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Name the worst musical
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#150Name the worst musical
Posted: 3/23/07 at 11:51am
I hate Good Vibrations with a passion. And trust me. I hardly ever say the word hate. I love the beach boys, and even though I liked the whole surfboard deal, I didn't like the story. There was basically no point. I know stories don't need a point or anything, but it was just kind of dumb to me.
And that is all I have to say.
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M.Berger
Featured Actor Joined: 12/14/05
#151Name the worst musical
Posted: 3/23/07 at 12:55pm
Be glad you don't live in germany!
There are german shows, like a version of "Beauty and the Beast" by someone called Martin Doepke, that are worse than In my life, Annie Warbucks and Carrie together.
And this is all we have. This and ALW. Oh god...
I'm the german Ethel Merman, don't you know... ;-)
#152Name the worst musical
Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:09pmNow, now M.Berger, Germany has Tanz der Vampire and Elisabeth, so it's not all that bad over there. I'll be seeing Tanz der Vampire in 2 weeks and I'm so excited!
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
rentgal589
Leading Actor Joined: 3/22/07
#153Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 2:58pmAre you kidding? The origanal Annie was by far the worst. And Seussical. It does not take a genius to rhyme "Seussical" and musical and sing about eggs and ham and junk.
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G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#154Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:14pm
The Little Prince followed by Dance a Little Closer! That's somehow both the funniest and the saddest story I've ever heard. LOL
Updated On: 3/23/07 at 04:14 PM
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#155Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:29pmI saw Aida in Atlanta before it came to NYC. The lumbering mechanical pyramid got stuck making one of its transformations (still not as ghastly as the sets colliding and almost killing poor henry kissinger in 'dance a little closer') and the whole program came to a (literally) grinding halt. They announced a brief (40 minute) intermission - gotta love Atlanta audiences for their patience (also the drinks were on the house) - and when we returned there were folding chairs lined up in front of what looked like the wreck of a spacecraft from a bad 50s scifi flick. They proceeded with an impromptu, unstaged concert version for a now rather drunken audience who were finding it hard to contain their laughter. Funniest moment was the first time there was an instrumental stretch that was obviously a dance number, and the chorus members who were lined up behind the chairs started looking at one another with arched eyebrows and hunched shoulders, wondering what they were supposed to do -- even they started laughing.
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#156Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:31pm... please don't tell me they tried to do a musical version of Georg Kaiser's Gas trilogy!?!
#157Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:42pmI could still kick myself for not leaving LESTAT at intermission....
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#158Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:48pmLestat wasn't SO bad. Besides if you left, you'd miss Welcome to the New World which was the best song in the whole show.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#159Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:50pm
The origanal Annie was by far the worst.
The original Annie, especially when it's done as written and not completely dumbed down, is a damn good show.
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#160Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:57pmThe Phantom of the Opera bores me to tears.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#161Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:59pmThat is such a fantastic story, Schlozinski!
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
#162Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:16pm
I noticed this written on the first page, concerning PARADE:
There's a really uncharacteristic song at the end of the first act where Leo sings about seducing young girls which is all wrong.
If I remember correctly from when I saw the show almost ten years ago, that song is not supposed to reflect the real Leo at all. It reflects the way the townspeople view Leo in their own minds: as a dirty Jewish yankee rapist and murderer. It's musically contrasted by "He Calls My Name," about how the girls were frightened of Leo and his alleged sexual advances.
To each their own, but I think that is the point of the song. It IS uncharacteristic, because it isn't from Leo's point of view.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#163Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:17pm
Welcome to the New World which was the best song in the whole show
Haha!
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#164Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:22pmCATS!
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#165Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:26pm
Got Tu Go Disco
Marlowe
Prince of Central Park
Metro
The Look of Love
Peg
Bombay Dreams
Spring Awakening
#166Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:32pm
"Parade: What a ghastly idea for a musical! Furthermore, the young lady on whose murder the show turns, is dead and gone ten minutes into the show, and the rest of the show focuses on the trial. We never understand who Mary Phagen was and why she may have died, nor are the Franks likeable people, so we don't care about them. There's a really uncharacteristic song at the end of the first act where Leo sings about seducing young girls which is all wrong. I left at the interval."
Piercemn, have to agree with everything Mister Matt said. And as to the Franks not being likeable people, I am going to have to disagree with you there, as well. I think you might have also agreed had you stayed for the second act. "This Is Not Over Yet" and the picnic and "All the Wasted Time" are wonderful, very sweet scenes. And the bit at the end with the wedding ring is very touching.
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#167Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:35pm
What WickedGeek, would you prefer "Beautiful Boy?"
"My beautiful, beautiful boooooooooy"
Just take those 10 seconds and copy it about 20 times to get the full effect of how the song stretched out to become one of the worst lyrical displays in the past 5 years.
BroadwayDream101
Swing Joined: 3/23/07
#168Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:06pmPersonally, I loved Mamma Mia! and The Wedding Singer! Basing this answer on only shows I've seen, I would have to say Movin' Out is the worst. I LOVE the music. But the dancing stunk and was too repetitive. I almost wanted to leave at intermission. I didn't follow it at all, and I think in order for a show to be successful you have to have DIALOGUE!!! Ok. Done :]
rentgal589
Leading Actor Joined: 3/22/07
#170Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:53pmPersonally, I didnt like 42nd Street...
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#171Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:57pmViolet
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rentgal589
Leading Actor Joined: 3/22/07
#172Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 8:10pmYea, I LOVED Wedding Singer. I didnt c it on Broadway but when they performed @ the Tony's I bought the soundtrack. Is it me or did it close 2 soon???
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#173Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 8:14pm
I LOVED High Fidelity, but that was just me.
The worst I've seen has been the Fantasticks (Even though, that's off-broadway).
#174Worst musicals.
Posted: 3/23/07 at 8:18pm
Yea, I LOVED Wedding Singer. I didnt c it on Broadway but when they performed @ the Tony's I bought the soundtrack. Is it me or did it close 2 soon???
There have been threads on that subject, so searching might help you.
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