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#26

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 5:34pm

Best Musical: The Light In The Piazza

Best Play: The Pillowman

Worst Show: Good Vibrations

'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero

#27

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 5:39pm

best- chicago/ DRS
worst- brooklyn/ good vibrations (although all those hot chorus girls in bikinis has given me a soft spot for it)

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

#28

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 5:46pm

Best: Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked
Worst: (in my opinion... *ducks and covers*) Little Women and Brooklyn (from what i've seen)

#29

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:10pm

I don't really have a worst...

Best: WICKED (yes... I know...:), followed by RENT, DRS, and La Cage in no particular order...

"I am unfinished- I am diminished With or without you..."

#30

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:31pm

Well, this will be based on what I've seen, not word of mouth.

Best Musical: Light in the Piazza

Best Play: Twelve Angry Men

Worst Musical: Brooklyn (haven't seen GV)

I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!

#31

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:34pm

Ah, TGIF, my partner in crime.

#32

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:34pm

Best: Rent
Worst: The Producers

#33

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:36pm

Best: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (soon to be tied with Spelling Bee)

Worst: Beauty and the Beast

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#34

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:40pm

"Ah, TGIF, my partner in crime."

:)

#35

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:42pm

what do you guys think is better- Brooklyn or Good Vibrations?

#36

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:47pm

Judging only from what I have seen-
Best: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Virginia Woolf, Wicked and Rent
Worst: Good Vibrations and Brooklyn

"Commit a little mortal sin, its good for the soul"

#37

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 6:48pm

Kevo711, I would say Good Vibrations is better than Brooklyn, but not by much

"Commit a little mortal sin, its good for the soul"

#38

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 7:44pm

Id have to say Brooklyn (which i actually enjoyed)...It is original and idk..has a cute story? Although the music is quite corny at times, the actors always make it sound good

#39

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 7:50pm

Best: Doubt, Twelve Angry Men, Spelling Bee (when it opens)
Worst: Based on the CR, Brooklyn

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#40

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 7:55pm

Answering the BROOKLYN/GV question, GOOD VIBES is worse, but not by much.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#41

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:25pm

There is no best and no worst.
My favorite show on Broadway is Avenue Q.
Special mention "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" My favorite theater event this season. Brava, Charles Busch and Marc Shaiman for making me laugh so hard and pull a muscle. I pulled a muscle from laughing.

Seth too!
Also love:
Hairspray
Dessa Rose
Fiddler
Piazza for the performances
Forbidden Broadway
Anything by Abaire

Updated On: 4/3/05 at 08:25 PM

#42

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:35pm

From what I have seen
Best: Q
Worst: Little Women

#43

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:35pm

thanks for the answers!

#44

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 8:37pm

broadwaystar2b- I'm surprised that you thought Little Women was the worst (i havent heard THAT bad of things about it). Just curious, what other shows have you seen?

#45

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:02pm

I saw Little Women with my grandmother a few weekends ago...it wasn't good, but I didn't think it was awful. Honestly I think I'd be entertained hearing Sutton Foster recite the ABC's for 2 hours. I think the show to me, is very similar to every other medium of Little Women-I've read the book, seen the movie etc. and you get a little bit of a warm and fuzzy feeling, but you wouldn't want to sit through the book/movie/play just to get it again...just my opinion though!

"Commit a little mortal sin, its good for the soul"

#46

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:06pm

WORST: RENT

BEST: WICKED

#47

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:11pm

You're joking right? Don't you LOVE rent?

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#48

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 9:53pm

Kevo, despite my current location, I have seen several of the shows currently running on Broadway:
Avenue Q
Beauty and the Beast
Brooklyn
Chicago
Hairspray
The Lion King
Little Women
Mamma Mia
Movin Out
Rent
POTO
The Producers
Wicked

My main issue with Little Women was that I had extremely high expectations because I am a such huge fan of the novel. I thought the general adaption was weak (both book & score) and the only performances I really enjoyed were those of Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern.
Now Little Women is NOT the worst Broadway show I have ever seen (the top 3 on my list have already closed) but it is not the best and I would only recommend it to others if they were fans of the aforementioned leading ladies.

#49

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 10:17pm

Are we talking best show as in the actual show? Or best show with its current cast?

If its the former, I would go with Rent. Although Wicked is amazing, one of my favorite shows, its not brilliant as Rent is. If its the latter, I'm going to go with DRS, althought I really enjoyed the cast of Spamalot. Worst I cant really say, I havent seen anything I really disliked, but from what I have heard Good Vibrations isnt so hot and that ASU is a tad better.

Updated On: 2/15/14 at 10:17 PM

#50

re: What the Best and the Worst Show on Broadway Right Now?

Posted: 4/3/05 at 11:06pm

I say best is currently Avennue Q cuz its a great show and they have the entire OBC except for Tartaglia and u cant beat and OBC that is decent. For the worst I say brooklyn.

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