Worst Musical. Ever?!- Page 4

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:32am

Updated On: 7/11/04 at 02:32 AM

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:32am

Blood Brothers....hands down.

Or Chita...And All That Jazz.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 1:49pm

to be honest, i haven't seen any EXTREMELY HORRIFYING musical. the only one i got bored with was (i don't even know if this counts) Riverdance.

[InTheMoney]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:01pm

COPACABANA. Without question.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/11/04 at 2:03pm

>> Sometimes , though, you just have to take a chance

Sometimes it comes down to, am I willing to risk that much money? When Michael and I came to NY last year, we took in three shows (Urban Cowboy, MoLM, and Night Music at NYCO) for a total cost of almost four hundred bucks US (and that was using TKTS for the first two). That's a lot of cash, folks, and I can only write off so much to Revenue Canada before they start getting suspicious. :)

"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader

Posted: 7/11/04 at 3:45pm

Some London Stinkers included....
"Mutiny"...set on The Bounty..I got seasick
"Love Me Tender"...I left the building before Elvis.
"Buddy".......British accents go to Texas....
"Mama Mia"....thats a one stinky meatball!!

[ienjoybeingagirl3]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 9:32pm

I liked Starmites, but the appeal isn't much, and the music is easily forgotten. its also very short and geeky.

[marlomanners]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 9:41pm

Jekyll and Hyde is the only musical that has made me bolt the theatre during the curtain call.

I enjoyed Saturday Night Fever and even Fame (on tour a few years ago) because they were fun and didn't take themselves too seriously. Unlike Jekyll and Hyde.

[zoran912]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 10:10pm

So many bad shows that I forgot about. Fame. Blood Brothers. Copa. Saturday Night Fever.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 11:07pm

Oh God, my favourite utterly, completely bad piece of theatre -- I can't believe I forgot this when the thread started...

Barbary Coast, a bound for Broadway musical that started life in San Francisco in about 1982 or so. Written by a guy in LA who made a fortune in real estate, it was the story of Gentleman Jim Corbett, the boxer, and Cynthia Whatever Her Name was, some socialite Jim was hopelessly in love with. Set at the beginning of the century, the opening number ("We're on the Barbary/We're on the Barbary/We've on the Barbary Coast!") had no less than four fullstage set changes, including a cable car on a revolve that was never used again the rest of the evening. This thing was enormous, with scenery set at 3" centres, and I commented to Steve (my date) that the only thing this thing was missing was the Transamerica Tower (that's the pyramid shaped building in SF).

So we go back in for Act Two. More bad songs. More lavish scenery. More of Jim and Cynthia consciously avoiding each other. Then, three quarters of the way into the second act, they're outside his saloon (in the Barbary Coast, of course), and she says, Jim, say the words that will make me stop loving you!, spins on her heel, and walks off.

BAM -- here comes the Earthquake.

Now, the earthquake is suggested by everyone shaking a piece of scenery, a chandelier from a ballroom scene that came down, stayed for about five seconds, then went right back up when someone figured out they'd grabbed the wrong line. The chorus runs back and forth on the forestage while a sound like someone flushed every toilet backstage roars out.

Blackout.

Lights up on the chorus in their Ace bandages, decoratively placed in front of a drop that looks like thew view from the top of Russian Hill down to the Wharf, with smoke and ruins and all that. Jim and Cynthia rush to centre stage, decide they've been right for each other all along, and (I swear, guys, this was in there) promise to get married as soon as they make sure her husband died in the quake. The chorus, healed through the power of love, rises and comes down in a line, singing "Love is like a day in spring/Love makes you do strange thing" (cringe! cringe!). Behind them, the ruins drop goes up to show the Daly City Hills south of the city, with the sun coming up behind them. Then out of the flies: the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bank of America Building, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, and -- you guessed it -- the Transamerica.

I couldn't stop laughing at this point. Then, this rather large woman in front of me turned around and snapped, "Young man, I dont know what you find so funny. I think this is wholesome family entertainment."

I had to leave the theatre, I wasx laughing so hard.

Oh my god, what a night.....

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 12:26am

Re: "She thinks my tractor's sexy" was the big Act One Finale/ Hey, c'mon, that's a fun song!

Mr.Martin, perhaps I should have mentioned that during this number, a hillbilly clown was singing in the most horrid southern accent known to mankind and the "tractor" was literally a Fisher-Price toy that he pedalled out as the curtain came down on Act 1.
Oh, and in Act 2, the same person came out sans clown makeup in a tux singing "Amazing Grace" and tried to convert everyone in the audience to Christainity.
I want my money back.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 12:36am

>> Mr.Martin, perhaps I should have mentioned that during this number, a hillbilly clown was singing in the most horrid southern accent known to mankind and the "tractor" was literally a Fisher-Price toy that he pedalled out as the curtain came down on Act 1.

Well, see, that's just bad staging. The song's still fun, but that staging would have killed even the best song.

[J.]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 1:43am

CAROLINE MUST CHANGE

even though I've never seen it. I'm judging from the Tonys.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 1:44am

Ok, J. We get your point. I have never seen the show either but after hearing the cast recording, I am hooked. It is weird that I agree with you on a lot of things (usually about Webber) and disagree with you about a lot of others.

[J.]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 1:56am

that's usually the way it is but remember that I am mostly kidding and I have NOT seen CAROLINE MUST CHANGE I'm just assuming I won't like much. Doesn't look like my style.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 2:01am

But, I can't be mad at you too long. You like Webber too much and I can't be mad at a fellow Webber fan.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 2:01am

But, I can't be mad at you too long. You like Webber too much and I can't be mad at a fellow Webber fan.

[NYUstud]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 2:20am

Fiddler on the Roof I slept through the whole thing!

Updated On: 7/15/04 at 02:20 AM

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 2:27am

I really hate "Blood Brothers." I think it's one of the most inept shows ever to hit a stage. I'll never forget the image of my friend with his fist literally stuffed in his mouth, tears streaming down his face as he tried not to laugh out loud at the sight of a grown man trying to pass as a seven-year-old.

A grown man playing a child? WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?!?!

[ShaimanMenkenFan]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 7:21am

FAME!!!

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 7/16/04 at 12:51am

I love FAME. I also think COPACABANA is the worst show ever along with AVENUE Q.