rec.arts.theatre.musicals

I have four walk-outs:

"Pickwick"..... that was years ago and it was just stupid.

and these three the most recent....

"Dance of the Vampires","Wicked" and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

I think what bothered me about theses last three was first ,the shows
were crap and then realizing this, I looked aroud me at the
audiences.... these were not people who typically go to the theatre,
they were here for the "Las Vagas Experience" they just didn't have a
clue about what good theatre should be,

It is verry sad that really good shows close within a year or so and
that the junk just goes on and on.


On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:09:25 GMT, Ray S wrote:

>The recent Wicked thread of love it/hate it, made me think back to shows
>that I had found so bad as to have actually walked out on.
>
>Being quite tolerant, I could only think of one. The Graduate with Kelly
>McGillis. The sound system had an annoying bottom of the well quality to
>it and the actors were just walking and speaking. Clearly no energy or
>even seeming interest in each other. It was like watching a cold reading
>between two strangers. Competent because they were trained actors, but
>akin to watching fish.
>
>At intermission, our feet simply kept on going out the lobby and out
>there door, almost of their own volition. We could see that we were not
>the only ones by any means.