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Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
#25re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:32amI remember seeing a community theater production of Godspell that was at least 3 hours long! They kept adding things....and the tempos were ridiculously slow....and then there was my very dear Jewish friend next to me who kept saying "I don't get it...what's the story?" Yeah....it was quite boring!
#26re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 10:55am
"Capeman"
"Titanic" (granted, I saw the 3rd preview performance which ran just over 3hrs. After the opening number, I couldn't wait for the damn thing to sink.)
Mamet's "The Old Neighborhood"
"Juan Darien"
"Whistle Down the Wind"
"The Chairs"
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#27re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:22pm
Haha, popculture, some of these people you REALLY have to simplify for.
Now that I think about it, I started to drift my attention a bit at DOUBT. I wasn't entirely thrilled by it and almost dozed off at one point.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#28re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:31pm
Recently:
African Sing - NEPAD the Musical
In case you are wondering what NEPAD is, it's an economic policy for the African continent. Reading the 400 pages plus document was more interesting that going throughthe show.
elphie30
Understudy Joined: 2/5/05
#29re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:38pmI walked out on the producers with steven weber he sucked as leo bloom the guy playing maz was good
Save him please, just save him
My poor Boq, my sweet, my brave him
Don't leave me till my sorry life has scene
Alone and loveless here, just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me, the Wicked Witch of the East
#30re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:38pm
I was bored out of my mind during Little Women.
And anytime Brooke Shields was on stage during Wonderful Town.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
morebroadwayplease
Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/05
#31re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:41pmI got really bored in this community production of Little Red Riding Hood and another community production of Snow White. Jeez they were cheesy -- I can't believe I didn't learn after seeing one of the community ones, but no, I had to go back for seconds. Ughh, they were bad!
"I'll bet that you're Kristin Chenoweth MBP!"
Di2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/18/04
#32re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:50pm
Miss Saigon on Broadway was horrible..
Mamma Mia tour was a snoozer...too many teens in that show..I felt like I was watching a high school production and some of those people are actually my friends..
Grease.....yuck yuck yuck
#33re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:57pm
Aida
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#34re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:13pm
The second act of Into the Woods got a little tiny bit boring...VERY long.
CATS was boring from beginning to end.
What the puck?!
#35re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:19pmDracula, Beauty and the Beast--after a while I had to just tune out Brooke Tansley's sobbing delivery of every line. Ugh.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#36re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:20pmCats and Lion King. I'm just not big on the dancing.
#37re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:22pmI went to the closing performance of On Golden Pond yesterday, because I wanted to see Charles Turner as Norman. I had already seen it (in DC) with J.E.J., and was not a fan of the show. Yesterday, I felt that the only way I was going to be able to keep my eyes open was if I pulled a Clockwork Orange.
#38re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:22pmi was greatly let down by the producers on tour!
"Needless to say the crew is well acquainted with my ass and that's ok because they are the coolest guys ever."
- Idina Menzel
musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#39re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:31pma local prodcution of Godspell -- that I was actually *in*!
#40re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:32pmDirty Rotten Scoundrels was just about the most boring experience I have ever had in a Broadway theatre. The Frogs was also pretty horrendous.
"I sang it because I'm your friend."
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#41re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:38pmI'm not sure
#42re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:39pmmusicnmath...wasn't the same one i went to was it???? This show was in Altoona, PA...I only went to see it because a friend of a friend was in it! LOL
#43re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:42pmMOVIN OUT-THE LION KING-LITTLE WOMEN-BROOKLYN-THE PRODUCERS-CATS-LES MIZ-ALTAR BOYZ-RAGTIME-
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
broadwayboy1939
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
#44re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:46pm
Not professional, just local theater shows.
But they were :
Death of a Salesman
Anyone Can Whistle
Peter Pan
"Sometimes when you dream, your dreams come true..."
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#45re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:48pm
I almost fell asleep near the end of the first act of Cats at The Muny last summer - horrbile.
Hey, freeadmission: was "The Importance of Being Frank" a spoof in any way of "The Importance of Being Earnest?"
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"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#46re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:53pm
Wendy - HA!! Nope...mine was in Colorado Springs. That makes 2 really boring Godspell productions. Anyone else? 
#47re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 1:55pmI was very bored in CATS in London, some years ago. On Broadway I got a little bored at some places in BRKLYN and lately, again in London I almost dozed off at some points in THE WOMAN IN WHITE.
Yankgrl46
Understudy Joined: 12/1/04
#48re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:00pmRight before it closed, a few friends and myself went to go see Cabaret. I found my eyes closing several times throughout the entire play. I probably took about 5 power naps throughout the show.
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#49re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:06pm
Cats for me - my mom and I saw a tour when it came to Baltimore and it was wretched. I don't see the allure of this show...
Other than that, our college productions are sometimes rather, um, lacking in the excitement factor. I go see them because my roommate and friends are usually in them, but ugh... sometimes it's hard to stay focused! School for Scandal comes to mind first... even my roommate said she found it boring - and she was in it!
~Jessica
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
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