Worst broadway shows you've seen- Page 2

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:54am

Porgy and Bess (won Best Revival)??? SO BORING! & Once (won Best Musical)... BORING! Worst shows I've ever seen. Btw, the music was great in both.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:55am

Jekyll and Hyde
Thou Shalt Not
Spider-Man (first version)
Waiting in the Wings

Updated On: 8/13/14 at 09:55 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:57am

Once is, IMO, one of the most undeserved hyped shows we ever saw. The movie makes it look like GWTW by comparison. Once (the show) was definitely enough.

[HighFlyingAdored97]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:01am

Musicals: Spiderman, Scandalous, Jekyll and Hyde
Plays: The Anarchist (as much as I love Patti LuPone... she couldn't save this one), The Realistic Joneses, Lucky Guy, Romeo and Juliet w/ Orlando Bloom, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with ScarJo.

There were a few good qualities in these shows - i.e. Carolee Carmello in Scandalous - but as a whole these were my least favorites.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:01am

Scandalous.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:03am

The Anarchist

You know you are in trouble when you get a curse free Mamet show.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:03am

Spiderman and Dance of the Vampires.
I don't know if this counts but saw Love Never Dies when they screened it in movie theaters. Awful.

[bandit964]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:25am

+Roundabout's 2009 revival of Hedda Gabler.

+Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

+American Idiot



Worst Performance:

+Ricky Martin in Evita



Updated On: 8/14/14 at 10:25 AM

[Wickedmonkey332]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:43am

The recent revival of J+H.
I have not hated any other shows I have seen!

[Will3700]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:45am

I've only seen one that I thought was really bad cause I am easy to please. lol
Spiderman Turn Off the Dark.. i enjoyed the score and that was all

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 10:47am

Actually ON Broadway would have to be the new Les Miserables revival.
If including national tours I would have to say Flashdance the Musical

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:01am

Loved the original J/H but hated the revival. The confrontation number in the revival was beyond bad and no idea why it ever reached the point of ever being staged.

Updated On: 8/13/14 at 11:01 AM

[newintown]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:04am

I think every play I've seen (bar a few Manhattan Theatre Club offerings like The Violet Hour or Losing Louie) has had something interesting to offer, even if they're so ridiculous as to offer unintended laughter (Prymate); and there are those musicals that are also bad in ways that let you laugh at them (Dance of the Vampires).

But then, there are those shows that are so witless, so stupid, so lacking in redeeming qualities, one can't wait for intermission or the end to get out: Jekyll & Hyde, The Capeman, Jane Eyre, A Class Act, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Lennon, The Woman In White, The Color Purple, Ring of Fire, Lestat, Hot Feet, The Times They Are A-Changing, High Fidelity, Wonderland, The People in the Picture, On a Clear Day (revival), Ghost, Leap of Faith, Scandalous.

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:10am

I saw it pre-Broadway, but I will echo “The Addams Family.” I know I will likely take some heat for this, but I have to add “Gentleman’s Guide…” to the list. I found I couldn’t get anything out of it, not even some light entertainment or interesting performances.

[PJPan]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:15am

Scandalous. Sweet Lordamighty, Scandalous.

Thank god they were free tickets or I may have joined the droves who left at intermission. Laughably terrible - though Carolee Carmello sang her poor heart out. I met Kathie Lee at an event before the show and she went on and on about this amazing life of Aimee Semple McPherson and through the show I had to wonder...."where was it?"

Ah well. At least I got to see George Hearn.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:21am

Did not hate Scandalous. Enjoyed it but hated the set with a passion.

[mikey2573]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:22am

I still consider RENT to be the worst piece of theater I have ever seen on a professional stage.

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:22am

On-broadway I would say Wonderland. Including Off-Broadway would say without a doubt the Fantasiks. I've never been so bored at the Theatre.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:24am

Thank you Mikey

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[JMPlayer6]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:34am

The Anarchist

[steven22]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:38am

The Pirate Queen.

[steven22]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:38am

The Pirate Queen.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:40am

The Leaf People, a show done by the Public theatre at the Booth was so bas it is hard to imagine. Huge cast, most of the dialogue in some fictional language with overhead translators.

Copperfield, a musical inaction of David Copperfield...not one thin to recommend it unless you love boredom

[stevenycguy]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:44am

Holler If Ya Hear Me
The People in the Picture @ Studio 54
Breakfast at Tiffany's @ Cort

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:46am

Look, we do everything in our power to avoid a show we think we'll hate, right? Who has the time and who has the money?

Despite our best intentions, plays we have loathed include:
DEMOCRACY (left at intermission)
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (but I knew that going in)
THEN SHE FELL (wanted to leave but weren't allowed to open any door not opened by a cast member)

With musicals, one show will always stand head and shoulders above the rest:
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (we wanted to crawl under our seats at the apparent homophobia onstage)