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#26

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:13am

Julianne Moore - The Vertical Hour

Kristin Chenoweth - Music in the Air

Updated On: 8/6/09 at 01:13 AM

#27

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:39am

Gary Beach in Spamalot.

LOVE Gary Beach. HATED Spamalot.

#28

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:56am

Sutton Foster/Daniel Breaker- Shrek

#29

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:57am

Hugh Jackman in "The Boy From Oz"

He gave a star turn for the ages, but what a wretched book.

#30

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 7:50am

Sutton Foster in Little Women. Now I like her even less since seeing Young Frankenstein and Shrek.

"The price of love is loss, but still we pay; We love anyway."

#31

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 9:25am

#1 on my list... EFX with Michael Crawford

I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler

#32

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 11:03am

Brian Stokes Mitchell in "Man of La Mancha"
Nathan Lane in "The Frogs" (Lanes libretto was terrible)
Angela Lansbury in "Deuce"
Kristen Chenowith & Ruthie Henshall "Stairway to Paradise" (the show was atrocious, Chenowith did her usual shtick and Henshall was woefully under-utilized)

Updated On: 8/6/09 at 11:03 AM

#33

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 11:23am

Ted Neeley in the current tour of JCS...love the score, love that Ted's still doing it, hate the substandard Troika production that he's trapped in. It could be much much better, even working with the same set. It's like the director didn't even make an effort at understanding the show, or for that matter actually staging it in some spots.

"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from." ~ Charles M. Schulz

#34

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 11:34am

So many, but especially Julianne Moore and THE VERTICAL HOUR. I found it insufferably boring, almost as boring as anything Tom Stoppard writes. Almost.

#35

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:45pm

two that have been mentioned already are mine as well -

Hedda Gabler for Mary Louise Parker, she was okay, the show was a disaster.
The Boy From Oz, I was there because everyone raved about Hugh Jackman, but I hated the show.

#36

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 3:40pm

Richard Burtan, 1981 Camelot at Licoln Ctr, hated him, at the time....who knew about Christine Ebersole?

Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun

James Galdofini in God of Carnage

#37

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 3:45pm

Mid-80's tour of Forum with Mickey Rooney - saw it for him - loved the production - hated him.

"Love Life. Live." Michael Bennett

#38

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

Posted: 8/6/09 at 3:59pm

Ryan Idol - The Ritz

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