Worst Thing You Have Ever Seen- Page 3

[paradox_error]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:13pm

The National Tour of Sweeney Todd with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury.
God.
Damn.
Awful.
What a terrible piece of theatre. And Lansbury? Someone should have told her to stay on Murder She Wrote, because she is not a Musical Theatre Actress

[shlamdiddly]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:16pm

Once on This Island...It was god awful.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:22pm

Paradox, if that's you in your avatar, how old were you when you saw the tour? Three?

[paradox_error]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:27pm

Actually my mommy was still carrying me
But I can remember it was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO bad!

[gravity87]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:29pm

Cats 3 months before it closed simply ewwwwww

[paradox_error]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:34pm

just to clarify, Sweeney is one of my favourite pieces of theatre, and Angela Lansbury is the penultimate Mrs. Lovett.
I just wanted to see how long it took for someone to try and strangle me! :)

Cats, however, would be one of the most terrible pieces of sh!t that I have ever seen. That and a highschool production of Guys and Dolls where the Sky Masterson couldn't sing a note in tune...and he was one of the better members of the cast.

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:38pm

Adult Entertainment
Brooklyn also sucked really bad

[JumpJumpJumpSoHigh]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:38pm

I like bad shows. Well, the train-wreck type of bad, anyway. They're highly entertaining! (Case in point: Dance of the Vampires.) But I simply cannot stand it when shows are just plain boring. When they're not good enough to be good, and not bad enough to be bad.

My Life With Albertine was one of those.

But I think the worst one I ever saw was a musical version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. It was a workshop or something, back in '99, and I only went because a guy I knew was playing Heathcliff. I nearly fell asleep. Every. Single. Song. Sounded. The. Same.

Urgh.

~JJJ

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 8:06pm

DIE, MOMMIE DIE! in LA with Charles Bush.

It reeked so bad I left at intermission, and I've never left a show, EVER.

Then they made a film out of it....

[sean martin]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 4:05am

BARBARY COAST, in San Francisco in the mid-80s. Yikes what a train wreck.

[BroadwayBound06]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 7:35am

West Side Story + High School + Show Choir Choreography + Show Choir boys playing leads who couldn't can't = Self Castration

[basketcase]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 9:24am

Notre Dame de Paris.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 10:50am

I know this is all subjective, but seriously, people don't have it that bad when they say that the worst possible thing they have ever seen are things like SWEENEY TODD, AIDA, and CATS. I don't like AIDA either, but under no circumstances is it the worst thing ever. I just find it humorous that someone with a WICKED avatar says CATS, the longest running show in broadway history, is the worst show they've ever seen. I'm not defending CATS really, but come on...

the worst things, BY FAR, that I have ever seen:

THE SPITFIRE GRILL - the worst show ever. there isn't one decent aspect to it.

ENCHANTED APRIL - The show ended and I just sat there saying "what did I just see...was that seriously a show?" The performances were decent, but the play is just wretched.

DRACULA - No explination necessary.

NEVER GONNA DANCE - Who thought this show would be a good idea?

THE PRODUCERS - I know, I know - I'm in the minority here - I just think it's AWFUL, I kept wanting to leave.

DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES and even THE BOY FROM OZ looked golden compared to these shows...

[cathyhyatt]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 11:08am

jumpjumpjumpsohigh...

what could you possibly have bad to say about dance of the vampires? tell me...because I can't find anything...

[GirlfriendFromCanada]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 1:25pm

But I have to say that I don't consider Brent Carver, Emily Skinner, Chad Kimball, Jim Poulos or Kelli O'Hara, to be "getting to be well-known". Anyone who's familiar with theatre would surely know these actors. :)

I actually originally phrased it as "all-star" cast, but figured that didn't work either. Regardless, I knew basically everyone in the show, just wasn't sure what to label them as. They were quite good. It's the show that was not.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 1:33pm

It's a tie for me ---- "By Jeeves" or "The Graduate". I wanted to walk out of both at intermission---but stayed because the people in the audience were far more entertaining with their hysterical comments about both shows----(especially "By Jeeves". I stayed for "The Graduate" because I was with a group and it would've been rude. (Don't know if it was worth being polite) :)

[Allie]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 1:46pm

A high school in my area did Copacabana last year... awful, just awful. Not really a great show in the first place, but then they had leads who couldn't sing and had ZERO comedic timing, and a chorus of inappropriately dressed girls that shouldn't have been wearing that little.

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 2:22pm

Enchanted April?
I loved that show. I can't believe that is on your list.

[Rentheadut]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 3:20pm

Jekkel and Hyde!

YECH!

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 3:23pm

Corine, I agree with you. Enchanted April was not a stinker.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 3:27pm

It wasn't a stinker? It recieved some of the worst reviews EVER and absolutely no acclaim - it's incredibly bland and just awful.

Now THE GRADUATE, I would argue. I LOVED THE GRADUATE. They didn't try to be the movie - the show mocked itself, and that's why it worled. If they tried to take themselves seriously, people wouldn't buy it. I thought it was hysterical.

I still can't believe people liked ENCHANTED APRIL, never mind stay awake during it...

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 5:01pm

I seem to remember Enchanted April being nominated for multiple awards.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 5:49pm

The reviews for ENCHANTED APRIL were actually pretty good, especially for the cast which included Tony winner Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson (who was Tony-nominated for the show), Michael Hayden, Patricia Connelly et al. It was even nominated for the Tony for Best Play that year -- matter of fact there are a few hundred shows I'd name before ENCHANTED APRIL as "worst thing I've ever seen."

But then somehow you defend CATS (though you say you don't), yet include twelve time Tony winner THE PRODUCERS on your list of WORST THING EVER (again, with a little perspective, there are HUNDREDS of shows that I've seen that are worse than THE PRODUCERS -- which actually enjoyed).

Different strokes........

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 5:53pm

Marie Christine. I just didn't get it and I couldn't wait for intermission so I could leave (and I'm a big Audra fan, too).

[Mythus]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 6:19pm

I don't remember what the show was called - "Around The World" or something with the word "World" in it. My middle school performed it. It was divided into three parts: a story about a poor brother and sister in India (or something), a story about two girls in Africa (I played the queen in some village; I was integral to the plot!), and a final story that was about Vasalisa and Baba Yaga. After our story was over, I got to sit in the audience (way to the side, though it didn't really matter, because no one ever comes to the middle school plays) and watch Vasalisa. Oh my god. The "evil stepmother" was a terrible actress - the worst part was, I knew her. She had a lisp and only made it worse by trying to have an evil English accent. Everyone constantly forgot their lines. Lighting cues were missed. One incident was made painfully obvious when Vasalisa's father (I think?) angrily stomped his foot, waited, then did it again. That was the cue for the blackout. He stood there for, I swear, five minutes, stomping his foot and glaring at the light booth. The audience was laughing. It was absolutely horrible.