Attended a wonderful performance of ELEGIES last night. So I'm sitting there at the end, tears running down my face, disappointed that the evening is over -- and I turn to the friend I went with, a bright, funny, sensitive woman who's not in the biz, but has been around it all her working life. And she says, "Boy, it's a mistake to have no intermission. Some of those songs were just too LONG!" And that was her opinion of the show.
...I guess you can go to the same party and have very different times.