Best and Worst Show You've Ever Seen- Page 2

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 6:31pm

Best: Sunday in the Park With George, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Gypsy (LuPone)

[EVIE]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 6:36pm

Best: Les Miz
Worst: Phantom and Grease (both tours)

[doombuggy25]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 6:38pm

Best: West Side Story
Worst: Young Frankenstein tour... what a mess!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 6:53pm

now that I've actually put some thought into it:

Best
Elaine Stritch At Liberty
Contact
Nine
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Hairspray
The Light in the Piazza
Doubt
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
Sweeney Todd (revival)
The History Boys
Bridge & Tunnel
Awake and Sing!
The Little Dog Laughed
Grey Gardens
The Coast of Utopia
Sunday in the Park with George
Billy Elliot

Worst
Guys and Dolls (2008 revival)
A Tale of Two Cities
Xanadu
Deuce
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Hot Feet
Lennon
Lestat
The Odd Couple (Lane/Broderick revival)
Ring of Fire
Souvenir
Tarzan
Well
The Woman in White
Brooklyn
Dracula
Good Vibrations
La Cage aux Folles (2005 revival)
Never Gonna Dance
Urban Cowboy
Into the Woods (revival)

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 6:57pm

Broadway Shows..

Best:

"Sweeney Todd" (Original broadway production)
"Caroline or Change"

Worst:

Hot Feet

[Jason Bennett]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 7:22pm

munkustrap178 -- Damn, you worked it!

[Marquise]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 7:33pm

He always works it. He just gots it like dat.

[Jason Bennett]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 7:54pm

This is off this topic, but you reminded of this classic video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pv4aYUFBh8&feature=youtube_gdatah

"He always works it. He just gots it like dat." Check this video out. It's fun to improvise as these people...LOL...

[choitoy]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 8:15pm

With love from Seattle:

Best - 1995 5th Avenue Theater's (in conjuntion with Houston's TUTS I believe) production of Sondheim's "Follies". One of the first professional musicals I saw back when I was in high school. The whole thing was just magical for me.

Worst - The recent Ted Neeley tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar". Ugh, this nightmare never ended, with one weird thing happening after another. The only show where I didn't even clap at the end. I would have left at intermission, but stupidly I didn't because I thought it couldn't get any worse, but it did.

Incidentally, the only production that I've actually left during intermission was for a local production of "Oliver". It wasn't that it was bad, but the story did not interest me at all, and I was basically falling asleep during it. I felt like I got my $15 worth by intermission, and left.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 8:21pm

BEST
August: Osage County; Topdog/Underdog (Trinity Repertory Company)

WORST
Rent

[rjm516]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 8:26pm

Worst show I've ever seen and only time I've almost cried at the fact that I wasted time, any time, out of my life to suffer through something on Bway :

A Catered Affair
Updated On: 6/10/10 at 08:26 PM

[FunnyGirl617]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 9:20pm

Best: Grey Gardens, Company (revival), The Fantasticks, South Pacific (revival), La Cage (revival, wish I was alive to see the original!)

Worst: Mamma Mia (tour), [title of show], Sunday in the Park with George (revival) Young Frankenstein, Altar Boyz, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and last, but not least Butley...ugh

edit: HOW COULD I FORGET....THE WOMAN IN WHITE...WORST THING I'VE EVER SEEN PERIOD.
Updated On: 6/10/10 at 09:20 PM

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 9:22pm

Best: August: Osage County
Worst: [title of show] and Next Fall
Updated On: 6/10/10 at 09:22 PM

[broadfan327]

Posted: 6/10/10 at 10:37pm

Best: South Pacific revival, August: Osage County
Worst: [title of show]
Updated On: 6/10/10 at 10:37 PM

[Sauja]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:05am

I'll stick to Broadway. Best: August: Osage County. Seeing it for the first time on opening night contributed to the experience. It was electrifying.
Worst: Brooklyn, the Musical. I got the church giggles during it and could. not. stop. I had to excuse myself. Thank god for aisle seats! that said, I admit to having seen much worse off and off-off-Broadway. Imelda, the Musical and Chekhov Lizardbrain come to mind. Unfortunately.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:25am

Best: Kiss Me, Kate and A Little Night Music (revivals)
Worst: Cirque du Soleil's KA in Las Vegas (I honestly haven't disliked anything I've seen on Broadway)

[wcoyote]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 10:31am

Best - Mack and Mabel, A Chorus Line ( Original), Tommy, The Full Monty, The Producers (Original cast)

Worst - The look of Love, Good Vibrations, Herbal Bed, Cats, Metro

[jagfkb]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 11:19am

BEST:
Next to Normal (W/ Brian D'Arcy James)
Ragtime (Revival, Second Week of Previews)
Hair (Revival)
Spring Awakening (Final Performance Cast/ Onstage)
Avenue Q (Final Performance Cast)
August: Osage County (W/ Estelle Parsons)
The Norman Conquests (Revival)
Billy Elliot (OBC, Press Night)
Wicked (OBC, Press Night)
Title of Show (OBC)
Gypsy (Patti Lu Pone)
Sunday in the Park W/ George (Original Cast & Revival, though if I had to pick, I'd say the revival... with the original's orchestrations)
American Idiot (OBC, Previews)
Bloody Bloody andrew Jackson (2010 Public)
The Scottsboro Boys (2010 Vineyard)
Into the Woods (Revival & Original)
La Cage Aux Folles (2010 Revival)
Rent (Closing Night Cast)
Company (Revival)
Sweeney Todd (Hearn/ Lansbury)
Peter Pan (Cathy Rigby, Revival at the Gershwin)
The Wizard of Oz (MSG w/ Joanne Worley) (One of the first great productions I ever experienced, which is why I'm excited for ALW's revival, not the current tour)
Cinderella (MSG w/ Eartha Kitt)
A Christmas Carol (MSG; Jim Dale)
Hairspray (OBC w/ Shoshana Bean as Tracy)
Little Shop of Horrors (Revival, Closing Night Cast) (I'm sorry, but that night, the actors were on fire!)
Beauty & the Beast (Closing Cast w/ John Tartaglia) (My first Broadway show, but upon revisiting, it instantly became one of my favorites again)
Mary Poppins (Broadway w/ Scarlett Strallen, Same Night as Closing of Spring Awakening) (The Broadway show peaked when Scarlett took over; one of my favorite performances, ever)
1776 (Paper Mill Playhouse, 2009)
Man of La Mancha (Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven LBI w/ John Davidson)
The Will Rogers Follies (Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, LBI w/ John Davidson)
Legally Blonde (OBC, First Preview)
Everyday Rapture (OBC)
The Producers (Broadway w/ Brad Oscar & Hunter Foster)
Wonderful Town (Revival w/ Donna Murphy, who made the show)

WORST:
Chicago (November 2004, w/ Charlotte D'Amboise)
Jersey Boys (December 200
Promises, Promises (Revival)

[angelplays]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 11:28am

Best:
RED
No Child
A Chorus Line original run
Les Miserables original production at the Broadway with most of the OBC
The Year of Magical Thinking
Sunday in the Park with George (Roundabout revival)

Worst:
Cry-Baby
Vanities
Les Miserables revival (This paled in comparison to the original production.)

[newintown]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 11:34am

Wasn't the Les Miserable revival the same show, same staging, same costumes, mostly same set, mostly same orchestrations?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 11:39am

Sort of, sort of, sort of, yes, NO.

[angelplays]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 11:42am

To me, the revival felt very small and very cheap. It's the only time I've left a show at intermission. For me, preserving the memories of the original production (again, before the scaling-down to move to the Imperial) was more important than staying through the revival.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:16pm

I'm discounting college/high school/regional productions.

BEST:
La Boheme (Baz Luhrmann production)
Jersey Boys (many productions)
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (SF sit-down)
Sunset Boulevard (London revival)
Big River (Deaf West)
Take Me Out (tour)

WORST:
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (tour, but wasn't the cast's fault)
Lestat (pre-Broadway)
The Lion King (tour)
South Pacific (tour with Robert Goulet)

[ALittlePriest]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:21pm

Best: Billy Elliot (Kiril Kulish as Billy)
Worst: Billy Elliot (Trent Kowalik as Billy)

[newintown]

Posted: 6/11/10 at 12:24pm

There's already been a London revival of Sunset Boulevard?