If you could “unsee” any show, what show?- Page 3

[a-mad]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 12:03pm

The Goodbye Girl - and I was a HUGE Martin Short fan (although he was by far the best part).  It was a colossal bore, and it felt like BP wanted to be anywhere but there...

 

Cats - so many people have told me that I just didn't "get it"...?

[BroadwayPrincess3]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 12:11pm

Bring It On. Hard to believe that was the first broadway show I’ve ever seen and yet I kept coming back for more, LOL.

[bfried]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 12:13pm

Passion

Jane Eyre

Porgy and Bess (2012 revival)

[Alfie6]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 12:41pm

American Psycho , Bedlam's Peter Pan, Cardinal, Attack of the Elvis Impersonators  

[Jarethan]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 12:54pm

CATS! CATS! CATS! CATS! CATS! CATS! CATS! CATS! -- I hated it even before the show began, as all these cats swooped around my seat to set the mood.  I was miserable from the point at which a cat rubbed against me and, seeing that I was not responding, stayed longer.  I don't care who they cast in the movie...I am betting that it is going to be a mega-disaster.

Bullets Over Broadway -- I am sitting next to my wife, who is enjoying it, while I don't remember ever hating anything as much...except CATS!  I should mention that my wife has seen Hello! Dolly! about 4 times in 40 years (including Merman, Channing twice, and Bette Midler); she recently told me that she is 'all Dollied out' and never wants to see it again.  On top of that, she HATES She Loves Me, which means that I generally don't listen to her opinion in rare cases where she sees a show before me.

The Iceman Cometh at the Circle in the Square probably 40 years ago.  It was agony.  I was so bored out of my mind when it let out that I walked all the way back to my apartment in Washington Square Village, even though it was (as I remember) after midnight AND very cold ou; anything to combat the stupificationt.  It was just a very bad production.

Marilyn -- the one at the Minskoff, not the different London version.  It is really hard to describe just how bad it was. 

Into the Woods -- I was so looking forward to this, when I saw the original production just after the glowing reviews came out.  I loved the first, say, 10 minutes, liked the next 10 minutes, was bored by the next 20 minutes, disliked the next 20 minutes, and HATED the rest...main reason: the score, especially the constantly refrained title song.  Since I am of the opinion that Sondheim has written at least 5 genuine masterpieces, this is boggling to me.  

 

[romain2]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 1:06pm

Broadway: Oslo, what a snoozer, the weakest of the 4 plays up that year.

Off-Broadway: Annapurna, despite a decent Nick Offerman performance. Made me queasy and I couldn’t wait for it to end.

Pre-Broadway trial: The Addams Family. The writers had trouble with Morticia. Morticia!!!

In Chicago: The Gentleman Caller, a play about William Inge and Tennessee Williams that starts with a terrible scene with Inge forcing himself on Williams and flails about from there.

[Alfie6]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 1:35pm

romain2 said: "Broadway: Oslo, what a snoozer, the weakest of the 4 plays up that year.

Off-Broadway: Annapurna, despite a decent Nick Offerman performance. Made me queasy and I couldn’t wait for it to end.

Pre-Broadway trial: The Addams Family. The writers had trouble with Morticia. Morticia!!!

In Chicago: The Gentleman Caller, a play about William Inge and Tennessee Williams that starts with a terrible scene with Inge forcing himself on Williams and flails about from there."

I almost added The Gentleman Caller, but Inge's monologue about the monkeys having sex with the cats on zoo island was just so beyond bad that I couldn't stop laughing and wound up having a great time. If I live to be 100 that monologue will stay with me.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 2:35pm

YIKES I know the  playwright!

In Chicago: The Gentleman Caller, a play about William Inge and Tennessee Williams that starts with a terrible scene with Inge forcing himself on Williams and flails about from there."

I almost added The Gentleman Caller, but Inge's monologue about the monkeys having sex with the cats on zoo island was just so beyond bad that I couldn't stop laughing and wound up having a great time. If I live to be 100 that monologue will stay with me."

 

I really was a bit underwhelmed with the 2003 Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.

Posted: 11/21/18 at 2:38pm

Escape to Margaritaville

[macnyc]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 7:28pm

Fire in Dreamland at the Public.

Oy!

[romain2]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 7:54pm

“YIKES! I KNOW THE PLAYWRIGHT!”

I absolutely loved his play Charm. But this one rubbed me the wrong way right from the start.

[demondelaplace]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 7:54pm

Puffs
Waitress
Great comet of 1812

And most of time I could avoid those shows I’m surely not interested in like Cats, POTO, spongbob and so on

Posted: 11/21/18 at 8:44pm

John Lithgow Stories by Heart.

I have never been so mind numbing bored in my life.

[MadonnaMusical]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 9:05pm

CRYBABY

THE LITTLE MERMAID

SHREK THE MUSICAL

[BroadwayPrincess3]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 10:43pm

The Red Room version of Legally Blonde.

(Actually, I’d kill to see the full recording. It cracks me up every time.)

[trentsketch]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 11:17pm

I've seen a lot of bad shows that I cherish the memory of seeing just for the sheer "why" factor of them.

No, my Unsee show would have to be something incredibly dull: In My Life. My most vivid memory of the show is the angel character's cane broke onstage and the head of the cane landed in the aisle next to me. I picked it up and handed it back to the actor, who seemed horrified that the prop almost hit someone in the audience. There was maybe a pleasant song with the mother near the top of the show, but the rest is flashes of awful things like really labored tics of Tourette's Syndrome, giving someone cancer just because it made God laugh, dancing skeletons, and a giant lemon. I only saw it because I was chaperoning a school trip and someone who organized the trip knew someone in the production. Not often you get the first three rows of the center orchestra a week after a show opens for rear balcony prices. 

[JayElle]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 11:22pm

Lot666 would unsee Spongebob.  Gotta admit...that is a stoner show.  It would've been better if they had a late  night, adult only one.  The unruly kids w/inconsiderate parents in the audience ruined it for me.

[JayElle]

Posted: 11/21/18 at 11:24pm

Gentleman's Guide to Whatever....couldn't even remember the name it was so uneventful.  More recently, Pretty Woman.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 11/22/18 at 12:37am

The recent revival of CAROUSEL.

[Elegance101]

Posted: 11/22/18 at 12:40am

I wouldn't really want to unsee anything because I think I've learned a lot of theatre from shows I didn't enjoy. Wish I hadn't paid for it is another thing...

But I'll play along and say the most recent Glass Menagerie. The Tiffany revival was enough and that play has been tainted a little to me because of Sam Gold's awful, AWFUL direction.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 11/22/18 at 12:55am

The Kiss of the Spider Woman

The book is a masterpiece, the two-character play is a model of dramatic economy, and even the film--despite the miscasting of William Hurt--at least offers a moving performance by Raúl Julia.

But I find the the musical adaptation offensive is almost every possible way. It condescends and mocks Latin American politics to a degree Evita doesn't even begin to approach. How dare a bunch of rich guys with homes in Connecticut sneer at political activism in a nation plagued by decades of fascist rule! How dare they--in the middle of Act Up and Queer Nation--portray Molinas as little more than self-pitying homo.

And I'll admit I thought Kander and Ebb were the perfect team for the material!

However, I wish I'd never seen it. Then I'd be left with the deeper and more moving adaptation I imagined when I read Puig's book.

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/22/18 at 4:48pm

SCANDALOUS. The only show I ever fell asleep during in almost 12 years of theatregoing.

The Non-Equity Tour of SPRING AWAKENING in NJ in 2012. I absolutely HATE the original staging and the cast was rather bland. The 2015 revival left me to a full 360 on the material itself.

The second time I saw ROCK OF AGES was also absolutely qualifying of erasure. It was terrible how cramped and loud it felt in the Hayes and everyone was phoning it it