Explain your favorite broadway show horribly- Page 2

[stage-n-screen]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 11:01am

A painter obsessed with painting a bunch of obnoxious Parisians pisses off his girlfriend so much that she moves to the U.S.  Two generations later, a stuck-in-a-rut artist that may be the painter's great-grandson heads to Paris and realizes he needs to stop brooding and get on with it.

[MyLife]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 11:15am

Everything is better as a haiku:

 

Quirky children spell

One is allergic to nuts

Ex-con gives out hugs

[GeorgeandDot]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 11:18am

Guy goes to Berlin.  Gets girl pregnant.  Girl gets an abortion.  Nazis.  Alan Cumming.  There's an old couple and a prostitute somewhere in there too.  Guy writes a book about it.

 

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 11:38am

Two women in Illinois shoot people, everyone dances.

[miminy]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 12:07pm

Gold digging, widowed busy-body seduces rude, narcissistic
miser while young people dance and sing.

 

 

 

 

[ggersten]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 12:22pm

 

EDITED PER REQUEST TO ID SHOWS (although I thought mine were pretty obvious)

Teen with skin condition steals Prom Queen's boyfriend - and does bad job trying to start a revolution.  (Wicked)

So, there's this family. The mother is dead inside, the daughter is dying emotionally, the father is dead tired and the son is dead.  Then things get worse. (Next to Normal)

A bunch of people tell total strangers the most intimate details of their lives to be in a bad Broadway musical that probably closes on opening night. (A Chorus Line)

It's a history lesson in song about really messed up people.  (Assassins)

Updated On: 9/13/17 at 12:22 PM

[OlliesDad]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 12:23pm

English ne'er-do-well gets hit in the head and discovers a passion for helping drag queens. Walks in a fashion show in his underwear and there's boxing. 

[The Other One]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 12:34pm

Ex-white supremacist gang leader kills his bitch's brother for killing his best friend, and in case that's not enough blood for you he gets killed by his bitch's angry-ex before they can leave town

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 12:35pm

Wooden skeletons realize war is hell, even for wooden skeletons.

 

 

(War Horse)

Updated On: 9/13/17 at 12:35 PM

[Valentina3]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 12:41pm

I don't know what HALF these shows actually are.

[Musicguy2]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 1:25pm

A group of dancers bitch about their childhood for two hours hoping the Director will hire them

[CarmenA3]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 1:27pm

Valentina3 said: "I don't know what HALF these shows actually are."

 

Me either, but they are hilarious to read.

 

can those that post include the show name at the end? Thanks!

[ggersten]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 2:04pm

CarmenA3 said: "Valentina3 said: "I don't know what HALF these shows actually are."



Me either, but they are hilarious to read.



can those that post include the show name at the end? Thanks!"

Not in order or complete but so far I've seen descriptions of:  Caroline or Change, Big Fish, Hello Dolly, Side Show, Parade, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, Anastasia, Great Comet of 1812, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Chicago, Book of Mormon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Spring Awakening, Cabaret, Fun Home, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Kinky Boots, Matilda, Come From Away, and Dear Evan Hansen.  (I think The Visit and Sweet Charity are also referenced, but I'm not 100% on those)

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 2:21pm

The frumpy girl at this academy hates the hot guy who's dating her roommate but then the hot guy helps her free a caged lion and then their relationship gets complicated, ending with him being turned into an inanimate object and them escaping out of a trap door.

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 2:24pm

four old farts go to a reunion and make it about them. They all are screaming and then in the last 20 minutes the show gets trippy, pulls a 2001 a Space Odyssey and you're like "what am I watching now?" 

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 2:43pm

2 guys wait around for nothing to happen. 2 other guys come by but that's not what they were waiting for.

[Polka Dot2]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 2:48pm

I'm cracking up. A few from me:

-A musical about 9/11

-Siamese twins in love

-Misunderstood kids spell some words

-All of your favorite fairy tales, but everyone dies

-It's like Romeo and Juliet, but in Egypt!

-Dude finds a magical town and cheats on his fiance with a gal who is probably several hundreds of years old

-Marijuana turns teens into raging zombies, sex maniacs, and cannibals (actually a great description)

[Itonlytakesajourney]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 3:01pm

Some more favorites:

- Some random poor guy is actually royalty and then brutally murders a bunch of people in his family. 

- Extremely attractive teenage boys who love screaming, choreographing cool routines, and revolting. Typewriters and paper are involved.

- Some people find it racist, but honestly it's a really thoughtful and gorgeous piece of humanity and relationships. Not Miss Saigon, but the most recent production did star someone who sort of looks like Katie Rose Clark.

- Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Musicals! Musicals! Musicals! Satire! Satire! Satire!

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 3:21pm

Someone dies.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 3:33pm

CindersGolightly said: "Hooker in a pond."

Not clever enough to add anything but this is my absolute fave.

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 4:15pm

two dirty old english men lure homeless girl into their house, take all her clothes and burn them

they feed her chocolate to get her to perform a variety of oral tricks

convince people shes actually wealthy, then get bored and kick her out, but she comes back for more in the end

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 4:20pm

Baby. Train. Asheville. Banjos.

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 4:21pm

old fat guy sleeps with unbelievably old women for money to put on bad musicals. hires accountant to cook books to actually profit from a bad musical. puts on hitler musical where nazis are winning the war and singing and dancing. acct runs off with money and hot secretary. acct feels guilty and goes to prison with old fat guy-they make a prison musical together

[asmith0307]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 4:24pm

Not a "favorite" (though I did see it twice, but...):

A young french girl becomes a woman under the watchful eyes of her two aunts - one of whom wants to partner her up with the slightly older "big brother" in her life, mostly for his money. 

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 9/13/17 at 4:26pm

Awkward kid. Dead kid. Emails. Trees.