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#51

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:21pm

If I were to include tryouts:

The Czar of Rock and Roll
The Civil War
Sweet Smell of Success
The Addams Family
Big Fish
The Last Ship

And in the West End:

Closer to Heaven
Love Never Dies
Peggy Sue Got Married
Grease (revival)
Boy Band

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Updated On: 8/14/14 at 12:21 PM

#52

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:22pm

On Broadway: First Date. Off Broadway: Atomic

#53

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:23pm

I've been pretty lucky to not see any truly terrible shows, but;
Oklahoma! (Patrick Wilson revival) many great performances, just dreadfully long
Bullets Over Broadway. Beautiful to look at but not engaging at all

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#54

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:37pm

The worst show I ever saw was Copacabana. It was a tour with Franc D'Ambrosio who was so miscast. I wanted Rico to shoot Lola instead.
And as giggle worthy as Thou Shalt Not was -- you had to admit that you saw Norbert Leo Butz just shine through the show and become a star.

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#55

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:52pm

Woman in White (projections gave me vertigo)
Saturday Night Fever
Glory Days

#56

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:56pm

Leap of Faith
Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark
If/Then (the only time I've wanted to leave at intermission, didn't do so, and regretted not doing so)
Wonderland

#57

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:46pm

"Title Of Show" Should have been re-titled "Me, Me, Me".

#58

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:50pm

Chicago at the Pantages in Hollywood.

Christy Brinkley has no place within 100 feet of a Broadway stage. She couldn't sing, dance or speak and it appeared she could barely walk. They did a terrible disservice to hear by allowing her to get on stage.

#59

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:55pm

Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark and the national tours of Porgy and Bess and American Idiot.

#60

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:58pm

And Hot Feet! I forgot about that mess. (I called it "Hot Mess". YUCK.)

#61

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:10pm

I absolutely hated Chicago so much that I left during intermission. The music and movie were great, but the Broadway production is so boring. I also hated Spider-Man. I disliked (but didn't think were horrible) Bullets over Broadway and If/Then.

#62

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:14pm

Sister Act
Evita (revival)

and the horrific Bare "revisal" at New World Stages

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#63

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:23pm

Musicals: A Little Night Music (2010 Revival), Motown, and Hands on a Hardbody
Plays: Enron and The Big Knife

#64

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:27pm

Brooklyn

#65

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:32pm

Motown. Without any question or hesitation. (Followed a VERY close second by Times They Are A Changin').

I even found Soul Doctor, First Date, Dance of the Vampires and Prymate more redemptive than that dreck that is stinking up the Lunt-Fontanne.

#66

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:49pm

The only thing I've ever seen on Broadway that I truly couldn't find a redeeming quality in was the revival of Jekyll & Hyde, which is so unfortunate because I love the score based on the Warlow recording.

The Realistic Joneses comes in close second. Both were TDF tickets, and I still felt ripped off.

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#67

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:54pm

I've seen some stinkers in my time living in NYC. Urban Cowboy and Lestat come straight to mind. However only one show has ever had the honor to put me to sleep. I say "honor" because I'm an insomniac who regularly needs medication to go to sleep. In fact, typing this now I've been awake for two and a half days. That show was The Lion King.

#68

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 3:07pm

Hands On A Hardbody
Holler If Ya Hear Me

#69

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 3:30pm

Wonderland
Good Vibrations
Leap of Faith (tryout)
Brooklyn - had a couple good songs, but otherwise a hot mess

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#70

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 3:34pm

If/then is the worst thing I've ever seen on broadway...sooo bad

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#71

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 4:03pm

broadway
Via Galactica
Spider-Man


West end.
Peggy sue got married
Saturday night fever

Tour
I really disliked Mary Poppins

#72

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 4:10pm

IF / THEN

#73

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 4:28pm

I've seen some rough national tours: Ghost, Catch Me If You Can, Camelot with Lou Diamond Phillips. The worst was seeing Chicago earlier this year with Paige Davis and John O'Hurley. If it were not for the fact that I paid $20 student tickets, I would have asked for a refund.

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#74

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 4:50pm

Without hesitation - ROCKY.

#75

Worst broadway shows you've seen

Posted: 8/13/14 at 5:53pm

I saw the pre-Broadway tryout of My One and Only in Boston. It was not ready to be seen by a paying audience, or any audience for that matter. It was like the actor's nightmare in which the actors don't know anything about the show they're in. But they went on anyway. Two weeks later it was a big hit in New York.