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

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 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 

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

Brklyn 

Bobbi Boland

Scandalous 

Legs Diamond 

 

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.

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

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)

Musicals: Spiderman: Turn off the Dark and Paradise Square

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

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

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. 

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

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