What is the worst production you have ever seen on Broadway? What is the worst show?- Page 6

[BroadwayPatriot]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 2:45pm

The worst play I ever witnessed was Prymate in 2004 - horrible nonsense about a gorilla 

and in 2008 I saw the worst musical in my history at least called Glory Days - just awful 

[BroadwayPatriot]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 2:51pm

The worst play I ever witnessed was Prymate in 2004 - horrible nonsense about a gorilla 

and in 2008 I saw the worst musical in my history at least called Glory Days - just awful 

[SeanD2]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 3:21pm

BroadwayPatriot said: "The worst play I ever witnessed was Prymate in 2004 - horrible nonsense about a gorilla

and in 2008 I saw the worst musical in my history at least called Glory Days - just awful"

Finally someone mentioned Prymate! And I'd add The Civil War to the list of worst shows I've ever seen.

[BroadwayPatriot]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 4:23pm

SeanD2 said: "BroadwayPatriot said: "The worst play I ever witnessed was Prymate in 2004 - horrible nonsense about a gorilla

and in 2008 I saw the worst musical in my history at least called Glory Days - just awful"

Finally someone mentioned Prymate! And I'd add The Civil War to the list of worst shows I've ever seen."

In all fairness we might be one of the only people who saw Prymate - I remember the Longacre - around 100 people when the curtain went up , when the lights came up and the show ended , my friend and I turned around and maybe 10 people remained in the entire house, not exaggerating 

[EvanstonDad]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 5:54pm

Ok, am I the only one who actually kind of wants to see Prymate now?

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 6:01pm

Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway in 2012(?). Such a dog.

[Kad]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 6:08pm

I had never heard of it- looking up reviews, it seems wild. 

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 6:14pm

Brklyn 

Bobbi Boland

Scandalous 

Legs Diamond 

 

[wcoyote]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 8:23pm

"The Look of Love".

 

Only show I ever walked out on..

[kdogg36]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 10:25pm

I just want to say that there's a play called Yosemite that I saw at Rattlestick Theater, starring Seth Numrich and (as a kid) Noah Galvin, and directed by the now-quite-famous Pedro Pascal, that I thought was an abomination at the time. However, even a few days after I saw it, I realized it had something to say about poverty in America. It's grown on me ever since and I now recognize that it was probably a pretty good play.

[Malinda5000]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 10:51pm

Been A Broadway Baby For Well Over 50 Years And Forgot To Mention…

Applause 

Sugar

Raisin

Sarava

Eubie!

The Act

Working

Bubbling Brown Sugar

They’re Playing Our Song 

Cats

The First

Merlin

Barnum

Bring Back Birdie

Big River

Meet Me In St. Louis 

Singin In The Rain

Oh Kay!

Grind

Big Deal

Rags

Legs Diamond

The Tap Dance Kid

Rock And Roll The First 5000 Years 

Big

The Capeman

Shogun

Swing

Footloose

Nine 2003

The Wild Party (Broadway)

In The Heights

The Scottsboro Boys

Dr. Frankenstein 

Taboo

9 To 5

Cry Baby

Pricilla…Queen Of The Desert

Curtains

Summer ( Loved The Songs Though)

Memphis

Tootsie

Some Like It Hot (Better Than “Sugar” But Still Bad)



 

 

 

Updated On: 5/24/24 at 10:51 PM

[aburnedhill]

Posted: 5/21/24 at 10:52pm

I actively dozed off during Ohio State Murders. The James Earl Jones is stunning though !

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 8:08am

wcoyote said: ""The Look of Love".



Only show I ever walked out on.."

oh yes, that was dreadful. People were laughing at the choreography. Poor Rachelle Rak. And the sound design even made Liz Callaway sound bad which is quite a feat!

[Hope Lombardo]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 9:27am

Phantom of the Opera. (in Year 10)

Tuck Everlasting (and I don't know if it was everlasting or not because i left at intermission)

[berniesb!tch]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 9:52am

EvanstonDad said: "Ok, am I the only one who actually kind of wants to see Prymate now?"

I just looked the show up. Seems bonkers and lowkey (highkey) very racist to have a black man play a gorilla with 2 white scientists.

[theatretenor2]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 2:55pm

Musicals: Spiderman: Turn off the Dark and Paradise Square

Plays: The Realistic Joneses - amazing cast, snooze fest of a show

[BroadwayPatriot]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 3:51pm

berniesb!tch said: "EvanstonDad said: "Ok, am I the only one who actually kind of wants to see Prymate now?"

I just looked the show up. Seems bonkers and lowkey (highkey) very racist to have a black man play a gorilla with 2 white scientists."

It got worse - someone is raped and someone is injected with a syringe of AIDS, it was mind boggling to see it on a Broadway stage , reminded me of a grind house exploitation movie more than Broadway level theater 

[575757]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 4:34pm

Worst Broadway - Lestat, or Illya, Darling 

 

Worst Ever: Meredith Willson's 1491 with Chita Rivera and John Cullum, Shine It On with Lisa Minelli in San Francisco, Home Sweet Homer with Yul Brenner in tryout, or Barbary Coast with Jerry Landing and Marcia Rodd which only played in San Francisco for very, very small audiences of maybe 100 in a 2200 seat house - a vanity production with full broadway designers and orchestrators. 

Updated On: 5/22/24 at 04:34 PM

[SeanD2]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 4:49pm

Oh, I forgot Enron... that was really a show that I saw... wow.

[mikey89]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 5:41pm

Just came back from NYC  last week. Saw Back to the future, and for the first time ever walked out at intermission. We then got a drink and a hot dog before going back in just to see the car fly. 

The most amateur piece of theater with the most boring songs and the cast was completely phoning it in. Seemed like a tired theme park piece of entertainment which I never got from Aladdin and Lion King.  In addition, the whole subplot between Marty and his mother was just something else. 

[LuckyDipster]

Posted: 5/22/24 at 6:56pm

mikey89 said: "the whole subplot between Marty and his mother was just something else."

You say that like you've never seen the movie.

[marytylermoore]

Posted: 5/23/24 at 1:58pm

American Psycho is the only show I regret spending money on. The only exciting moment was the end of the first act when blood splattered on the vinyl curtain. Other than that, totally abysmal. Sometimes when I need a laugh, I think of the moment where the set was covered in blood in Act II and they needed a way to get rid of it, so the solution was to have the ensemble on their hands and knees cleaning up the blood while singing the word "cleannnnnn..." repeatedly

[persephone88]

Posted: 5/24/24 at 10:36am

I absolutely hated The Sound Inside, other than the gorgeous lighting design. Runner Up: A Strange Loop, which I really wanted to like but it started strong and just rolled downhill from there. 1/2 of the couple next to got up and left in the middle. I wish I'd joined him.

[ryandk2]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 2:24am

Worst shows I've seen in the last 27 years:

The Goat or Who is Sylvia?: I so desperately wanted to leave, but I was in the middle of the row and there was no intermission.

Gypsy: Patti LuPone was just horrible to see in person. She can't sing -- just screeched the whole time -- and was shouting her lines the whole time. So painful!

The Humans and The Band's Visit: Lots of hype, but just so boring.

Updated On: 5/25/24 at 02:24 AM

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 5/25/24 at 9:14am

A Delicate Balance with Glenn Close and John Lithgow. Shocking considering the cast but it was so long and so boring like why.

 

Also On Your Feet-just didn’t see any reason for needing it