Which Show Do You Remember Least?

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 9:09am

After so many years of theatre going, it's inevitable that there are some shows which will slip through the mental cracks. So which shows have you seen that you remember nothing or very little of? For me it's definitely the 2012 revival of Streetcar. I know I was in the front row; I remember Nicole Ari Parker's delivery of the line, "Did he KILL her?" but other than that, complete blank!

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 9:13am

1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE...1976 flop by Leonard Bernstein...i was "lucky" to catch it before it closed after 7 performances!

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 9:18am

A Bronx Tale for sure. I literally remember nothing because it was THAT forgettable.

Updated On: 12/1/18 at 09:18 AM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 9:59am

Not a professional production, but I saw my high school's production of Me And My Girl and can't remember it at all. This is going back 22 years ago. But, very little has stuck in my mind about it and I did like it at the time.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 10:06am

I don't remember

[David10086]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 10:24am

"Starlight Express" in London (can't recall the year). All I remember from it was a lot of noise, motion and leaving the theater feeling sea-sick. (Though I did buy the cast recording, and enjoy listening to a couple of songs every now and then.)

[BalconyClub]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 10:36am

I least remember a Mark Taper show in LA, a musical review with Carol Burnett, Bronson Pinchot, Susan Egan, and John Barrowman.

It was 1998, a Sondheim songfest "Putting It Together".

I had an awful cold and runny nose but did not want to miss the performance.

Updated On: 12/1/18 at 10:36 AM

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 1:20pm

Which show do you most remember not remembering at all. LOL.

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 1:24pm

Allegiance.

A friend and I won lotto tickets for a matinee when it was in previews.  And we were amazed at how banal the show was when it was drawing from such rich/dark/important historical events.

I left the theatre, got some pizza, and decided to play the Hamilton lotto.
Won a ticket with the full OBC.
So Hamilton kinda washed the taste of Allegiance out.

All I remember about Allegiance is thinking,
"this is such a cheery number about baseball considering they're in a concentration camp..." 
 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 4:00pm

Interesting.  There are shows that are terrible for the ages, and you hope not to waste brain cells remembering anything about them.  Anyone older folks remember The Leaf People or Copperfield?  I am sure that I blocked them out -- and many others -- on purpose.

If I think about successful shows or shows that were highly acclaimed, I remember nada about Once (other than the set) or Two Gentlemen From Verona, which beat Follies for the Best Musical Tony.  Despite the acclaim, they were just that forgettable to me.

I loved the London production of Starlight Express and went back to see it two more times.  

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 4:10pm

Waiting in the Wings. All I remember is that Bacall seemed to be in an entirely different play from the rest of the cast.

[ItsMeRaul]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 4:16pm

Big Fish. I remember who I saw it with, but that's it.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 4:28pm

I was thinking about it, but then I forgot it. Just couldn't remember it.

[Miles2Go2]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 4:47pm

When I was taking theater classes in junior college over 30 years ago, our drama teacher would arrange for us to see productions at other nearby colleges. I saw a couple of productions that I don’t remember much anything about. I’m pretty sure one was The Fantastics and I think another took place on The Fourth of July (maybe that was the name? Not sure). That’s literally all I remember. I’ve never seen a production of The Fantastics since.

[Fetus]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 4:52pm

Bend it Like Beckham on West End. I don't remember it being awful, but forgettable and long for what it was. I remember the themed drinks they sold in the lobby more than the show itself.

[BWAY Baby2]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 5:24pm

I recently saw The Girl From The North County in London- ti was the dreariest show I can remember. I highly do NOT recommend it.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 5:29pm

Merlin. In fact, I often get it confused in my memory with Goodtime Charley.

Vieux Carre. Possibly because fell asleep during it.

 

Updated On: 12/2/18 at 05:29 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 5:36pm

I couldn’t tell you one thing about Memphis, Scandalous, Baby, It’s You!, The Snow Geese, or The People in the Picture.

There are countless more that have evaporated from my memory.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:02pm

Granted I didn't stay for Act 2 because it was just so deadly dull, but I have only the vaguest memories of Breakfast at Tiffany's. The one image that sort of sticks in my head is Emilia Clarke playing a ukulele on a fire escape?

[Miramar3]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:11pm

"Little Lies" with John Mills and Connie Booth, London, 1983.  I have absolutely no memory of that play.  In fact, I had to do some Googling to even find the title.  I don't know that it was particularly good or particularly bad; I just don't remember it at all.  

[JBroadway]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:23pm

I have a slightly weird one: 

The recent revival of Skylight. Why is that weird, you might ask? Because I actually liked the show. I thought it was very engaging, I thought the performances were excellent, and I was pleased when it won the Tony for best revival.

I remember what the set looked like, and I remember that she cooked live onstage. But I literally cannot recall a single thing about the actual content of the script. 

[LuPita2]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:33pm

If/Then.  It was shockingly terrible and I honestly cannot remember one song from it.  What a waste of extraordinary talent on that stage.  

[LLW2]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:37pm

Metamorphosis, 1989. I remember Mikhail Baryshnikov hanging upside-down but that’s about it.

Updated On: 12/1/18 at 06:37 PM

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:38pm

See, the shows I remember most are the ones that make me feel an extreme emotion on either end - EIther being very pleased/happy/overjoyed/emotionally reactive or absolute disgust/hatred/insult to my intelligence that I'm either praising or bitching about it in the years to come.

Good Example: CYNTHIA ERIVO IN "THE COLOR PURPLE" - I still talk about how that was the very first time I openly cried in a theatre because of the raw emotion.

Bad Example: SCANDALOUS - I was drunk enough where I actually fell asleep during the show and I still remember how none of that show made any damn sense.

[HumanHeart]

Posted: 12/1/18 at 6:59pm

I was 13 when I saw Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams on Broadway and I honestly can't remember the plot of that show. I remember the song "Shakalaka Baby" and still get it stuck in my head, along with "How Many Stars", and, I do recall some other tunes because they were rip-offs of real Bollywood songs. My best friend growing up was Indian, so, I watched a lot of Bollywood. So, I still recall a lot of the music because it was sampled from real Bollywood songs, but... I can't for the life of me remember the plot.