Most boring musicals — Page 8

I will never understand the appeal of "Damn Yankees" - very boring. And, of course, anything by Jason Robert Brown puts me to sleep faster than Sominex.

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Huh. I found American Idiot to be one of the most vibrant and artistically creative shows I've seen in a very long time. I had no problem following the plot and as a conceptual piece of socio-political commentary on the youth of its setting (somewhat like Hair), I wasn't expecting a traditional book structure. In fact, that's one of the reasons I was never bored and absolutely buzzing with excitement from beginning to end all three times I've seen it (and would see it again in a heartbeat).

But I was mostly bored with Closer to Heaven (the Pet Shop Boys musical) in London. There were a couple of funny scenes with Frances Barber as Billie Trix, but nothing else to enjoy.

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Updated On: 6/2/14 at 05:10 PM

I remember being SO bored by Leonardo the musical back in the day that I spent most of the show studying the lighting rig hoping for time to speed up. Similarly, during what felt like the tenth reprise of Louison in an early preview of Martin Guerre at the Prince Edward I wanted to start ripping posters off of the walls of the theatre to claw back some of the money wasted on the ticket.

Far From Heaven was sooooo boring. How could I forget?

^ Agreed. And yet, even I can admit that Act II dragged a mite.

That seems to be the curse of a great many of the shows folks are listing, no?

Civil War the musical (Wildhorn)

I counted the exit signs and wondered how they came up with the numbering sequence throughout the St James.

Must have been a lousy production, because what a score!

I've seen an amateur production of Urinetown and without the right direction, the show is deadly (I left at intermission). The Broadway production did not waste a single moment. It was the single funniest musical I've ever seen.

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[But, the hardest work I have ever had to do was watching: "God Bless You, Mr Rosewater" by Ashman/Menken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EciSm7T-g6c]

Oh no, a cast made "Cheese Nips" boring? : (

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Pure torture to sit through this.

Ditto with MOVIN' OUT, JEKYLL & HYDE and TARZAN. All awful.

This is a huge minority opinion, but my most boring is Jersey Boys.

I felt like I was fast forwarding through a movie on my DVR. Every minute and a half a billboard/Lichtenstein image/streetlamp would fly in for what seemed like sixty seconds, and then the cast would run upstairs walk across the catwalk with two lines of dialog and run down the stairs on the other side of the stage.

This repeated over and over and over again. I truly stopped watching the action and started counting the number of scene changes.

The long second act confrontation book scene was the only time I focused on what was happening with the characters.

The rest felt like a wind-up toy. And I felt for the actors who spent over two hours running up and down stairs in between snippets of songs.

Holler if Ya Hear Me