FAVORITE TOURED SHOW!

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 3:50pm

What is your favorite toured show(s) you've enjoyed seeing?
What is your least favorite toured show(s)?
Would love to hear what yours are.

Mine are:
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Evita (2013 tour)
The Lion King
The Book of Mormon
Wicked
Jersey Boys
Kinky Boots
Pippin (2014 tour)
Beauty and the Beast
ALW's The Wizard of Oz
The Phantom of the Opera


Least favorite:
Once
Porgy and Bess (2014 tour)

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 4:58pm

I enjoyed the IN THE HEIGHTS tour quite a lot.

I'd say NEXT TO NORMAL but Alice was a bit hoarse at the Matinee I saw (Pearl Sun actually went on that evening) so it kind of tarnished the experience, otherwise it was probably my favorite overall.

SOUTH PACIFIC was wonderful as well.

[Fantod]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 5:07pm

Without a doubt Next to Normal. Alice Ripley gave the most incredible live performance I've ever seen.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 5:21pm

I've seen several I liked. But the one I loved was "Angels in America: Perstroika" because it was significantly different from the Broadway production and included the Roy Cohn in hell scene.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 6:09pm

One guess.... I've bought tickets for the tour stop in San Antonio on Sat. Jan. 31, 2015...for both the 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. shows. : )

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 7:01pm

Book of Mormon (Mark Evans)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Hairspray
Wicked (it tours great)

Least favorite
Mary Poppins

[gleek4114]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 7:02pm

Best:
- Anything Goes (w/ Rachel York and Fred Applegate)
- Wicked 2010 (w/ Donna Vivino)
- Wicked 2012 (w/ Jeanna de Waal)
- The Book of Mormon 1NT (w/ Mark Evans and Chris O'Neil)(I saw it 4 times)
- Shrek
- The Addams Family (Non Equity)
- Sister Act (When Lynn temporarily replaced Hollis)

Meh:
- The Lion King
- Beauty and the Beast (Non Equity) (I liked it a lot more than Lion King but still)

Worst:
- West Side Story (Non Equity)




Updated On: 10/29/14 at 07:02 PM

[JQuad882]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 11:27pm

Best:
Book of Mormon 2NT (I saw it way too many times with numerous leads. Only 1 was not superb.)
Evita


Worst:
Bring it On (Non Equity)
American Idiot (Non Equity)
Flashdance

[RENT_is_Wicked2]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 11:49pm

Best:
Book of Mormon 1NT (Mark Evans)
Anything Goes (Rachel York)
Wicked 2NT (Christine Dwyer and Jeanna de Waal)
American Idiot
Evita (Josh Young)
Priscilla
Sister Act (2012)

Worst:
Jekyll and Hyde (Revival tour)
Flashdance

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 11/1/14 at 7:38pm

When do they usually announce shows that are going on tour?
The Pantages Theatre in LA announced their season in January.

So far the 2015-2016 season shows announced are:
-Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
-The Sound of Music

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 11/2/14 at 12:26am

Recently the national tours of EVITA, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, ANYTHING GOES with Rachel York, and THE LION KING have been fantastic! Less so GHOST, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, and CHICAGO.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 11/2/14 at 12:30am

Favorite touring shows:
-POTO (both the original and the "remake"). I saw top-notch performers as the Phantom each time (John Cudia and Tim Martin Gleason in the original version, and a terrific cover in the current tour), and the new sets are breathtaking, even though some of the stage business and costuming are downright odd.
-Sweeney Todd, many years ago at the Kennedy Center. George Hearn was Sweeney.
- Fiddler on the Roof.

Least favorite:
-My Fair Lady. Higgins was too old and fat, and some of the changes are odd. The hats at Ascot were just frisbee clones, well before the modern royals wore similar hats at Will and Kate's wedding. Also, now that the ride back to Covent Garden takes place on the underground, Freddy's line that "It's getting awfully cold in that taxi" makes no sense. I liked turning Freddy into a drunk, however.
-Book of Mormon, not because I saw it on tour and didn't like it. It's one of my least favorites because the tour tickets are so d--d expensive that I can't afford them, and they sell out in hours even in large venues.
-Jekyll and Hyde. The projections were amateurish, the show itself was too over the top, even for the over the top story, and the music was boring.
-Flashdance. Read my review on the DC page, from 12/26/13. Lots of flaws.

I haven't caught up with Wicked yet, either on tour or B'way, but I expect it will be on my favorites list, as long as the venue can support the special effects.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/2/14 at 1:29pm

Favorite:
Seen so many, it's difficult to say, but of the most recent, American Idiot.

Least Favorite:
Big

[kade.ivy]

Posted: 11/2/14 at 1:48pm

Favorites:
Wicked tours very well.
I really think the current Phantom tour is a great production.
Anything Goes with Rachel York was very well-done and well-cast I thought.
The Addams Family

Least Favorites:
Legally Blonde (way too scaled down for the road)
Non-equity Hairspray
Non-equity Beauty and the Beast

[broadwayboy972]

Posted: 11/2/14 at 1:57pm

Favorites:
Book of Mormon (1NT with Mark Evans)
Chicago
War Horse
Les Miserables (25th Anniversary Production)
The Addams Family (mediocre show but lots of fun to watch)
Wicked (like others said, it tours great)

Least Favorite:
Anything Goes (non-Equity)

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 11/2/14 at 8:23pm

Goes back a while...but my favorite toured show was Miss Saigon - It had Jon Jon Briones as the engineer...the part he currently plays in the latest London revival.

[sctrojan65]

Posted: 11/3/14 at 9:29pm

Best: Crazy For You….with Karen Ziemba (as I recall)
Worst: Urinetown

[I'm a starkid]

Posted: 11/4/14 at 10:22am

I've only seen one, but I loved it! It was Billy Elliot the last stop in the U.S. before it went to Brazil, and I am still in love with the music and the story. I found everyone in the cast (with the sad exception of the Ms. Wilkinson) to be great!

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 11/4/14 at 11:03am

Anything Goes (Rachel York) It was musical theatre at its finest.
Book of Mormon (2NT)
Billy Elliot (w/faith Prince)
In the Heights
Mary Poppins (W Stephanie Leigh)
Hairspray (06/07 non-equity tour) the cast at the time was on fire!

[stargazer2]

Posted: 11/4/14 at 1:31pm

Favorites:
Billy Elliot
Kinky Boots
Book of Mormon

Least Favorites:
Catch Me if You Can
Ghost