Worst show YOU HAVE BEEN IN? — Page 2

Robin Hood: The Musical!


...horrible. just horrible.

My second grade production of The Foolish Molar was a million times better than when we did The Music Man Jr. in 8th grade. Harold Hill didn't memorize his lines, and he had to have them shouted from behind the curtain.

We went through 3 Charlies.
The set fell over during Wells Fargo Wagon, and everyone screamed.
Harold was also squeamish about kissing...so they hugged on the bridge.

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High school production of "Our Town" -- I was Rebecca, and there was all this internal drama between people dating other people, love triangles and hexagons, as it seemed to me. It was my first play in high school, I was the only freshman in the cast, and it was a horrible experience for me. And the girl who played Emily...well, she left something to be desired.

I did a production of CAROUSEL when I was 16... It was HORRIBLE. There was an actor from the Canadian cast of Les Miz as Billy and a bunch of other equity actors and they were awful!!! I can't even explain but, I was bored on stage.

My senior year of high school, we were supposed to do Oklahoma, but the director decided that we didnt have an actor who could pull off Curly so he dropped it. Not having enough time to procure the rights to another show, he decided to write his own. In like 2 weeks.

And thus, BROADWAY DREAMS was born. The plot concerned a girl who hit her head at an audition and was transported to a "dream world where every sentence is a music cue." To make matters worse, the musical director refused to work with the director again, so she quit. The director ended up going out and getting 2 Broadway karaoke CDs which we had to rehearse and perform to. The plot was basically nothing more than a few lines in between songs. For example, my song: Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat from Guys and Dolls went like this:

(2 Guys walk on stage)
Guy 1: So I had a dream last night.
Guy 2: Really, what was it about?
Guy 1: Well....I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven...(rest of song)

It was atrocious and it was my last highschool musical, and we has done awesome stuff in the past. So sad. Needless to say that director was fired the year after I graduated.

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Oh no! I love Pirates of Penzance... our high school production was awesome!

I HATED ANNIE GET YOUR GUN...

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Stefanie Hero, my senior year. Worst. Show. Ever.
The year before out director got ATTACKED by parents for putting on The Heidi Chronicles and the next year he obviously chose something of the complete opposite nature. Such a terrible, terrible show about a headstrong princess, an evil sorcerer that loves her and his egor-type character who is...drumroll...THE PRINCE! So bad! (Oh yeah humans are turned into swans and fly!) The show is also ended with a a song entitled "The Hero in You". Mark Medoff had a MISS with this awful show. Maybe he was high when he wrote it.

Anything Goes.

Yuck, it had rotating cast and was dreadful.

Victor/victoria our set was terrible and our band didnt get the music books till 4 days before we opened. And our norma was only 15 so it was just BAD

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When I was a junior in Highschool I had the lead in a play called "U.T.B.U." which stands for Unhealthy to be Unpleasant. It supposedly ran opened and closed the same day on Broadway and starred Tony Randall in the role that I played. It was god-awful - but back then I didn't know any better and enjoyed playing the lead.

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An original musical called Darby and the Sleeping Prince. It had some decent songs, but the book was awful and the production was quite embarassing. It was one of those "hey let's put on a show" moments that was fun to put together and work on, but the show itself just wasn't very good. Still, the experience was moer about creating and producing a musical from scratch and it still ended up being a very worthwhile experience. Some of the worst shows I have performed in were the shows I actually had the most fun performing.

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A community/fundraiser type production of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT when I was in 11th Grade. There were tons and tons of people in it and it was supposed to be this huge event. However, the people at creative end of this show were absolutely clueless. The main producer of the show was married to the director of the show - and, that's right - their son played Joseph. I can't even begin to describe. It wasn't that the final product was that God-awful - the rehearsal process and the unorginization eventually left every fed up.

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