No Sleep, Must Click & Drag

[cos]

Seeing Sleep No More for a second time last night evoked xkcd Click and Drag. I was expecting to see many of the same scenes and settings I saw the first time, with a better understanding of what was happening. I was not expecting what actually happened: spending the majority of my time seeing scenes and settings I hadn't even known were there the first time. And even though I visited at least one floor this time that I know I never ventured onto at all last time, I also know there's at least one more floor I still haven't been to. Maybe more than one.

Comments

[ron_newman]

I didn't realize it was back! Or did it never close (in NYC)?

[cos]

It never closed in NYC. I don't think it has an end date.

[mangosteen]

Well, it had an end date, but after extending the engagement about 6 times, they just gave up and dropped it. :)

[cos]

Sounds just like Blue Man Group when they moved into Boston :)

[cthulhia]

It didn't really have an end date.
At the start, they had the option of running for years, if sufficiently popular.

However, rather than committing crew too far in advance, they were only extending it every few months, as enough shows sold out. This also allowed them to reduce the number of times they cancel shows for special events. (club nights, private rentals, etc.)

I have not worked there in more than a year, so I'm not sure if those policies have changed.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

I've been five times (once in Boston, four times in NYC) and the last time I went most of the interactions I saw were new to me. I can't tell if they keep changing/adding things or if it was just that rich to begin with!

[mangosteen]

One of the things I noticed in the NYC version, having brought a pocketable flashlight (and some discretion) with me, was that significant parts of the venue were "walled off" via lighting effects, primarily the lack thereof. There were passageways and room I would have never known about unless I made it a point to stop and point a flashlight to verify that there was no physical wall in a place where my mind inferred that one would be.

[cos]

Did some of these passageways lead to places you would not otherwise have been able to get to? Did things happen in those places?

In one place I saw an iron gate blocking the way to a large space, and then one of the characters showed us that you could squeeze through the side of the gate, and beckoned one of the audience to follow her, so I did so afterward. However, the space behind the gate turned out to have other passages to/from it that were less tricky.

[epilady.livejournal.com]

Recommend, for best experience, to attend on one of the special dates. There's only one entry time and you get a meal on the roof at the end. We went for July 4th, saw much much more than we had the time before, It was half as crowded as usual, and bonus fireworks!

[cthulhia]

indeed.
At this point, I've worked the NYC show 8 times & attended 2 times. I kinda don't want to sink the money into it if I can't get onto the 6th floor (Which is only accessible by one person per elevator load, and only for the first half of the show), or a non-Hecate one on one (since I've already had one of those.)

The Halloween shows last year were *spectacular*. I was bummed to not be able to swing any shows with the new roof deck this summer.

[kirin]

Man, I'm pretty sure this sort of experience would drive the story-completionist in me (long nurtured by video games where time more or less stands still until you trigger the next major plot point) absolutely nuts.

[cos]

Which Infocom games did you like, and which ones drove you nuts? :)
Do you play nethack?

[kirin]

Man, it's been a long time since I played Infocom. I suspect I played them quite slowly, and was driven nuts by anything with a turn limit.
I have played Nethack, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if I've spent more time looking at spoilers and descriptions of other people's run-throughs than actually playing.

Don't get me wrong, I do love exploring giant, detailed worlds. It's when I'm under a time constraint (or threat of an imminent demise that would remove me from where I'm exploring) that my eye starts to twitch...

[ciaan]

I saw it once and it was amazing. I was with a group of friends and we all had very different experiences. There is so much in there!

[cos]

When Hadas and I went this week, we were able to interpret a possible reason for a murder I witnessed based on correlations with a couple of other scenes she saw, when we talked after the show. Did you have things like that come up when you shared stories with your group of friends?