# If live events don't re-open, what was your last theater experience? What was 1st cancellation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446 "2020-05-09T00:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/21 "2020-05-10T00:10:29Z")
Last movie in a theater: I think that would be _The Rise of Skywalker_. Last stage show: Haven’t been to as many of those lately as usual. The most recent I can think of would be _Henry V_, by the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, last summer. Last concert: The Citymusic Orchestra, sometime this past winter, don’t remember exactly when. I didn’t have any plans that got canceled. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/22 "2020-05-10T00:19:54Z")
Last theater was **Tristan und Isolde** at the Berlin Opera in mid-December. It was…goooooood. Cancellation: I wanted to go to **Der fliegende Hollander** here at the Metropolitan Opera in mid-March, but most of the performances got killed. Luckily, I had not bought a ticket in advance, because I would have felt guilty about asking for my money back — the Met is not doing well financially. Yeah, yeah, I’m a Perfect Wagnerite, as Bernard Shaw would have said. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/23 "2020-05-10T00:25:52Z")
Last movie was **CHiPs** in April 2017. Last concert was Kesha in Las Vegas in November 2019. First cancellation is Kesha, who was scheduled to perform in Chicago two weeks from now. The good news is that she’s staying safe by cancelling her tour. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/24 "2020-05-10T11:56:32Z")
I honestly don’t recall the last movie I saw in a theater, and even longer ago than that was the last concert I attended. We did go to see Paula Poundstone 3 or 4 years ago in Annapolis - does that count? I don’t go out much, even in “normal” times. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/25 "2020-05-10T16:24:47Z")
Last concert was a friend’s band at a little club. Last theatre event: I was helping the local high school by designing and building the set for their spring musical. We had just finished building the set when the lock-down was instituted. The set is still there on stage, it just will never be used. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/26 "2020-05-10T23:06:36Z")
My husband and I saw Grease at a local dinner theater. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/27 "2020-05-11T01:12:03Z")
**Ladysmith Black Mambazo** , on the day that Joseph Shabalala, the founder of the group, died. Nothing’s been cancelled that I had tickets for. ---
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Michael Pollan discussing therapeutic uses of psilocybin. ---
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The two reasons I just retired were to travel, and to take advantage of $5 Tuesdays at our theaters. So, last movies… oh, two good ones! 1917 and Parasite. Last live performance? Livingston Taylor (little brother of James), who now teaches at Berklee School of Music. Told stories and sang and taught us stuff (including [Songs That Never Should Be Played On the Banjo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQaS-CWDXU&list=RDBcQaS-CWDXU&start_radio=1)). At [a vintage Opera House](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/unifiednewsgroup.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/49/54994522-caba-5833-bd78-35e326416140/5ea1f71037691.image.jpg?resize=1261%2C906). I wonder when it’ll open again… ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/30 "2020-05-11T13:59:01Z")
Last live event: David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway First cancelled event: Book of Mormon on Broadway - I’ve seen it three times before so no big deal. I was taking a friend. Still waiting for a refund from Ticketmaster though. Next probably cancelled or postponed (TBA) event: Hall & Oates with Squeeze at Summerfest Next probably cancelled event: The Music Man on Broadway in November Next probably cancelled event: David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway in November I haven’t been in a movie theater since 2000 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446/31 "2020-05-11T14:19:55Z")
Last play was the National Theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac starring James McAvoy. It was a recorded and shown at a local Angelica Theater. Must have been early February. We had tickets to the play Plaza Suite, in NYC, with Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick. It was cancelled. Really bummed because we were going to stay at The Plaza for the complete theater experience. ---
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First cancelled event: _SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical_. It was part of our subscription and I wasn’t too enthusiastic about going. Last live event: _Frost/Nixon_ at the Schenectady Civic Player. Excellent play. ---
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The last show I went to see was a house concert of a local indie folk group. The first canceled show I was going to see was Maria Bamford. I work in the theatre, and had a production of Matilda that was supposed to open April 2 that was canceled (well, postponed, technically). ---
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My last live event was when I went to a small local mystery theatre with tea last fall. One of my friends and I won raffle prizes–tickets to an upcoming event of our choice. We were planning to attend another mystery-tea on March 22; we were actually talking about it and making our plans the week before… and then everything shut down here on the 13th. ---
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> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Last play was the National Theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac starring James McAvoy. It was a recorded and shown at a local Angelica Theater. Must have been early February. This was my last theatre event. I saw this in London in January. McAvoy was amazing. (He recently donated £300,000 to the NHS by the way.) I have tickets for Sorkin’s To Kill A Mockingbird n London in August, but it hasn’t been cancelled yet. MiM ---
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Last movie I saw in the theater was 1917. I was set to see La Roux in concert on March 10th. That has been postponed until November. ---
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> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Last play was the National Theater production of Cyrano de Bergerac starring James McAvoy. It was a recorded and shown at a local Angelica Theater. Must have been early February… Crap - me too! Extraordinary, wasn’t it? But in my memory this was a live broadcast (National Theatre Live) - am I wrong? The other - I can’t remember which was actually last - was Rob Brydon live - Songs and Stories was the title, I think. j ---
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:smack: OK, if you’re in the states maybe transmission is delayed… j ---
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Last movie: _Emma_ on March 6. Last live performance: Kesha at Ravinia on Sep. 8, 2019\* First cancellation: _42nd Street_ at the Lyric Opera, scheduled for May 30. They exchanged my tickets for _Singin’ in the Rain_ in June 2021. \ ***Ponch8:** Kesha was cursing up a storm, with seemingly every other word she spoke between songs being the F-bomb. I wasn’t offended, nor were most of the paying audience, but Ravinia is an outdoor venue with houses very nearby and I wondered at the time how the neighbors reacted. 🙂 ---
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Last local stage production: _Waitress_ in Lincoln Last live theater spectacles: _Love_ and _One_ (we were in Las Vegas the last week of February) Last Broadway show: David Byrne’s _American Utopia_ Last in-theater movie: _1917_ First cancelled show: _Dear Even Hansen_ (Touring) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-live-events-dont-re-open-what-was-your-last-theater-experience-what-was-1st-cancellation/853446.md?page=3)