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Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?
#25re: 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
threetwoone
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/09
#26re: 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.
Eleah
Understudy Joined: 12/16/07
#27re: 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
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#28re: 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.
#29re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?
Posted: 8/6/09 at 7:50amSutton 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."
#30re: 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
fgreene1938
Leading Actor Joined: 10/25/06
#31re: 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
#32re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?
Posted: 8/6/09 at 11:23amTed 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
#33re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?
Posted: 8/6/09 at 11:34amSo many, but especially Julianne Moore and THE VERTICAL HOUR. I found it insufferably boring, almost as boring as anything Tom Stoppard writes. Almost.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#34re: 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.
#35re: 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
#36re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?
Posted: 8/6/09 at 3:45pmMid-80's tour of Forum with Mickey Rooney - saw it for him - loved the production - hated him.
"Love Life. Live." Michael Bennett
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#37re: Have you ever seen a show just for the star, but hated the production?
Posted: 8/6/09 at 3:59pmRyan Idol - The Ritz
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