Have You Ever Felt Ripped Off After Seeing A Show?- Page 3

[Ruth Sherwood]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 3:59pm

I really didn't like one thing about "Wicked," including "Defying Gravity." The performances were nothing special, again not worth $101.25. So yes, I did feel completely ripped off.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:00pm

I'm not a huge Hairspray fan, either.

[ScottInLA]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:14pm

I don't remember if I felt ripped off necessarily, but while cleaning, I recently come across my Playbill from the tour of "Aspects of Love", and my first thought was "My god, I paid money to see that...".

[BialyBloomInc02]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:20pm

Big League Theatricals put out this particular tour (it caused quite a bit of controversy when it first started up), and it was just very poor. The scrims were tired and wrinkled as can be, the set pieces were shabby, horribly canned music in places, and the actors just were less than inspired. It was truly unfortunate, as I heard so many wonderful things about Stroman's 2000 revival..

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:20pm

Oh lord Aspects of Love was a piece of crap. Thank God I didn't pay for it.

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:22pm

The Chicago tour.

[LuvUrBatBoy]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:33pm

Dont castrate me over this:

I was so let down by Bernadette Peters in Gypsy. Granted I did see it early in the run but I found her to be (as Ive said before on this board) wooden, making rudimentary acting mistakes, and not in character at all. She did get better in act 2, but up til that point I couldnt understand what the fuss about seeing her live was about. She was nothing special.

Marissa Jaret Winokur however, when I saw Hairspray later that week, blew my socks off. She earned that Tony award.

[LuvUrBatBoy]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:33pm

Dont castrate me over this:

I was so let down by Bernadette Peters in Gypsy. Granted I did see it early in the run but I found her to be (as Ive said before on this board) wooden, making rudimentary acting mistakes, and not in character at all. She did get better in act 2, but up til that point I couldnt understand what the fuss about seeing her live was about. She was nothing special.

Marissa Jaret Winokur however, when I saw Hairspray later that week, blew my socks off. She earned that Tony award.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:35pm

luvyourbatboy i have the exact opposite impressions of those two performers in those two roles. Bernadette blew me a way. While Melissa I found to annoy me on stage and found her acting very sophomorish.

[Jwaa]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:37pm

125th Street and Beautiful and the Damned...

the first being worst.

[chess12]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:38pm

I loved ASPECTS OF LOVE, although I can understand why people don't like it. I even liked the tour version that I saw in Memphis way back in the '90's. It's still my favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber show to play the CD.

[LuvUrBatBoy]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:47pm

Her acting to be very sophomorish? She's playing a 16 year old. And she's in a parody of 60's period comedies. I found it perfect.

Compare this to Bernadette who I caught 2x responding to stimuli before they even happened.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:49pm

Maybe Bernadette was having a bad day since found her timing to be right now.

I guess its the show then since but I did not like Melissa at all.

[Sant]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 4:59pm

Yes I have, twice.

First after seeing the most terrible musical ever, NOTRE DAME DE PARIS in London. Total waste of my time and money!

Second time after seeing DRACULA THE MUSICAL. Material was good (the story) but the result was quite awful. Not as bad as NDDP though...

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 5:12pm

Well, not exactly ripped off, since I didn't hate it, but I felt that BKLYN didn't deserve a $100

Take care

[EVIE]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 5:46pm

The Producer's, Phantom and and the current tour of Grease (all seen in SF). Not worth the $60 tickets!!

[Amneris]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:01pm

Amour lord..won't even go into that. Music Man was like someone slit my wrist. and Crazy for you.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:31pm

La Cage aux Folles
Never Gonna Dance
Dracula
Wicked
The Producers
Bye Bye Birdie (Encores)

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:34pm

to tell you the truth, aida as well as les miz and Phantom. Oh and cats!

[Macy2]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:34pm

There was a tour of "Grease" I saw a few years ago that -- I think -- was produced by Tommy Tune (does that sound right?). It was like Grease on speed -- all fluorescent colours and an extra-hyper cast singing the songs like they had been challenged to see just how fast they could sing them. It was hideous and I left with a headache.

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:36pm

The tour of Mamma Mia.

It was bad. Very, very, bad.

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:46pm

Les Miserable was dreadful onstage.......saw in on Broadway right after it opened.....Les Miz is one of those shows you can love IF YOU KNOW THE CD before hand......

The show barely got curtain call applause at its tenth or so performance after opening on Broadway. Many people left at intermission....I guess many others were asleep.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:50pm

I left off:

The Boy from Oz
Aida
Mamma Mia!
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:50pm

A Stoop on Orchard Street

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 2/1/05 at 6:51pm

This isn't Broadway. But a production of "Madame Butterfly" the opera. The set was ok but it never changed once, and no one changed costumes one except (Butterfly once). I realize the emphasis is on the vocal aspect not the acting but they weren't even trying. And the singing was off in sevreal places. I don't claim to be an opera fan, but this juts sucked.