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Sondheimite---is it really the worst show you ever seen in your entire life with the funniest performance you've ever seen in your entire life?

What are the odds of both being in the same production? It's like lightning striking twice for you.

Such superlatives. Have you only seen one show ever in your entire life?

best12bars said: "Sondheimite---is it really the worst show you ever seen in your entire life with the funniest performance you've ever seen in your entire life?

What are the odds of both being in the same production? It's like lightning striking twice for you.

Such superlatives. Have you only seen one show ever in your entire life?"

Have you really not heard the expression "so bad that it's good"? It's an elusive comedy "subgenre" where individual thresholds are a mystery given the cognitive dissonance, so it's not something that can be planned well; only a few things have managed such cult status. There are lists of films and such that break this wall and are thus "worth seeing" (I put that in quotes because I'm not interested in such things). Sharknado comes to mind. It's so hideously bad on paper, and I refuse to see it, yet there's a three-film franchise with spin-offs and a video game? What the heck.

The worst film I had ever seen, which happens to be in the 1970s disaster genre, was Meteor, starring Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, and other big names. It was just bad, though, and clearly did not break that wall because it's credited with destroying the film studio. So I wonder if Disaster can break enough thresholds into the "so bad it's good" territory to be commercially viable; at least it has for a few here.

I would happily see Plan 9 From Outer Space or perhaps even better Glen Or Glenda on stage....but a satire of 70's disaster movies would seem to be a little...late.

Oh my God! Someone give me a comp to this immediately! Where are MY comps???!!! How have I been forgotten????!!!!

Now, Toeknail’s skill as a shill is undeniable

But what do we have in common?

WE’RE RELIABLE WITH THE LADIES!

OMG...Thank you so much for that. I can even picture you doing the choreography.

best12bars said: "Sondheimite---is it really the worst show you ever seen in your entire life with the funniest performance you've ever seen in your entire life?

What are the odds of both being in the same production? It's like lightning striking twice for you.

Such superlatives. Have you only seen one show ever in your entire life?

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Are you this cool in real life or just on the Internet, bb?

What's the show curtain like?

Indeed they do

Well for Valentine's Day, I went on TodayTix and bought myself a ticket to see Disaster!... Where does one even begin with a show like this? Disaster! is so shockingly awful that it is unbelievable. It is hard to fathom how something THIS bad can end up being produced on Broadway. That being said Disaster! is one of those shows that is so atrociously awfully that it's good.

The show is a giant camptastic mess that had me grinning from ear to ear from beginning to end. I think it will be a long time before there is another star studded mess of this magnitude. It was amazing seeing so many talented performers in a show so terrible. I thought the cast was excellent minus Seth Rudetsky is particularly bad.

My head is still reeling from what I just saw. I'm very new to living in the city, but this marked my 99th Broadway show I have seen (yes, I keep count). I have never seen anything like this show on a Broadway stage. In fact, I have never seen something like this even on a cruise ship or at a local dinner theatre. I have seen better scenic designs at the (now closed) dinner theatre in my hometown.

I really don't know how to describe this show. For a show that was so horrible, I definitely had a great time. If you can get a comp or a cheap ticket, I would definitely recommend checking this one out for yourself. Sorry my thoughts are all over the place, but like i said earlier, where does one begin with a show like this?

Saw it yesterday matinee. The orchestra was completely packed and the audience very responsive, including the standing ovation at the end (not that that means anything, of course).

I had read all the comments here and got pretty much what I expected. Much of it I found VERY funny and well done. Yes, it is a parody, and yes actors speak in "bad actor" monotones or "staginess". Do they sometimes seem like community theatre or bad dinner theatre actors (or the has been-never-very-good actors that appeared in those disaster films)? Sure. That's the point, and I still think some here don't get the difference between parody or camp and serious musicals (which includes musical comedies). The nun was amazingly good (the only actor I didn't know of, by the way). Voices were great, Rachel York sang the hell out of those songs and was very, very good in my book. But I have to agree it dragged on too long. The whole rat thing failed miserably. Faith Prince tearing off her skirt to save them ala Shelley Winters was hysterical. The little boy/little girl gimmick got old eventually, but the kid was just terrific and the whole idea was hilarious for the first 5 or 6 bits. And I even think Seth was pretty perfectly cast in his role. Could he have been any nerdier?

I saw Silence, the Musical off Broadway, and I think this is a far better parody -- certainly a lot more fun, with bigger musical numbers, and just generally funnier. But Disaster would work far better in a downplayed version, smaller theatre -- perhaps back to its original off Broadway roots. Or would it? Isn't part of the whole fun of Disaster that it is so big scale and overblown -- just like those disaster movies they are spoofing?

Updated On: 2/15/16 at 08:43 AM

I don't think this is analogous in any way to Honeymoon, which Brantley most loved for its excellent original score, other than that it is a comedy. And at the Nederlander.

This kind of thing is right up Isherwood's alley usually.

Updated On: 2/15/16 at 09:51 AM

They have general rush tickets for $30. I got two at 4 pm last Friday afternoon.

Mish2, I don't disagree with much of what you say, but why compare it to THAT list of shows? Are there other silly parodies you can compare it to? Sort of like saying "I saw Mama Mia and it was no Death of a Salesman."