Worst Show You've ever seen..- Page 6
Worst Show You've ever seen..
I'm going to have to say....#125
Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:47pmThat's because Charlotte D'Amboise is a goddess of the stage.
I'm going to have to say....#127
Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:53pm
Why do a Fosse show without Fosse choreography?
It's not his show. He choreographed the original. It's not his show. There's no doubt that Fosse's work was brilliant - but Wayne Cilento just did a poor job. If we only do revivals as they were originally staged, it would get kind of boring, since Fosse's choreography for this piece is already well preserved in several places.
THE PAJAMA GAME is also, by your standards, a "Fosse show." Yet, look what Kathleen Marshall did with it. Obviously, "Steam Heat" still has the Fosse feel, yet it's re-invented. It's the reason shows should be revived - to reinvent them, not just do what's been done before.
I'm going to have to say....#128
Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:57pm
You are right...
I have not seen the Pajama Game yet. I have tickets to it to see it in May when I go the the Carlyle to see Maria Friedman. I saw a video of Steam Heat though, and having performed the original choreography myself, it is in the style.
Thanks.
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Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#129
Posted: 4/4/06 at 7:06pm
I saw the worst show EVER!
Copacabana.
It was Crap-a-cabana.
I thought I was stuck in hell for two hours.
And I have seen bad productions of shows I adore so I really dont want to count them.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#130
Posted: 4/4/06 at 7:08pmYeah, i mentioned Copa earlier. It seriously served no purpose, whatsoever. I wanted to die.
Swing Joined: 4/3/06
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#131
Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:08pmFiddler on the Roof--- I just really don't like it...
Swing Joined: 4/4/06
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#132
Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:23pm
1. Lestat (scary awful)
2. Woman in White (loved Maria Friedman & Michael Ball though)
3. Miss Saigon (no time to know the characters before disaster)
4. Cats (slept through Act I)
5. Chorus Line
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#133
Posted: 4/4/06 at 11:48pm
Aida, with Adam.
It was late into the run, but it really surpassed my preconceived notions.
Very sloppy, and unmotivated.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/03
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#134
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:45amI'm gonna go with Fame on 42nd St.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#135
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:49am
Okay, I know this is all about opinions, but FIDDLER ON THE FREAKING ROOF? A CHORUS LINE?
How much theatre have you guys seen? I find it impossible that you've seen that much to consider FIDDLER and ACL among the worst. It's very sad, as they are gems in the musical theatre catalogue.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#136
Posted: 4/5/06 at 3:18am
I really disliked Rent when I saw it on Broadway. However, I LOVE the film, so maybe I just had the wrong cast on the wrong night.
Dracula: The Musical was AWFUL, but I had a great time watching it.
I saw a highschool production of The Best Man once...I have never fallen asleep during a performance, but I got SO close during that one. Couldn't understand a word ANYONE said.
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#138
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:35amThought of another one. "Epic Proportions" is hands down the worst written play I've ever seen so far. The jokes were just SO freakin' bad. If it was meant to be campy, it came off as dumb instead. And the director had his friends as plants in the audience to laugh hysterically at them because many in the audience did not. No joke--I recognized them from a show the theater had done just prior to this one.
Joined: 12/31/69
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#139
Posted: 4/5/06 at 11:36am
I've only been attending theatre since 1949 but The Wedding Singer is the worst thing I've seen so far. At least the first act is, I left at intermission 
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#140
Posted: 4/5/06 at 11:43am
where to begin.....
well, i attended the first preview of NICK AND NORA so for the sake of argument i'll say that although i'm sure i'm blocking out a few...oh yes, THE LOOK OF LOVE, was pretty bad. poor liz.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#141
Posted: 4/5/06 at 11:45amI'll have to go with my most recent show, Hot Feet.
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/06
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#142
Posted: 4/5/06 at 11:55am
The Producers....loved the movie, disappointed in musical, too many corny one-liners.
Any musical revival from the 1950's....they are usually too dated.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#143
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:18pm
Oh, GG...Nick and Nora, yes.
I also forgot a production of "Frankie" the Frankenstein musical directed by a 159 year old George Abbott (I refuse to believe he was alive while directing this) at the York Theater.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#144
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:19pm
Worst is hard. I wonder how some of the shows listed here could be the "worst".
I have seen so much god-awful, horrible, theatre, but it is usually touring or local productions of really good shows.
I have seen a local production of MAME that would make Jerry Herman kill himself before he sat through the second act.
And there was that production of Victor/Victoria done "in the round" where the best thing that I can say is that the "actors" remembered the words.
Oh, and the nicest thing I could think of to say about Steel Magnolias on Broadway is that Delta Burke was very nice to me at the stage door.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#145
Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:28pm
I can't pin-point a specific show, but I attended a God awful performance of the national tour of AIDA in Toronto in May 2003. The whole cast was dead, dead, dead. Jeremy Kushnier looked like he wanted to be somewhere else, Paulette was awkward as all hell, Lisa Brescia didn't get the character for the life of her, the actor playing Mereb (forget) was cracking all over the place, and Mickey Dolenz was painfully trying too hard.
Yeah.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#146
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:20pm
high school production of 'little shop.'
*cringes*
bad show done poorly = lose lose situation
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#147
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:33pmI have to second A Chorus Line...I gave it a shot, didn't care for it at all.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#148
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:44pmCall me Madam...awful awful show.
Dont Like It... Can't Make Me....#149
Posted: 4/5/06 at 2:06pm
WHAT A GREAT TOPIC!!!! I saw a high school production of Cats that my god child was in.....HORRIBLE!
But when it comes to Broadway, Steel Pier comes to mind. GREAT cast, but the show itself was Boresville! I saw it on a Saturday matinee YEARS ago and we were the only 2 people in the balcony. We slept during act 2....oh I am laughing so hard right now remembering that...hopefully Debra Monk didn't see me! I would be so embarassed!!!!
GREAT QUESTION!!!!!
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