#76
Posted: 5/19/24 at 12:23am
Times They Are A Changin'
Million Dollar Quartet
What is the worst production you have ever seen on Broadway? What is the worst show? — Page 4
#77
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.
#78
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.
#79
Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:05am
Catch Me If You Can is up there. But probably Cats.
#80
Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:16am
Oh I forgot about BE MORE CHILL and LIGHTNING THIEF. But are they worse than BKLYN?
#81
Posted: 5/19/24 at 1:26am
Worst of all time: The Philanthropist w/ Matthew Broderick
Worst Musical: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
#82
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.
#83
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.
#84
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
#85
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)
#86
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.
#87
Posted: 5/19/24 at 10:50am
”Tarzan (left after opening monkey scene)“
…so you didn’t see the show.
#88
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.
#89
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
#90
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.
#91
Posted: 5/19/24 at 7:16pm
"The Humans" and "Girl From The North Country."
#92
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.
#93
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.
#94
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.
#95
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!
#96
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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#97
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.
#98
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.
#99
Posted: 5/20/24 at 2:40am
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
Movin' Out
Contact
#100
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.
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