What are the worst musicals you ever saw
What are the worst musicals you ever saw
BroadwayPeasent
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/16
#1What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:15pm
It can be anywhere not just Broadway. And any country in the world
#2What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:16pm
Paramour
Finding Neverland
Love Never Dies
#3What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:17pm
DIRTY DANCING, but such a negative thread
BroadwayPeasent
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/16
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#5What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:20pm
Potted Potter Off-Broadway remains the only show I've ever walked out on.
#6What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:23pm
Though I'm also not a huge fan of these "negative for the sake of being negative" threads, I have to be hypocritical for a moment, since I can't pass up the opportunity to mention the single worst piece of theatre I have ever witnessed in my life: a recent musical at the National Theatre called Wonder.Land. An utter disaster in every conceivable way. After seeing it, I racked my brain to think of the shows I've hated the most in my life, and I came to the fully realized conclusion that Wonder.land was not only the most atrocious, but had the fewest (read: zero) redeeming qualities.
And that's all I have to say about that. I won't be opening this thread again because I'd like to avoid the complaint parade (hypocritical - I know).
Tuna2
Understudy Joined: 4/30/16
#7What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:30pm
Spamalot! Hated it! But I do love Monty Python and the Holy Grail! The movie just didn't translate well for a Broadway musical IMHO.
Updated On: 6/4/16 at 07:30 PM
@z5
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/30/15
ebontoyan
Broadway Star Joined: 9/22/14
#9What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:34pm
Once
Gentleman's Guide
I know I'm in the minority
ajh
Broadway Star Joined: 5/6/11
#10What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:41pm
NYC: The Last Ship
London: Behind The Iron Mask, or Too Close To The Sun (both by the same creator, may God forgive him)
#11What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:56pm
Most recent; Fun Home. Deadly score. Annoying kids. Boring. I couldn't wait to escape. Really very overrated.
#12What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:17pm
Leap of Faith on Broadway (Raul Esparza). Woof! Everything was so dreadfully mediocre, the whole was a hell of a lot less than the sum of its parts.
Paramour was also quite terrible.
#13What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:30pm
Ghost
The Bodyguard
Cyrano
reNt
#14What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:32pm
Leap of Faith
Amazing Grace
Sweet Smell of Success
#15What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:35pm
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
#16What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:42pm
Soul Doctor
dwirth
Understudy Joined: 4/26/05
#17What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:45pm
Bandstand at Paper Mill ranks up there...
Mike66
Leading Actor Joined: 12/17/15
#18What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:54pm
Civil War -- I even threw away the Playbill.
StephieElise
Featured Actor Joined: 11/12/12
#19What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:55pm
Kismet
Hot Shoe Shuffle
I didn't see it but in high school I was in a musical adaptation of The Getting of Wisdom, a classic Australian novel set in the 19th century about a girl who hated our school...it was really bad.
Sondheimite
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/14
#20What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:58pm
I saw a community production of Into the Woods once in South Carolina that would have made me hate Into the Woods if I didn't already know the material before going in. The most painfully bad two hours in a theatre I have ever experienced.
#21What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:00pm
Cut After Eight...
#22What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:03pm
How can a theatre fan HATE fun home? I don't care if you hate the music, the story should at the very least make you feel empathy.
#23What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:12pm
Years back, there was a touring production of Doctor Doolittle that starred Tom Hewitt and a then unknown Tony Yazbeck that toured my hometown. I think Dee Hoty was in it as well? Regardless, it was the most dreadful thing I'd ever seen. I was a kid and always just happy to be at a show, but this one made even me want to leave during intermission. Sadly, we stayed.
I think it eventually closed down to retool and then went back on the road in a new version with Tommy Tune. If memory serves, it didn't get better.
#24What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:13pmCall_me_jorge said: "How can a theatre fan HATE fun home? I don't care if you hate the music, the story should at the very least make you feel empathy.
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The problem is, if you walk in Circle in the Square knowing nothing about the material, it may take some time to figure out the girls are the same person. This might ruin the first number depending on how perceptive you are.
pc1145N
Understudy Joined: 2/24/07
#25What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:19pm
Dirty Dancing. Hands Down, my worst night of "theater" ever.
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