Worst show YOU HAVE BEEN IN?

[gravity87]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:45pm

The worst show I was ever In was Pippin my sophmore year of HS. we cast it a month b4 it oopend there was noo dancing save our dance troup who came in to dance to Justin Timberlake's "seniorita" for the orgy scene.
Our Pipin was wooden and his voice cracked like crazy
We shortened half the songs
One of the two leading players was shrill as hell
Fastrada and Berthe did not act there songs they just stood there and sang like it was a vocal recital
and The blocking was atrocious
I could go on and on....
Half the Audince left at intermission. out director told me a year later that he himself had no idea what was going on and couldnt watch. All in All very embarissing. The only show I have been in where I wasnt upset that I didnt have the lead lol

What about you guys.....

[wickedfan]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:48pm

A production of Madwoman of Chailloit I was in. I was the Swere Man and a Peddler. It wasn't so much that it was HORRIBLE. BUt we had a few bad people in it who couldn't act. And the villains coudln't act evil, they just acted...well, they didn't. Our four Madwomen were incredible though! It was also some weak direction too.

Updated On: 12/6/04 at 06:48 PM

[saddle shoe side kick]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:54pm

8th Grade. Charlotte's Web. It was a fun experience in some aspects but in others it was awful. Everyone was getting rashes from the hay for one bad thing.

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:04pm

Free To Be You And Me. High school. It was bad!!!!!!! Let's just leave it at that.

[Staci1818]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:04pm

4th grade, an original musical. It just wasn't good.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:05pm

Oh my, I was in a show called "666 Westbourne Drive" in LA. The writer/director said he wrote my part just for me. I was so flattered that I did it. What a HUGE mistake. It was one of the biggest pieces of crap ever.

I ended up getting in a fight with the w/d after slipping on the stage and sending the drink cart crashing into the front row. He screamed at me and wanted me to pay for the tea cart.

I refused and he fired me for "not following his direction".

I took him to court for my losses and won.

It was a 99 seat theatre gig. The LAST one I ever did.....

NEXT!

Updated On: 12/7/04 at 07:05 PM

[shlamdiddly]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:11pm

Much Ado About Nothing, last year...absolutly horrible. We had ten people in the cast...

Updated On: 12/6/04 at 07:11 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:16pm

TOO FUNNY

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:17pm

Once Upon a Mattress... last month... our jester quit the Tuesday of tech week... at our school, when you audition, you only sing, and it's accapella, so they don't really know if you can sing with an orchestra... our Harry couldn't... he was a really good dancer though... the whole chorus hated the show and kinda just stood around doing nothing... the only good part was Winnifred... tee hee...

[Staci1818]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:17pm

There was also Fiddler in 6th grade. We had the same lousy director throughout middle school but this was just one night that was awful. Oppening night the Constable missed his cue, and so did the female chorus was never called. The improvsing was awful, but its the only thing I remember about the show.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:21pm

My sixth grade musical! It was so bad I forgot what it was about but the the girlwho played the old lady in it was great. I was a butterfly but it really had no point in being in the show. I wanted to do backstage work. The teacher who ran it had no idea what she was doing she made kids be in the show when they didn't want to be.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:25pm

Grade schools shows are always bad.....

Which is why the only people that see them are parents and the other students at the school who were forced to watch the show for extra credit.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:26pm

I was Rabbit in "Winnie the Pooh" the actors were good, and the direction was GREAT! but it was so awfully written.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:27pm

its a tie between 6th grade guys and dolls, with a cast who couldnt sing and summer camp sound of music, with a cast who could sing but a director who didnt do anything. he let me adlib it, though, so it balanced out, for me at least

[callitquits]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:30pm

My horror story is also about West Side Story. I was in 7th grade, and I got Maria when we did it at my middle school, which just happened to have a lot of inner-city kids (D.C.) First of all, the music was taken out. ALL OF IT. Then, to replace the music in the Prologue and in the Dance At the Gym scenes, the music for the Prologue was a modern Spanish rap song, the Dance at the Gym songs were as follows: Britney Spears for the Jets, Ricky Martin for the Sharks. And to make matters worse, after the last scene, another dance scene was added to the music of "Maria, Maria" by Santana. We also had no props at all, save for a few risers for the "Tonight" scene. This made the lines preceding "One Hand, One Heart" incredibly stupid ("That color is not good for Anita!" "Not in front of Papa!", etc., etc.) No costumes either, just t-shirts that said either Sharks or Jets in Sharpie with jeans. After Tony died, I sang one line of Somewhere: "There's a place for us..." and it made completely no sense since the rest of it hadn't had songs at all.

[callitquits]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:44pm

It was one of the worst things ever. As soon as my mom picked me up, she said, "You were good, but that was terrible." The sad thing is my drama teacher still firmly believes we were being groundbreaking and that our production was a great show.

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:47pm

quits- It is ILLEGAL to change any part of a show. Does your drama teacher know that he could have been sued for MILLIONS of dollars.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:52pm

I used to work at the Airport Playhouse in Bohemia, New York. It's located in an industrial park, so that should give you an idea about how elegant the place was! (It's still open).

This theater was known for its cheapskate productions (ex: Freddy sang "On The Street Where You Live" in Higgins' study because they didn't want to spring for another set!)

Anyhow, I was in their production of ALLIN THE FAMILY--which laced together scripts from the TV series and played them as a full-length comedy. It was dreadful! The audiences remembered seeing the stories on television for free and resented paying to see this "cut and paste" job. As it was a small theater the cast was able to hear the comments made in the audience and see them as they left while we were performing.

Oh yeah, then there was the production of FORUM I did about 20 years ago where the director was a drunk and had no idea of how to cast a show (Philia couldn't carry a tune!) and even less idea of how to stage it. The sets were literally made from construction paper that faded under the lights. I played Psuedolus and was so ashamed of the production that I don't ever mention it in my bio.

Updated On: 5/12/09 at 07:52 PM

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:53pm

I was just thinking the same thing jacobtsf.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:54pm

Callitquits...

Has that teacher been fired yet?

WSS without the music?! My God, was high?

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 7:55pm

All the musicals in my elementary school.

[CrAzIaBoUtReNt]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 8:08pm

My fourth grade Christmas Pageant ( that's not really a show, but it's close!)I played Joseph. The angels had to stand on nealers for one scene and one of them threw up! My teachers came through the stage door and he went to his parents. This was during the performance infront of my school. That night he didn't show up. It was really embarrasing! It was kind of funny too, but I felt sorry for him.

[BJC899]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 8:17pm

The Crucible.

It was so bad I can't even start.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 8:18pm

Again folks...

Grade school shows ALWAYS suck

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 8:23pm

My old high school does this Follies show every year, with the drama teacher writing the script. Well, the one time I did it, she decided on a tribute to Broadway.

The script was basically a rip-off of The Producers and A Funny Thing..., and she added in stuff like "I Enjoy Being a Girl" and "De-lovely." Top it off, she added in this whole subplot involving a theater owner and her brother, using Copacabana.

The main leads were good, but...the woman cast her daughter in the role of the theater owner Millie. The girl can't act. She played that and her role as Ms. Molloy (we did Hello Dolly that year as well) exactly the same way.

Ow. My head hurts from thinking about it