Worst show you've seen- Page 3

[VonTussleGirl]

re: Worst show you've seen#50

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:29pm

BKLYN, without a doubt. Eden Espinoza has a great voice but oh my god... the story, the music... let's just say, I loathed it all.

[alli2]

re: Worst show you've seen#51

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:33pm

jekyll and hyde (i fell asleep) & 42nd street (that's 2.5 hours of my life that i'll never get back, and frankly, i'm very pissed off.)

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: Worst show you've seen#52

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:37pm

Obviously no one has seen "Its a Wonderful Life the Musical"
...oh my

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

[grownupgroupie]

re: Worst show you've seen#53

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:43pm

I think worst show and worst production are two different questions.

Worst show? A musical called "Out of the Blue" in the West End in '94 which was about the bombing of Nagasaki. Seriously.

Worst production? A community theatre production of "My Fair Lady" by some church in Manhattan Beach, CA that made me want to seriously pull my spleen out through my nostrils. There were a couple of people who could sing, but my GOD IT WAS AWFUL!!!!! There had been CUTS and it was still like, over 3.5 hours.

[Rose_MacShane]

re: Worst show you've seen#54

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:44pm

"Obviously no one has seen "Its a Wonderful Life the Musical"
...oh my"

Oh! Oh! I have! I totally forgot about that disgrace of a show. "It's a one-won-two-der-three-ful life!" Even when I was 12 and had limited theater knowledge, I knew that was a bad show.

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[DickonDefysGravity]

re: Worst show you've seen#55

Posted: 1/18/05 at 7:50pm

Disgrace...good word

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

[basketcase]

re: Worst show you've seen#56

Posted: 1/18/05 at 8:05pm

Notre Dame de Paris. What a suckfest.

[gettinhep]

re: Worst show you've seen#57

Posted: 1/18/05 at 8:11pm

The Melbourne revival of 'Annie' was painful. Not even the presence of Anthony Warlow could save this show from the terminal creaks.

'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt

[Razz77]

re: Worst show you've seen#58

Posted: 1/18/05 at 8:13pm

I don't like using the term "WORST" -- but shows that i REALLY DID NOT ENJOY AT ALL include:

Brooklyn (sorry, its just not for me)
The non-equity 42nd Street Tour
The Starlight Express Tour

[Eileen2]

re: Worst show you've seen#59

Posted: 1/18/05 at 9:10pm

Local productions - Sophisticated Ladies & Camelot at the Papermill.

West End - Starlight Express

Broadway - I've pretty much found something redeeming in all of the shows I've seen, nothing sticks out as the worst.

[bob8rich]

re: Worst show you've seen#60

Posted: 1/18/05 at 9:37pm

The worst show I have ever seen? Without the slightest doubt - MAMMA MIA - pure drivel!

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[idinaroxmysox2]

re: Worst show you've seen#61

Posted: 1/18/05 at 9:44pm

fame: (THE MUSICAL??? OY IT WAS TERRIBLE)

nothing matters but knowing nothing matters, its just life, so keep dancing through!

[idinaroxmysox2]

re: Worst show you've seen#62

Posted: 1/18/05 at 9:46pm

fame: (THE MUSICAL??? OY IT WAS TERRIBLE)

nothing matters but knowing nothing matters, its just life, so keep dancing through!

[Dollypop]

re: Worst show you've seen#63

Posted: 1/18/05 at 9:48pm

MOLLY
VIEUX CARRE
TITANIC: THE MUSICAL
STEEL PIER
THE BOY FROM OZ
CARRIE: THE MUSICAL
FADE OUT-FADE IN
ROCKABYE HAMLET
HAMLET (starring Stephen Lange at the Roundabout)
IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM
Kelsey Grammer's MACBETH
CATCH MY SOUL (London)
THE GRAND TOUR
STAR SPANGLED GIRL
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC
OTHELLO starring Raul Julia and Richard Dreyfuss in Central Park
HAMLET starring Sam Waterston and Ruby Dee at Lincoln Center
1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS starring Trish Vandevere (directed by Geo C SCott)
PRIVATE LIVES with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton
COCO with Katherine Hepburn

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Icbanannie]

re: Worst show you've seen#64

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:10pm

LITTLE WOMEN
MAMMIA MIA
The Old Neighborhood (play)

[Jim2]

re: Worst show you've seen#65

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:15pm

Urinetown and Cats

[brdlwyr]

re: Worst show you've seen#66

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:26pm

on tour - Disney's On The Record - high school swing choir.

[TheatreDiva612]

re: Worst show you've seen#67

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:36pm

The Dead, Carousel, The Music Man (uuugghh)

[Lisha with a]

re: Worst show you've seen#68

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:46pm

Dance of the Vampires... Can you say train wreck?

[chrisshin]

re: Worst show you've seen#69

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:46pm

movin out. i saw a matinee and since there are certain performers who only go on during the matinees i figured they'd give it their all since they didn't have to worry too much about doing an evening show. they were so marking and i felt robbed of that time.

[munkustrap178]

re: Worst show you've seen#70

Posted: 1/18/05 at 10:48pm

Come on, seriously - I know this is about opinion, but you seriously have to question some that list CABARET, CAROUSEL, and RENT as the worst show they have ever seen. Perhaps it was a terrible production, I'll allow them that, but by no means are those shows - ESPECIALLY Cabaret and Carousel bad shows. I will never understand that, but, it's all about opinion and to be honest, I pity those who would deem Cabaret and Carousel as "the worst."

For me, DRACULA and OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL are the two that come to mind first. I've never contemplated suicide before - especially in a Broadway theatre - until I had the misfortune of seeing those shows.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[VeuveClicquot]

re: Worst show you've seen#71

Posted: 1/19/05 at 3:08am

Dollypop, that's an interesting list.

The "worst" shows for me are shows that have terrific talent behind them, and yet the show presents no sign of it. I've seen hundreds of terrible productions of otherwise solid shows, and they don't make me angry. What I hate is watching a talent that I highly respect put on a piece of irredemable garbage.

I would submit:

WELCOME TO THE CLUB. Cy Coleman was a genius, and his shows are among my favorites. But WELCOME TO THE CLUB was a misogynistic, unfunny, nightmare of a show. He should have known better.

THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC. I loathed this show when I saw it. In retrospect, I don't hate the show itself as much as I hate what it did to the confidence of my favorite director/choreographer, Tommy Tune. He hasn't worked on Broadway since.

STEEL PIER. Not simply a waste of time, but an actively hateful piece of musical theatre. STEEL PIER has more contempt for its audience than any other pedigreed musical I've ever witnessed. Strohman, Kander, Ebb, what were you thinking???

[TheatreRatinBlue]

re: Worst show you've seen#72

Posted: 1/19/05 at 4:02am

My Community Theatre did a Production of "The Hobbit" and it was so god awful, over half the audience left at intermission. I went back to my high school to see a production of Guys and Dolls, and that show is such a hard one to screw up and i'm ashamed to even say i did this, but i walked out in the middle of Luck Be a Lady Tonight!

[Sant]

re: Worst show you've seen#73

Posted: 1/19/05 at 6:03am

NOTRE DAME DE PARIS followed v e r y closely by DRACULA.

[sciguy]

re: Worst show you've seen#74

Posted: 1/19/05 at 6:52am

I'm a relatively new theater goer.
Many will disagree, but my vote is for Pacific Overtures. It is the only show I have seen where I wanted to leave at the intermission. Unfortunately my friends made me stay.