Boring Shows

[GlindatheGood22]

Boring Shows#1

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:29pm

What's the most BORING show you've ever seen?

For me it's Cats. I was good until Jennanydots brought out the damn cockroaches. Then I just wanted to shoot myself.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[broadwayboy101]

Boring Shows#2

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:37pm

Wonderful Town on tour.

[jennafan]

Boring Shows#2

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:37pm

Avenue Q

[Bwaynerd]

Boring Shows#3

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:38pm

finians rainbow, grinch

"(in a sweedish accent) Oh! What a lovely T-shirt you are wearing!"- Catherine Zeta-Jones refering to my ALNM shirt at the CD signing. Say NO to drugs and YES to Jackie Hoffman Live At Joes Pub! "ITS THE DAY OF THE SHOW YA'LL!!"-Bwaynerd

[LizzieCurry]

Boring Shows#4

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:39pm

The Light in the Piazza

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[justafan2]

Boring Shows#5

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:52pm

By Jeeves---painful.

[Gothampc]

Boring Shows#6

Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:59pm

Some of Sam Shepherd's plays can be boring if not well acted. I one time saw a production of "A Lie of the Mind" where I could have sworn time came to a standstill.

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.

[matty159]

Boring Shows#7

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:01pm

Marie Christine...it was an expensive nap

[Bettyboy72]

Boring Shows#8

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:01pm

Cats...Now and Forever.

Spiderwoman. I saw it on tour and it just dragged. Without a legend(Chita) or a star(Vanessa) in the role I think the show loses some oomph! I mean, when there is a thrilling actress in that role you feel the same anticipation as the actors on stage waiting for her to arrive.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Mister Matt]

Boring Shows#9

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:03pm

The Designated Mourner was excrutiating.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[Q]

Boring Shows#10

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:06pm

When we saw FROST/NIXON, our friend's review was, "Well, if their goal was to recreate the tedium of the original interviews, they succeeded." - and I had to agree.

Although, it did provide a great example of Langella's true mastery. When it came time for the big climax, he seemed to feel that the audience had been counting ceiling tiles for a little bit, and so he systematically drew people into his moment, so that when it arrived, no one was breathing. One of the best displays of true stage POWER I've ever seen.

Ultimately, the piece worked much better for me as a movie - and he was still breath-taking.

[newintown]

Boring Shows#11

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:08pm

I get tremendously bored at any show that has no sense of humor or pretends to be profound: Bare, Next to Normal, Lestat, Aida, (for instance) and hundreds of Off- and Off Off-Broadway plays.

[MeggilyWeggily08]

Boring Shows#12

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:18pm

newintown - This is a whole other topic, but I'm sorry I just have to say it, how does Next To Normal pretend to be profound?? It's probably the deepest and most emotional show I've seen. I'm sorry, you don't have to answer, haha, not trying to start an argument - I just had to get it out.

My Fair Lady bored me out of my skull. As did Phantom - for me all of the songs sounded too similiar.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Boring Shows#13

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:23pm

Me and my friends were seconds away from sleeping at Million Dollar Quartet.

[jasonf]

Boring Shows#14

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:29pm

"newintown - This is a whole other topic, but I'm sorry I just have to say it, how does Next To Normal pretend to be profound?? It's probably the deepest and most emotional show I've seen. I'm sorry, you don't have to answer, haha, not trying to start an argument - I just had to get it out.

My Fair Lady bored me out of my skull. As did Phantom - for me all of the songs sounded too similiar."

I'm sorry - did you just defend Next to Normal and then trash My Fair Lady???

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[Almira]

Boring Shows#15

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:30pm

Gotta say LES MISERABLES.

Found it tiresome, whinny... and worst of all.. boring.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Updated On: 6/28/10 at 04:30 PM

[wdwfreak]

Boring Shows#16

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:32pm

Lion King... The most boring show I have ever seen and conteplated leaving at intermission.

[Liz7]

Boring Shows#17

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:33pm

LES MISERABLES

[wonderfulwizard11]

Boring Shows#18

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:37pm

Dr. Doolittle on tour, with The Lion King a close second.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[twinbelters]

Boring Shows#19

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:38pm

"Wendell and Ben" starring Dan Laurie and Fred Savage in a two-man play was the most excruciating theater experience of my life and I keep being reminded of it today because Dan Laurie keeps flashing up on the BroadwayWorld TV to the right.

Aida was surprisingly boring, at least in Chicago, and I barely remember anything about it.

There was also this off-Broadway musical adaptation of the gay comic strip Jeffrey in 98/99 that was completely amateurish and poorly written. It was extremely hard to sit through.

With Irma you gotta do something!

Updated On: 6/28/10 at 04:38 PM

[MeggilyWeggily08]

Boring Shows#20

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:57pm

I'm sorry, yes I did; however, My Fair Lady was either a regional or touring production when I was 11 (short attention span?). So, I take it that it was better on Broadway? I'd seriously hope so. But even listening to the music more recently, I can't stand it.

[Bettyboy72]

Boring Shows#21

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:57pm

Thanks for reminding me about The Lion King. I wanted to tear my eyes and ears off. It was expensive children's theatre. I have no idea why adults want to see this show.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[AC126748]

Boring Shows#22

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:58pm

The Norman Conquests--I saw 2/3s of it and spent the entire time with my eyes glued to my watch.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[denali.fire]

Boring Shows#23

Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:59pm

Nick and Nora Cats Urinetown Secret Garden

To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......

[husk_charmer]

Boring Shows#24

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:02pm

I found Phantom (at least on tour) to be the worst thing I had ever seen in my entire life.

Also not a fan of Les Miz, Forum or Hairspray.

And, Gotham, I saw a college production of "A Lie of the Mind" that I swear to God, played for four hours. We all dozed off, multiple times.

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