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Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Dissappointment For You?
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#125Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 12:54am
Original productions of:
NINE
CATS
42nd STREET
Revivals:
WEST SIDE STORY (1980)
LITTLE ME (1983)
#126Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:01am
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.
#127Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:30amOriginal production of cabaret! I saw it online, & I HATED it! I love and worship the mendes production and execution of the show. The original script sucks compared to the Mendes revival script. And I may get stoned for saying this but Alan Cumming owns the role of the MC!
JarqueLemos
Stand-by Joined: 5/24/13
#128Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 1:45am
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???
#129Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 2:39amNewsies, AWFUL! The only good thing about it was the dancing and the attractiveness of the cast. Talk about a bad book!
#130Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 6:14am
"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.
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#131Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 6:42am
The 2009 revival of "Guys and Doll's. Oliver Platt was a horrible "Nathan Detroit" especially in comparison to Nathan Lane.
Spamalot - Big Monty Python fan but musical just did not do it for me. The only part I truly loved was Sara Ramirez as "Lady of The Lake".
gchris11
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/13
#132Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 6:48am
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.
Plannietink08
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/11
#133Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 6:59amThe current West End Revival of Spamalot. It was pretty lame, not funny, awful set and just all round boring.
"Charlotte, we're Jewish"
#134Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 4:07pm
Promises, Promises
Anything Goes
Priscilla
#135Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 4:22pm
Legally Blonde she wants to marry a looser for no reason. What???
So, you didn't like it because you weren't paying attention?
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
hanabana
Leading Actor Joined: 5/12/12
#136Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 7:28pm
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.
#137Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/3/13 at 7:48pm
Newsies and Young Frankenstein are the first two that come to mind for me.
OH, and the latest WSS revival. It's shorter to list what I did like: most of the cast and the large orchestra. That's it.
Formerly: WishingOnlyWounds2 - Broadway Legend - Joined: 9/25/08
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#138Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 8:59amFollies
#139Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 9:13amKINKY BOOTS! I don't understand what all the raves are about. The show is boring, I'm sorry the music sucks! The set is unimpressive, the book is not that funny and billy porter is the only highlight in this mess of a musical. I was so bored and felt like I was watching another typical harvey firestein story line.
#140Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 9:35am
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! :)
#141Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 9:59am
"Never understood why Damn Yankees/Encores! did not advance to Broadway . . . a truly splendid production."
oh dear me, no. sure, you got to see cheyenne jackson in his underwear and sean hayes piano playing was lots of fun but, poor jane krakowski was nowhere near able to perform the considerable dancing necessary for that part. not ready for prime time.
#142Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 10:10am
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
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#143Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 12:33pmI have to agree with comments on the recent revival of West Side Story. I saw it on tour and expected it to be awesome due to the great score, story material and choreography. But it was so flat and half the performers seemed to be "phoning it in" and the Spanish lines didn't help add color like I thought they would. Add me to the list of people who didn't like Spring Awakening either. People were hyping it like it was the second coming of Rent! All I saw in it was music with aimless lyrics that totally didn't jive with the period costumes and story. Very disappointing. And I am also among the few who were subjected to the original Annie sequel (Annie II: Miss Hannigan's Revenge). Even Dorothy Loudon couldn't save that train wreck!
#144Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 6:19pm
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.
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#145Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 6:38pmThe 1997 revival of "Man of La Mancha," a show I love, starring the original Quixote, Richard Kiley, and Emilt Yancy. Lifeless.
#146Which Musical (Original or Revival) Was A major Disappointment For You?
Posted: 6/5/13 at 6:54pm
"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.
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