This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.
Quotes about matinee (7 Quotes)
The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.
We have an age limit. No children under six years of age, except for baby day which is the first matinee on Tuesdays. After that, it's ages seven-18 with a parent or guardian.
People think I'm crazy, but for this first festival I wanted to give them a choice and show them what's out there. Fortunately, we have a lot of snowbirds here that can come by and see a matinee. Let's hope they do.
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon.
Reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers enter . . . in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.