Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen- Page 2

[thejcm]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 1:00am

I can't believe no one has said Rocky Horror yet. I absolutely love Rocky, I've been in the stage show, I'm in a shadowcast, it's one of my favorite things in the world, but it IS SO WEIRD. It seriously makes no sense.

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 1:04am

I agree Rocky is the weridest thing i have ever seen. But it is rather likeable and i enjoyed it.

[SirLiir]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:09am

Rocky Horror is beyond wierd but strangely addictive.

[1 Train Away]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:25am

I was tempted to vote for In My Life, but then I remembered "Abacus Black Strikes NOW!: The Rampant Justice of Abacus Black" by The National Theater of the United States of America. Weird stuff that. I defy anyone to produce a lucid explanation of that show. God knows I won't even try.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:28am

A Banger's Flopera at NYMF last october. SO weird and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD.

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:48am

I was in London a few years ago, and we went to see a production of Macbeth by a Barcelona touring company. The show was performed in Catalan and Spanish, with English subtitles. It was a "modern" adaptation about gangsters (where Macbeth becomes the "boss" of the family. You get the gist) The show was ok, though if you didn't speak Spanish (which I do), you'd get completely lost: the English translation was the Shakesperean text, and a LOT was lost in the process. The Spanish was modern dialogue, not a Shakesperean translation. And, well...people around me were very confused, cause at times, they'd be talking for a LONG time, and only 2 lines of dialogue would show up in the subtitles.

Anyway, what made it COMPLETELY weird was that at the end, Macduff doesn't kill Macbeth. So Macbeth just starts SCREAMING: "Matame Macduff! MATAME!" (Kill me Macduff, KILL ME!) and then for no reason whatsoever, he burst into song.

It was so bizarre, and we all just starting laughing.

[Emilia]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 8:34am

I have to agree with 'Cats' I went from confusion to just plain creeped out.

[mrcacou]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 10:38am

We had a new musical based on Tristan and Yseult here in Paris. It was the weirdest show I've ever seen with shaolin masters coming from nowhere ( and for nothing) as well as giant fluo spiders. It still scares the hell out of me.

[bigrab1018]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:02am

Squonk!

It was this show that ran at the Helen Hayes Theater in 2000. It ran for less than a month. We walked out at intermission because we didn't know what the hell was going on.

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:31am

obviously rocky horror show. It was part of the season in this theatre whose demographic is seniors. It was just so strange for them to decide THAT show. I mean, the year before they did that the annual musical was 'guys and dolls' and before that it was 'my fair lady'...

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:37am

IN MY LIFE

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THE BLONDE IN THE THUNDERBIRD

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[children&art]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:38am

Shockhead Peter

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:39am

In My Life.

[The3DImaxOfMyMind]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:40am

CATS! It's really creepy. And weird. And RHS!

[ALWrules]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:46am

IN my Life followed very closely by Caroline or Change.

[mint0621]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 11:47am

The Times Are A Changin'. Totally worth it to see Michael Arden perform though.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 12:02pm

i saw Lil' Abner at Bucks County Playhouse. that was weird, and probably the worst show I have ever seen.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:19pm

"The Hanging Man" at BAM a few seasons ago.

Not bad, just bizzare.

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 2:44pm

Yes, start sharpening your pitchforks now, but the weirdest show I've ever seen was Sweeney Todd. Just creeps me out, and it's just icky. Very oddball show.

[Tirso de Molina]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 3:27pm

oh, that would have to be THE KNIFE, which was done during the late 1980s at the Public.

THE KNIFE was a through-composed musical (yes, a musical) by David Hare and Nick Bicat in which the leading male character, played by Mandy Patinkin, undergoes a sex-change operation and becomes a woman, also played by Mandy Patinkin. It was an entirely serious musical without a trace of irony or camp, an apparently sincere but truly awful attempt to say something meaningful about the experiences of a transgendered individual (though the word "transgendered" wasn't in common currency then). As I recall, the show ended with what was intended to be a touching duet between the now-transgendered Mandy Patinkin character and his son, a precocious boy soprano who had come to the cliched realization that Dad still loved him after all. Suffice it to say that the audience was NOT weeping for the right reasons by that point in the show.

This show looked fascinating on paper -- written by Hare, presented by Joe Papp at the Public, given a high-profile cast (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was in it, too) that many composers of musicals would have killed for. However, none of Bicat's music was memorable, Hare's book needed major rewriting, and Mandy Patinkin (a) looked very strange indeed in drag, especially in the absence of any comic intent, and (b) used the upper register of his voice for the "female" songs in a way that was truly unnerving.

Did anyone else out there see this, or were you all still unborn or in elementary school at the time?

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 3:47pm

For me, hands down, Starmites.

[nealb1]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 3:47pm

Don't know if this comes under the category or weirdest or worst show.........."Dracula," "Dance of The Vampires" and "Wicked."

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 4:02pm

A one man show called A Penny for your Hemroid. I still don’t understand the importance of the shoelace.

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 6:01pm

Reefer Madness.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/25/06 at 6:03pm

Bug