Worst musicals since 2010...??- Page 2

[markypoo]

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.

[newintown]

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.

[Dollypop]

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!

[markypoo]

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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[Kad]

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.

Updated On: 11/30/17 at 11:01 AM

[TotallyEffed]

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.

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:25am

Wonderland. That book and those (some) lyrics were unforgivably bad.

[Mister Matt]

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.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:41am

Shoo-be-doo-be-dupe post.

Updated On: 11/30/17 at 11:41 AM