Worst broadway shows you've seen- Page 4

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 5:59pm

Magic/Bird- I don't get how this made it to Broadway. Also surprised I'm the first to mention it.

I guess I feel fortunate to not really hate anything else I've seen. Some were better than others, but I never wanted to leave any of them.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 6:13pm

Seminar was unspeakably awful, but I also saw it during one of the darkest periods of my life so I might be projecting my negativity onto it a little.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was also a big disappointment. I enjoyed some of the songs when I listened to them and went into the show very excited, but I came away just thinking it was stupid.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:08pm

broadwayfan, I totally forgot how bad the tour of PORGY AND BESS was. I didn't see the Broadway cast, but to have such un-operatic actors performing such a great score did NOT do it justice at all. Furthermore, eviscerating such a fantastic and long opera into a two and a half hour show is a true crime and George Gershwin would be rolling over in his grave to see such a production on a professional scale.

[IndyTheatreGeek]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 7:27pm

Broadway
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Footloose

West End
Bakersfield Mist
Woman in Black (orig at Royal Court)

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:11pm

A Class Act
Footloose
Good Vibrations
Mamma Mia!
Sunday In The Park With George(revival)
The Little Mermaid
Follies(2011 revival)

Updated On: 8/13/14 at 08:11 PM

[David2]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:29pm

Bring it on
Sister Act

Both shows had their good moments but overall pretty bad

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 8:39pm

Tom Sawyer and Brk'lyn!

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:10pm

Soul Doctor. The only Broadway show I ever left at intermission.

[cmorrow]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:12pm

John Pielmeier's Sleight of Hand was by far the worst B'way show I've ever seen. They just weren't ready for prime time. I have no idea how the thing wound up at the Cort Theatre. During intermission I turned to my friend and said: "Maybe act 2 will save it." Act 2 was even worse, sloppy and unrehearsed, like a bad run-through.

[ArtMan]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 9:22pm

Passion and Once. Boring.

[Demitri2]

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

NEVER GONNA DANCE
THOU SHALL NOT
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
A BROADWAY MUSICAL
PLATINUM
LITTLE WOMEN
TRIUMPH OF LOVE
BIG
FOOTLOOSE
XANADU
LITTLE ME revival
TARZAN

[delongpre]

Posted: 8/13/14 at 11:50pm

First Date
The Dresser

[VernonGersch]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:31am

Broadway
Saturday Night Fever
A Behanding In Spokane

Off Broadway
Dead Man's Cell Phone - Playwrights Horizon

Tours
We will Rock You (the leads were amazing)
Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - still cannot believe they got away with not having it reviewed in LA
West Side Story
Footloose

[NoName3]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 3:43am

Into the Light and Passion. Those were also the only two times I ever saw the audience start talking back to/heckling the actors during a performance.

"Oh, NO! Not that MIME again!"

[Fosca throws herself to her knees and clasps Giorgio in a death grip]: What can I do to prove how much I love you?
Audience member: Let go of his legs.

[Doctor comes out and solemnly announces that Fosca has died. Audience laughs and applauds enthusiastically.]

Among other things those evenings. I felt so sorry for the actors.

Updated On: 8/14/14 at 03:43 AM

[LittleEdieFan]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 5:57am

Evita revival. I cheered when that tone-deaf Evita finally died.

[jakebloke]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 9:21am

Thou Shalt Not
The Pirate Queen
Bring in da Noise/Funk
Sweet Smell of Success

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 9:38am

"Ain't Broadway Grand"

[Claudia Draper]

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

Because it is appropriate for this board/topic.. Everything I've ever seen is terrible and unoriginal.

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 10:06am

Claudia-then why bother going? And why bother being on theater board in the first place? (Or is that you, After Eight?)

[nmlhats]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 11:39am

I hate to say it, because there was a lot of talent involved: Thou Shalt Not

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 11:42am

Ah, First Date! I'd tried to forget that one.

[Patash]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:05pm

Prymate, with the very talented André De Shields playing a gorilla. I was embarrassed for him and everyone else even remotely connected to this production.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:28pm

Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle were mismatched and no amount of belting their lines and rolling their eyes could help.

Shame on playwright Douglas Carter Beene who told the audience at a talkback that he tossed some meaningless dialogue into the script based on saw something he saw on a trip to South America. Had nothing to do with the play, but what the hell.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 1:32pm

SCANDALOUS was so bad it offended me. But JEKYLL & HYDE was the only show that was so bad I managed to enjoy the ridiculousness of it, which is a reaction I normally can't stand or really fathom. So, JEKYLL was all kinds of unbelievably awful to get me to that place.

[dreaming]

Posted: 8/14/14 at 2:00pm

I forgot about Prymate, too. YUCK. I felt like a fool in that audience and couldn't believe what I was seeing (it was horrible). I felt bad for Mr. DeShields.