Train Wrecks We Have All Seen

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 6:48pm

Here is a partial list of mine:

1. Metro
2. Legs Diamond
3. Jimmy
4. Rockabye Hamlet
5. Gantry

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 6:52pm

Urban Cowboy
Imaginary Friends
Birdy's Bachlorette Party

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 6:57pm

Steel Pier

[tapbaby2356]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 6:58pm

with kristen??? awwww!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:02pm

The Look of Love
Cinderella (the one with Eartha Kitt as the Fairy Godmother and the daughter from the Soprano's as the title character...and no, I DON'T know *what* I was thinking....)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:03pm

How many more times are you going to re-publish the list of bombs you have seen and shows you saw that should have been hits, Rox? We know, we know, you saw "It's a Bird... It's a Plane...."

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:08pm

Corine you didn't like Imaginary Friends? I kind of loved it.

Okay, off the top of my head:
Adult Entertainment
Far Away
The Boys From Syracuse
Noises Off

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:13pm

1. Do not consider Steel Pier a train wreck.
2. Why some people complain when never starting a thread escapes me

Did you know I saw "It's A Bird, It's A Plane It's Superman ? Not a trainwreck & deserved a much better fate. A truly enjoyable piece of theater. Maybe it needed a sponge. Who knows

Updated On: 10/20/03 at 07:13 PM

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:13pm

I kind of liked Boys from Syracuse.

But that's the beauty of theater, isn't it....such a spectrum of likes and dislikes. And of course, the occasional, indisputable, flat out bomb.

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:17pm

Harrigan and Heart, Carrie, Legs Diamond, Mail, Passion ( remeber; my opinion), and something with Dean Jones that played at the now NeiL Simon theater.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:19pm

The Dean Jones show was " Into the Light" & I never had the pleasure.

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:22pm

The Karoake Show
Beauty And The Beast(With Sigler)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:32pm

No one is mentioning THOU SHALT NOT. I used to think MOLLY was the all-time worst show I'd ever seen, but THOU SHALT NOT had it beat by a mile!!!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:40pm

Ah, "Molly" . I just thought of "The Utter Glory of Morrisey Hall", "Got Tu Go Disco (correction as per Mr Namo) & Rachel Lily Rosenbloom - A turkey in bowling is 3 strikes in a row. These were real gobblers

Updated On: 10/20/03 at 07:40 PM

[Deena Jones2]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:45pm

Yuck!- Into the Light... One of the Worst shows I have ever seen. Others to add Starmites, Legs Diamond, Steel Pier, Oh, Kay!, Noises Off and Dance of the Vampires.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 7:46pm

Sigh. The actual title was "Got Tu Go Disco."

[King Stevos]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:26pm

I can't believe Steel Pier was a train wreck, it seems great on album...I guess the story is a little far fetched?

STEVOS

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:30pm

Sometimes we need others to refresh our memories. I agree with the assertion re THOU SHALT NOT was a potential ultimate stinker, because the creators were such talents -- Stroman, Connick, and that company of performers, all wasted, with the exception of Butz, who managed to score. You expect more from such components. But Crawford's return aside, didn't we all have zero expectations of VAMPIRES? So in a way, it was ... predictably bad. Then you have shows like CARRIE, which had some of the most embarrassing material ever presented (the pig blood hunt) ... and also Betty Buckley breaking your heart singing "When There's No One.." on an empty stage. To me, a real train wreck can't have such moments. CARRIE is easily picked apart in hindsight ... but you know what? It had riveting components. It had real ambitions, some high style in places, and some exquisite stuff (the mom/daughter duets) in the score. Anyone who owns a bootleg copy -- many are in circulation -- can play you stuff that is unforgetable.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:42pm

Thank God we have our own personal spell checkers. Imagine what would happen if misspellings went uncorrected. Oh my God. The world is coming to an end

Updated On: 10/20/03 at 08:42 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:46pm

Spell checks don't catch when people get titles wrong. What you spelled was correct. What you called the show was simply incorrect.

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 8:59pm

I really liked the one in the movie The Fugitive with Harrison Ford. Now THAT was a train wreck!!!

[WSS2]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 9:15pm

Just ignore Nacho like everyone else. Sonner or latter he'll blow away.

My worst train wreck was the Chita Rivera review called "Chita...And All That Jazz."

It belonged on a cruise ship.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 9:20pm

Or former or later.

Who knew the world needed or wanted a sequel to WSS?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 10:07pm

Steel Pier does sound good on cd, but on stage it was horrible.

Karen Ziemba was not ready to handle being the star of a show. The show did not pick up energy until Debra Monk sang "Everybody's Girl" and then it dropped like a rock. The end of act one had the entire cast running around in a circle. It's supposed to be the moment when you should be putting the audience on pins and needles so they will come back for Act 2.

The show sounded like a good idea on paper, but it was just a mishmash that got lost on stage.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/20/03 at 10:12pm

Oh I do not believe it. I agree with Dolly.
I also hated Thou Shalt Not but the cast was divine.
Craig Bierko. Need I say more? Norbert.
So it was a small train wreck.
Where is Craig these days. I have not seen him since his small role at Playwrights Horizons.
I really hated Adult Entertainment. I think that was the worst show I have seen. Updated On: 10/20/03 at 10:12 PM