What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?

[Jordan Catalano]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#1

Posted: 12/27/12 at 7:55pm

"Best of" threads are fun, but these are more funner.

For me it was THE ANARCHIST.

[little_sally]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#2

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:12pm

Ghost, no, wait...Scandalous, definitely Scandalous

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[capnkidd]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#2

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:36pm

Just about every negative thread written on this board, like this one. It's one of the reasons I hardly ever lurk here, and seldom post.

People post these kinds of things to "prove" how clever and sophisticated they are, and it really has the opposite effect.

[Plum]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#3

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:38pm

If this thread has already caused you more agony than any show you watched this year, congratulations! You're good at picking out shows for yourself. I'm glad you had so much fun at the theater this year.

[Marianne2]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#4

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:40pm

Magic/Bird

"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005 "You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy. Ignored Users: suestorm, N2N Nate., Owen22, master bates

[capnkidd]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#5

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:45pm

"If this thread has already caused you more agony than any show you watched this year, congratulations! You're good at picking out shows for yourself. I'm glad you had so much fun at the theater this year."

"Agony", Plum? Hyperbole, and your word, not mine. Absolutely any time I spend in a theater is an improvement over reading people bitching about how bad the theater they saw was. To me, these threads are pointlessly negative - I'm glad you enjoy them, I guess?

[James885]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#6

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:46pm

It wasn't on Broadway, but this past May I saw a horrific community theater production of West Side Story where the entire cast (including the Sharks) was lily white. It also didn't help that the actor playing Tony was virtually tone deaf.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Updated On: 12/27/12 at 08:46 PM

[bwayphreak234]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#7

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:48pm

Million Dollar Quartet - I left halfway through because I couldn't take it anymore.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[little_sally]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#8

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:48pm

So, are we not supposed to express how awful we thought certain shows were? Wouldn't be much fun then.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[capnkidd]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#9

Posted: 12/27/12 at 8:55pm

It's all about extremes, little sally. Calling people's work "trash". Saying " I couldn't take it anymore" or equating watching any performance as "agony". Just seems silly to me.

Anyway, a question was asked. I gave my answer. You don't approve of it. I suppose we'll both live.

[Broadway Baby8]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#10

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:00pm

End of the Rainbow

"Be a Fountain, Not a Drain." --Rex Hudler

[Knowitall]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#11

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:07pm

You have it for Jeffrey. Good, he is a total looser

[Visceral_Fella]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#12

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:10pm

I was pretty lucky this year. Scandalous was the only show that struck a cord to me as truly bad. I'm lucky that I got to see it for free. I still can't believe that I saw a show like that on Broadway.

I didn't really care for Cyrano either, but that was again free and some of the performances were beautiful when I wasn't asleep. Still Cyrano isn't nearly on Scandalous' level.
Updated On: 12/27/12 at 09:10 PM

[Matt Rogers]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#13

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:10pm

What an absolutely moronic and hateful thread. Butt not surprising, considering who started it.

[Kad]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#14

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:13pm

Every show is always good always.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Unknown User]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#15

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:14pm

I thought we had all decided (more or less unanimously) that even though "Lucky Guy" was not this year, it was, by far, the most execrable piece of garbage ever.

[Plum]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#16

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:15pm

I'm glad you enjoy them, I guess?

Now who's putting words into someone else's mouth?

[RENT_is_Wicked2]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#17

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:21pm

Scandalous and Magic/Bird.

[Jordan Catalano]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#18

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:30pm

"What an absolutely moronic and hateful thread. Butt not surprising, considering who started it."

Thanks!!!

[stevenycguy]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#19

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:58pm

Bullet for Adolf

[bjh2114]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#20

Posted: 12/27/12 at 9:59pm

Broadway: Scandalous. Hands down.

Off-Broadway: Last Smoker in America. So bad.

London: Detroit. Didn't bother seeing it here since it was so terrible there.

If I had to pick one of the 3 that felt like the biggest waste of time, I think it would be Last Smoker. At least Scandalous was humorously bad at points.

[GatorNY]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#21

Posted: 12/27/12 at 10:06pm

I guess, for me, it was Romney's performance in the first debate.

"The price of love is loss, but still we pay; We love anyway."

[Newsiesgirl67]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#22

Posted: 12/27/12 at 10:13pm

THE ANARCHIST
So boring!!!!!!!

Picture a handsome heroicly charismatic Plain spoken know-nothing Skirt chasing cocky little son of a- Lie down with dogs and you wake up with A raise and a promotion. So he's a flirt, a complete ego maniac The fact is he's also the face of the strike What a face Face the fact that's a face that could save us all from sinking in the ocean. -Katherine (Newsies) Superboy and the Invisible Girl Everything a kid oughtta be He's immortal, forever alive Then there's me I wish I could fly And magically appear and disappear I wish I could fly I'd fly far away from here -Natalie (Next to Normal)

[SNAFU]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#23

Posted: 12/27/12 at 10:22pm

Ghost. I knew it was going to be bad when it opened with that Christmas Spectacularesque opening of flying to Main Street in DUMBO by flying through New York from the Battery to the Bronx! Annoys the hell out of me when they do not get geography right!

Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!

[OperaBwayLover]

What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?#24

Posted: 12/27/12 at 10:31pm

For me, it was a local production of Anything Goes. The only good song was the staging of the title number (which heavily borrowed from the recent B'way revival); the rest was acted/sung in a highly cartoonish manner.