Worst Chemistry
Worst Chemistry
Worst Chemistry#1
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:11am
What's the most awkward, uncomfortable, nonexistent chemistry you've seen between two performers onstage?
I'll start: Matt Cavenaugh and Josefina Scaglinone in WSS.
Worst Chemistry#2
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:14am
During intermission of ROAD TO MECCA, Rosemary Harris and Carla Gugino did some O-Chem bonding equations together, and it was pretty painful to watch.
Wait. No. Maybe it was the first and second acts.
I... cannot... remember...
Worst Chemistry#2
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:15am
Haven Burton & Eric Peterson in SHREK
The current Belle & Beast (I don't know their names) in the NETworks tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Worst Chemistry#3
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:17amNick Jonas and talent. I just never really saw that connection.
Worst Chemistry#4
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:18am^ They couldn't even compromise and meet halfway. Not very generous partners.
Worst Chemistry#5
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:20am
Nick Jonas and talent. I just never really saw that connection.
Finally, someone else understands.
Worst Chemistry#6
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:26amWhen Richard Kind took over as Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, he had no chemistry with anyone else on the stage.
Worst Chemistry#7
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:37amI could not believe for a second that Kelli O'Hara was in love with Matthew Broderick in Nice Work.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
Worst Chemistry#8
Posted: 7/16/12 at 12:35pm
Now Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr. was finally some real chemistry on stage.
Despite all shows being love stories, a believable "chemistry" today on Broadway seems rare to me.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
Worst Chemistry#9
Posted: 7/16/12 at 12:58pmKate Jennings Grant and Craig Bierko in 2009's GUYS AND DOLLS. They didn't have an ounce of chemistry. (Chemistry? ... Yeah, chemistry...)
Worst Chemistry#10
Posted: 7/16/12 at 1:22pmLane and Neuwirth. Altogether ookie.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Worst Chemistry#11
Posted: 7/16/12 at 1:25pmI did not see them in action, but what about Roger Bart and Sutton Foster?
Worst Chemistry#12
Posted: 7/16/12 at 1:55pmMarisa Lupe (Glinda understudy) and Merideth Kaye Clarke (Elphaba standby) in the Wicked national tour a couple years back... I had a hard time even thinking they were friends.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
Worst Chemistry#13
Posted: 7/16/12 at 2:06pm
Tony Roberts and Stockard Channing who were the first replacement cast for "They're Playing Our Song".
Zip; nix; rien; zilch; bupkis.
Plus they hated each other.
Worst Chemistry#14
Posted: 7/16/12 at 4:07pm
Roger Bart and Sutton Foster worked very well together in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
I thought that Lane and Neuwirth's chemistry in Addams Family was good - Their voices just didn't blend well together, and the material was just so bad. Roger Rees didn't seem to connect very well with Brooke Shields when she stepped in, but he was great with Bebe.
Worst Chemistry#15
Posted: 7/16/12 at 4:11pm
Despite all shows being love stories, a believable "chemistry" today on Broadway seems rare to me.
Then you haven't seen Once.
The worst chemistry I've seen recently is easily Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick in Nice Work.
Worst Chemistry#16
Posted: 7/16/12 at 4:40pmDee Roscioli and Amanda Jane Cooper in Wicked on the 1NT. Just terrible chemistry but it might have been because Amanda Jane Cooper was an awful Glinda.
Worst Chemistry#17
Posted: 7/16/12 at 8:57pm
What's with the italics?
I would like to nominate Cris Groenendaal and Betsey Joslyn in SWEENEY TODD.
Worst Chemistry#18
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:07pm
There's not an ounce of chemistry on the EVITA stage. Sad, since the musical is all about passionate people,
Patti LuPone and Boyd Gaines in Gypsy. She has the sex appeal of a ham hock and he never seemed into Rose.
Spring Awakening-non Equity tour. The 20 year old who looked 40 Melchior making moves on a tiny adolescent looking Wendla. Just gross.
Worst Chemistry#19
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:10pmReally good chemistry I've seen is Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman's in Ghost
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Worst Chemistry#20
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:19pm
Worst; Levy and Fleeshman. He's a well built stick of wood with one emotion (EQUITY should be ashamed to have let him in this country) and she's a wash rag (in this show) with a decent voice, they kiss a lot but I felt zip between them and the dreadful book does not help them.
Updated On: 7/17/12 at 10:19 PM
Worst Chemistry#21
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:37pm
Ahhh... Nick Jonas is awful. I also agree with Matt and Josefina. I know the show is humorous and the love story is not the main point of it, but I thought the chemistry between Daniel Radcliffe and Rose Hemming way was non existent.
Best Chemistry: I know the show didn't last long, but Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes in Bonnie & Clyde was amazing and totally believable.
Updated On: 7/16/12 at 10:37 PM
Worst Chemistry#22
Posted: 7/17/12 at 3:29am
Stephanie Umoh and whatever that guy's name was who played Coalhouse in the Ragtime revival had terrible chemistry. She didn't seem all too into him, from what I remember. (add this to the reasons why it failed)
O'Hara and Szot's chemistry in the South Pacific revival was fantastic, however. They really convincingly played the whole "opposites attract" thing well.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Worst Chemistry#23
Posted: 7/17/12 at 12:23pm
Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas in HAPPY HUNTING.
From Kallow's Bio:
"Lamas' penis size was already the stuff of Hollywood legend, and he required (Irene) Shariff design his costume to be as tight as possible, so he could show off his endowment. ...Several cast members heard Ethel scream at the stage manager in the wings:
'I had people out front! I know what's going on! You tell him to wear a godd*mn jockstrap!'"
Worst Chemistry#24
Posted: 7/17/12 at 2:03pmHugh Jackman and Jarrod Emick in the Boy from Oz. Their scenes together were SO uncomfortable....
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