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Worst performances you've seen
#25re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:51pmRalph Macchio in How to Succeed in Business...
What great ones do the less will prattle of
#26re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 2:53pmjoey mcintyre in wicked...it ruined the whole experience
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?
antz
Chorus Member Joined: 8/9/07
#27re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#28re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:13pmThe Non-equity touring company of RENT! I was emberrased for them
nydirector2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/4/05
#29re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:50pmI 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.
#30re: Worst performances you've seen
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...
#31re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:55pmThe Starlight Express tour a few years ago also made Calvin sad.
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#32re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 3:56pmSteph- Do you mean Ali Ewoldt? If so, I agreee. She was very pretty but bland. Far from the worst though.
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#33re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 4:30pm
Phoebe Strole as (u/s) Wendla in SPRING AWAKENING.
She was horrible.
#34re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Understudy Joined: 4/21/07
#35re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Stand-by Joined: 4/10/07
djb
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/06
#37re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 5:20pmAlan Cumming in "The Threepenny Opera" - he's no Macheath.
#38re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#39re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#40re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Broadway Star Joined: 3/18/05
#41re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#43re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:19pmMelanie 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#44re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:22pmUsber 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.
#45re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Featured Actor Joined: 11/9/06
#46re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:27pmFrankly, 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
#47re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 8/9/07 at 6:28pmI echo the Michael York in Camelot.
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)
#48re: Worst performances you've seen
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#49re: Worst performances you've seen
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!
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