Shows You Regret Seeing- Page 2

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 8:49pm

I don't regret seeing shows, even if they were bad.

Then you can say they sucked, and people can't argue because you actually did see them. if you say "I heard that sucks" or "I have the cd and it sucks" you have no proof of if the show sucked.

And I've been pretty lucky that out of the hundreds of shows I've seen I've really only NOT enjoyed like 2.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 8:54pm

The only reason I regret seeing the Les Miz because I already saw the show and I could have seen something new.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:00pm

I regret seeing NICK & NORA in 1991. It was not a learning experience--it was just a terrible, regretable mess of a show.

[lesmisforever]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:15pm

Phantom of the Opera, the revival of Les Mis

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:18pm

Okay, le tme rephrase: I regret letting my friends talk me into spending my money on the G-d awful Producers when I didn't want to see it in the first place.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:19pm

As much as I regret spending the money to see Talk Radio I did anticipate not liking it and got the cheap balcony seat. And I made a friend's girlfriend VERY happy. So even if sitting through it did bore the crap out of me, I did something good. And I know I never have to go see it again! (Because my parents trust my judgment.)

[nealb1]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:21pm

"Wicked"
"Butley"

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:22pm

Well, yeah, that was really what was being implied, but I do regret seeing RENT because I didn't feel that I was watching art, more or less at a rock concert with a bunch of fangirls that were annoying as all hell. Minus the fangirls singing and clapping at unnecessary times, it probably would have been enjoyable for me.

Although I did enjoy some of the music.

Plus, I regret seeing Beauty and the Beast when I was four, and I hardly remember it. It was my first show. I saw it twice (ages four and five) so I still do not remember it. My mom refuses to see it again because she saw it twice as well and would rather see something new. I just wish I had been older so I could remember it.

Updated On: 4/15/07 at 09:22 PM

[jewishboy]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:22pm

The only reason I regret seeing Beauty and the Beast is because when I say what my first Broadway musical was the truth is B&B, but I always use the second show I saw; The King and I revival with the brilliant Donna Murphy.

I didn't like seeing: Fiddler On The Roof revival (Alfred Molina, Heartbreak House, and Spamalot.

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:27pm

aw, I enjoyed Fiddler. What didn't you like about it?

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:43pm

Master Class with Faye Dunaway. I should have stopped with Caldwell and LuPone.

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:50pm

Phantom of the Opera in March 2006. Granted I love the show, I couldn't stand most of my cast, ESPECIALLY Rebecca Pitcher, how on earth did she end up playing Christine? She can't act, and her voice.....I didn't know it was possible for a Christine to have so much vibrato that she'd go off in every single song. The only good person I remember is Howard McGillin as the Phantom, the only one who managed to sing and act great.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:58pm

Don't regret seeing shows but A WONDERFUL LIFE the Musical was horrendous.

[dfwtheatreguy]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 11:14pm

I dont think I regret anything I've seen on Broadway, havent seen enough to have regrets and I was very choosy about what I did see, although "Wedding Singer" was something I could have doen without seeing.

But regional shows, however, are another story:

- "Camelot" at Plano Rep - i went b/c i knew friends in the show and i had never seen this "classic" musical - but 3 1/2 hours later i was bored out of my skull

- "Hello Dolly" in Austin - i went for similar reasons, friends and had never seen this "classic" musical - but not only was this production horribly miscast but the story and music reaffirmed that i have an intense hatred for everything Jerry Herman

- any production of "Fiddler on the Roof" - kill me now!

- the touring production of "On the Record" - this is the ONLY time in my entire theatre going life that I have left a show at intermission, you would think a Disney revue would have more pop and sparkle, but this turkey laid a big fat egg

[winston89]

Posted: 4/15/07 at 11:58pm

The only two shows I regret seeing are Tarzan and Phatnom. I am not only talking about a money standpoint. I believe that the amound of money one paid for a show can add into the feeling of regreat they have after seeing a show they hate. I can see anyone saying "I spend THAT money on THIS?!?!?"

But, I regreat seeing Phantom because it was just well let me say that bad wouldn't even begin to descirbe it. I personally don't know why this show pops the cork and has cake after every preformance. And there was a poster ( forgot who) who said a statment that I agree with. If the Really Useful group was in fact really useful they would close this show. I also regreat the fact that I had to essentally graval at my mother's feet to let me see a wednesday afternoon show and it ended up being Phantom. I left at intermission.

Tarzan had some catchy music and that was it. I was lucky enough to snag a 20 dollar ticket and had I paid a dollar more I would have bitched to the box office. That was a show that I stayed till the end.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:00am

Okay then, I regret spending money on Dr. Doolittle.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:04am

I never regret seeing a show....OKAY one...Beauty and the Beast when Donny Osmond was in it. ONLY because one week later Jonathan Freeman and John Tartaglia joined the cast and then I was pissed because I wanted to see it again.

And then some productions could have been bad...like Tarzan, but I don't regret seeing it because of the wonderful cast.

I do regret NOT seeing Spring Awakening.

[Tchi4Lif188]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 12:12am

I don't regret seeing a show, even if I hated it (coughcoughlestatcoughcough). I still love seeing shows, and I don't think I could ever REGRET something. I am upset about some things though...Haha.

Posted: 4/16/07 at 3:53am

Donny was in BatB?? as who?

Yeah I don't really regret seeing any shows. Well I took my grandma to her first SOndheim show, when I was a teen, a community production of A Little Night Music that was so awful and wrong--nearly the whoel cast approached the piece as a cartoon which ruined th eentire show--but my grandma realized that it was the production not the piece itself at fault--I was just kinda embarassed for her sake. But I suppose community productions don't count or else a lot more will be listed on here...

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[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:23am

You didn't know!? it was kind of a big deal on here. He played Gaston from September (or October) through December. He was REALLY good.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:44am

I can nearly always find something to redeem a show, no matter how bad it may be (and a glass or two of wine before and in the interval can work wonders), but I really regret being talked into spending money on Notre Dame de Paris.

I also regret being taken to the original London production of Into the Woods when I was nine and not being able to remember any of it

[buddharich]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 8:38am

Not sure if "regret" is the right word, but I hated hated hated "Bring In Da Noise/Bring In Da Funk". The worst show ever!

I am also someone who has never understood the appeal of "Fiddler On The Roof"...

[misschung]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:24am

The Harlem Globetrotters, lol.

for broadway - 1776 and Titanic. I agree that I don't regret seeing any Broadway shows because you can at least form your own opinion on them and be taken seriously if you've seen them. And I didn't pay for either of the tickets, so it wasn't like I lost money. The other one I regret seeing (and paying for!) was James Joyce's The Dead

Updated On: 7/29/07 at 11:24 AM

[MimiJudith]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:27am

Definitely "The Little Dog Laughed."

buddharich, what was wrong with "Bring in Da Noise?" I never saw it and wondered about it.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 4/16/07 at 11:35am

I regret spending money on, and convincing a friend to do likewise on, The Pirate Queen. I've stated my reasons on these boards long enough. But I feel betrayed by my money. It usually brings me such good things.


*edited for bad grammar*

Updated On: 4/16/07 at 11:35 AM