Follies

I'll remind you of this post if you ever develop a medical condition that renders you incapable of sitting through a 2 hour show without a comfort break. Your lack of compassion is astounding.

I'm loving this attitude of "It's not an issue for me so it can't be an issue". If only the large percentage of people with urinary conditions had realised: they've been suffering all these years when all they had to do was plan ahead.

Solutions are always easy to people who don't understand the problem.

Exactly. Why all the fuss about this show and not the countless other plays that are straight through with no interval? Is it because the emotion of the music /joy of the sequins are more likely to bring on the chances of wetting oneself?

Book an aisle seat.. in the back rows.. or work on tensing those muscles in advance.

This is the best thread in AGES!!!

For a board that is theatre-obsessed, you'd assume most would understand that the best way to stage this show is without an interval and deal with it as it is for the good of the production.

You do have a bee in your bonnet about this one, don't you!

www.playbill.com/article/londons-new-follies-will-be-performed-without-an-intermission

This article on Playbill notes that they will be making a firm decision on the interval by the opening night. My guess would be is if they can get the running time down to something slightly less unwieldy, they'll stick with it. A Woman Killed With Kindness was 2 hours without an interval, first preview ran 2 hours 20. If they can finesse 20 minutes off of this, then 1 hour 50 minutes really is fine. The first half of most Hamlets runs around that long and nobody minds. Some people just hear there's no interval and for some reason it sends them into a tailspin.

I'm going to preview 2 tomorrow night, I'm assuming there will also be no interval, will be interested to see what they update the website info with tomorrow morning.

And Poster J, if I ever develop a medical condition whereby I can't go two hours with wetting myself, then I'll have bigger concerns in my life as to whether a show has an interval or not. 

I see an oppertunity for some rather novel "Follies" branded items for sale at the mechandise area...

A couple of £5 tickets for the Sondheim platform are online (not just entry pass) - run, don't walk.

Oops someone posted about it first haha!

Even a 100 minute movie becomes 2h10 with the length of trailers and ads nowadays. The artistic integrity of the piece is more important.

I wonder when we will see some more images of the sets and costumes?

Because you are young and healthy and strong and have never pushed a child out of your lower body. People who can't hold their bladder for two hours aren't automatically disorganised or selfish, they're not just necessarily young and/or healthy and/or strong, and/or they've pushed children out of their lower body. We're all built differently, and we all have different limits, and that's all that the "well I don't see why they can't hold it" side are being asked to remember.

One of the people I'm going with in October can't walk past a lav without going. Sometimes, we go to the theatre and he goes before we sit down. Then we sit down, and he has to get up and go again like TWO MINUTES before the curtain goes up. At Billy Elliott he also had to go before the interval (to much tutting from me).

He doesn't drink before the show, no medical conditions, it's completely psychological.