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Your Most Hated Musical
#125Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/13/11 at 10:32pmI find it hilarious that someone would mention NEXT TO NORMAL, GREY GARDENS *AND* CAROLINE, OR CHANGE as their most hated musicals IN THE SAME POST, lol.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#126Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/13/11 at 11:14pm
1. High School Musical
2. Mamma Mia!
3. Cats
4. Grease
5. Kiss Me, Kate
6. Sunday In The Park...
7. Les Mis
8. Oklahoma
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#128Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/13/11 at 11:34pm
1. Blood Brothers
2. Billy Elliot
3. Thou Shalt Not
4. Scarlet Pimpernel
5. White Christmas
6. Nick and Nora
7. Dancin'
8. Fosse
9. Women on the Verge
10. Phantom of the Opera
and these are just the last 20 years!
#129Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 12:24am
Crazy I know, but we try really hard to avoid shows generally thought of as stinkers.
To restrict my list to WELL-regarded shows we have loathed, I submit:
Mama Mia
Mary Poppins
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Avenue Q
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
The Glorious Ones (poor Flaherty & Ahrens)
Curtains
Jerry Springer: the Opera
and most loathed of all, Book of Mormon. (Let the brickbats begin.)
TheHappyPhantom
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#130Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 12:30am
In no particular order:
Grease
Legally Blonde
Mamma Mia
Kiss Me Kate
Crazy for You
Next to Normal
Shrek
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Pippin
Drowsy Chaperone
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Sondheim's bastard, child)
Annie
Oklahoma
Zanna Don't
Xanadu
#131Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 1:12amI have always hated Godspell.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Katt1721
Swing Joined: 10/9/11
#132Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 1:33am
Out of the shows I've actually seen (cause there are probably more I can pretty much guarantee I would have hated...)
- The Lion King
- Billy Elliot
- Memphis
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Starcarolina
Understudy Joined: 8/16/11
#134Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 2:02am
Titanic
Victor/Victoria
Godspell (saw the original off-Broadway). Sorry, but it must be a
Presbyterian thing going on with me
My One and Only
Purlie
Pacific Overtures
Flower Drum Song
Rock of Ages
Urinetown
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#135Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 2:24am
13
A Chorus Line
Godspell
Spider-Man
Fame
Once On This Island
High School Musical (does that even count?)
Grease
Xanadu
Annie Warbucks
#136Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 2:30am
Phantom Of The Opera (If you want a good musical based off the novel than check out Maury Yeston's "Phantom")
Honestly, I can't find myself hating any other musicals. I just love them all, with the exception of POTO.
#137Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 2:58amWhat makes you hate it so much, BroadwayBound92?
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#138Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 3:08am
Hello, Again
See What I Wanna See
Sweeney Todd
Passion
Bklyn
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
sunnyleo
Swing Joined: 1/8/11
#140Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 3:53amCats (zero drama, nonsensical plot, but then again it's based on poems to child), Rent (it's unfinished and has terrible music + lyrics save for Seasons of Love), Sunday in the Park with George (pseudo-intellectualism at its worst). World would be a better place if these three were never mounted again.
#141Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 4:51amThe only musical I can think of that I truly can't stand is Cats. There are other shows I'm not crazy about, but Cats is the only one I'd put entirely in the "hate" category. I find the music repetitive and grating, the plot pointless, and the characters either annoying or boring.
#142Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 6:27amI can pretty much tolerate if not enjoy about anything with great singing and or dancing. The only musical I've ever seen that I hated was on film...Carousel. I was super bored through the whole thing but kept telling myself, I better give it a chance and finish it. I was relieved to be so close to the end but then the end just pissed me off! I was bored during Cats, Camelot, and Young Frankenstein but I really hated Carousel.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#143Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 11:27amHOT FEET made IN MY LIFE and CATS (which I both hated) seem like masterpieces.
#144Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 2:52pm@Sondheimfan, not to pick on you out of all the hate-targets above, but I'm REALLY curious to know which productions of A CHORUS LINE and ONCE ON THIS ISLAND you saw that inspire such derision. Sure, they both have slight weaknesses here and there, but the kinetic genius in both of them burns through like a bright blowtorch for me.
#145Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 3:11pm
Sooner
Dont do it. I thought I would see it again after a few years thinking I was more mellow or more sophisticated. I saw it again and hated it more and hated myself as well for being so stupid as to go back! Seeing Cats again engenders self-loathing.
DF
To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......
#146Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 3:57pm
I don't like
Cats
Joseph and the not-so-Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Oklahoma (good score, but it bores me to tears and do we really need that damn ballet in the middle that rehashes everything we've already seen?)
Phantom of the Opera is mediocre at best and is only good for some spectacle and a few good songs
Wicked is merely decent. I don't get all the hype. Don't get the hate, but don't get the hype either
Act II of Sunday in the Park With George does nothing for me, but the first act is good.
I don't know if I've ever seen one that I truly hate with a passion. Certainly, I've seen productions of shows that I hated, but not the material itself.
Christoph
Stand-by Joined: 4/20/06
#147Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 4:39pm
Undeniably The Lion King - it was an overrated and excruciating experience and failed to hold the attention of the kids, who ended up crawling around on the floor and under the seats babbling away.
Followed closely by Doyle's 2 cent production of Sweeney Todd, which I stand by was a desecration of a great legendary show. That people actually raved about his supposed marvel of "minimalism" that ended up making a full price Broadway show look like something put on in the local high school gymnasium only proves my Granny's old adage: "If enough critics tell the general public that poop on a stick is delicious, there will be an audience to wolf it down."
hellskitchenbr
Swing Joined: 11/13/11
#148Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 4:51pmHated vs. Worst / Adams Family-Dance of the Vampires
#149Your Most Hated Musical
Posted: 11/14/11 at 5:03pmI usually will stay through the whole show even if it is not my favorite. I do it because I find it disrespectful to the actors and really, I paid money for the tickets, I am going to stay. THAT being said, I have only really "hated" one show. Like to the point where even the actors pissed me off. COPACABANA. I saw it at Hershey and I swear I wanted Rico to just mow them all down and be done with the show.
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