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Worst Musical of all time?
Joined: 12/31/69
#75Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 12:49pmViva Forever on the West End. Too much wrong with it to count.
#76Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 1:04pmInto The Light - the first and only musical about the Shroud of Turin. It opened at the Neil Simon in 1986 and closed after 6 performances.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
zthebrg
Swing Joined: 12/10/13
#77Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 1:28pmCarrie? The score is hearable and it is dramatic.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#78Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 2:12pmRainbow Jones, which opened and closed on the same night in 1974. I can't even explain what was on that stage. You just had to be there.
#79Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 2:44pm
I was begging for WHITE CHRISTMAS to end, but it never would.
I guess I was a naughty boy to deserve that one.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#80Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 2:58pm
The Prince Of Central Park
Legs Diamond
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Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#81Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 3:04pmJames, I'll second you on Into the Light. I was there on opening night and was just slackjawed. What William Goldman would call a "Why?"/"Don't" musical.
ceisen
Understudy Joined: 5/12/05
#82Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 3:09pm
I just thought of another legendary flop which closed in previews:
Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and Don't You Ever Forget It
A number of the dancers in that show were part of the now famous taped gathering of gypsies with Michael Bennett which later became "A Chorus Line".
wcoyote
Chorus Member Joined: 6/11/10
#83Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 3:10pm
Platinum
Good Vibrations
Metro
The Look of Love
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#84Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 3:12pmRachel was a mega bomb of monumental proportions.
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ceisen
Understudy Joined: 5/12/05
#85Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 3:22pmRachael Lily was originally written for Bette Midler, but she turned it down. The dance ensemble was filled with some of the great Broadway dancers of the time.
Pasdechat
Understudy Joined: 4/17/14
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#88Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 8:27pm
Merlin
First and only time that I stood up and booed as soon as the curtain came down. I stopped as soon as the cast started taking their curtain calls, I didn't want to boo them.Well, except for Doug Henning, who was all right in "The Magic Show" but proved he couldn't act in that travesty.
Tied for second would be
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (of whatever the name was)
Bring Back Birdie
Strider
I'm envious of those who said "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Gentlemans Guide". You obviously have never seen a really bad musical.
#89Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 9:05pm
Into The Light - the first and only musical about the Shroud of Turin. It opened at the Neil Simon in 1986 and closed after 6 performances.
And I saw it!
But Oh, Callcutta! was worse. A lot worse.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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GoodMorningStarshine
Swing Joined: 8/24/09
#90Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 9:16pmWe Will Rock You. Just dreadful. I saw the US Tour this year and I wanted to walk out so bad.
Finch
Stand-by Joined: 9/14/08
#91Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 9:53pm
Her First Roman
Dancing With the Vampires
Busker's Alley
A Mother's Kisses
Shohgun
Mata Hari
Annie 2
Fun City
Illya Darling
Platinum
and these are just some of the older ones . . .
[Yes, I really did see them all!]
#92Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 9:59pm
I second the mention of:
The Scarlet Pimpernel, and
Legs Diamond (which I'm pained to agree with, even though I worked on it for half a year)
Also,
Ain't Broadway Grand
The Prince of Grand Street, and
Got Tu Go Disco
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#93Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 10:09pmHas anyone mentioned In My Life? It was so bad it stunned the audience into silence.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#94Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 10:12pmI was in the stunned audience
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#95Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/22/14 at 11:47pm
Daddy Goodness. First African American million dollar musical. Bombed in Philadelphia.
Sunset boulevard holds a special place in my heart for being a terrible show with some good songs.
And I didn't get the Lippa Wild Party.
I would also throw in anything by Jason Robert Brown
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#98Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/23/14 at 9:19am
Disagree with many choices here but so far it looks like Cats is in the lead.
The best review of Cats I ever heard was a reviewer likening it to having a cat pee on your leg for 2 hours. If not for Japanese tourists, it would have closed much earlier than it did.
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neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#99Worst Musical of all time?
Posted: 6/23/14 at 9:35amScandalous. The only show I've ever left at intermission.
