Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

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Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 4:31pm

Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

For example, I saw Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. He's a great actor, but the "modernized" production was terrible!

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 4:56pm

Whoa! Stop starting random threads just because you can, love.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 4:58pm

Slow down- 5 on the first page alone....wow.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 5:03pm

It is a little out of control, but to answer your question, Yes. I've seen West Side Story several times to see Karen Olivo as Anita. Aside from Josefina, the production is horrendous. Matt Cavanaugh is terrible and utterly boring. I do however love the addition of the Spanish.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 5:08pm

Sutton Foster in Young Frankenstein and Sherie Rene Scott/Heidi Blickenstaff in The Little Mermaid.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 5:52pm

Glenn Close, Mary Beth Hurt, Simon Jones and Sam Waterston in "Benefactors."

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 5:53pm

Al Pacino in Hughie

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 6:26pm

Audra McDonald in "110 in the Shade"

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 7:04pm

Heidi in Mermaid. I slept during the parts when she wasnt onsage.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 7:10pm

Overthewall, you took the words right out of my mouth. I don't wanna say I hated it. I quite like the score but a lot of the book scenes dragged for me.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 7:16pm

jeremy irons and joan allen in impressionism and jane fonda in 33 variations

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 7:41pm

Karen Olivo in WSS

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 7:48pm

Mary Louise Parker in Hetta Gabler.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 8:08pm

Add me to the list of Heidi Blickenstaff/Little Mermaid.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 8:13pm

Jane Krakowski in DAMN YANKEES. Thought it was a terrible, summer stock production of the show.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/2/09 at 8:26pm

Sherie Rene Scott/Norm Lewis Little Mermaid
Sutton Foster Young Frankenstein
Karen Olivo WSS
Chandra Wilson Chicago (I don't hate it per se, but I wouldn't have gone again had she not been in it)

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 7:59am

I saw Deuce just for the pleasure of seeing Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes and they were great. The play, however, was horrible.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:02am

I'll second DEUCE. Shame on everyone concerned for not insisting that McNally write a better play.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:11am

I returned to Victor/Victoria just to see Liza. Thankfully, it wasn't a waste of money as she was far more interesting than Julie.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 12:42pm

Last weekend I saw the West End's resident flop Too Close to the Sun just to see fellow Aussie Helen Dallimore return to the West End stage.

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/3/09 at 12:48pm

I'll second 'Impressionism' for Jeremy Irons...

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:52am

random threads...now THERE"S something one never sees here!

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:54am

Karen Olivo WSS

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:59am

Sutton Foster in Shrek; Karen Olivo in West Side Story

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re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:09am

I don't get the SRS love for TLM. I thought she was amazing in Everyday Rapture but I was completely turned off by her performance in TLM. Every move she made and every line she spoke read as "I don't want to be here". Maybe if I'd seen her earlier in the run but by early May she seemed to be done.

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