Worst performances you've seen- Page 7
Worst performances you've seen
#150re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 4:22amHas to be Idina Menzel in Wicked, shes an amazing actress and in recordings, due to correction software and multiple takes, she sounds very good, but I saw her in Wicked 3 times (London) and not once did she get through any of her big numbers, DG, Wizard and i, no good deed, not that girl, without hitting a flat note! It was very painful!
"If you talk about my family I will punch you in the fanny so hard it'll end up on your face... oh, looks like someone beat me to it!" - Dawn French
BtMartin25
Featured Actor Joined: 1/4/06
#151re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 10:41amMolly Ringwald in Sweet Charity... ahhhh
bt
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#152re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 1:48pm
So many bad performances ... so little space.
David Hasselhoff/Jekyll & Hyde
Rosie O'Donnell/Fiddler (although she was fairly dreadful in Grease, as well)
Bebe Neuwirth in anything/this may be more disppointment, though
Bernadette Peters/Gypsy, & I am a HUGE fan of hers
Lea Salonga/Les Miserables (as Eponine, didn't see her Fantine)
Richard Kind/The Producers (I've since avoided him in everything else)
Lauren_T
Stand-by Joined: 11/28/06
#153re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:42pmAlexandra Socha as Wendla in Spring Awakening. Dreadful! Dreadful! Dreadful!
#154re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:45pmI once saw a production of I Do! I Do! in an outside venue in Florida... during the sweltering, 100 degrees and up SUMMER... starring two real- estate agents who literally had not acted since high school... and they were in their 60's...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#155re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 2:58pmI agree with the above post about the last equity evita tour. I only enjoyed Phil Hernandez as Peron
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
DidYouReallyHearMe
Featured Actor Joined: 11/29/04
#156re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 5:11pm
Molly Ringwald/Charity - Sweet Charity: She was beast. the entire house was almost empty by the end of the show...hilarious.
Tim Martin Gleason/Phantom (u/s) - National Tour of Phantom of the Opera (2004 cast): Dreadful.
And while I liked his performance, I saw Sebastian Bach in the Jesus Christ Superstar national tour. Needless to say, people certainly got up and walked out, or complained the entire show.
musicandtemiror
Leading Actor Joined: 11/14/07
#157re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 5:17pm
And while I liked his performance, I saw Sebastian Bach in the Jesus Christ Superstar national tour. Needless to say, people certainly got up and walked out, or complained the entire show.
I would think So!! He was like screemoo!!! Jesus!!
It was horrible!
I only stayed for Carl!
#158re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 5:36pm
"Idina in Wicked...I get that people love her, but truly for me all she does is scream."
I totally agree on this one.
Earlier on in her Wicked run she was awesome. But then as time went on...errrrr. YouTube some videos of her performances, some of them are painful to listen to. You kind of say to yourself...Broadway...really? LOL, I know i'm still a struggling nobody and this could be miscommunicated as jealousy, but I assure you it isn't. I would love to have originated Elphaba on Broadway, she's very lucky.
Plus, girl didn't study musical theatre when she went to NYU. She only studied acting, and i'm not 100% sure what her voice technique/lesson background was...
"We need people not to come to Broadway shows wearing shorts and flip-flops. We are working hard up here folks. Find a pair of socks."-Joanna Gleason
"I hear L. Ron Hubbard is gonna blow the ladies...and all that jazz! C'mon babe! We're gonna unicorn hug, I bought some NyQuil down....at Wal-Mart?!"-Bebe Neuwirth singing ATJ to Musical Mad Libs at DQYNJ :)
musicandtemiror
Leading Actor Joined: 11/14/07
#160re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 6:17pmJerry Mathers in Hairspray, hands down.
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
musicandtemiror
Leading Actor Joined: 11/14/07
#161re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 6:19pm
Hairspray - Lance Bass's 1st Show!
-oh I could have laughed soo hard!
#162re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 6:27pmI know what you mean.
"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster.
"Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#163re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 6:38pm
Marian Seldes in DEATHTRAP. It was a classic case of posing and overacting--and she didn'e miss a damned performance.
(I've seen her do much better work in other productions.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#164re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 6:42pmRight now I'd be happy to see any of these. Just to see a show again...
#165re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 7:01pm
>> I would love to have originated Elphaba on Broadway, she's
>> very lucky.
ADK, wow, wouldn't we all?! It's my dream role . . .and hey, even if I didn't originate it; I'd still love to play the role now or soon. I'm working on it!
As for worst performances . . . I have yet to see Idina on stage in anything. I keep missing her! But, I love her; thus, I wouldn't be a good judge because, well, I am sure, I will find her brilliant!
Love and Stage Lights,
Angela Theresa
DidYouReallyHearMe
Featured Actor Joined: 11/29/04
#166re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 8:43pm
Got another one....
Julia Murney in the Chess Benefit.
Completely forgot I saw that one....goodness. She's no Florence.
#167re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 10:16pmThat's cool you saw the Chess Concert DidYou (I'm simply assuming you saw it live vs. video footage). What did you think of the rest of the performers?
Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)
Grand Motel
Featured Actor Joined: 7/8/03
#168re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/14/07 at 11:19pmMaya Days in Aida. A total stunner but zero voice for it. Couldn't really hear her practically all whispered dialogue either.
#169re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/15/07 at 2:09am
Melanie Griffith in "Chicago"
Usher in "Chicago"
Susan Lucci in "Annie Get yOur Gun"
Tyne Daly in "Gypsy"
Rosie O'Donnell in "grease"
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#170re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/15/07 at 4:54amChanning in "Dolly" - ugh, someone take that role away from her before she seriously hurts herself
"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#171re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/15/07 at 6:58am
socha in spring awakening.
jesse swenson as georg.
julia murney as elphie.
steph block as elphie.
carolle shelley as madame morrable.
daphne rubin vega as fantine.
nadine insenger(sp?) as val in acl.
jessica lea paty as diana in acl.
nicollette hart as maureen in rent god was she a wreck.
thats all i can think of!haha
"Those You've Known And Lost Still Walk Behind You"-Spring Awakening
#172re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/15/07 at 10:28amjon secada as the emcee in Cabaret. Thank GOD susan egan was there to distract me!
#173re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/15/07 at 11:08amLauren Molina in SWEENEY TODD. When pianissimo is the loudest someone can sing, you know there's a problem.
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#174re: Worst performances you've seen
Posted: 11/15/07 at 3:21pmThe whole cast of the Non-equity RENT tour was AWFULL!!!! I bet the high school production coming out is better than what I saw..... it was that BAD!!!
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