Most boring musicals — Page 3

I've never seen one of his shows, but I find many cast recordings of Michael John LaChiusa's scores (except for THE WILD PARTY, and I promise I haven't confused it with the Lippa version :P) incredibly, incredibly boring (e.g. HELLO AGAIN, LITTLE FISH, SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE).....I'm thinking about giving up with this man.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY in the most boring list..

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Updated On: 6/16/12 at 07:08 AM

fela was so boring but didn't sa get the tony ? and fela was not all bad.

There is boring, and then there is BORING! Aspects of Love remains THE most boring show I have ever seen.

Honorable mention goes to Passion and Meet me in St. Louis.

Light in the Piazza always tops my Most Boring and Most Disappointing lists because I went in with such high expectations.

Aspects of Love is a close second.

I love soaps, so it's probably not shocking that I love Aspects of Love.

My Life with Albertine would top my list. I saw a regional production outside Boston--all of which I can remember of being the audience giggles over the "tongue me" bit, and have tried to play the cast album a few times, but it doesn't stick.

I found the second act of Nunn's revival of OKLAHOMA! very boring-- it's a great show, a landmark show, but Nunn's direction of American musicals is almost always deadly. So I blame him, not Dick and Oscar.

While it was very popular and long running, I found "42nd St" boring.

Tom Sawyer, hands down.

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Passion, Hello Again, The Adding Machine

I love Sondheim and Sunday in the Park has gorgeous music, but as a complete piece it's just not something that can hold my interest.

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It's funny to read these lists and see two shows mentioned so often that I consider two of the best musicals ever written. Just goes to show that it's all subjective.

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So far, of all the shows and times I've been to the theatre, only two performances out of all of them put me to sleep and so I consider to have been "boring," one partially and the other...total waste of life.

The honors belong to Wicked and By Jeeves, respectively.

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@artscallion..."It's funny to read these lists and see two shows mentioned so often that I consider two of the best musicals ever written. Just goes to show that it's all subjective."


^That...and the fact that some people just don't have taste or an ear for music. There's also those people who have grudges against wildly 'popular' musicals that have stolen the spotlight from their own favorites.

By the way, what were the two musicals you were talking about?

Then there's those people who are stuck in the past of old style musicals and can't seem to face the fact that times are a changing. It really kills them to see musicals like In the Heights and Spring Awakening win the Best Musical awards. I still remember hearing people on this message board when Next to Normal was nominated for best musical and especially when they won for best score. They couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that this type of music could actually win for best score. They were probably the same people who couldn't believe that Bonnie & Clyde got nominated for best score...lol.