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Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
#75re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 6:14pm
Wicked
Hairspray
Rent
Phantom
Music Man (revival)
Edit: Cats also.
Updated On: 6/28/05 at 06:14 PM
#76re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 6:16pm
THE VIOLET HOUR is the only show i've ever seen on broadway that bored me. MARIO CANTONE was the only relief.
i had an experience with AMADEUS on broadway similar to BobbyBuddy's ... the show was great ... but i was just so tired from trapsing all over nyc that i kept nodding off ... maddening!
RIP glebby <3
Gwendydd
Swing Joined: 4/27/05
#77re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 6:55pmI fell asleep during the London production of Fame. Other than that, never.
#78re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:26am
The Women in White- I saw it in london this past winter it was entirely too long and the songs where not interesting to the ear
Caroline or Change-just bad I left at intermission. I love Tony Kushner but WTF?
The Lion King- a 15 minute "can you feel the love"? You've got to be kidding, the costumes however were awesome
Mambo Kings-ABSOLUTLEY TERRIBLE I left at intermisssion to go get dinner. The dacing was very impressive but after a while it became repetitive and thereby not as exciting.
#79re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:32amOh I also forgot the producers <--- that was absolutley terrible granted I saw the SF tour which is notorious for not being great
#80re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:32amI fell asleep during Seussical... man... it was...BOOOOORRRING.
#81re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 7:00amoh Yes...Urban Cowboy (which I walked out on at intermission).
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#82re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:04amMy second time seeing The Lion King tour in Baltimore last week. I thought that it would be breathtaking again, or at least interesting. The entire second act, my best friend and I tried our hardest to regain the circulation in our legs (due to the Hippodrome's terribly small leg space) and seeing who could not swallow their gum...and I am a theatre nazi. It's seemed like a private high school production, where they have a lot of money, but not the talent. Waste of $170 dollars!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#83re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:10amFive minutes into STOMP, I was out like a light.
stacey
Swing Joined: 6/27/05
#84re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 8:15amI fell asleep during Cats. So boring.
#85re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:32am
Notre Dame de Paris - I did rouse at one point to see people swinging in bells, but assumed that it was a particularly surreal dream... Turned out it was actually part of the show!
Beautiful and Damned was pretty painful, but was in so much pain from the uncomfortable seating and zero legroom that I was unable to actually drop off.
Anything Goes - in my defence, I was in an unairconditioned theatre at the height of summer, under the over hang of the circle and had had possibly a touch too much red wine. I did go back and see it again (sober), but was just as bored.
Footloose. Though I got my entertainment from watching the drunken hen party in the audience trying to work out why that "i'm going to live forever" song wasn't in the show.
#86re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:20am
Let's see. There's been a few!
- Les Miz on tour (not as good as Bway. Loved it in NYC, it was just boring on tour)
- Aida on Bway (I went to see Maya Days but she wasnt there that night (she's a friend of the family) and I did actually fall asleep, but I really liked Adam and Idina)
- Cats on tour (I was 8. My best friend and I fell asleep lol! We were in like the last row of the balcony!)
- The Music Man on tour (The only reason I DIDN'T fall asleep was because my friend was Amaryllis! LOL!)
- Oklahoma on tour (First act dragged a bit, second act was better. My best friend thought the same. We didn't fall asleep like we did during Cats, though!)
- Little Shop of Horrors on Bway (It wasn't BORING per say, but I fell asleep, after waking up at 5:00 AM that day to see Clay Aiken at GMA, and being up until 1:00 AM the night before to meet Kristin Chenoweth after Wicked! LOL!)
AngelofAvenueB
Understudy Joined: 3/1/05
#87re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:41am
eh, i was really bored during wicked. maybe it was just an off night for the cast, but the only person i could find myself paying attention to was david ayers (fiyero).
also, a local production of our town bored the hell out of me.
forget regret...
cabarethed
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#88re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:52am
A college theatre production of Waiting For Godot. I almost literally ripped my hair out, and the only reason I didn't leave was because I had a review to write for class. However, I ended up getting a good grade b/c apparently my angst translated into an appropriate review.
I also conked out during Mandy Patinkin's Sondheim one-man show. Was only there for my mom, and she was mortified every time I jolted awake to join in the applause.
On Broadway I dozed during Into The Woods, the second time I saw After the Fall (I have a Krause obsessed best friend, and seeing that production twice nominated me for sainthood), and embarrasingly enough, I Am My Own Wife. I really liked that one, there were just so many external factors that knocked me out. There are others I've been bored at, just never actually closed my eyes during.
#89re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 10:59am
BKLYN
Good Vibrations
Sweet Charity
Wonderful Town
Man of la Mancha
It goes on and on and on
RYANWOODS
Leading Actor Joined: 1/10/05
#90re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:26am
The Woman In White - the most boringest show ever
Joseph (current London revival)
If it wasnt for some of the music then Chicago would be up there - not a fan of how its staged.
#91re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:29am
Jeckyll & Hyde
Cabaret
Phantom of the Opera
Dracula
Take Me Out
All My Sons (That one takes the cake)
Les miserables (after the 10th time)
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#92re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 11:54am
Cats
Aspects of Love (both ALW)
Bedtime Farce
Mass Appeal
Da!
Al Pacino's Richard III
teh_pretty
Featured Actor Joined: 4/2/05
#93re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 12:04pmBrigadoon. I actually couldn't sit through it. It was so boring and predictable.
perfectliar
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#94re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:30pm
The only show I've seen on Broadway that I was insanely bored with was Once Upon a Mattress with Sarah Jessica Parker.
But I've seen a LOT of boring community and regional shows: Oliver!, 1776, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The Music Man, Footloose, West Side Story, South Pacific, Honk!, and Smokey Joe's Cafe to name a few.
#95re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:48pm
Sometimes, you just get the nods in a show whether you're bored or not. It could be a factor of the temperature in the theater, what you just ate/drank beforehand, etc. Put me in a dark room, in a (relatively) comfy chair, and I'm OUT.
At any rate, getting the nods during a show BITES (and not in the good way).
Regardless...
Nods due to utter BOREDOM...
THE CHAIRS
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
SPEED THE PLOW
Itty Bitty Geisha?
Toyland?
Gypsy Pasadoble?
Just a few popular favorites...
#96re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 1:49pm
Mamma Mia- Just didn't do it for me
Several of the scenes just seemed to never end making the show highly tedious
"I need to know that someone out there cares...Are you there?"
#97re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 2:09pmThe only show I've ever gotten bored at was one my boyfriend was involved in in high school called "Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet too". It was a HORRIBLE show, stupid plot and book was just...*shudder* even the actors thought it was bad and their lines were delivered apologetically. I wanted to leave at intermission, well actually 10 minutes in lol But I promised him that I'd come see his show so I just let my mind wander until the pain was over.
Totale finsternis, ein meer von gefuehl und kein land
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#98re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 4:09pm
I have friends who were so bored at a bad rock opera based on Hamlet called Rockabye Hamlet that they moved to the last row of the rear mezz at the Minskoff and had congress on the floor. This was in about 1975.
Every time I am upstairs at the Minskoff I think of this couple now happily married 25 years with 2 grown children.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
jflynn
Chorus Member Joined: 1/29/05
#99re: Have you ever gotten bored at a play or musical? If so, what was it?
Posted: 6/28/05 at 9:08pmUpdated On: 12/31/09 at 09:08 PM
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