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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Is walking out of a play during intermission rude?
 
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Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


 Company's book (the play part) has not aged well, and in particular the scene about the couple trying pot for the first time is cringeworthy. The music is fabulous, and is the reason you'd go. In the '70s the lead wasn't intended to be perceived as closeted gay, but as STRAIGHT STRAIGHT STRAIGHT afraid of commitment (see the scene with April and "Barcelona".)

If you weren't laughing, it's not your musical. It could also have been a really bad production; if you weren't laughing at the songs, that would be my guess. If you're curious, watch the first ten minutes of the 2011 televised semi-staged version with Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert and other luminaries.

On YouTube from that production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COxzO9iihvY Colbert does "Sorry/Grateful", one of my favorite Sondheim songs, about long-term relationships.

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