What is the worst production you have ever seen on Broadway? What is the worst show?- Page 4

[OrchardAndRivington]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 12:23am

Times They Are A Changin'

Million Dollar Quartet

[rburton66]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 12:25am

A Steady Rain leapt to mind. Felt like having your TV stuck on the dumbest possible Law & Order rerun. 

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 12:39am

The Look of Love  was awful!  

Good Vibrations 

A Catered Affair 

Catch me if you Can 

The Cher Show 

Be More Chill 

Those are my top worst Broadway shows.   

 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:05am

Catch Me If You Can is up there. But probably Cats. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:16am

Oh I forgot about BE MORE CHILL and LIGHTNING THIEF. But are they worse than BKLYN? 

[Ensemble1713386029]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:26am

Worst of all time: The Philanthropist w/ Matthew Broderick

Worst Musical: Priscilla Queen of the Desert

[SuddenlyStanley]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:44am

ChiDoc said: "
Beyond that, Flying Over Sunset baffled me, and the Oklahoma! revival did not translate to tour well at all."

— The Oklahoma tour was absolutely terrible. It did not work in a proscenium and was such a misguided attempt. 

 

[LuckyDipster]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 6:08am

inception said: "Hamilton...Aladdin? Really?"

It's the age old thing of people thinking their own personal taste equates to the quality level of a show which is, of course, daft.  We all have instances of sitting through a show that we are not enjoying, but when it happens to me, I just shrug and think "oh well, it wasn't my jam."  I've only seen four shows on Broadway and I enjoyed them all so I cannot comment on a least enjoyable performance, but I can say that I have only ever walked out on a theatrical show once.  It was John Godber's Bouncers.  In defence of the show I had a headache and that made my decision to leave during the interval much easier, but the story and acting didn't work for me.  Maybe I have just been lucky in that I have never seen a show that felt like a cash grab or that everyone was just going through the motions, or maybe my expectations are lower.  Whatever the case, I'm almost guaranteed a good time when I go to the theatre and that's a nice feeling to have.

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:22am

Worst: Rocky, War Paint, Pretty Woman, King Kong, Jagged Little Pill

Misguided; Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Evita (revival), If/Then (I didn’t mind it light some)

Overhyped: Aladdin, Anastasia, Frozen, Water For Elephants

[Malinda5000]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:35am

Timbuktu

The Wiz 1984 Revival

Is There Life After High School?

Baby

Doonesbury

Marilyn: An American Fable

Ain’t Broadway Grand

Uptown…It’s Hot!

Dreamgirls Revival 1987

Carrie

Smile

Suessical

Tarzan (left after opening monkey scene)

Women On The Verge

Cry Baby

Motown

Baby It’s You

The Wiz Revival 2024

Honorable Mentions…

The Little Mermaid

The Addams Family 

Tina

Rocky

Wicked (just saying)

 

 

 

[MayAudraBlessYou2]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:42am

Amazing Grace, The Snow Geese, Be More Chill, The Parisian Woman, KPOP.

The current Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and Uncle Vanya revivals both made me want to leave at intermission, though I stayed to suffer through act 2.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 10:50am

”Tarzan (left after opening monkey scene)“

 

…so you didn’t see the show. 

[The Other One]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 11:25am

This was off-Broadway, at the Public, but major Broadway talent was involved.  The Knife is the worst show I've ever seen.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:12pm

Never Gonna Dance

Dance of the Vampires (great sets though)

Thou Shalt Not

A Broadway Musical (I did enjoy "Yenta Power"

Platinum

Blithe Spirit (Page, Chamberlain, Ivey, Danner)

Little Me (with Short and Prince)

A Musical Jubilee

Little Women

Timbuktu!

Three Days of Rain

Memphis

Runaways

Updated On: 5/19/24 at 01:12 PM

[BentleyB]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 5:11pm

I had forgotten about “Bullets Over Broadway” wow that was an abortion and in the 70s seeing a show with Bernard Hughes in the lead called, “Da”.  I could only understand about every 12th word because of the thick Irish brogue.  I think I slept thru Act 2. 

[CJRochester]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 7:16pm

"The Humans" and "Girl From The North Country." 

[BossBroadway]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:05pm

With how much it was talked about last season, I’m shocked to not see Bad Cinderella on any of these lists. 

[terrilovesNY]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:15pm

The 2011 revival of On A Clear Day, while it was wonderful to hear Harry Connick, Jr. and Jessie Mueller (in her Broadway debut!) sing those songs, what was actually happening in that show? 

The 2016 revival of Hughie. I don’t even know what else to say, but if there had been an intermission I would have left. 

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 8:55pm

BossBroadway said: "With how much it was talked about last season, I’m shocked to not see Bad Cinderella on any of these lists."

Carolee Carmello was great as the Stepmother. I'm not going to bat for the show being good, but any standout performance should disqualify a show from being labeled worst ever.

[berniesb!tch]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:07pm

The two shows I’ve ever walked out on were &Juliet and Hell’s Kitchen. The books just killed everything good they had going for them. 
 

Some of these responses are so interesting! 
 

 

[berniesb!tch]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:09pm

berniesb!tch said: "The two shows I’ve ever walked out on were &Juliet and Hell’s Kitchen. The books just killed everything good they had going for them.

Edit: Once upon a one more time was pretty rough too! 

Some of these responses are so interesting!


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[VernonGersch]

Posted: 5/19/24 at 9:43pm

a few more that spring to mind

BUTLEY - Nathan Lane.   It was soooooo dull, drab and boring Had high hopes going in.  Ooof

A CATERED AFFAIR - Up there as one of the most boring musicals, boring and very unmemorable shows off all time

WEST SIDE STORY (National Tour, Los Angeles, Pantages 2010) - This made (insert any middle school here) look like the high school in Fame compared to this lifeless dull production. 

[broadfan327]

Posted: 5/20/24 at 12:20am

Jonathan Cohen said: "BossBroadway said: "With how much it was talked about last season, I’m shocked to not see Bad Cinderella on any of these lists."

Carolee Carmello was great as the Stepmother. I'm not going to bat for the show being good, but any standout performance should disqualify a show from being labeled worst ever."

Bad Cinderella had it moments, and I enjoyed the score.  I saw the Cats revival, I thought the show in general was terrible, but the score has its moments, thus it wasn't on my list of the worst shows I have seen.

[TBFL]

Posted: 5/20/24 at 2:40am

Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public

Movin' Out

Contact

 

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 5/20/24 at 9:56am

Worst Show: The Dance of Death starring Ian McKellan and Helen Mirren. The stars tried. But the script was a bore and the pace was glacial.

Most Misguided: Disney's Frozen. Elsa has to be dangerous for the story to work. The stage adaptation defanged her.

Most Overrated: The Full Monty. The book is tired. And the message of "plain guys accepting their bodies" is defeated when you mix several hunks in.