The Official "Bad High School Productions on YouTube" Megathread — Page 27

I had never seen this thread...there goes my weekend.

I'll just put this here.

As sad as we all are that Blacklick’s production videos are gone, there is one saving grace. I’ve found the current worse production of Les Mis that is viewable on youtube. Let me introduce you to,

AVHS Les Miserables

There is so much wrong with this production, I can’t even list it all. I would like to say before hand that a lot of these kids are probably do not have English as their native tongue. The high school that did this is in San Bernardino and is a heavily spanish speaking school.

THAT BEING SAID, this production was horrendous. So many songs are spoken through (the first that comes to mind is ‘Attack On Rue Plummet’ which, to be fair, is hard for most adults), the Marius might be worse than Blacklick- at least their Marius could carry a tune. They decide to move ‘On My Own’ from the Act 2 opener to before ‘One Day More’. Speaking of ‘One Day More’, they don’t even move the harmonies at the end, they just stay on the same note.


The true highlights of this production are ‘One Day More’ (1:03:14) and Empty Chairs At Empty Tables (1:31:56) but please, truly immerse yourself in this show. The costumes, the choreography, the use of the adult characters as their child counterparts


Amazing

Updated On: 1/13/20 at 02:28 PM

Honestly, this entire thread bums me out. In most of these productions, the students probably participated enthusiastically and were proud of their work, even if the show...wasn't great. I have sat through my share of stinkers at the local/high school level but I do it to support amateur theater and the kids who spent days and weeks preparing with the limited resources available. The existence of this thread seems pretty mean spirited. I'm surprised the mods here, who regularly delete threads that criticize or gossip about adult professional performers would allow a thread mocking kids theater productions to stand, but what do i know?

All male high school cast performs "It's All Over" from DREAMGIRLS.

It's All Over

morosco said: "All male high school cast performs "It's All Over" from DREAMGIRLS.

It's All Over"



A white boy should never be singing this.

For a high schooler, he sang that pretty darn good. And he was into it. Good for all of them. I suspect getting high school boys to play girls may not have been easy but they did it but it is a scene night so they may have all decided to do it.

I don't think that it's fair game to make fun of a specific kid but it is fair game to make fun of the production because it's likely adults who made bad choices. If you have a tiny school without a lot of boys, pick a show that's appropriate, don't pick Les Mis. Too many high school programs are run by people who don't know what they're doing. There's enough exceptional high school theater programs at schools of all shapes and sizes that terrible ones should have better people running them and are, in my opinion, fair game for criticism and mockery.

Mr. Wormwood said: "I don't thinkthat it's fair game to make fun of a specific kidbut it is fair game to make fun of the production because it's likely adults who made bad choices. If you have a tiny school without a lot of boys, pick a show that's appropriate, don't pick Les Mis. Too many high school programs are run by people who don't know what they're doing. There's enough exceptional high school theater programs at schools of all shapes and sizes that terrible ones should have better people running them and are, in my opinion, fair game for criticism and mockery."

The problem is that that’s not what people are doing on this thread. They’re largely singling out the performers. And I agree with others who have said that it’s troubling.

Technology is a great thing. But when social media is used, by adults, to make fun of people, especially kids, it’s kind of sad.

Here's a link that will take you to all of the TITANIC videos from the above production.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzvdeRjhZpVkyRYXnn-Vwkye0Qpc1DkuL

Updated On: 1/25/21 at 08:00 PM

uncageg said: "For a high schooler, he sang that pretty darn good. And he was into it. Good for all of them. I suspect getting high school boys to play girls may not have been easy but they did it but it is a scene night so they may have all decided to do it."

Completely agree.