Best and Worst Show You've Ever Seen- Page 6

[MarkieSunshine]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 6:26pm

Best:

Hair (2011 Tour)

Worst:

The Little Mermaid (2008 Broadway)

Updated On: 8/1/11 at 06:26 PM

[mjroberts972]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 7:42pm

BEST:
N2N (Tour)
Book of Mormon
Spring Awakening (OBC)
Rent

WORST:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 7:46pm

Best: FOLLIES

Worst (and God knows, most hysterical): BARBARY COAST, a bound for Bway production that died an ignoble death in SF. Truly, a WTF moment in theatrical history.

[OhTossums2]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:33pm

Best:
Spring Awakening and Next to Normal

Worst: Mamma Mia

[kristinchenofan570]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 10:29pm

Best:
Annie Get Your Gun revival
A Little Night Music (with Bernadette Peters)
Gypsy (With Patti Lupone)

Worst:

Addams Family. No contest. (I only went because it was a school trip and the only reason I even justified it was it was going to be my first time seeing Nathan and Bebe live)

[ahhrealmonsters]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 11:42pm

Best:
Next to Normal
The Scottsboro Boys
Ragtime
A Little Night Music (w/ Bernadette Peters)

Worst:
Spring Awakening
American Idiot
Billy Elliot
A Little Night Music (w/ CZJ)

[dragonlp86]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 12:15am

BEST:
Next to Normal
The Book of Mormon

WORST:
Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Actually, I take that back. The absolute worst show I've ever seen would be "Little Miss Sunshine" at La Jolla.
Updated On: 8/1/11 at 12:15 AM

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 12:28am

I've seen many more shows since my original post over a year ago, and my opinions have changed:

Best:
- South Pacific (2008 Revival) - I thought I was going to fall asleep and hate it, but I was deeply touched by the story as a whole (and turned on by Paulo Szot's voice).

- Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - The set was amazing (and totally robbed of the Tony), and the music and cast of characters were a joy, especially the charismatic and sexy Benjamin Walker.

-HIGH - I know a majority of people hated it, but I found it to be the most gripping show I have ever seen. I loved the simplistic set design, and Kathleen Turner and Evan Jonigkeit were both incredibly haunting and comical.

WORST:

-BABY, IT'S YOU - In the words of the great Bette Davis, "WHAT A DUMP!"...This was an extremely messy and computerized mash-up of 60s songs and an empty plot.

[Sophiia]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 9:36am

Best: Next to Normal
Runner Up: Spring Awakening

Worst: Little Women

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 11:28am

Best Shows: Hairspray, Spider-Man, The Addams Family, Phantom
Worst Show: Just one, Hot Feet

And I hate all the negativity for Cats, it's one of the greatest shows I've ever seen1

[suttonequalslove]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 11:40am

Best: Wicked or Anything Goes revival

Worst: Cats. The music was wonderful, but the singers weren't quite that great in the production I went to.

[kipster]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 1:19pm

Best: Light in the Piazza, Phantom of the Opera, My Fair Lady
Worst: Billy Elliot

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 1:56am

Just updated my list of shows and thought I would share...

TOP 10 (In Order)
The Book of Mormon
Billy Elliot
Spring Awakening
Phantom
Hair
American Idiot
Jersey Boys
Anything Goes
Chicago
Mary Poppins

BOTTOM 10 (In order)
Rat Pack
White Christmas
Annie
Stomp
Happy Days
Seussical
Frost/Nixon
9 to 5
Wicked
Legally Blonde

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 2:07am

Worst.

reNt. Simply awful in so many ways.

Cyrano The Musical: three hours thirty minutes of nothing, when the audience starts yelling out plot points in advance. You know you are in trouble

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 2:14am

Best: Next to Normal, Wicked

Worst: American Idiot

[Idiot]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 2:37am

^ But but... the soldier boy was so hunky... and could fly!

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 8:48am

Best - "Torch Song Trilogy", "Next To Normal", "Doubt", "In The Heights", "Spring Awakening"

Worst - "Noises Off", "Nine", "Grease"

Updated On: 4/29/12 at 08:48 AM

[AADA81]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 9:11am

BEST:
Sweeney Todd (1979)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1984)
Caroline, or Change (2004)

WORST:
Spamalot (2006)
The Lion King (2004)

[ggersten]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 11:41am

Limiting to professional productions:

Best:
Miss Saigon (Broadway 1994)
Gypsy w/Tyne Daly (at Kennedy Center just before Broadway)
A Chorus Line (Los Angeles 1977)
and simply for sets/staging Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in London
Pacific Overtures (LA CLO - which was, I believe, the OBC)

Worst:
Odyssey (LA CLO - pre Broadway)
Bakers Wife (LA CLO again, w/ Topol)
Big River (in St. Louis at the Fox sometime in 1980s)
Three Penny Opera (in D.C. w/Sting just before Broadway)

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 12:43pm

On Broadway?

BEST: Mormon

Worst: Either Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008 revival) or Follies (2001 revival)

[My Oh My]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 12:51pm

In terms of production:

BEST: Les Miserables (London 2010; original Broadway; 1st, 2nd, & 3rd U.S. national tours)

WORST: 25th anniversary thrifty budget tour of Les Miserables with reedy new orchs that save further pennies. Wonderfully talented cast though, but amateurish direction stifled their potential.

Show:

BEST: Too many, but Les Mis, Show Boat, A Chorus Line, and Evita are among my all-time faves.

WORST: By Jeeves. So bad, I wanted to lay on the aisle...and die.

Updated On: 4/29/12 at 12:51 PM

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 12:55pm

bwayphreak234, no Evita?

[ChildrenwillListen]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 1:19pm

Best: Wicked, Les Mis, Next to Normal, Billy Elliot, Hair.

Worst: Fiddler on the Roof (Which is sad since it was my first Broadway show. It's okay, just really not my favorite) and Mamma Mia. I always try to find the good in every show I see. Oh and I forgot American Idiot. Not a huge fan. I like the music though

[willep]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 2:15pm

Off the top of my head...

Best: Once, Jerusalem

Worst: Beirut

[steven22]

Posted: 4/29/12 at 3:48pm

Best: Next to Normal, Rent, Spring Awakening

Worst: Pirate Queen, Godspell, Passing Strange