Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Dissappointment For You? — Page 6

Original: Phantom, Jekyll and Hyde, and Once.

Revivals: La Cage (2004), A Chorus Line, and A Little Night Music (When Zeta-Jones was in it).

That's all.

Matilda was great to all the dislikers I would called perfect I gave it 10/10. It was the best staged and best musically musical ever.

Wicked was so bad the writers must have had writing block . Without Idina and Without Kristin it its awful.

Legally Blonde she wants to marry a looser for no reason. What???

"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" for starters. I wanted to like it so much because of the cast, but the score was just bad and the performances were surprisingly lackluster (with the exception of the beautiful Laura Benanti)

Otherwise, I was also kinda disappointed with "Newsies". The dancing was amazing ("Seize the Day" was breathtaking!), however, I was also bored with the book and pretty much most of the performances. Perhaps if I saw Jeremy Jordan play the lead instead of the replacement (who is SO boring) I would have liked it better.

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Tale Of Two Cities
Matilda
Bonnie and Clyde
Hands On a Hardbody
Catch Me If You Can
I will add to this as I remember other POS musicals.

Promises, Promises
Anything Goes
Priscilla

The biggest one that comes to mind is Mary Poppins. It was extremely popular on Broadway, but I did not like it much, and in fact, it is probably the show that I enjoyed the least.
A Little Night Music is probably another one. I saw the revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury. The sad thing is, I thought the acting by the entire cast was really great, and the musical had some funny parts, but I just couldn't get into it. None of the songs stuck with me, and I thought the show itself was a bit too long.

Follies

For me, it was Phantom. It was the only "big" musical from the late 80s/early 90s that I missed (I was busy seeing things like Shogun and Cyrano: The Musical :).

Anyway, I finally saw it a few years ago and I was surprised at how disappointing it was. Didn't have any "wow" to it and I thought it almost played comical and over-the-top instead of the more serious musical that I expected from the score (which I still love).

Long time lurker. First post! :)

My biggest disappointment was Billy Elliot. All the dancing little kids on stage reminded me of too many pta meetings i had to watch.

the union men singing was impressive until the 35th time they did the same song (or were they different songs that just sounded the same?)

and gregory jbara? a tony award? it seemed to me that he was trying to portray the fustration and anguish of a life beyond his control with little more that a permanent scowl on his face.

haven't listened to the cd in years.

Updated On: 6/5/13 at 10:10 AM

Well there are shows you go to expecting them to be bad; then there are the ones you went to with higher hopes that were dashed. Here are some of the latter:

ONCE: great music-making but weird to see a show where NONE of the songs' lyrics pertained to the characters singing them.

BOOK OF MORMON: amateur hour on a grand scale

AVENUE Q: amateur hour on a small scale (though their heart was in the right place).

WOMEN ON THE VERGE...: great pedigree and cast don't guarantee a show that makes any sense.

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON: see Avenue Q above.

WEST SIDE STORY w/ spanish lyrics: Why screw with a masterpiece and cut out the non-bilingual audience to boot?

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (most recent revival): Filling the stage with ugly butch drag queens can't have been their intention, but that's what killed the show for me.

THE GLORIOUS ONES: With Ahrens and Flaherty in 16th century Italy, what could go wrong? Worst musical we'd seen in years.

"Hands on a Hardbody." Sorry to the fans, but this show kept my attention only to the point of, "oh, they're singing another song? Good, someone else is going to leave which puts us one person leaving closer to the end of the show."

Also, "Drood." I was expecting to have such a great time, but the whole evening just left me feeling kind of "blah" and bored. Again, apologies to the fans!

I understand why these shows appeal to so many here; they just weren't for me.