Posted: 6/5/16 at 3:29pm
Scarywarhol said: "Kad said: "I can't say I think any song from Gypsy deserves the mantle of "Worst EVER."
I mean, are we all forgetting that truly terrible Western production number from the second act of Big Fish? "
I actually worked on that show, and was completely shocked to see the number make it. So embarrassing, it was almost surreal. "
I'm hard pressed to think of another big song in a Broadway score that is so inexplicable and ill-conceived. I felt bad for Bobby Steggert for having to carry that number (he really got the short end of the stick with that show). It just seemed like a sequence that had so much money spent on it that no one wanted to cut it.
for the record: I really like much of the score of Whorehouse. As far as musical theatre songs go, they're not very effective- they can largely be popped out of context and totally understood, and even cut from a production to no detriment to the plot. But as songs themselves, I think there's a lot there to like.
