Shows you hated- Page 2
Shows you hated
broadwayboy1939
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
#25re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 2:59pm
Peter Pan-Modern Version
"Sometimes when you dream, your dreams come true..."
Christoph
Stand-by Joined: 4/20/06
#26re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:28pm
I can usually find something to enjoy in almost all shows, but there is only one I out and out hated...
THE LION KING - I am not overly fond of the Disney/Broadway experience, but I can at least find some merit in Aida and Beauty and the Beast. I found THE LION KING excruciating, even more so for the inexplicable accolades and Tony wins. Elton John should be permanently banned from contributing even one more musical note to Broadway...EVER. I am still in awe that anyone thought the restrictive animal costumes were stunning rather than resembling moth-eaten cast-offs from the Thanksgiving Parade. It also did not help that the children at the performance were bored stiff and started acting up, crawling all over the floor and having to be entertained by their respective parents. It took me a long time to attend another kid-friendly show, and when I did (it was quite fun) I realized it was only TLK that did not hold their interest.
Honorable runners-up under the glad I saw them once, but it was enough category:
AIDA
DREAMGIRLS (A tour attended with a friend who loves the show and insists we had the worst Effie that ever trod the boards)
CATS (Act 2 seemed better than Act I, but I was lost by then)
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND
THE KING AND I (The show seemed a bit lifeless)
FOLLIES
SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE
FOSSE
DRACULA-THE MUSICAL
ASSASSINS
SWEENEY TODD (John Doyle version only - all others I loved)
TABOO (Great cast and very flashy, but remind me again why anything or anyone in it was pertinent to a US resident?)
BELLS ARE RINGING (a musical that REALLY shows its age)
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
CHESS (Love the score, but the show itself leaves me cold)
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#27re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:32pmI've never flat out HATED a show, but the only show that had be begging to leave was Ezra's Treason at the Perry Street Theatre. It COULD have been good, but there was nothing engaging about the way it was written and it dragged on SO much longer than it ever had to.
raulfan
Featured Actor Joined: 6/23/06
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#29re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:34pmOk, I lied. Raulfan just reminded me that I HATE Footloose and Grease.
#31re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 3:40pm
Phantom of the Opera
Aida
Cats
The Boy From Oz
Sweeney Todd (Sorry!)
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#32re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 4:37pm
Ring of Fire - Belonged in a theme park
In My Life - need I even say why?
Lestat - bad music, bad acting, bad story, bad book,
The Lion King - boring
Tarzan - music was ok, story was cliched and boring, sets uninspired
Beauty and the Beast - boring, and I think the costumes were stupid
Aida - I hated the music...and that swimming pool scene was just so unecessary
Jesus Christ Superstar
42nd Street
Dracula
#33re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 5:05pm
The Producer's- I honestly don't see how it won all those Tony's
The Lion King
All of ALW'S musicals except Phantom and a few songs from Evita.
Updated On: 6/23/06 at 05:05 PM
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#34re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 5:06pm
The Wedding Singer
Jesus Christ Superstar in Kaiserslautern (ask me about it...)
Good Vibrations
#35re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 5:24pmCrazy For You
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#36re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 5:28pmAida
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#37re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 5:35pmLestat and The Producers
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#38re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 5:38pm
Miss Saigon. Had I not been with a group, my ass would've been gone at intermission. And I DONT leave shows at intermission. Ever.
...oh, and Wicked. CAN. NOT. STAND. IT.
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
teh_pretty
Featured Actor Joined: 4/2/05
#41re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 6:22pm
Oklahoma, hands down.
I've seen it three times, each time thinking "well, maybe it'll be better" ...but it never is.
JustABroadwaybaby2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/6/06
#42re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 6:24pm
City of Angels- school production, made me want to shoot myself.
Over.
And Over.
And run my head through a knife. Violently.
My friend made me stay through intermission.
Oh, and we're wasting pixel trees with our !!!!!'s.
Bye Bye Birdie, too.
"I'm thinking about how if you took the W in
answer, and the H in ghost, and the extra A in aardvark, and the T in listen, you could keep saying WHAT but no one would ever hear you because the whole word would be silent."
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kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#44re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 7:43pmAwwwwe someone hates Bells! I have a special place in my heart for it, as it's the first Broadway show I ever worked on
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
cate_w
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/04
#45re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 7:55pm
Cats
Nine
The Goat or Who is Sylvia
Pacific Overtures
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#46re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 7:59pm
Why not? I got time to kill!
Aida
The Phantom of the Opera (snore)
The Music Man
The Who`s Tommy
The Lion King (It`s not bad but it`s just gotten old)
Bombay Dreams
The Woman in White
Mama Mia!
Pacific Overtures
Julias Ceasar (Revival w/ Denzel Washington)
Movin Out
The Most Happy Fella
Oliver (The movie)
Dreamgirls (I`m still gonna see the movie though)
Jelly`s Last Jam
Into the Woods Revival (Vanessa Williams as the Witch!?!? What were they thinking?!?!)
Many others
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#47re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/25/06 at 2:43pm
Oh, yes FrontrowCentre,
Barry Mannilow's Copacabana
There is no reason why, even a musical called "Barry Mannilow's Copacabana" should be as bad as "Barry Mannilow's Copacabana"...
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
#48re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/25/06 at 2:47pm
From the West Coast:
Bark - (though some on this board love it).
Romance - What a waste of talent and time.
Cats
Phantom
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#49re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/25/06 at 3:40pmThreepenny Opera, what a disaster.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
