Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals- Page 4

[dididda]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 2:37pm

jesus christ friggin gives me headach superstar, i absolutely hate it, definelty my #1

boy from oz, drivel, only hugh makes it worthwhile

west side story
king and i
and south pacific
are up there too

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 6:45pm

Cats
South Pacific
My Fair Lady
Kismet
Wizard of Oz

Although it is so hard for me to hate any musical...

[BEKA531]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 7:34pm

CATS. easily the WORST musical ever. how on earth did it last so long?

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 11/4/04 at 7:52pm

1) Pippin
2) Carrie (A musical that lasted..what? 7 days?)
3) Cats (One big hairy bag of randomness)
4) Wonderful Town

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:05pm

Sweeney Todd

Fun Home

Passion

Marie Christine

Sunday in the Park With George

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:08pm

In no particular order

Catch me if you can

Finding Neverland

Ghost

Bullets over broadway

Something Rotten

edit: these are just shows that I have on my phone. So this isn’t really a complete list.

Updated On: 11/15/17 at 12:08 PM

[ozjust4]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:11pm

1 being the worst.

1. American Idiot

2. Cats

3. Motown the Musical

4. Love Never Dies

5. Spring Awakening

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:13pm

Worst shows I've seen: 

5. Finding Neverland

4. Mamma Mia 

3. The Bodyguard

2. American Idiot 

1. First Wives Club

[BuddyStarr]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:19pm

1. South Pacific

2. Matilda

3. Rent (I liked the CD, thought the show was a mess)

4. Oliver

5. Aladdin (a theme park show would look more expensive and probably be more creative)

[BuddyStarr]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:22pm

There's a long list of shows I haven't seen and never want to see (starting with Spiderman: Turn off the Dark)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:30pm

Motown
Spring Awakening
The Producers
Annie Get Your Gun
Carousel

Updated On: 11/15/17 at 12:30 PM

[lady_luck]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:51pm

1. Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat (saw it at the Kennedy Center)

2. CATS

3. Grease (the stage production)

4: Phantom of the Opera (current stage production)

5. Miss Saigon 

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:54pm

1. Hairspray

2. Grease

3. South Pacific (I can respect it but it is just a terrible bore)

4. School of Rock

5. Matilda

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:55pm

By the way, if anyone has some time to kill, it might be interesting to tally up the most commonly hated musicals.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 12:58pm

It's a Bird... It's a Plane...It's Superman

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Now. Here. This

The Go-Betweeen

Annie Warbucks

[ggersten]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 1:01pm

If we are talking professional productions:

Big River (tour in St. Louis)

Odyssey (Los Angeles tryout before it became Home Sweet Homer)

The Baker's Wife (Los Angeles tryout with Topol)

Threepenny Opera (Washington DC with Sting)  (I have loved two other versions)

The Bodyguard (2017 tour with Deborah Cox)

[South Florida]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 1:48pm

I haven't seen nearly as many shows as most of you have, and I'm pretty picky because I don't live in NY.  

Spamalot

Rock of Ages

On the Twentieth Century

The Wedding Singer

(gulp) The Pirate Queen

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:05pm

Just out of curiosity, what didn't you like about 20th Century, South Florida? It sort of sticks out in your list of otherwise modern shows.

Anyway, I like almost everything, but I hate the fact that Love Never Dies exists, so that'll always be my top pick for the most ill-conceived/executed show of all time...

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:06pm

i love musicals so this is very hard

the worst and most painful to watch:
lestat
the wall(nyc musical fest 2017)
assassins(i love sondheim but wtf???)

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:15pm

Limiting this to musicals that became pretty famous:

1) An American in Paris - thought the choreography was trite and the Schindler's-list second act fell totally flat

2) Anastasia - It has a few good tunes but I just hate all fictional stories that try to depict the real-life imposter Anna Anderson as the real Princess Anastasia

3) Falsettos - the score is so whiny as our the characters. I felt like 3/4 of it was Rich People Whining and the last 1/4 was Angels in America-lite. No idea why this is such a cult musical.

4) The Sound of Music - IMO one of R&H's weakest scores 

5) Gigi - the storyline is so distasteful. I can't get over it.

[South Florida]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:40pm

"Just out of curiosity, what didn't you like about 20th Century, South Florida? It sort of sticks out in your list of otherwise modern shows."

I have been to maybe 50 shows.  I forget what I saw that week but they were all infinitely better.  I do not remember one song.  It seems strange that people would hate on Anything Goes which was the same kind of thing, liked that a lot more.  50-75

 

[hork]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:49pm

Cats

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Phantom of the Opera

Book of Mormon

Merrily We Roll Along

[beilis32]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:56pm

Out of all the musicals that I have seen or listened to the recording of, which is a lot because that's basically what I do when I'm not studying, I have never hated any of them. There are some I like more than others, but there has never been one that I regretted seeing or listening to.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 3:57pm

Passing Strange
Spelling Bee
Fela
Soul Doctor

I was in pain sitting through all of these...even though I know some of them got rave reviews. To each his own I suppose!

[markypoo]

Posted: 11/15/17 at 4:48pm

Always wondered about Soul Doctor.
Didn't seem to win any popularity contests on Broadway.
And Home Sweet Homer was SUBLIME!