Worst performances you've seen- Page 2

[BigFatBlonde]

re: Worst performances you've seen#25

Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:51pm

Ralph Macchio in How to Succeed in Business...

What great ones do the less will prattle of

[wickedfiyeroofoz]

re: Worst performances you've seen#26

Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:53pm

joey mcintyre in wicked...it ruined the whole experience

How can they see with sequins in their eyes?

[antz]

re: Worst performances you've seen#27

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:12pm

David Hasseloff in Jeckyl and Hyde

Any perfromance from Princesses the Muscial (there's a reason it never got to broadway)

[Jonny boy]

re: Worst performances you've seen#28

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:13pm

The Non-equity touring company of RENT! I was emberrased for them

[nydirector2]

re: Worst performances you've seen#29

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:50pm

I still think that Spring Awakening is the worst performance over all I've ever seen. The singing was decent...but the over all show was awful.

[StephanietheStar]

re: Worst performances you've seen#30

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:53pm

I luckily see a lot of GOOD people, but off the top of my head:

Charlotte D'Amboise in A Chorus Line
Ali A. (spelling?!) as Cosette in Les Mis revival (just blah)
Stacy Morgain Lewis as Glinda in Chicago's Wicked


uhh, that's about it.

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

[Calvin]

re: Worst performances you've seen#31

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:55pm

The Starlight Express tour a few years ago also made Calvin sad.

[RockabyeHamlet]

re: Worst performances you've seen#32

Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:56pm

Steph- Do you mean Ali Ewoldt? If so, I agreee. She was very pretty but bland. Far from the worst though.

"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee

[DRSisLove]

re: Worst performances you've seen#33

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:30pm

Phoebe Strole as (u/s) Wendla in SPRING AWAKENING.
She was horrible.

[little_sally]

re: Worst performances you've seen#34

Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:36pm

Amy Alexander in Little Women
Maggie Lacey in Inherit the Wind
Keith Carradine in DRS
Kevin Spacey in A Moon... (blech)
Dominique Roy in Rent

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[courtney4]

re: Worst performances you've seen#35

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:12pm

Troy Horne- Rent

he has a nice I'll Cover You Reprise but other than that he was pretty bad

[Marianne]

re: Worst performances you've seen#36

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:13pm

Drew Sarich as Enjolras in Les Mis.

[djb]

re: Worst performances you've seen#37

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:20pm

Alan Cumming in "The Threepenny Opera" - he's no Macheath.

[Elphaba3]

re: Worst performances you've seen#38

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:23pm

Carol Kane- Wicked
Heidi Kettenring- Wicked
Evangelia Kinglsey- The Light in the Piazza
Logan Lipton- Wicked
Rebecca Pitcher- The Phantom of the Opera

[Zeitoujo]

re: Worst performances you've seen#39

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:40pm

DRSislove- are you crazy?! phoebe was an AMAZING wendla!!!

lea michelle- spring awakening
annelise van der pol- beauty
steve blanchard- beauty
michael gruber- chorus line; HORRIBLEE!
Nicolette Hart- rent
harvey fierstein- fiddler
rosie o'donell- fiddler
daphne rubin vega- les mis
charlotte d'amboise- chorus line
michael beresse- chorus line

"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening

[sparrman]

re: Worst performances you've seen#40

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:49pm

Joanna Glushak as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George.

In fairness, I've seen her once or twice since where she was better cast, and enjoyed her. But as Dot? Not. She was really wrong for the role. And in the middle of "Children and Art," she went up on the lyric, and seated as I was in the back row of the orchestra, I could hear the conductor Paul Gemignani making his Broadway vocal debut by singing the lyrics up to her from the pit. And this was Bernadette's week off, so it's not like she was a last minute replacement.

That was the first Broadway show I ever saw.
Updated On: 8/9/07 at 05:49 PM

[LostLeander]

re: Worst performances you've seen#41

Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:55pm

Adam Pascal - Aida

Tonya Pinkins - Radio Golf (I suppose the part wasn't terribly well written, and she was doing absolutely nothing to help. Interestingly enough, she makes my list in the best performances category also for Caroline, or Change).

The Les Mis revival. 'Nuff said.

Personally, I think I have too much bloom.

[BwayBaby18]

re: Worst performances you've seen#42

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:04pm

Patti LuPone - Sweeney Todd

[Broadwaylady]

re: Worst performances you've seen#43

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:19pm

Melanie Griffith in Chicago. She gasped, Oh SH*T, as she did a half cartwheel. A real pro.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by moments that take our breath away." "Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."

[Boq101]

re: Worst performances you've seen#44

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:22pm

Usber in Chicago was a disgrace. The little boy read the lines as if he was reading an IKEA instruction manual and sang with the glossy singing voice that actors do in movie musicals because they find out that they can't belt like Mary Bond Davis.

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

re: Worst performances you've seen#45

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:26pm

Patrick Swayze in CHICAGO
JoAnne Worley in THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Now all I see are cute boys with short haircuts in a maze of their own...

[geekgirl06]

re: Worst performances you've seen#46

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:27pm

Frankly, I've seen some great theatre on Broadway and some not so great theatre, but if you want to see the WORST performances, than go to Hawaii. I saw the worst production of JCS ever. And some of the theatre in Denver is pretty bad as well.

Dancing through life... For the next ten minutes

[KChenowethfan]

re: Worst performances you've seen#47

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:28pm

I echo the Michael York in Camelot.

"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)

[LeaGirl]

re: Worst performances you've seen#48

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:36pm

""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.""

My mother and I were practically crying in the theater. I'm glad someone else saw that. Actually if I could remember who else was in it I'd list them here too but I've tried to block that whole show out.

Now what would you say if today I started over? Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover And I'll pretend like everything is already alright And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight

[SporkGoddess]

re: Worst performances you've seen#49

Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:41pm

Ali Ewoldt's singing wasn't very good, either.

Anyway... Ahmelie, I'm interested that you said David Burnham in LitP. May I ask why? I rather liked him when I saw him, even though I had my hesitations (I often find his voice can be whiney.)

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!