"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
chanel
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/04
#1"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 12:48pm
This is about Gettin' The Band Back Together. (Scroll down to review titled "The Boys in the Band"
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#2"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 12:53pm
I'd alter that to read "among the worst," and include other atrocities like "Fricki-Fricki" (Honeymoon In Vegas), "Paris Makes Me Horny," (Victor/Victoria), and "Everybody's Girl" (Steel Pier), among others.
Fordham2015
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/17
#3"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 1:06pm
I would also include "Out of the Sun" from Honeymoon and "Love Triangle" from Paramour
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#4"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 1:18pmIt is only currently rivaled by “Hygge” in Frozen.
Esther
Stand-by Joined: 2/27/05
#5"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 1:20pm
Had it not been cut , the Costco song from N2N was pretty terrible.
Fordham2015
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/17
#6"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 1:57pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "It is only currently rivaled by “Hygge” in Frozen."
I just saw Frozen this weekend and that number will give me nightmares.
#7"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 2:06pm
I don't know, that Morse code tap dance number poor Faith Prince had to do in "Disaster" might take the cake for me. And don't forget "Pop Music" from "Priscilla..."
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
BroadwayBear2
Understudy Joined: 7/26/18
#8"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 2:38pm
little_sally said: "I don't know, that Morse code tap dance number poor Faith Prince had to do in "Disaster" might take the cake for me. And don't forget "Pop Music" from "Priscilla...""
I have a collection of pink ping pong balls at home.
#9"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 2:43pm
“Friki-Friki”? “Everybody’s Girl”?
Y’all must be forgetting about “Out For Blood”.
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
Sondheimite
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/14
#10"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 2:55pm
little_sally said: "I don't know, that Morse code tap dance number poor Faith Prince had to do in "Disaster" might take the cake for me. ""
Oh MAN, I still have vivid DREAMS about Distaster!! But at least I had a BLAST seeing Distaster! At least it KNEW WHAT IT WAS and steered into the skid of people laughing AT IT not WITH IT!!
Broadway World's Fireman.
#11"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 3:30pm
"Everybody's Girl" gets plenty of play as a cabaret number.
"Friki-Friki" was the absolute nadir of a show that was already in the mud to begin with.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
CaseyBrent41
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/12
#12"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 3:39pm
Why does Hygge get a bad rap!? Sure its silly and borders on innappropriate for a disney show, but its fun and unexpected too!
#13"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 3:46pm
"Hygge" is a ridiculous song that could be cut from the show and no one would ever know because it has nothing to do with anything.
#14"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 3:51pm
newintown said: ""Hygge" is a ridiculous song that could be cut from theshow and no one would ever know because it has nothing to do with anything."
I haven't seen Frozen so I'm not defending "Hygge," but you could say the same of "Turkey Lurkey Time," and that's still a delightful number!
I remember looooooving Deb Monk doing "Everybody's Girl" in Steel Pier. She was electrifying. Even if the song was silly, it was silly in a fun way. The "Hava Nagila" rap is painful because it's embarrassing to have to watch a performer do it. I felt the same way about the song in Brooklyn where Brooklyn's father has a Vietnam flashback (was it "Love Was a Song?)"
#15"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 4:23pm
"Filth" from Bring Back Birdie. My memory is hazy but after a terrible band number called Filth, performed by, I think, Rosie and Albert's son, Donald O' Connor is left sitting on a toilet as the Act I curtain fell. Then came intermission. Act 2 started with him again placed on the toilet and when some other number started, the toilet finally went off with him on it and the audience broke out in applause. It was quite a night.
#16"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 4:37pm
It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#17"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 4:47pm
"Tug Boat" from THOU SHALT NOT has got to be right up there in the top (or rather, bottom) 5.
#18"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 4:53pmI’m going to add “Murder Murder,” the act 2 opener of Jekyll and Hyde to this list. It’s lyrics are laughably bad (“they murdered dear old Bessie, I hear extremely messy”) and the choreography in the original production (the cast swinging umbrellas around) was extremely cringeworthy.
chanel
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/04
#19"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 5:29pm
The review I linked mentions "Garlic" from Dance of The Vampires. Also, isn't there a song in The Rink that goes "Welcome home, you little pig/Don't you know you've got a big set of balls"? And one from In My Life, which goes "There's a little rumor/Someone's got a tumor".
ViniFromBrazil
Stand-by Joined: 1/26/16
#20"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 6:43pm
chanel said: "And one from In My Life, which goes "There's a littlerumor/Someone's got a tumor"."
Omg that's awesome
#21"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 8:40pm
"Tug Boat" from THOU SHALT NOT has got to be right up there in the top (or rather, bottom) 5.
I remember seeing Thou Shalt Not and in a show that got SO much wrong, Tug Boat was the most effective number in the show. What sounds rather boring and innocuous on a recording was rather brilliantly staged in the show.
I’m going to add “Murder Murder,” the act 2 opener of Jekyll and Hyde to this list. It’s lyrics are laughably bad (“they murdered dear old Bessie, I hear extremely messy&rdquo and the choreography in the original production (the cast swinging umbrellas around) was extremely cringeworthy.
and the choreography in the original production (the cast swinging umbrellas around) was extremely cringeworthy.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#22"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/20/18 at 9:50pm
The worst song I ever heard was from an off-off-Broadway musical where the opening number began:
"Marriage means monogamy,
They'll never make a hog o' me."
And went downhill from there. I never did figure out what that opening couplet was supposed to me.
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The worst song I ever sang was in a college, musical adaptation of Johnny Tremaine:
"It's a holiday, holiday, holiday for us today!
It's a holiday, holiday, holiday today!"
That was the entire lyric, repeated endlessly, as a duet, by the chorus, in a round, etc.
Not even "Saddle Bags" was as bad, though God knows it tried to be.
#23"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/21/18 at 12:52pm
Mister Matt said: "It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close."
Lol--my high school did this show in the 80's. I believe some of the lyrics were "Although she looks like Venus, she may infect your penis" And "You don't want to dance the VD polka!"
#24"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/21/18 at 12:56pm
Gink said: "Mister Matt said: "It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close."
Lol--my high school did this show in the 80's. I believe some of the lyrics were "Although she looks like Venus, she may infect your penis" And "You don't want to dance the VD polka!""
I can't find the lyrics on-line, but I'm trying to remember if 'penis' was sung aloud or if they did something else. Not sure this would fly today. Oh, the 80's.
#25"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."
Posted: 8/21/18 at 12:58pm
Gink said: "Gink said: "Mister Matt said: "It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close."
Lol--my high school did this show in the 80's. I believe some of the lyrics were "Although she looks like Venus, she may infect your penis" And "You don't want to dance the VD polka!""
I can't find the lyrics on-line, but I'm trying to remember if 'penis' was sung aloud or if they did something else. Not sure this would fly today. Oh, the 80's."
Found this--perhaps we just added the other line. "
Though she may look like Venus...
She might not be the cleanest!"
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