During intermissions, they love to walk up and down the lobby, looking at the historic pictures chronicling visits from such stars as Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Ronald Reagan.
He ends many evenings drinking wine on his large roof deck, plays poker with the "Hairspray" cast during intermissions and loves what he calls "dive bars," including his old bandmate Justin Timberlake's new Upper East Side barbecue restaurant, Southern Hospitality.
"Do not cough until the concert is ended," he said, after the intermission, "because I love this music so much".
Lots of these so-called "hyperlink" films were hugely successful: Traffic, Love Actually, Intermission, Crash.
On Thursday night, the Speaker of the federal parliament was getting stuck into a show about a revolutionary uprising in Paris in 1832 and, as far as I could tell when I spotted her at intermission, she was absolutely loving it.
Indeed, no matter which you see first, you can't begin to love it until the intermission of the other.
O.K., there is one brutally sexy scene in this intermission-free, 90-minute drama of love and perfidy among the literati.
Players from an earlier game cleared the floor, as Dom Kennedy's "A Intermission for Watts" boomed over the loudspeakers: "Love to the Eastside, but Watts is the motherland".
A cohesive presence throughout Kaleidoscape, he is never more side-splittingly funny than when enlisting audience members in his mischief, like the lethal grand opera love triangle he engineers after intermission.
I overheard this energized fascination for an actor's breadth during the intermission for the charmingly blushed production of She Loves Me directed by Rebecca Taichman.
