I recently walked out of a Broadway production during intermission. First time ever! I promise I did my best to sit through, and be open minded to the production but it was just so hard to stomach. Company, the revival of the show of the same name, follows Bobbie, a recent turned 35 year of single woman, rehashing her decision to not be married. Or to have not been married thus far, while her friends are. The show takes us thru a journey, a brief encounter of a time with her friends, but blah blah blah. One couple has that ‘glow’ of marriage because they’ve decided to get divorced. Another couple, we land on, are smoking weed on the steps of their bldg, but the husband is a dud, and the wife, another blah. The last couple, friends we crash into, are prepping for their wedding, with one groom petrified of getting married. Truthfully, this was my favorite, if that, scene and singing sequence.

However that last group scene wasn’t enough to keep me intrigue that the second half of the production would improve. So I had a glass of champagne, sat down at one of the cushioned benches in the lobby, and enjoyed. Once I’d finished, the theatre was signaling for the end of intermission, that too was my cue, and I took my leave.

Have you even left a Broadway show?

T. Jonez