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Worst broadway shows you've seen
#50Worst 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
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 8/14/14 at 12:21 PM
jawjuhh
Stand-by Joined: 5/29/11
#51Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:22pmOn Broadway: First Date. Off Broadway: Atomic
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#52Worst 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
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#53Worst 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.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
Green_Flash
Understudy Joined: 4/5/13
#54Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 12:52pm
Woman in White (projections gave me vertigo)
Saturday Night Fever
Glory Days
#55Worst 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
Tom5
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/11
#56Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:46pm"Title Of Show" Should have been re-titled "Me, Me, Me".
#57Worst 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.
broadwayfan1995
Understudy Joined: 6/5/14
#58Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:55pmSpiderman: Turn Off the Dark and the national tours of Porgy and Bess and American Idiot.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#59Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 1:58pmAnd Hot Feet! I forgot about that mess. (I called it "Hot Mess". YUCK.)
#60Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:10pmI 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.
#61Worst 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
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
#62Worst 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
#64Worst 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.
#65Worst 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.
Men don't even belt.
#66Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 2:54pmI'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.
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#67Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 3:07pm
Hands On A Hardbody
Holler If Ya Hear Me
#68Worst 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
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#69Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 3:34pmIf/then is the worst thing I've ever seen on broadway...sooo bad
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#70Worst 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
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#72Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 4:28pmI'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.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
gangtey
Swing Joined: 9/22/13
#74Worst broadway shows you've seen
Posted: 8/13/14 at 5:53pmI 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.
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