Worst Broadway Show of the Decade?- Page 4

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/26/19 at 2:33pm

Yes I'm biased but the masses are with me on this one

Masses of what?  All of the masses or just some of them?  How did you get the masses to confirm?

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 12/26/19 at 3:18pm

I've got two 4 letter words for ya:

Gary (I know others have mentioned)

Once

[UsedToBeTheKing]

Posted: 12/26/19 at 3:21pm

No TOOTSIE? That's the worst of the shows I personally got to see (though maybe not fair to call it "worst of the decade", I know I'm probably in the minority). I heard justifications for the book, but I thought the book was worse than the music. The changes they made from screen to stage made absolutely no sense! They took a screenplay that is taught in screenwriting classes and touted as a shining example of storytelling and removed most of the aspects that made it work. CURSED CHILD is a similar case of "story does not work whatsoever," but apparently the sets and staging make up for it. I've yet to see it. 

BEETLEJUICE should not be an option. 

[musicalfandukie]

Posted: 12/26/19 at 3:33pm

beetlejuice is on there but not king kong the musical that was torn apart by critics this season. 

Updated On: 12/26/19 at 03:33 PM

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/26/19 at 3:54pm

Why Beetlejuice and NOT Be More Chill!?

[JVJ93]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 6:36am

Living on Love, The Performers and MacBeth at LCT were by far the worst for plays.

The Constantine Maroulis Jekyll and Hyde was also horrid

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 7:51am

Great call on Living For Love.  We saw that at Williamstown (along with Fool For Love, talk about opposites) and were shocked it was moving to B'way, it was so bad.

[Det95]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 9:31am

I know it never made it to Broadway, but the worst show I sat through this decade was The Bodyguard. So many things wrong with it. The gunshot with the house lights up was terrifying. The cast didn’t acknowledge the band during bows. Over all a terrible night at the theatre.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 1:11pm

Putting in my vote for The Anarchist, it was truly baffling in its badness. And not on Broadway, but A Parallelogram at Second Stage is one of the only professional shows I've ever walked out of at intermission. I also despised Eddie and Dave at the Atlantic. It technically opened in fall 2009, but Memphis was appallingly bad and pisses me off to this day. A small list of others that do not make me (quite) as angry, but that I rediscovered by going through Playbill Vault and were painful to watch: 

The People in the Picture (2011)

On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (2011)

Ghost (2012)

Leap of Faith (2012)

Bullets Over Broadway (2014)

Side Show (2014)

Honeymoon in Vegas (2015)

 Finding Neverland (2015)

Something Rotten (2015)

1984 (2017)

Prince of Broadway (2017)

Carousel (2018)

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 1:24pm

I've heard that On a Clear Day is a very hard show to pull off, but did you see the more recent mounting at Irish Rep? Was that one more successful than Connick Jr.'s production?

[Lot666]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 1:33pm

perfectlymarvelous said: "...painful to watch: 1984 (2017)"

I think that was intentional.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 2:39pm

Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "I've heard that On a Clear Day is a very hard show to pull off, but did you see the more recent mounting at Irish Rep? Was that one more successful than Connick Jr.'s production?"

I didn't see it. I think a lot of the music is quite beautiful, but the Broadway revival was truly terrible (apart from Jessie Mueller) and one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. Like, the set gave me a full-on headache with the swirling black and white nonsense.

[Mark Waltz]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 3:53pm

One of the regrets I had was not seeing the "On a Clear Day" Broadway revisal. I recently thought about it and recalled trying to get a rush ticket but discovering it had closed the week before. I thought, "Well, I'll never get a chance to see that show, either revised or the original". I then remembered all of a sudden, "Wait, you saw it at Irish Rep!" Not horrible, but the fact that I had completely forgotten about seeing it says a lot. 

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 3:54pm

Unrelated Mark Waltz, but I'm obsessed with your Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn-themed profile.

[baletrina]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 11:45am

I was waiting for someone to mention PrettyWoman! Snoozefest. 
 

Rocky also gets my vote. Dragged there and was grateful for my sippy cup of vodka. 

[laurensambrose]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 11:59am

One I witnessed: Cher Show.

Ones I've only listened to: Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Tootsie, Frozen, the 2009 Guys and Dolls revival, the 2018 revival of Carousel

[Mark Waltz]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 12:05pm

Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "Unrelated Mark Waltz, but I'm obsessed with your Eulalie MacKechnie Shinn-themed profile."

I give you a hand for that remark! In fact, I give you four! 

https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=5075373&t=w

[Impossible2]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 12:18pm

I have a new one...My Brilliant Friend, The National Theatre.

[Tom5]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 12:45pm

I'm careful with my money, so only one: Something Rotten (paid full price, no excuse). I also walked out on The Anarchist and I was reading it!

[pacificnorthwest]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 1:09pm

re: Enron

I did, too, TotallyEffed.

 

Updated On: 12/30/19 at 01:09 PM

[Piparoo]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 4:02pm

I wrote in Moulin Rouge.  One word - boring.  Listening to Sahr struggle to croak through Nature Boy is the nadir of my Broadway theatre-going journey to date.

[rosheider]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 4:37pm

These choices pale in comparison with the stinkers of the eighties, such as Moose Murders and Carrie.  Hopefully, the twenties will give us all some hot garbage!

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 4:56pm

For me, I couldn't believe these two were actually on Broadway:

Pretty Woman

Groundhog Day

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 5:50pm

NBC's The Sound of Music Live

[Andy51]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 6:28pm

Among those shows listed in the poll that I saw, I have to say China Doll.  Absolutely dreadful, so much so that Al Pacino could do nothing to help it.