Shows you were in that you Hated

PIPPIN also. I had a terrible time in that show. Never again.

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I played Larry in what I thought was the worst production of Company on the planet, that is, until I saw one that was even worse. The director had no sense of style and had no business directing that show. The choreography for What Would We Do Without You and Side By Side By Side was very involving, but it was done on a thrust stage, and when we did it in the performance space, it didn't fit, so he decided that Joanne and I should be offstage singing. He didn't even have us sitting in our apartment setting.

I hated it so much, I barely learned my lines and I loathed the Joanne, who spilled her drink in me every performance doing The Ladies Who Lunch.

I'll never see or even try to be in that show again.

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With Pippin, the director is not only horrible and still complains everyday that he gave me a part, but he yells at this one ensemble girl every single time she does the smallest thing wrong and he makes her cry everytime which of course prolongs our rehearsal process. I've never worked with most of the other kids too, and they turned out to be the cattiest group of high schoolers ever. I mean EVER. And I'm wearing close to nothing for my costume. And why? Not because they felt it was good for my character, but because they ran out of money because they bought Fastrada some sequined SUPER expenisve dress and now they're just pulling things together for the rest of us.
And the guy who plays Pippin like to storm out of the room and refuse to say his lines. It's really just a load of good times

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Hello Dolly

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Babes in Arms. The score is great, but I hated that show. Everyone was directed to overact, and the ensemble (which I was apart of) was stuck on in almost every scene, and we should not have been there. Ugh.

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I have only been in 3 shows I hated, 2 for the material and 1 for the director.

Material wise I too hated Grease and the second was a horrible, ill-conceived musical version of Star Wars. It was DREADFUL and not in a so-bad-it's-good way. Just embarrassing and I tried not to let anyone I know see it, but of course I always invite a ton of people to opening night and my friends got suspicious when I didn't so they came en masse and still sing, "May the force be with you" whenever they are drunk and want to mock me.

I was also in a production of Miracle Worker that I hated because of the director. It is a great play, but he was manipulative and cruel and did stupid things like set the play in the '80s. Our Helen wore pink leggings and had HUGE hair. No joke.

Updated On: 4/21/07 at 03:52 PM

STAR WARS?! I'M SORRY - WHAT??


I just got a call from my friend who's at a rehearsal right now for Pippin that weirdly enough I don't have to be at because they're running Pippin-Catharine stuff, and apparantly, our Pippin just threw a shoe at one of the directors.
But I'm not surprised. How pathetic is that??

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Aw Guys and Dolls was one of my favorite ones!

You know which one was boring though? Sweet Charity. I had lines because I was Ursula, so I had it better off than a lot of the people there, but it was...dreary and BLAH. Plus it's like a one-woman show.

P.s. I also didn't have a good time with Babes in Arms. I just don't like the story.

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You know, usually when I finish a show...I end up hating it. If I had a bad time making it and had troubles back stage with other cast members *coughsweetcharitycough* then I usually end up hating the show because of the memories.

I can tell you which ones I LOVED doing..The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and A Funny Thing Happend on the Way to the Forum.

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The first I was ever in was Gypsy as a newsboy and I love the show, but the director was a 40some year old woman who casted herself as Louise and she couldn't even sing that well. She would forget to call people about practices (I actually wasn't told that rehearsals started and was forced to spend a saturday over her house while she taught me choreography for 20 minutes and then made me play in the backyard with her son). She had no control over the show and ended up asking parents of the newsboy to be in the show. In the strip scene on the last night, the same son I was told to play with, walked across stage with a cookie in his hand, watched his mother strip for a little bit, waved to the audience, and walked off again! I love Gypsy, but that was one of the most unprofessional experiences ever. The only thing I got out of it was never to do that particular community theatre and memorization for all the lyrics for every female role (i was a powerful boy soprano) in the show!

Sounds like you had OUR Oscar. lol. Also, this was community theatre, so of course everyone who sucked thought they were excellent and their next stop is Broadway. I hate that. and the ones who were good thought they sucked. I don't hate that AS MUCH because then they don't get a big head. So that was a disaster...and I can't sit through those notes at the begining of "Big Spender" that goes "DA DA DA DA...DA DA" If that makes sense. lol. Every time I hear that now, I shudder. And used to LOVE this show...go fig.

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three words:

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

and i only did because MTI came to watch our show because we were the smalled school ever to do it and i like free publicity