What is your LEAST favorite musical ever?- Page 7

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 12:51pm

You guys need to see some more bad theater!

"Aint Broadway Grand"
"Thou Shalt Not"

and the worst was:
"Frankie" the Frankenstein musical...the last piece George Abbott wrote and directed.

Disqualified for being a showcase concert, but almost equally horrific..."Mandela"... Winnie had braces.

Matty, I do hate Meet Me in St. Louis, but cant include it because I never saw it...I was in it however...and it was dreadful (I wasnt, of course!)

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 3:00pm

twogaab2, If you hate this kind of thread, wouldnt it just make sense to not respond to it?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 3:06pm

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in Vegas)..it was so tacky that I literally couldn't stop laughing.

You mean Notre Dame de Paris. Hunchback of Notre Dame could be referring to the Disney show which premiered in Berlin (Der Glöckner von Notre Dame), which wasn't too bad, except for the sets, which were rather dull after about 15 minutes.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 4:31pm

That list is rediculous, shh.

[nealb1]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 5:29pm

"Wicked" tops my list.

[Pippin]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 5:56pm

"Fosse. I enjoy Fosse musicals but couldn't stand this plotless, homoerotic, boring POS."

If you are talking about the "Take off with us" dance segment with the three couples, I don't why you are fixated on the male couple when there was a also a female couple, and a straight couple. How is that homoerotic. it was pretty tasteful, IMO.

and I don't really see anything else in the show that is overtly homoerotic, unless the sight of the hot dancing men in tight black spandex turned you on, if you are a man.

and in that case, I think thou dost protest too much.

[BDavis0092]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 6:00pm

As of recent, Cry-Baby and Curtains.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 6:01pm

"Cats" !

[theater junkie]

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

Smokey Joe's Cafe
Fosse
Xanadu

[Missl197]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 6:18pm

Cats... Seriously just.. pointless.

And High School Musical (which is apparently coming on Broadway after Rent comes off.. Hence, my signature.)

[matty159]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 6:20pm

Alright, I need to add The Lion King and Swinging On A Star (though the latter may be because I was too young to get the kitsch of it all) as I had the same thoughts of them as I did with the three I already posted.

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 6:46pm

RENT!

[LittlexFallxOfxRain]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 7:22pm

Oklahoma

I hate to say it, but it drives me crazy even though it's cute.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:10pm

I totally agree with Oklahoma. And Carousel.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:15pm

I've seen some bad shows (IN YOUR LIFE, THOU SHALT NOT, MOLLY and others) but always found something terrific about a dreadful show. Maybe I like watching train wrecks. However, TITANIC bored the daylights out of me and I was extremely happy when the ship finally went down.

[cfmiller]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:30pm

My Favorite Year. I really wanted to like it, but just couldn't.

I also agree about Cats being pointless.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 9:37pm

Copacabana Truly a musical abortion.

[kathy selden]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 10:04pm

Broadway: The Pirate Queen
Regional: Columbia Dinner Theater - Columbia Maryland "Thoroughly Modern Milly" (Or maybe it was the fact it was filled with middle school groups on spring break tours, all eating like pigs at the buffet carts set up on stage pre-curtain time. ICK!!!!!!!!! I had to leave to get air.
High School: my kids' school production of "Footloose" oh dear Lord........'everybody cut loose'....

[shh282]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:19pm

Updated after a very busy day

Cats XXII
Phantom of the Opera XI
Grease XI
Oklahoma VI
The Fantastiks VI
The Music Man V
Brigadoon V
Annie V
High School Musical V
Wicked V
Rent V
The Lion King IV
Seussical IV
Cry-Baby IV
Godspell III
1776 III
Footloose III
BKLYN III
Thou Shalt Not III
Avenue Q III
Follies II
Fosse II
Hairspray II
Movin' Out II
South Pacific II
Sunset Boulevard II
The Little Mermaid II
Camelot II
Sweeney Todd II
Tarzan II
A Catered Affair II
Kismet II
Starlight Express II
The Producers II
Jesus Christ Superstar II
Passion II
Carousel II
Joseph II
Mamma Mia II
Chicago I
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change I
Sound of Music I
Oliver I
Back to the 80's I
Lucky Stiff I
Working I
Mimi le Duck I
The Scarlet Pimpernel I
The Mystery of Edwin Drood I
Jersey Boys I
A Chorus Line I
Light in the Piazza I
Nick and Nora I
La Cage Aux Follies I
Dr. Dolittle I
Jelly's Last Jam I
Into the Woods I
My Fair Lady I
Flower Drum Song I
Bye Bye Birdie I
Miss Saigon I
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat I
Honk I
Passing Strange I
Bring in Da Noise I
They’re Playing Our Song I
Aida I
We Will Rock You I
Notre Dame de Paris I
Blame it on the Movies I
Annie Get Your Gun I
Les Miserables I
The Wedding Singer I
Gypsy I
Café Crown I
Do Black Patent Shoes Really Reflect Up? I
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee I
Sweet Smell of Success I
NunCrackers I
Starmites I
The Boy Friend I
Whistle Down the Wind I
The Ark I
Young Frankenstein I
All Shook Up I
Hot Feet I
Spring Awakening I
Spamalot I
The Color Purple I
I Love A Piano I
Lennon I
The Hunchback of Notre Dame I
Dance of the Vampires I
Legs Diamond I
Shogun the Musical I
Lestat I
Kismet I
Fame I
Meet me in St. Louis I
Ain’t broadway Grand I
Frankie I
Curtains I
Smokey Joe’s Café I
Xanadu I
Swinging on a star I
Titanic I
My favorite year I
Copacabana I
The pirate queen I

[fafolguy]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:35pm

"least favorite = one that you enjoyed the least = worst, does it not?"
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Not to get into semantics, but no, they're not the same. For example, my least favorite is My Fair Lady. I can totally understand why others might like it, but I really really really do not. It's not the worst show ever written, I understand that, but of all the shows I am familiar with, it is the one I like the least.

[broadfan327]

Posted: 5/21/08 at 11:47pm

Spelling Bee. I also thought Grease was pretty awful, but I have only seen the current Broadway production.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 12:25pm

FYI - "Homoerotic" refers to the eroticism of homosexual sex. It is not gender-specific. It can refer to male couples or female couples.

While I also disliked Fosse as a show, I don't see how it could ever be described as a "homoerotic". One of the dances contains some homoeroticism, but the show itself is not homoerotic. And if it was, why would that be one of its faults?

Posted: 5/22/08 at 12:29pm

Of those I HAVEN'T managed to avoid

70 Girls 70
The Last Five Years
House of Flowers

[candidnoodles]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 12:51pm

High School Musical

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 5/22/08 at 2:33pm

High School Musical shouldnt even be categorized in this.