Worst Show You've ever seen..- Page 8

[Calvin]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 5:13pm

I can't remember if I've responded in this thread or not, but if I did, I had forgotten (or blocked out of my mind) the recent tour of Starlight Express. The show is clunky, thin, repetitive and inane enough as it is ("Freight is Great" -- good God almighty) but this version completely got rid of the races and replaced them with horrid 3-D movies on a screen lowered from the top of the stage. When I opened the Playbill to find a pair of 3-D glasses, it's the closest I've ever come to walking out of a show before it even began. I had come to see a live performance, not some filmmaking novelty that had gotten stale before I was even born.
Updated On: 4/11/06 at 05:13 PM

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:33pm

Mamma Mia
the new Fiddler back when Alfred Molina was in it

and a community theater production of Pippin
he was horrible.
and i met the actor a few months later through my friends at another production company..and had to feign happiness that i was meeting him

[angelsong143]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:48pm

Melissa Manchester sings Andrew Loyd Webber...technically not a show, but we left at intermission, my ears were bleeding...

Also, Will Rogers Follies was pretty bad

[wherethehorizonlies]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:51pm

we saw this horrible horrible review six or seven years ago @ Papermill called Up, Up and Away and it was absolutely aweful!

also, caught Jerry Springer the rock opera in London which was complete crap

Posted: 4/11/06 at 7:58pm

LESTAT.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 8:23pm

Pre-Broadway tour of Barry Manilow's COPACABANNA - a bad idea for a musical, written by people who apparently have never seen a musical before and performed by a cast that makes even your worst community theatre group seem like a troupe of talented thespians. The show closed on the road without making it to Broadway thanks to all the out-of-town pans (including mine!)

It was unsalvagable.

Runner up was SUNSET BLVD with Diahann Carroll and Rex Smith. Not only did I not applaud I encouraged everyone around me to not applaud as well. Still rates in my view as the worst "Best Music" tony winner ever. (And I know - there were no other nominees that season, but still: they should have elected to give no award.)

[mazrimtaim]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:37pm

London:
Witches of Eastwick
Company

Walked out of both of those at intermission.

Tours:
Urinetown

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 10:45pm

COMPANY!!??

anyway, Calvin: i agree about the recent Starlight Express tour. it made me cringe...

AIDA was pure badness (aka crap)

[Michie]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 11:41pm

Mamma Mia- I like some of ABBA's music but whose terrible idea was it to strap it together into a musical?
Cats- saw it twice, was given the dvd as a gift and I still don't get it
West End
Witches of Eastwick - it was in previews so I should cut it some slack but after nearly 4 hours who cares who does what to whom?
Heathcliff- I loved the book (Wuthering Heights) and I do like Sir Cliff Richard, but something really bad happened in the translation to stage
La Cava- 'nuff said
Whistle Down the Wind- hideous Louisiana accents (Amos is not pronounced A-Mose) dumb story, bad set (and it was better than the actors), bad score, you get the picture
The Woman in Black (play) not scary, loud in places to try to illicit fear, dumb and predictable,

[jimnysf]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 1:55am

"Lestat". The winner of my all time worst show.

Runners Up:
"Cats"
"The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public"
"Contact"
"The Mambo Kings"

[DG]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 1:59am

I usually avoid threads such as this like the plague - and certainly don't believe in statements like I'm about to make.

BUT . . . LESTAT is the biggest pile of excrement that I have paid to see in a VERY long time. The only redeeming value for me was the incredible release through laughter that I received due to the procedings. Indescribably horrendous on every discussable level.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 2:30am

Brooklyn

Community production of A Chorus Line in which no one could dance or sing very well.

Community production of West Side Story in which Tony couldn't remember his lines/lyrics, the stage was too crowded, scenery was poorly constructed/painted (almost child-like coloring), and Doc was played by a young black gentleman (not unheard of, but odd in context) who insisted on screaming "What the f*ck?!" at Tony on more than one occasion.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 10:58pm

I dream of someday seeing a huge flop musical like "Carrie" or "In My Life", but I don't get to New York all that often.

The worst show that I ever saw in NY was a bland, lackluster, boring revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace." What makes it even worse is that I was there with my sister and we could have gone to see "Raggedy Ann" or "Into the Light" (a musical about the Shroud of Turin) but I couldn't talk her into seeing either one. She wouldn't even go to see the revival of "Sweet Charity", because she doesn't like Ann Reinking. But that's another story, nevermind, anyway...

Really don't like "Blood Brothers"

And there's no reason that even a show called "Barry Mannilow's Copacabana" should be as bad as "Barry Mannilow's Copacabana"...

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 11:10pm

"Cats", but i have to say the recent tour of "Joseph...Dreamcoat" just might take the cake from it.

I've also seen countless high school slaughterings of Beauty and the Beast

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 4/27/06 at 11:30pm

National tour of Fosse, at least from a dancer's persepctive.


'Twas not one bit impressive.

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 12:36am

Do you have a watch?
I have a top ten list:
1. Don Juan In Hell
2. Bklyn the so called musical
3. Prymate
4. In My Life
5. Suzanne Somers
My top 5.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 1:37am

You haven't died in a theater until you saw Richard Harris on tour in Camelot. He phoned the performance in. From England. Just terrible. And I saw it in the exact same seat in the same theater that as a child I saw the opening night of Camelot in 1960. The O'Keefe Center, Toronto. The only thing similar was the titles on the front pages of the two programs. SOOOO sad.

[emo_geek]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 3:11am

He phoned the performance in??

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 3:21am

I hope you know I didn't mean he actually PHONED....

Well, for instance, the first song comes up and this was how Richard Burton delivered the intro in the original (ad I was there, baby)

I KNOW what my people are thinking tonight,
As HOME through the shadows they waunder
EVERY-ONE'S SMILING in secret de-light....
(big pause)
They stare at the castle and ponder
When evvvvv-er the wind blows this way....
You can AL-most hear EV-ry one say...

And this is Harris. He looks offstage, sighs and says
Iknowwhatmypeoplearethikingtonight
Ashomethroughtheshadowstheywaunder
Everyonessmilingingsecretdelight
Theystareatthecastleandponder...

Get the idea? Not a single intonation, words delivered at 120m.p.h. It was as if he was saying "F*CK it, let's get this over with."

He phoned it in...

[leeinlondon]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 6:24am

On Broadway it would be Tarzan or "Jekyl and Hyde"..... both bloody awfull.

Posted: 4/28/06 at 8:53am

Into the Light

[Sleeper2]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 2:14pm

Here's my list of bad musicals from just the past couple of seasons, in no particular order of awfulness...

Good Vibrations
The Frogs
Ring of Fire
Dracula
The Woman in White
The Look of Love
Wedding Singer
Fanny Hill

In past seasons, I really hated Phantom of the Opera. God, what a stupid-ass, over-produced, annoying show! Carrie was baaaad. So was Dance of the Vampires.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 2:19pm

Tarzan
Ring of Fire
Brooklyn
Good Vibrations
Lestat
Dracula

[Practically Perfect]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 2:24pm

Bombay Dreams
Blood Brothers
Avenue Q
Spamalot

Hated every minute of Bombay Dreams, Blood Brothers and Spamalot - Avenue Q had ok moments, but there was so much hype surrounding it, that I left really disappointed, and a little bit bored...

Mary P x

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 4/28/06 at 2:25pm

This just reminded me of Terry Mann's musical ROMEO AND JULIET. It was beyond painful. It's the only time I've seen a show with horrible bland music but gorgeous orchestrations.