Best is so much harder, happily. I'd pick (partly for sentimental reasons):
Rent OBC
Ragtime OBC
Chicago revival original cast
Special mention to The Book of Mormon which...it's too soon to include it, but I LOVED it. And Patti LuPone Gypsy which juuuust missed and would probably knock Ragtime off the list.
Worst:
Lord of the Rings in Toronto
Brooklyn OBC
Martin Guerre in London
Dishonorable mention to the off-off-Broadway musical Imelda which was actually worse than any of these but also had less to work with, so I found its failures less spectacular.
High? On the Best lists? I'm flumoxed! It was an okay little production but....the best?
Please...clue me in! Was it Kathllen Turner's Swearing Nun or the male nudity?
Leading Actor Joined: 7/26/08
Best:
Sunday In The Park With George
Les Miserables
Ragtime
Worst:
Jekyll & Hyde
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
Mamma Mia
Best
1. Ragtime (Original & Revival)
2. Chess (Sacramento Music Circus)
3. Wicked (Shoshanna Bean & Megan Hilty)
Worst
1. Copacabana (Tour)
2. Dreamgirls (Tour w/ Roz Ryan... She was so bad I cried)
3. Nunsense (Sacramento Music Circus)
Understudy Joined: 9/11/10
BEST :
Aida
Les Miserables
Next to Normal/Caroline, or Change
WORST :
Titanic
In the Heights
Wizard of Oz (most recent tour)
Best 3 in The UK
1. Parade (Lowry Theatre)
2. Legally Blonde (Savoy with Sheridan Smith)
3. Miss Saigon (Drury Lane, London)
Worst 3 in the UK
1. Rent Remixed
2. Rent Remixed
3. Rent Remixed
Best 3 in the US
1 Next To Normal (Booth)
2.American Idiot (St James)
3.Cabaret - Studio 54
Worst 3 in the US
1. the Pirate Queen (St James)
2. Shrek (Out of town Try Out)
3. Gypsy (Patti)
Did no one in the UK see the musical BEHIND THE IRON MASK (with Sheila Ferguson and Robert Fardell)? It set the standard for worst musical ever.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
I'll change the wording a little bit and say the most memorable because they were so good and most memorable because they were so bad:
Memorable/Good:
1. Richard III (Ian McKellan at BAM)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (OBC with Uta Hagen)
3. Gypsy (Merman)
Memorable/Bad:
1. Moose Murders (one of the two performances with Eve Arden)
2. Dance of the Vampires
3. Miss Saigon (hated it, hated it, hated it)
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