Actors that phoned in their performance — Page 2

#26

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:14pm

JP Dougherty for the last 2/3 of his 45-year run as Thénardier on tour.

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#27

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:14pm

Charlotte D'Amboise as Charity and Roxie..... there was nothing there except a pair of legs.

Eden Espinosa and Kate Reidners - Simply Horrible.

#28

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:20pm

Jumping on the Matt Caplan bandwagon. The first time I saw him - I loved him. 2nd and 3rd times, he was awful. Boring, boring, boring. But I guess that's what happens when you play mark for 45 years...

#29

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:24pm

Loretta S*it in Drood- truly awful. Such a shame too becuase i always loved her on MASH.

#30

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:25pm

The Entire cast of Phantom.

#31

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:34pm

I had one of those Phantom performances too. But I've also had some total ass-kickers.

Jeff Keller as whichever manager he was in Phantom...Oh lord, I wanted to push him offstage and do it myself. He was like that all the time too, like, that was his character.

#32

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:36pm

Dee Hoty did not phone in her Mamma Mia performance. To me, it was as if she had memorized the script just before she went on. Simply awful. Well, I mean the show itself was....eh...nevermind. Not going to open that can of worms.

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#33

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:36pm

I thought Sherie Rene in DRS was very disappointing and she was the main reason I went to see it.

#34

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:37pm

LizzieCurry --- That's so true about JP Dougherty!

I had a good friend who was on the road with him for 2 years... and they all knew it in the company too. At one point during "Master of the House" nobody on stage could tell if he was even speaking English anymore. It was all just one big, sleep-filled, mumbled vowel.

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#35

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:43pm

I have to agree on Tim Curry too. I saw it in the first few weeks it opened. He looked bored and he did not seemed bothered by the Knights of Ni at all. He seemed more annoyed at them than anything.

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#36

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:47pm

I'll agree with Orbach in 42nd Street. It was so uncharismatic you had to wonder why she'd bother listening to him as Marsh.
"You're gonna come back a star....and I'm gonna take a nap!"

Deena, I saw Swit too, but I think she just stunk in the role...not that she was bored.

Surprisingly, everyone else was on point. Donna was playing Drood by then, McGillin was marvelous, years onto the role.

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#37

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:47pm

LOL, best12bars...

The only time I ever saw JP actually care was right before Shanghai, and I think it was because of all the mucky-mucks in the audience.

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#38

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 4:47pm

"JP Dougherty for the last 2/3 of his 45-year run as Thénardier on tour."

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! Give this lovely lady a gold star!

#39

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 7:13pm

Tim Curry was definitely a boring, phoned in performance. He was not there at ALL. Gosh. He just stood on the stage and delivered the lines because he's Tim Curry. Completely and utterly boring.

Also, I have to say, I found myself pretty damn bored with Dennis Parlato in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (when he was on for Lawrence) and definitely George Hearn in "Wicked." So, so boring!

#40

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 7:17pm

"definitely George Hearn in "Wicked." So, so boring!"

Agreed thevolleyballer. I hate him in Wicked, he was dreadful.

I say Eden Espinosa, only because she doesnt have much of the fire she had in Brooklyn as compared to her trying to be Idina or Shoshana or whatever she's trying to do in Wicked.

#41

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 7:18pm

Matthew Broderick in EVERYTHING

#42

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 7:22pm

Unfortunatly that's the way Barbra was during the New York run of "Funny Girl". If she has to do the same thing night after night, she gets bored very easily. Which tells you she really shouldn't have been on stage in the first place.

Another point with Barbra (that I have heard) is on occasion she would give bad performances on purpose to really test her audience. And usually they would still give her a standing ovation, which would tear her up. This was something that she started doin in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale".

By now, doing concerts etc she has trained herself not to be so unprofessional.

#43

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 7:26pm

"Another point with Barbra (that I have heard) is on occasion she would give bad performances on purpose to really test her audience. And usually they would still give her a standing ovation, which would tear her up. This was something that she started doin in "I Can Get It For You Wholesale". "

Why would she do that? That semms so dumb to do.

#44

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 7:31pm

Ann Harada in Avenue Q last Holiday season.

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#45

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:33pm

Nancy Opel in Fiddler on the Roof...worst performance I've seen on a Broadway stage. She was so out of it.

Jeff Keller also phoned, and it showed because George Lee Andrews (I don't know how he does it man, 18 years and still so energetic), was so fresh and exciting.

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#46

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:35pm

"Eden Espinosa and Kate Reidners - Simply Horrible."

That isn't "phoning in" a performance.

#47

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:38pm

I saw Michelle Federer in Wicked three times. The second time, she was fantastic. The first and third times, she may as well have been asleep.

#48

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 10:40pm

Tim Curry and the Original Cast of Spamalot towards the middle of their run. Once they all left, the show was like a breath of fresh air. Harry Groener and the current cast are having the times of their lives and it shows. Tim, David, and Sara (I never saw Hank) all played the "we know you're here for us, but we don't wanna be here" game.

Nathan Lane in The Frogs. He spent the night counting the empty seats.

Matthew Broderick in The Odd Couple. A fiasco.

#49

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 11:10pm

I have to jump on the Tim Curry in Spamalot bandwagon. I saw the show the week before the Tony's and was actually surprised he got a nomination over the more deserving David Hyde Pierce. Curry seemed completely nonplussed by everything going on around him onstage. Bored out of his mind with some of the most bland line deliveries I've ever heard. No chemistry with anyone onstage (and he wasn't helped by standby Darlene Wilson as Lady of the Lake, who was less than stellar).

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#50

re: Actors that phoned in their performance

Posted: 8/23/06 at 11:22pm

Yes, Michelle Federer appeared bored out of her mind when I saw Wicked in August 2005. I was a little perturbed by that.

And judging by the various reviews I've read about Eden Espinosa and Kate Reinders, including ones in this thread, as well as, umm... clips I have viewed of them, I am not looking forward to seeing the show next week. I am actually hoping that, by some miracle, Eden and Kate will be out. Especially since I am bringing a friend who has been dying to see the show for the past two years and I want her to see two leads that are actually... good. (Why didn't I bring her when I saw Shoshana and Megan? Grr...)