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[AudreyTwoTwo]

Name the worst musical#150

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.

The Best of Times is Now!

[M.Berger]

Name the worst musical#151

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... ;-)

[Mister Matt]

Name the worst musical#152

Posted: 3/23/07 at 1:09pm

Now, 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]

Worst musicals.#153

Posted: 3/23/07 at 2:58pm

Are 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]

Worst musicals.#154

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]

Worst musicals.#155

Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:29pm

I 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]

Worst musicals.#156

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!?!

[Esparzafan]

Worst musicals.#157

Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:42pm

I could still kick myself for not leaving LESTAT at intermission....

[C is for Company]

Worst musicals.#158

Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:48pm

Lestat 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]

Worst musicals.#159

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.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

[NathanLaneStalker]

Worst musicals.#160

Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:57pm

The 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]

Worst musicals.#161

Posted: 3/23/07 at 4:59pm

That is such a fantastic story, Schlozinski!

You promised me poems. ~Tricky

[AC126748]

Worst musicals.#162

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

[WickedGeek28]

Worst musicals.#163

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."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[dramaqueen2]

Worst musicals.#164

Posted: 3/23/07 at 5:22pm

CATS!

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]

Worst musicals.#165

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

[bwayboi4life42]

Worst musicals.#166

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]

Worst musicals.#167

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]

Worst musicals.#168

Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:06pm

Personally, 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 :]

[Lavieboheme3090]

Worst musicals.#169

Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:24pm

Sweet Smell of Success...eww

[rentgal589]

Worst musicals.#170

Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:53pm

Personally, I didnt like 42nd Street...

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[Carl Magnum]

Worst musicals.#171

Posted: 3/23/07 at 7:57pm

Violet

I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them

[rentgal589]

Worst musicals.#172

Posted: 3/23/07 at 8:10pm

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???

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[DRSisLove]

Worst musicals.#173

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).

[Raviolisun]

Worst musicals.#174

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.

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015