Worst performances you've seen
Worst performances you've seen
Fiyero13
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/07
#1Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:32pm
Since there was a thread of best performances, i think there deserves to be a list of worst performances
1. Fosse
2. Contact
3. South Pacific
Gensho
Stand-by Joined: 12/8/05
#2re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:37pmWait....Fosse? On Broadway? How in the hell does that end up in your worst performances?
#3re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:38pm
I found the casts of Fosse and Contact to be wonderful. I don't know what South Pacific you are talking about, but if you are refering to the recent concert at Carnegie Hall, I found that cast to be beyond wonderful as well.
Some terrible performances in recent memory-
Orfeh and Laura Bell Bundy in Legally Blonde
The Cookie-Cutter Stars of the current Grease
The Otherwise Wonderful Charlotte D'Amboise in Chorus Line (She's just been badly miscast here)
Christine Baranski in The Encores! Follies (Okay, fine. She did well in everything but "I'm Still Here." But isn't that what the character is all about?)
Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity (Again, lots of talent, just terribly miscast)
Josh Strickland in Tarzan
Updated On: 8/9/07 at 01:38 PM
#4re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:40pmIf we're talking performances, Molly Ringwald in the Charity tour. I give her points though. She tried her hardest, but she just didn't have the dance chops for the choreography.
#5re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:40pm
Richard Kind in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Harvey Fierstein in Fiddler
Bernadette Peters in Gypsy
Charlotte D'Amboise in A Chorus Line
Daphne Rubin-Vega in Les Miserables
Fiyero13
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/07
#6re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:43pmyeah those were all performances in Austin Bass Hall, sorry I haven't that many in NYC to say any of them were bad
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Joined: 12/31/69
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#8re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:44pm
Hands down winner:
Michael York in Camelot.
#9re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:45pm
"Griffith in Chicago. Hands down."
Oh God. Don't remind me. And Usher too!
#10re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:47pm
Charlotte D'amboise in A Chorus Line
David Burnham in The Light in the Piazza Tour
Scary Spice in Rent
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#11re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:50pmChristine Baranski in Encores! Follies. She was a huge dissapointment because she had so much potential and she just looked like she couldn't possibly care less about what she was doing.
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#12re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:53pm
"Michael York in Camelot."
Oh no. You can't get much worse than Richard Harris. As if he wasn't self-indulgent enough in the movie, onstage he was worse.
Updated On: 8/10/07 at 01:53 PM
MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#13re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:59pmRobert Evan and Josh Strickland in Tarzan.
#14re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:02pmBarry Bostwick and most of the cast of 1990's NICK & NORA. An exception was Christine Baranski who was her usually enjoyable self.
#15re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:07pmRobert Morse in Wicked.
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#16re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:10pmRebecca Pitcher in Phantom of the Opera.
#17re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:12pm
This is a rather nasty thread.
That said: Tony Curtis in the musical version of "Some Like It Hot." He actually sang. Kind of. But at least he looked like he was having a good time.
(I'm assuming non-professional performances are non-canonical here)
#18re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:13pmI'm also going to add Josh Strickland in Tarzan. I didn't the first time because I was affraid some Tarzan fan might come on and bash me into oblivion.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#19re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:20pmBrian Dennehy in the My Fair Lady concert.
#20re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:22pmHere's your BASH! It's not Josh Strickland's fault that "Tarzan" was the worst junk ever to appear on a Broadway stage. He was actually the best thing about the show!
#21re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:38pm
the only time i ever really left a show thinking "god that was AWFUL..." was when we saw Chicago many many years ago and Melanie Griffith was in it.
It was awful. The show was great tho.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#22re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:41pmBrian F. O'Byrne in THE COAST OF UTOPIA -- sheer bloody horror, he just gabbled and gabbled on and on and on and on. I've never come so close to standing up and screaming at an actor to please SHUT THE F*CK UP as I did when I writhed through his unforgiveable work.
#23re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:44pm
Dee Hoty in MAMMA-MIA!
Ashley Brown in MARY POPPINS
(she wasn't the worst, but I sure didn't like her)
Actinggbugg474
Featured Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#24re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:46pm
Jerry Mathers - Hairspray
Sebastian Arcelus - RENT
I'll add more as I think of them.
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