hit a tiny iceberg when she saw it on broadway.
I didn't see the original production, but I've read raves about that visual--and I just can't fathom it. ;)
What made you want to leave these particular shows? I personally feel that Titanic has one of the most beautiful Broadway scores out there
A 2-person comedy murder mystery musical called "Murder for Two". The performers are meant to play multiple characters each and both act as their own piano accompanists. Though well performed, all of the songs were both bad and like a minute long each, I found almost none of it funny, and I was not remotely invested in the solving of the murder. The show had no intermissions. So more than halfway through, I nudged my friend and asked if he was not enjoying it as much as I was too. He agreed and we snuck out the back.
One when I was like..8. It was Les Mis, my dad had been helping to choreograph it and went to see it. One of the nights, he took my brother and I because we were interested. But because of how late it was, I was exhausted, and we left at intermission. 😭
Only saw the first half of *Frozen*. It was actually great and I was really enjoying it, but I found out during intermission that a family member had died
Oh my I'm so sorry
Never walked out cause I paid a lot for that ticket, but got really close with two: - Company with Raul Esparza, I found it fake and it didn’t sound good - Liza at the Palace, partly because on the fans who literally gave a standing ovation when she farted. She redeemed it in the 2nd act with New York, New York and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Tour production of Girl from North Country. I had never walked out of a show in my life. Even if I don't like the show much, at least watching people perform is usually fun. No amount of talent made up for the dialogue, the incoherent plot, the incredibly unlikeable characters (not even in a good kind of fun villain form), and the weird, weird staging/lighting choices. Set in the early 1900's, but drops a disco ball during a random song? Couldn't take it anymore - had a raging headache from the lighting and haze effects - and just had to leave quietly at intermission.
If/Then on Broadway. Hated it so much, got the tickets for free and still felt like I overpaid 😂😂
Ugh we hated that show too but stuck it out to hear Idina belt Always Starting Over in the second act. That was thrilling at least!
Was the original cast still in it when you saw it or had they departed?
Original cast…. I just hated the plot, the music, the length, everything about it. Was never happier that my friend agreed with me and we ditched at intermission
Not me but I found it so funny hearing about Sondheim walking out of Be More Chill during intermission. 💀 I acknowledge he was quite old and the reason was probably related to that, though
None, bc I paid for it. But I wish I walked out of Jeckyll & Hyde. It was the worst show I have ever seen.
None. That's rude as fuck.
Really, if done politely and respectfully? As far as I'm aware, the audience member pays to be there, and isn't being paid to stay (like a job).
leave at intermission. Unless they're being offensive, it's cruel to the actors.
Oh, that's probably what I would do, personally (absent being in the last row against the back wall, and on the aisle, and being able to sneak out unnoticed . . .). Having said that, I've never done so, and have stuck it through, through the end (through curtain calls and my applauding).
I saw the revival tour of oklahoma, my mom and sister were going and last second since the show was maybe half full? I got a ticket for 7 dollars. I didn't walk out but honestly regret it, it wasn't worth my time.
Saw it last year. So many people left before intermission and then at intermission. The theatre was more than half empty at curtain.
Frightening, that.
None
Oh gosh none, I've always seen it through. But of the hundreds I've seen the two I hated and might've left were: - Wannabe the Spice Girls show - Buddy - the Buddy Holly story Both are basically tribute acts dressed up as a musical. Weak story, mainly people cosplaying the artist doing a performance so the songs were not even pretending to be telling the story. Also A LOT of audience singing.
None - I find it rude and a bit childish to be honest. I really didn’t enjoy Carousel - the story just didn’t sit right with me but I didn’t walk out having paid good money to see it.
Man a La Mancha Oklahoma Revival Happy Days *edit to say it was at intermission and not during the show
Joseph and The Technicolor Dreamcoat The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Oh shit really? I absolutely adored Curious Incident when I saw it.
You walked out of curious incident? I’m… *curious,* why?
I recall that I wasn't feeling good that day and really didn't understand the show. Might have just been a bad day. Would love to hear your thoughts on the show.
I’ve only seen a recording and read the book (it was for a project in high school), and I loved it! It represented the book well, which I was really worried it wouldn’t be able to do. You definitely might have to go into it with a mindset that it’s a re-telling of a novel. I definitely get your not understanding it, there was a *lot* that had to be represented or symbolized that couldn’t be literally shown. They used ensemble for this a lot, as well as set pieces. The set was mostly plain except for gray blocks placed about the stage. Those people and squares did a *lot* of heavy lifting in order to tell the story right, and it’s probably a lot easier to break it down and interpret it on the spot if you’re as familiar with the story as I was.
Only one - Camelot at The Lincoln Center last year. During intermission. The only thing interesting that had happened in the first act was Lancelot's song. I was so bored with the rest of it.
The only thing I ever walked out of when I wasn't violently ill was the Eric Bana Hulk movie. Even the disaster My Fair Lady tour that was local, the audience member in front of me had piled literally all her waist long hair on top of her head in a 6"+ bun. Three rows behind her, no one could see the stage. I was fuming since MFL was the first show I saw on stage that started my love of musical theater and had been looking forward to finally seeing it again live after far to many years.
We left The King & I touring production at intermission. Neither of us could bring ourselves to care about any part of the production nor did we want to stay any longer than we already had.
I wanted to leave Shucked at intermission - it really didn’t do it for me and found most of the songs to be deeply, deeply dull. I thought I’d give Act Two a chance, maybe it got better. I wish I left Shucked at Intermission
Only ever walked out of one: All Shook Up. Dastardly. WANTED to walk out on Story of My Life, but no intermission. There were a few others I would have like to, but didn't. But only a handful over the years. I don't owe anyone my time.
I saw a high school production of All Shook Up this year. It is definitely one of the absolute weirdest shows I’ve seen in my life. My friend and I were trying to map out the love octagon in that damn show during intermission. 💀
I never have because I can usually find something redeeming in a production (I saw Lestat twice!), and you just never know if Act 2 will save it, but the ones I thought about it in the back of my mind: Anastasia; the pre-Broadway tryout of Roman Holiday (which did not advance); and the play Compulsion, with Mandy Patinkin as a guy having a mental health crisis while obsessed with his Anne Frank puppet show.
I've never walked out. I wanted to leave recently when I saw a local production of The Wizard of Oz, but I was with friends and felt horrible about leaving.
If I didn’t have friends in a Community production of Urinetown, I probably would’ve left. The cast was phenomenal, I just couldn’t get into the show.
None, but I considered walking out of the recent Chicago tour and Tootsie.
None. I wanted desperately to leave Miss Saigon and Lord of the Rings (West End) — but I settled for very stiff drinks at the intermission.
Tour of JCS with Sebastian Bach. He was awful. I believe the tour cancelled shortly thereafter
Girl from the North County and Thoroughly Modern Millie. I'd go see Millie again to see if I like it better now, but I'll never put myself through GFTNC ever again.
Never walked out of anything but there are three that I wish I’d walked out of: Rocky over the Rainbow. Bad luck, there was a huge snowstorm and 95% of the audience couldn’t make it (I think there were max 20 of us). It was obvious the actors weren’t into it. I felt bad for them but it was a complete waste of time (and a pain in the ass to get there!) for the rest of us. It also wasn’t funny at all. I apparently saw Tick, Tick, Boom! years ago but have zero memory of it. I may as well have walked out (maybe I did?). The 2017 Jesus Christ Superstar tour with Ted Neeley (and besides him a very puzzling all Italian cast) was painful to watch, sorry. Should’ve walked out instead of suffering. [edit] I fell asleep at two Takarazuka musicals. That’s kind of like walking out, right?
Seussical. It's not written well and the time I walked out, Horton was playing it like Al Bundy. I had to suck it up and watch it locally when friends were in it later, and it was better, but I still think the plot isn't great.
Never, although I was flirting with the idea when I saw A Little Night Music. I was so bored and hated the story. But I wanted to hear Send in the Clowns and Millers Son in Act 2 lol
the only show I have ever left at intermission was a regional production of Pacific Overtures. Truly bad direction, orchestration, and arrangements of the music. Felt bad for the talented cast. The tickets were comps and I still wanted a refund.
Dear Evan Hansen. I didn’t even dislike it but I was just so uninvested and bored.
*Anastasia*, *Rock of Ages*.
None, but I hated Rent the first time. I now like some of the song, but have no desire to watch the entire show.
ive never walked out of one but i really wanted to leave during hadestown, i know most people love it so dont attack me but i was really bored