What do you think are the best and worst shows on Broadway right now?- Page 2

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 5/9/08 at 3:48pm

Best New Musical: In The Heights
Worst New Musical: The Little mermaid
Best Revival musical: South Pacific
Worst Revival Musical: Grease

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:06pm

I would much rather sit through Grease than Passing Strange to be honest...although i believe I gave Grease a half a star in my review of it and PS two and a half stars...the more I think about PS the more I realize how much I really didn't like it. It's not worse than Grease but to be honest I would rather sit through the crap that was Grease simply because it was marginally more fun than PS. PS is a mess, in my opinion, Grease is a trainwreck. And I'll take a laughably bad trainwreck over a muddled mess anyday!

[doitonstage8]

Posted: 5/9/08 at 4:26pm

Personally, I think RENT is fabulous..it's just gotten too commercial and people see it for the wrong reasons..
Ugh, and South Pacific has fabulous music but is possibly the most boring show I have EVER seen!!!!

Best: (you're all gonna hate me) Spring Awakening
Worst: Wicked ...it was awful when I saw it.. like can we say sucky casting directors!?!?

[Izzie2]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 1:51am

for those of you who are saying rent and wicked....Keep in mind we are going for WORST not most ovverrated for the wrong reasons. Just because it's not nearly as good as people generally think it is does not make it inherently bad....nor does it make people classier, more theatre savvy, or smarter to lower your opinion of the show based on someone else's opinions. However misguided they may be. Not to neccesarily accuse you personally...I'm speaking in generalities. (it's been bugging me for a while)

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 2:31am

Best: South Pacific
Worst: Grease

[dramagirl487]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 10:13am

Okay i'm saying it

Best: RENT

Worst: Spring Awakening

~ducks under table to avoid broadway-related projectiles~

RENT, although now very commercial needs to be examined before passing judgement. The RENTheads, the absurd casting stunts, the remixed version, and everything else done to it after the composer died has truely brought the show down. When looking at a musical, I look at it in its initial stages, when it had every oppertunity to either succeed or fail.

RENT succeeded to the extent that a bizarre cult-like fan base and commercial label were tacked on almost immediately. Jonathan Larson never intended ANY of this to be associated with his edgy, time-defying musical.

Its a musical about "going against the grain", which the fans have made the new popular thing to do ^_^

Spring Awakening takes the worst for me. To start, without RENT and Hair (and others of course) it wouldn't have ever been accepted, and in my opinion, had it been the first of its kind, it wouldve been slammed down, locking the gate for the musicals like rent. It might seem drastic to accuse SA of potentially ruining broadway, but its a musical of vain pointless sex and teenage boys going through puberty. Theres no lasting message for the audience on love and acceptance. its just..a story.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:20am

I think we all know RENT and WICKED are flawed but to say they're worse than GREASE and some of the other complete garbage on Broadway right now is a bit far-fetched, in my opinion.

They're not by any means the best shows on Broadway right now but they are certainly not the worst.

[BroadwayBound115]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 4:38pm

best: gypsy
wosrt play: rock n' roll.
worst musical: a catered affair. I don't understand what's going on with this show. and I personally cannot stand Harvery Fierstein

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:12pm

Best: August Osage County

Worst: Grease

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:12pm

Best: August Osage County

Worst: Grease

[la_vie_boheme_et_moi]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 4:25pm

Best: Curtains
Worst: Spring Awakening

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 4:27pm

Best: AUGUST

Worst Revival: GREAT

Worst Musical: CRY-BABY

[springstagemanager]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:05pm

dramagirl, I agree with you on the RENT aspect, but not on the Spring Awakening opinion.

Spring Awakening had to have had some lasting impact on a few people, including, but not limited to, those who have gone back to see it dozens of times.

BEST--- Spring Awakening.

WORST--- GREASE.


I didn't think that The Little Mermaid was that horrible...

[BenKaye]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:09pm

BEST: Tie between Sunday in the Park with George, and Passing Strange.

WORST: Grease.

[Midnight Radio]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:20pm

Is this for the worst production/current cast or the over-all show?
If it is for the latter, Grease and Wicked, although I do dislike them, should never be mentioned over the likes of Cry-Baby or Young Frankenstein...

[AvenueQPat]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:27pm

Best New Musical - Spring Awakening
Worst New Musical - Little Mermaid
Best Musical Revival - Gypsy
Worst Musical Revival - Grease

[christhefish]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:32pm

Spring Awakening is no longer considered a "new musical"

Best Show: August: Osage County (South Pacific is a close second)
Worst: Mama Mia

[Heybeenfood]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:36pm

Best revivals: South Pacific and Macbeth
Best original shows: Passing Strange and August: Osage County

[AvenueQPat]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:38pm

Sorry.....I'll edit

Best Musical - Spring Awakening
Worst Musical - Little Mermaid

My mistake