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#1

Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:27pm

What is the worst broadway or off - broadway musical/play you have ever seen and why?

BESIDES LESTAT!!!!!




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Updated On: 8/11/06 at 11:27 PM

#2

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:41pm

Oh, goodie. Another "Lestat" thread. re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?


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Updated On: 8/10/06 at 11:41 PM

#6

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:18am

Jimny you beat me to it, I opened this thread with the intent of asking if we needed another Lestat thread here?
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#7

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:21am

On that note, Lestat :)

But (am I gonna get beaten with clubs for this?) Cats is a close second.
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#11

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:04am

So many people hate Cats. Why? It ran a long time on B'way!

I like it.
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#12

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:12am

audiences just couldn't connect with Grizabella, the slut.
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#13

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:15am

It has no plot. It struck me as self-indulgent, unfulfilling and above all, LONG. The only show I ever found more boring was Our Town, but since I never saw it on/off broadway, I didn't list it.

The costumes were interesting, and the dance numbers sometimes made me smile. Memory is a beautiful ballad. But, considering the budget of this show, I would think it could be made into more of a visual spectacle, like, say Lion King. I mean, if you're just gonna create little musical dossiers on a bunch of different types of cats rather than develop an actual story, they at least need to be INTERESTING looking cats, ya know?
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#14

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:17am

Aida rates as my least favorite show. Ever.
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#15

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:19am

Aida...forgot that one.

Yeah, but Cats is based off a book of poems! It's not supposed to have a plot, it's basicly the book set to music.
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#16

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:19am

Hey JaretSF. Have you noticed we've gotten through two whole days without someone posting a new "Lestat CD" thread?
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#17

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:29am

Well, that's what I'm saying. It just wasn't interesting enough to make up for the fact that it had no storyline. That's just my opinon of course.

I could see CATS being great as something other than a musical. Like CATS the calendar, or CATS doormats, or CATS ornamental wall hangings. But just because a concept works well in one medium doesn't mean it should be transferred to another. And I think that's what happened to T.S. Eliot's book.
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#18

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:56am

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#20

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 2:45am

aspen, I think I freaking LOVE you. That's exactly how I feel about CATS. I have ONE song from it on my playlist..can you guess what it is? (Here's a hint: It's "Memory")

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#21

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 3:24am

Prymate (Play - Broadway)
Drowning Crow (Play - Broadway)
The Blonde in the Thunderbird (? - Broadway)
The Violet Hour (Play - Broadway)
Defiance (Play - Off-Broadway)
Anna in the Tropics (Play - Broadway)
After the Fall (Play - Broadway 2004 Revival)
Spamalot (Musical - Broadway)
Dracula (Musical - Broadway)
Bernarda Alba (Musical - Off-Broadway)
Ring of Fire (? - Broadway)
Wicked (Musical - Broadway)
Hot Feet (Nightmare - Broadway)
Barefoot in the Park (Play - Broadway 2006 Revival)
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Musical - Off-Broadway)
The Wedding Singer (Nightmare - Broadway)

That's all. Everything else has been brilliant.
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Updated On: 8/11/06 at 03:24 AM

#24

re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?

Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:22am

Aspen, CATS was created 15 years before The Lion King, and with about a quarter of the budget...did you really expect something that was created in London in 1981? Remember that this was when London was right in the middle of Thatcher's Britain. Not a happy time economically or emotionally. Remember Poll Tax? - That's what I think of when I think of CATS! In 1982 CATS was the best that they could muster, I'm afraid.

Taking that into consideration I think it is pretty big visually. It was quite an "out-there" set, and the costumes were also pretty exciting when it premiered.

Hey, I don't really like it either (although I do always have a small place for it in my heart as it was the first West End show I ever saw and I thought at the time it was "TOTALLY COOL").

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