#26
Posted: 11/30/17 at 10:40am
Apparently some individual's chronic frustrations need venting somewhere, and the BWW Message Boards make it serendipitously easy to do so.
Worst musicals since 2010...?? — Page 2
#27
Posted: 11/30/17 at 10:47am
"Sorry we didn't live up to your requirements....but go ahead and add to the kvetching....about the kvetching."
Nothing like some good old classic Trump-era defensiveness. It adds a lot of sparkle and color to the dialectic.
#28
Posted: 11/30/17 at 10:52am
When you've sat through KELLY, MOLLY, THOU SHALT NOT, IN MY LIFE, ROCKABYE HAMLET, and A DOLL'S LIFE, everything else looks pretty good!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#29
Posted: 11/30/17 at 10:57am
Well, as long as we're playing CAN YOU TOP THIS:
Once you've sat through LITTLE JOHNNY JONES.
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Once you've sat through LITTLE JOHNNY JONES.
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#30
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:01am
There have been very terrible, total failures of musicals since 2010. The majority of them were not on Broadway.
Try sitting through something like Anthem or Himself and Nora, hopeless, juvenile Off-Broadway musicals written by musical theatre dilettantes full of inexplicable choices, whiplash inducing tonal shifts, nonsensical lyrics, dramaturgical holes.
Try sitting through the awful Joan of Arc from last season, which committed the grievous sin of not only being nonsensical, repetitive, lacking in tension and drama, and full of terrible choices, but also totally boring.
You may not like Once or The Band's Visit or whatever, but they are not terrible shows. They are well-formed shows. They make sense. They are not inept.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
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#31
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:06am
Scandalous, Forever Dusty and Baby, it’s You!
I had the time of my life at all three.
I had the time of my life at all three.
#32
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:25am
Wonderland. That book and those (some) lyrics were unforgivably bad.
#33
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:41am
Try sitting through something like Anthem or Himself and Nora, hopeless, juvenile Off-Broadway musicals written by musical theatre dilettantes full of inexplicable choices, whiplash inducing tonal shifts, nonsensical lyrics, dramaturgical holes.
Try sitting through the awful Joan of Arc from last season, which committed the grievous sin of not only being nonsensical, repetitive, lacking in tension and drama, and full of terrible choices, but also totally boring.
Any of those sound heavenly compared the parade of satire "______: The Musical!" musicals, especially in Chicago, where post-undergraduate theatre majors still think they're being super original and clever.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#34
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:41am
Shoo-be-doo-be-dupe post.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
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