Worst Best Musical?
Worst Best Musical?
#0Worst Best Musical?
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
#1re: Worst Best Musical?
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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#2re: Worst Best Musical?
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
#3re: Worst Best Musical?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 5:55pmContact should be nominated. I was p/o'd when it won.
#5re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:04pmAlthough 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
#6re: Worst Best Musical?
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
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#7re: Worst Best Musical?
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
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#8re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:11pm
I'd hardly call THE PRODUCERS the worst Best Musical.
I vote for TITANIC.
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#9re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 6:14pm
My nominations for Worst Best Musical would be:
REDHEAD
BIG RIVER
SUNSET BOULEVARD
SPAMALOT
#10re: Worst Best Musical?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: Worst Best Musical?
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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#12re: Worst Best Musical?
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
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#14re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 8:57pmWhat 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#15re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 8:59pm
Carrie
Wait...
Spamalot.
Updated On: 11/6/05 at 08:59 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: Worst Best Musical?
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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 11/6/05 at 09:01 PM
#18re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:04pm
Contact...which is neither the "best" nor a "musical."
Discuss.
#19re: Worst Best Musical?
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#20re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:04pm
I only saw "Contact" for Charlotte...well, Margo knows.
#21re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:07pmWithout a doubt, Thoroughly Modern Millie.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#22re: Worst Best Musical?
Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:18pmHonestly, 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#23re: Worst Best Musical?
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
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#24re: Worst Best Musical?
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.
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