rec.arts.theatre.musicals

barong@ wrote:

> 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.


AND oh yes we found ICEMAN very dull and depressing, even with James
Earl Jones. We also walked out on "Rainbow Jones" need I say more?

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