The real drama in Boston’s theater district? The intermission dash to the ladies’ room.
Paula Brennan presides over the 22-toilet lower-lobby women’s restroom at the Boston Opera House like a bingo matron.
Microphone in hand, keen eye on the doors, she calls out the numbers of the stalls the second a patron starts to depart.
“11 is available, 12 is available, 9 is available,” she said over the flushing during a recent intermission of Boston Ballet’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” “13 is available, 10 is still available.”
Flush.
In Boston’s Theatre District, not all the drama happens on stage. The real tension often strikes at intermission, when hundreds, or maybe a thousand women, dash for limited bathrooms, and the fear of missing the curtain call competes with the dread of sitting through the second act distracted by a full bladder.
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