Worst Best Musical?

[munkustrap178]

Worst Best Musical?#0

Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:47pm

Inspired from a previous thread where one poster claimed that a show couldn't be bad if it won Best Musical, I bring you this.

What do you think is the worst best musical ever?

Allow me to nominated what I consider the worst winners to be:

THE PAJAMA GAME
BIG RIVER
SUNSET BOULEVARD
THE PRODUCERS
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
SPAMALOT

If I had to choose one, it would probably be MILLIE.

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

[best12bars]

re: Worst Best Musical?#1

Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:49pm

Some of those on your list are pretty fantastic shows. Did you even see the original Big River????

I vote for "Titanic," above all, that won the coveted prize.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[FOAnatic]

re: Worst Best Musical?#2

Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:50pm

I'll agree with MILLIE, munk.

URINETOWN was leaps and bounds better.

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[munkustrap178]

re: Worst Best Musical?#3

Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:54pm

I did not see the original BIG RIVER - it's the only show I almost didn't include on my list - but it's not really BEST MUSICAL material, if you ask me. I was in the show - am very familiar with it, and saw the revival - which I adored - but I still don't think it's a great musical - it's the source material that I love.

Some pretty fantastic shows? Feel free to point them out.

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

[Albin]

re: Worst Best Musical?#4

Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:55pm

Contact should be nominated. I was p/o'd when it won.

[munkustrap178]

re: Worst Best Musical?#5

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:04pm

Although CONTACT might not fit under the musical category, I thought it was positively amazing.

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

[best12bars]

re: Worst Best Musical?#6

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:05pm

I saw the original "Big River" 2 1/2 times. Okay, yes, that means I second-acted it once. Guilty, as charged.

I had a friend take over the role of Mary Jane Wilkes in it, so several of us went to see it a few times and wish her well. I 'fessed up about this on other postings, but it was Marin Mazzie making her Broadway debut. We had just worked together a month before she got this part. The show holds a special place in my heart, as we had all just moved to New York. But I thought it was a damn fine musical all around. Still do. And the entire cast was terrific.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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Updated On: 11/6/05 at 06:05 PM

[jasonf]

re: Worst Best Musical?#7

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:07pm

Susnet Boulevard would probably have not won in any other year -- if it had some actual competition.

I would say both Fosse and Contact were ridiculous choices for "best musical," regardless of the artistic merit of either show.

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: Worst Best Musical?#8

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:11pm

I'd hardly call THE PRODUCERS the worst Best Musical.

I vote for TITANIC.

[theatreguy]

re: Worst Best Musical?#9

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:14pm

My nominations for Worst Best Musical would be:

REDHEAD
BIG RIVER
SUNSET BOULEVARD
SPAMALOT

[joanlegorreta]

re: Worst Best Musical?#10

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:16pm

I agree SB is not the best musical ever, although is my favorite but I definately think that even with "actually real competition" would be a big contender in any other year.

In my opinion, Avenue Q is very funny but not a best musical deserver, if that term exists jeje

[MargoChanning]

re: Worst Best Musical?#11

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:19pm

APPLAUSE
HALLELUJAH BABY!
SPAMALOT
SUNSET BOULEVARD
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[hypertruffle]

re: Worst Best Musical?#12

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:20pm

Hallelujah, Baby!

I borrowed the cast recording from the local library a couple of weeks bad and I despise it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it opened during a very weak season.

"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve

[cathywellerstein]

re: Worst Best Musical?#13

Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:23pm

spamalot.

[Urban]

re: Worst Best Musical?#14

Posted: 11/6/05 at 8:57pm

What about "Jerome Robbin's Broadway". Not that the songs where bad, but it wasn't an musical as more a revue and really 1989 was pretty much the worst year on record for new material.

[BSoBW2]

re: Worst Best Musical?#15

Posted: 11/6/05 at 8:59pm

Carrie

Wait...

Spamalot. Updated On: 11/6/05 at 08:59 PM

[MargoChanning]

re: Worst Best Musical?#16

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:01pm

JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY was a revue, but it was an utterly brilliant and thrilling one (several revues have won Best Musical incidentally). A whole evening of showstoppers. FAR from the worst Best Musical.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 11/6/05 at 09:01 PM

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

re: Worst Best Musical?#17

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:03pm

Spamalot.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

re: Worst Best Musical?#18

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:04pm

Contact...which is neither the "best" nor a "musical."

Discuss.

[wickedfreak]

re: Worst Best Musical?#19

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:04pm

How can you say that spamalot was bad?????

I hate Big River!!!!!!!! One of the worst musicals i have ever seen!!!!!!!!!

Sorry if anyone who was in it is reading this.

I like millie!!!!!

[BSoBW2]

re: Worst Best Musical?#20

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:04pm

I only saw "Contact" for Charlotte...well, Margo knows.

[little_sally]

re: Worst Best Musical?#21

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:07pm

Without a doubt, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

re: Worst Best Musical?#22

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:18pm

Honestly, the second I saw this I thought Hairspray. But, on second thought, I would say Contact.

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

[roquat]

re: Worst Best Musical?#23

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:23pm

"Hello, everybody! I'm Thoroughly Modern Millie, the worst Best Musical EVER!!!"

Goodbye, sincerity
It's thoroughly through
And I'm so fake, I'll make you thoroughly
Want to
Kill me
TOOOOOO!!!!"

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[Radioactiveduck]

re: Worst Best Musical?#24

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:24pm

I LOVE Big River, I cant believe you'd say that. Maybe I'm just partial because I've been in a regional production.

THE PRODUCERS is also a great show.

I think PAJAMA GAME wins this one. It's so cheesey, and the music, from what I remember was rather un-memeorable.