Worst Show You've ever seen..- Page 6

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:47pm

That's because Charlotte D'Amboise is a goddess of the stage.

[Fabrizio2]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:48pm

You are so right

two words

TRIPLE THREAT!

[munkustrap178]

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.

[Fabrizio2]

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.

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.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 7:08pm

Yeah, i mentioned Copa earlier. It seriously served no purpose, whatsoever. I wanted to die.

[stephz]

Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:08pm

Fiddler on the Roof--- I just really don't like it...

[pdm6288]

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

[LostLeander]

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.

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 12:45am

I'm gonna go with Fame on 42nd St.

[munkustrap178]

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.

[Radioactiveduck]

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.

[smiles]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:58am

I really didn't like MAMA MIA.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:35am

Thought 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.

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

[Garland Grrrl]

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.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 11:45am

I'll have to go with my most recent show, Hot Feet.

[tabbynyc]

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.

[doodlenyc]

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.

[factorykid2]

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.

[Kevinoes]

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.

[darkmist115]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:20pm

high school production of 'little shop.'

*cringes*

bad show done poorly = lose lose situation

[Holly Therese]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:33pm

I have to second A Chorus Line...I gave it a shot, didn't care for it at all.

[wishinguweresomehow]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:44pm

Call me Madam...awful awful show.

[mortgageguy79]

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!!!!!

Updated On: 4/5/06 at 02:06 PM