Boring Shows
Boring Shows
#1Boring Shows
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.
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broadwayboy101
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#3Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:38pmfinians rainbow, grinch
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#4Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:39pmThe Light in the Piazza
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:59pmSome 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.
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#8Boring Shows
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
#9Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:03pmThe Designated Mourner was excrutiating.
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#10Boring Shows
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.
#11Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:08pmI 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.
#12Boring Shows
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.
#13Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:23pmMe and my friends were seconds away from sleeping at Million Dollar Quartet.
#14Boring Shows
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???
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#15Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:30pm
Gotta say LES MISERABLES.
Found it tiresome, whinny... and worst of all.. boring.
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Updated On: 6/28/10 at 04:30 PM
#16Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:32pmLion King... The most boring show I have ever seen and conteplated leaving at intermission.
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#18Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:37pmDr. Doolittle on tour, with The Lion King a close second.
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#19Boring Shows
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.
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Updated On: 6/28/10 at 04:38 PM
#20Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:57pmI'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.
#21Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:57pmThanks 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
#22Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:58pmThe 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
#23Boring Shows
Posted: 6/28/10 at 4:59pmNick and Nora Cats Urinetown Secret Garden
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#24Boring Shows
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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