Boring Shows- Page 2

[newintown]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:05pm

MeggilyWeggily, one man's profound is another man's banal. These are relative, not universal terms.

I'm aware that there are many who find Normal to be deep; to me it was two-dimensional. I felt it was effect-oriented, and didn't really explore the topic in an interesting way. But it's fine if you love it.

To me, the writing of My Fair Lady is worlds beyond Normal (book, music, and lyrics).

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:09pm

Chicago. I just find the whole thing boring, and I don't know why, since I enjoyed most of the shows people listed up here.

Oh, and I got really bored watching the play The Water Engine, but the theatre was putting it on as a 'radio show,' which meant we had to sit there and watch the actors stand there and talk into microphones while special effects people made noises.

[shrekster224]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:11pm

The non-eq tour of Cats was actually a fine production until, like someone said, Jennyanydots. It was a good production, and there was definitely talent there, but it was just so boring. In the Gus the Theater cat song, he has a flash back of like being the lead in a pirate show and they like re-enact the show for like 15-20 mins and I almost fell asleep. So boring.

[HumATune]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:15pm

Jersey Boys. Nothing in the show made me give a rats about the story onstage.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:18pm

Of recent memory? Red. There, I said it.

Of all-time, I remember being bored out of my mind by Rock 'n Roll, Top Girls, Finian's Rainbow, and Sunday in the Park with George (go ahead- shoot me!).

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:20pm

I almost forgot Notre Dame de Paris in London. The only time I actually fell asleep during a show.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:32pm

"Of recent memory? Red. There, I said it. "

I'll agree with you on that one. I wanted to like it but I just couldn't get into it.

[philly03]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:36pm

I'm with newintown... thought next to normal was relatively boring. There were some scenes that made up for the overall boredom, but still boring.

Napoleon (in London & Toronto) brought boring to a new level. There's about 6 or 7 good songs, but at three hours, it's rough. History lessons seemed to be thrown into the already low-level plot. Atleast it was marvelous to look at!

I used to think Ragtime was boring and it certainly has the potential to. I think I was taken too into the overly expensive scenic design and distractions in the other, and of course, there's always a bad regional production that can set a bad image in your brain. However the revival definitely changed my mind 100%.

Others: The Scarlet Pimpernel 1.0, The Civil War, first half of the first act of Sunday..., Hair, 13

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:40pm

Jersey Boys. Nothing in the show made me give a rats about the story onstage.

But didn't you see it twice? (Of course, I saw The Light in the Piazza twice, but one time was free. )

Oh yeah, and I forgot Ragtime.

Updated On: 6/28/10 at 05:40 PM

[xoffender45]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:43pm

Spring Awakening.

I saw it the performance after it won its Tony, in the standing room. It would have been the first time I fell asleep standing up, had it not been to the sobbing fangirls standing next to me.
Updated On: 6/28/10 at 05:43 PM

[twinbelters]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:47pm

I had blocked Civil War out!!! That was horrrrrrible, truly grueling.

[KT1385]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:47pm

I would rather have a root canal with rusty tools and no anesthesia then sit through "Swing!" ever again.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:49pm

Civil War was the first show I ever saw. I don't remember anything about it though lol

[I'mNOTthatGIRL72]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 5:55pm

the movie version of NINE was awful. awful, awful, awful. my friend and i are huge broadway fans and we went to see it together. she fell asleep, and i just started day dreaming. can anyone who has ever seen it on stage tell me it's a better show live? i enjoyed a few songs but the twenty mins of dialogue in between each number were actually painful. of all the musicals they could have made into movies, they pick the most boring one out there. i didn't care about this stupud selfish director and his many women. i understand the idea of 'anti hero', but guido was just an ass. no sympathy for him whatsoever, and therefore i stopped caring about the story.

[romgitsean]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 6:00pm

I once sat through a high school production of Arcadia and was short of suicide.

I don't find n2n boring, but I do think it is pretentious to an extent. It has some really good moments in it, but there are a few really melodramatic moments in it that I wish would be changed. And the character development sucks as well.

But then again, some people thought Enron was boring, and I loved it (though I'll admit the first act runs a little long)

[chellie]

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

Agreed wholeheartedly on Cats. It bored me and there's just something that creeps me out about the whole thing.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 6:14pm

When I finally saw (some of) Cats on PBS I was shocked by what an obvious dud it was, but since it follows no storyline and the entertainment is mostly from music and movement I realized it was easily a hit with non-English speaking tourists. It was basically an expensive carnival ride with a Tony winning Betty Buckley and a name composer as some draw. Plus, didn't it have scary devoted fans who would return over and over again covered in Cats memorabilia? Someone find me a photo.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 6:19pm

Dividing the Estate
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Movin' Out
Next to Normal
Next Fall
Spring Awakening

[Weez]

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

The Bridge Project production of The Tempest. I think the play's quite difficult to do well, and I can't fault the individuals, but the production as a whole was the most boring evening I've spent in a theatre for quite some time. :/

[ArtMan]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 7:22pm

Passion

[singtopher]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 7:23pm

My high school's production of MacBeth.

[MeggilyWeggily08]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 7:30pm

And I respect that :)

My high school, middle school, and elementary school productions of...everything.

I did not like Chicago at all, I wouldn't say it was boring, I just hated it.

[HumATune]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 7:31pm

But didn't you see it twice?

Yes, Lizzie, I did. I was trying to give it a second chance thinking that maybe I missed something the first time because so many people were raving about it.

I learned my lesson and did not make that same mistake with In The Heights. That wasn’t boring, but the music made me want to kill things.

Updated On: 6/28/10 at 07:31 PM

[rjm516]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 7:32pm

Forever and always the worst, A Catered Affair
The second act of Chicago
A Little Night Music (this revival)

[Kevn520]

Posted: 6/28/10 at 7:35pm

Cats and Phantom. Phantom was the first show I ever saw and I think I was taken in by the visual distractions tossed at the audience. On a second viewing last year I wanted to leave by intermission.

Recently, The Burnt Part Boys was perhaps one of the most excruciatingly boring shows to sit through (when it was 2 acts).