Should I be able to get my money back if I ask for it back during an intermission of a play?

I’ve never heard of asking for a refund in either a movie theatre or a play after you’ve started watching it.

I’m thinking they need that money to help fund their plays.

Your halfway in, I think you’re stuck.

Kind of a dick-ish move. The consumer/producer contract is rather implicit in that, once you have boarded the ride, all bets are off.

my christ. how expensive is a school play anyway? sorry about your two-bits . . .

It’s your choice to walk out of any performance you don’t like, but not the producer’s responsibility to refund your money because you didn’t like it.

You wouldn’t ask for a refund for a bumpy flight, right? (or for that matter, walk out in mid-flight)

Your seat is already allocated, whether you sit in it or not. I don’t think a person who leaves early has a right to expect a refund, any more than you would if you’d bought the ticket and then not shown up for the performance.

A profit-making business such as a movie theater may offer refunds as a goodwill gesture when something goes wrong, but a student production at a school is not a commercial enterprise and has no such obligation, in my opinion. What’s more, no one expects young amateurs to deliver a polished Broadway performance. We support them as they learn and gain experience, and we expect to be very forgiving of their flaws. I think requesting a refund was at best foolish and at worst ignorantly rude.

This is just my own personal opinion of how things should be done. I think, if it is the first night of the play or movie, and it is shit, and you leave half way though, you should get 80% of your money back, with 20% going towards compensating the theater for a missing seat.

If the play or movie has been showing for a day or more, you have had a chance to read a review or find out if you would like it before hand, and in this case I think it would be fair if you get 20% of your money back.

@poisonedantidote, I don’t think you’re a parent yet, but perhaps I’m wrong. Has your son or daughter ever performed in a school production? If not, then when your time comes, let’s see if you’d care to redefine “shit.”

A student production is just that, and you can’t be as judgmental of it as you might for one for which charged $150 for a professional performance. ‘You pays your money and you takes your chances.’

No.

And a student play sucked? Really?

But that’s not the point. If your child were in the play – it would be the best thing ever. I kid you not. But then, you probably know this.

I think in Australia, in major cinemas, if you walk out within the first 30 minutes of a film screening you can ask for your money back.

A school/uni play is a bit different though. It’s an amateur production and as such I wouldn’t expect a polished production. They are students learning their craft and as has been stated, the money from the production probably goes to funding any future plays.

How much did you pay for this ticket to a student production? Seven dollars? Yikes. Sue them.

It’s never occurred to me to ask for a refund due to bad entertainment. I probably missed out on a shit load of money for all the horrible movies I’ve watched, haha. In the case of a school play (we’re talking college here, right?), I don’t think we’d have the right to expect a professional-level show in the first place, let alone get a refund if we’re dissatisfied with it.

I’ve walked out on movies.

I’ve walked out (in intermission) on student productions that are supremely pretentious dude hurling used tampons at a scrim???

I’ve never asked for money back.

I just think my time isn’t being well-spent here. I’l take the rest of my night and money to the bar across the street and let the mockery begin!

It isn’t a tradition that you don’t get your money back it is the law. The school fulfilled their part of the contract by putting on the show. It is bad form to ask for your money back. The audience knows the show will be crap but they like to encourage the effort that goes into it.