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What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to praise)?
A Grey Spring
Stand-by Joined: 5/20/07
#50re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 9:57am
Rent
Cats
Xanadu
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#51re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 10:32am
The Last Five Years
Spring Awakening
#52re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 10:41am
Passing Strange
Jersey Boys
Phantom of the Opera
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#53re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:01am
The one show that I can think of that EVERYONE seems to be praising here that I don't like is the current production of Gypsy. I am not a LuPone fan at all nor can I stand her singing. There were some great performances on that stage. I would say the best was Laura Benanti.
I also thought that YF was the very bad as well. I thought that the jokes fell flat and the score wasn't very good as well.
#54re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:04am
1. Mamma Mia!
2. Cats
3. Sunday In The Park With George
4. Beauty & the Beast
5. The Producers
#55re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:05am
Xanadu - only meant for a certain generation of people
Spamalot - all the same jokes from the movie and the new ones were cheesy
Parade - half of the shows music is so superfluous, it's ridiculous.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#56re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:28am
songanddanceman - shut your trap!!! You are a fan of LEGALLY BLONDE and RENT. that says it all right there....
wait no. not a fan. you are a schiller. you never shut your hole, when there's a chance to defend LB or RENT (mediocre overrated junk)
just stop and leave me alone! It's people like YOU that make me hate this crap even more.
#57re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 12:49pm
Phantom
Titanic
Mamma Mia!
#58re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 12:54pm
TooDarnHot
Im also a fan of Company, In The Heights, Sunday In The Park With George, Parade, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Misery, November, Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd etc, its called having diverse taste.
And i weren't even having a go at you before i was just saying that Rent did change theatre (which Fan of no fan is not exactly brain surgery, its fact)
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#59re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 1:00pm
How did Rent change theatre? I'm not being belligerent, as I do like the show, although I haven't been back to see it since 1996. I just see that claim made a lot about it and I'm interested as to the reasons why people think it was a groundbreaking show.
Further explanation to my question: looking at the past century of musicals, there are certain shows that stand out as groundbreakers. In brief, Show Boat, for its sweep, scale, subject matter; Of Thee I Sing, for its satire; Pal Joey, for having an anti-hero as its leading character; Oklahoma! for breaking with the style in which musicals were written; Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof for totally integrated staging and models of the form of the modern book musical; Cabaret for combining the book musical with the concept musical; Hair as the first rock musical on Broadway; Company as the model of the Prince-Sondheim concept musicals; Chorus Line for total integration of book, score and staging; Cats (for better or worse) as the first of the international mega-musicals, where marketing triumphed over content. But what did Rent do that no other show had done before it?
#60re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 1:04pmLittle Sally, I think its funny you dont like [TOS] but quote it in your signature.
#61re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 1:07pm
Pajama Game (Revival)
Spelling Bee
Light in the Piazza
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#62re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 1:27pm
Spring Awakening - But i have more personal history issues with the show than anything
Prodcuers - Yes, not a fan...I did like Young Frankenstein
Fantasticks - Sure it ran for ever, but I just can't care about it.
#63re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 1:55pm
Anything Goes
Beauty & The Beast
Jesus Christ Superstar
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#64re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 2:01pm
RENT - It is nice to know I am not alone in this. I seriously thought I was the only person. I like the material that JL wrote but I thought the staging was awful.
WICKED - The only allure to that show was Kristin Chenoweth.
SPRING AWAKENING - I don't know...maybe because I got some I didn't find it relevant to me.
#65re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 2:09pm
1. Working
2. The Secret Garden
3. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
4. Wicked
5. Spring Awakening (hey look! THIS is art! blah blah blah)
And, for those who put Sunday In The Park With George and The Light in the Piazza...are you CRAZY!?!?! It's a shame that they don't produce MORE shows like these in today's theatre. But maybe I'm biased because those two shows are definitely in my top ten list of favorite musicals...maybe my top five.
#66re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 2:09pm
1. Working
2. The Secret Garden
3. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
4. Wicked
5. Spring Awakening (hey look! THIS is art! blah blah blah)
And, for those who put Sunday In The Park With George and The Light in the Piazza...are you CRAZY!?!?! It's a shame that they don't produce MORE shows like these in today's theatre. But maybe I'm biased because those two shows are definitely in my top ten list of favorite musicals...maybe my top five.
#67re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 3:37pm
THE LION KING (A charming animated film which translated to the stage becomes an overproduced mediocrity)
RENT (Puccini's La Boheme relocated to a dramatic and musical garbage dump)
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (Proof that musical talent of Richard Rodgers' family seems to diminish with each generation.)
#68re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 3:41pm
The phantom of the opera
spelling bee
movin out
#69re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 3:50pm
I usually can find one good thing to say about each show, but I have the most trouble with:
Spring Awakening
Phantom of the Opera
A Catered Affair
#70re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 3:59pm
"THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (Proof that musical talent of Richard Rodgers' family seems to diminish with each generation.)"
Are you insane!?!
#71re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 4:01pm
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked
#72re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 4:35pm
Perhaps you failed to read the name of this thread...
"What are the top three worst shows you've ever seen that everyone else seemed to praise?"
You have a right to disagree as to the merits of THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, but to call someone insane just because they don't agree with your high opinion of the show is no cause to insult other people who do not agree. My opinion is an honest perception and my own and it is just as valid as yours, even though it is a minority opinion, which is the stated purpose of this thread.
My personal opinion based on seeing and hearing Light in the Piazza and other music by Adam Guettel, is that on his best day he is not one millionth the composer Richard Rodgers was on his worst day. But that's my opinion, which I admit is a minority one. I respect your right to disagree, a courtesy you have not shown me.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#73re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 4:47pmDayao...thank you. Really.
#74re: What are your top three worst shows ever (that everyone else seemed to
Posted: 8/16/08 at 5:01pm
Alright, calm down, calm down!
I wasn't, by any means, "insulting" you. I said "Are you insane?" as an expression. I obviously know it's your opinion and I did not mean to put you down.
Geesh! Calm down. People here can be so uptight...
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