Boring Shows- Page 4

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 6:55am

Phantom
All Shook Up
Story of My Life
Curtains (I know I am in a tiny minority here!)
Burn the Floor. (I just wanted to die.)

Movin' Out was tough if you couldn't MULTI-task? REALLY? I can understand it not being someone's cup of tea...but I never felt I was juggling balls watching it. (I loved, btw. Saw it twice.)

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 7:29am

Mary Stuart and Les Mis.

[Marinacat]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 7:30am

It's still Legs Diamond for me.

[once a month]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 8:23am

THOU SHALT NOT
Marie Christine
A Catered Affair
Passion
Andre Heller's Wonderhouse

5 out of 309 ain't bad!~

[chrissydee]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 8:30am

Agree with The Lion King.....

And for those of us "lucky" enough to live in London we can be bored stupidly by the piece of crap the is LOVE NEVER DIES!!!!

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 8:46am

Weez, I too was bored out of my skull by The Bridge Project's production of THE TEMPEST. It's not one of Shakespeare's best works to begin with, and they sucked all the life out of it. If I wasn't smack-dab in the middle of a row, I would have left.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 8:58am

I'm prepared to get slammed for this, but I couldn't even FINISH the DVD of "Sunday in the Park With George". As for boring shows that I've actually seen live, Camelot and Beauty and the Beast tie for the prize (then again, the productions I saw were TERRIBLE).

[MariusPontmercy]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 9:05am

Last year's West End production of Three Days of Rain and the current Headlong Theatre production of Salome, both directed by Jamie Lloyd, were two shows where I genuinely started to wonder if time had actually stopped. I'm now dreading his production of Passion (not a favourite of mine anyway) in London later this year which I'm already booked to see.

[bryan2]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 9:26am

london-les miz----fell asleep
broadway- lion king 1st 10 minutes awesome
the rest is sooooooooooooooooo boring
PASSION is the worst most boring show ever

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 9:48am

"It's still Legs Diamond for me."

Even though, I'd probably hate it, part of me wishes I'd seen it. But only because I grew up (and still live) around the corner from the rooming house where the real Legs Diamond was shot.

Most boring for me...

Cats...though I like a song or two.
Starlight Express...again, I actually like a song or two, but even the supposed novelty of people on skates playing trains wasn't enough to keep me interested
Company...but ONLY the Doyle revival

[tamra2]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 9:55am

ragtime (though this recent production was really well done, the show just is dull)

make me a song (actually fell asleep during it, which i felt wicked bad about but i just couldn't keep my eyes open)

wicked (minus a few select moments)

Les Miz

The recent Guys and Dolls

Prayer's For My Enemy
Updated On: 6/29/10 at 09:55 AM

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 10:23am

Jazzy-- Uh-oh, I'm about to watch the DVD for Sunday in the Park in about ten minutes. Hopefully it doesn't bore me too much, since I spent TWO DAYS downloading it off of iTunes, thanks to lots of power outages and computer failures. I have the cast recording, and it's been haunting my brain for days.

EDIT: No, that was not boring at all for me... although the end of Act One seemed long to me. Act Two seemed really short in comparison-- it made me want more, because I felt like I didn't really know George 2.0.

Updated On: 6/29/10 at 10:23 AM

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 10:34am

I found the Second Act of Sunday boring when I first watched it, but after the second or third time, I did enjoy it more. I still feel that it could be better; either make it longer and give people more characterization, or cut it down to the bare bones.

Passion I've tried to watch two or three times, and I'm gonna try another time soon, but I still find it tedious. Love the music, but the show drags. And with no intermission, it really strains your patience.

But The Light in the Piazza gets the prize for the most boring show for me. I've tried watching the Live from Lincoln Center recording before, but I couldn't get through it. I stopped early in the second act.

[TheKandyLife]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 10:54am

Phantom Of The Opera....i seen it twice...only because the first time i was ill and felt like sleeping and didnt really remember the rest of act 2, so went a second time, after about 30 mins into act 1 i was bored out my tree...i found my self asking "i wonder what their thinking on stage right now....how many layers are there to that costume etcc.."

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 10:59am

Anything Goes - sparkling score and witty lyrics, but then they end and the actors are stuck struggling with a 'story' that should barely last ten minutes and jokes that even the weakest daytime sitcom would reject.

Thoroughly Modern Mille - much the same as above, but without the sparkling score and witty lyrics.

Notre Dame de Paris - endless europop karaoke-style.

But top honours go to the recent (but fast-closing) London production of Gone with the Wind - the only time I have actually fallen asleep in the theatre.

[CurtainCall2]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 11:34am

A Little Night Music

[degrassifan]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 12:12pm

Community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz".

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 12:55pm

Passion
The Wedding Singer
Phantom of the Opera
Coram Boy

[robinycus2]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:04pm

I disliked Marie Christine. Snoozefest.
Updated On: 6/29/10 at 01:04 PM

[jasonf]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:06pm

Given some of the shows some people on here think are boring, I'd love to know what shows they LIKE!

The most "boring" shows I can remember on Broadway that I saw were Tarzan and The Pirate Queen.

I've seen countless "boring" regional shows, but it's not the shows themselves that were at fault (after all, I once fell asleep during a production of The King and I - and that's one of my favorite shows!)

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:16pm

Fantasticks
Paradise Found
Fiddler on the Roof

[tazber]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:19pm

Phantom bored me to tears. I love ALW, but for some reason I just could not get into that show live. I even love the score.

[Elke]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:22pm

In recent memory... The Philanthropist and The Grand Manner

[Renart]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:29pm

I know I'm being sacrilegious but I just didn't care for Company. I saw it in community theater but it was well cast, well acted, well sung and well directed. The problem was the play itself. I didn't care about a single character up there. You know it's bad when even a community theater audience didn't give it a standing ovation.

Otherwise I've been pretty happy with the musicals I've seen. I liked some more than others but I wouldn't say I was "bored" during them.

Plays on the other hand...

A Delicate Balance - Holy cow! Nothing happens! People left after the second act because they thought it was over. Problem was, the third act leaves you just as unsatisfied.

Night of the Iguana - Absolutely no idea what happened. I was more interested in the rain effects the Guthrie Theater used than the actual play.

Dancing at Lughnasa - That's it?? That's a Tony winning play??

And the winner (loser) is...

Three Sisters by Anton Chekov. Classic schmlassic. I was almost in tears I was so bored.

[zepka102]

Posted: 6/29/10 at 1:34pm

LoveMusik. But sitting front row center kept the challenge going of looking interested, when what I really wanted to do was slit my eyelids with my playbill.

Billy Elliott was a total bore for me, even though I felt the cast was excellent. I just found I didn't really care where the story was going.