Worst broadway shows you've seen
Worst broadway shows you've seen
Worst broadway shows you've seen#1
Posted: 8/13/14 at 6:23amWhat are the worst broadway shows you have ever seen?
Worst broadway shows you've seen#2
Posted: 8/13/14 at 6:29amI saw Brooklyn with Eden Espinosa on a 11th grade field trip. It was very cringe worthy and didn't do much to change what my pre-concieved notions about what musical theater was all about (this was my first Broadway musical). Luckily during my college years I opened my mind a bit and cannot get enough theater now.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#2
Posted: 8/13/14 at 6:32amIf/Then. Followed close by A Tale of Two Cities, and Cry Baby
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Worst broadway shows you've seen#3
Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:08am
Plays: Mother/Hat, Jerusalem, Arcadia, Travesties immediately come to mind.
Musicals: Sweeney Todd, Passion, Marie Christine.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#4
Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:27am
Molly
Passion
Cry for Us All
Aspects of Love
Late Nite Comic
Nick & Nora
Worst broadway shows you've seen#5
Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:37amThe revival of Three Penny Opera... with Jim Dale, Alan Cummings and Cyndi Lauper among others...in 2006. It was nominated for best revival that year...obviously I missed something.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#6
Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:44am^There were only three revivals that year so it was pretty much nominated by default.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#7
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:04amLysistrata Jones. No question. I've seen shows that have ranged from bad (On a Clear Today), to just flat out boring (Arcadia, and more recently, Violet), but no show has ever made me angry about the time and money that I wasted like LJ
Worst broadway shows you've seen#8
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:11amI just didn't get Side Show, and it was a shocking experience in the theater because others in the audience were clearly overwhelmed and overjoyed with it.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#9
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:12am
"Lysistrata Jones. No question. I've seen shows that have ranged from bad (On a Clear Today), to just flat out boring (Arcadia, and more recently, Violet), but no show has ever made me angry about the time and money that I wasted like LJ"
The funny thing about that was...it's only Tony nomination was for Best Book of a Musical.
Updated On: 8/13/14 at 08:12 AM
Worst broadway shows you've seen#10
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:19amLysistrata Jones or Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#11
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:19amI've probably seen about 1/100th of the shows everyone else has seen on Broadway so the only show that I've ever truly wanted to walk out on was the recent Romeo and Juliet with Orlando Bloom.
Joined: 12/31/69
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
Worst broadway shows you've seen#13
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:22amI have been pretty lucky-most of the really bad stuff I've seen has been off-Broadway (Romantic Poetry, that workshop of A Second Chance (UGH-what a terrible show)), I think one of the worst Broadway shows I've ever seen was Jerusalem (I almost left at intermission-it was a piece of pretentious crap, IMO), and I wasn't in the If/Then camp.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#14
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:27am
Cyrano: The Musical
Buddy
Worst broadway shows you've seen#15
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:40am
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Cyrano de Bergerac (with Jennifer Garner)
The Civil War (musical)
Worst broadway shows you've seen#16
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:41am
"Wonderland", 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the DarK" & "The Addams Family".
Updated On: 8/13/14 at 08:41 AM
Worst broadway shows you've seen#17
Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:44amBrooklyn, the Musical for me as well! At the point where the father sings about Vietnam and turns his guitar into a machine gun, I got a serious case of the church giggles and couldn't control them. I leapt out of my seat and ran for the bathroom to get myself together. Not my best moment, but I like to think that running for the hills was kinder than loudly laughing in the second row would have been.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/13
Worst broadway shows you've seen#18
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:34am
Plays: JERUSALEM, LA BÊTE, and the revival of CYRANO DE BERGERAC (though the play itself is lovely)
Musicals: SIDE SHOW, PASSION, WONDERLAND, JEKYLL + HYDE, BONNIE AND CLYDE, and AMERICAN IDIOT
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/06
Worst broadway shows you've seen#19
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:35amI saw "Getting Away with Murder" back in 1996. My friend was crazy about Terrence Mann and I figured, hey, Sondheim co-wrote it, how bad can it be? Well, I found out. Eek.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#20
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:39amI forgot about Wonderland. Might as well throw in Bonnie and Clyde as well.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Worst broadway shows you've seen#22
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:43am
Copenhagen definitely. A number of characters moving chairs around going blah blah for a few hours. Many people left at intermission but the guy next to us was fast asleep when we left. This was one of the critic's darlings
Another was definitely Travesties. Walked out on it
Don't Play Us Cheap was the GWTW of bad shows.
Worst broadway shows you've seen#23
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:47amReNt , Cryano The Musical was beyond awful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Worst broadway shows you've seen#24
Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:52am
Ditto for Rent
Another critic love fest for it.
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