Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals — Page 5

BuddyStarr said: "Matt Rogers said: "Title of Show
Brooklyn
Passing Strange
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
And that craptastic show that Kathy Lee Gifford wrote about the female evangelist. Whoever produced that thing has a pile of rocks in their skull where a brain ought to be."

Interteresting that two of your shows are some of my favorites (Title of Show and Bloody Bloody)"

Yeah, I get it. People LOVE title of show. To me, it is narcissistic drivel. As for Bloody, I found it atonal and incomprehensible. 

But hey, people on here are naming Pulitzer winners, Sondheim classics, etc as worst, so to each their own, I guess.

1. Dear Evan Hansen
2. Cats
3. Grease
4. Rent
5. Love Never Dies

I have seen all of these:

1) School of Rock

2) Elf the musical

3) If/Then

4) Les Mis (it just gets so boring after the first act)

 

I don't have five, but three shows I've seen that I've disliked are: 

1. Spamalot

2. A Christmas Carol

3. Dirty Dancing

1. Cats

2. Starlight Express

3. Aspects of Love (sorry, most of Lloyd-Webber's stuff just doesn't do much for me)

4. Mamma Mia!

5. Ghost: the Musical (a hauntingly beautiful overture with a crappy musical following it)

Catch Me If You Can

Company

On The Twentieth Century

The Fix

Urinetown

I have to make one revision...as much as I dislike Carousel (which is about half the score and much of the book), I have to replace it with Dear Evan Hansen.  By intermission of DEH, I wasn't really sold on the story, but by the end, I was angry and felt sick.  The fact that it won Tonys for Musical, Book and Score seemed ludicrous to me.

Updated On: 11/25/17 at 03:42 PM

I will also stick to popular shows.  Couldn't keep it to 5.  Went for 10.  Listed in order, so the first five are my least favorite / most intensely disliked.

-- CATS...2:20 of total boredom, with both acts ending with goosebumps.  One great song.  Sung twice.

-- Fosse.  This was THE MOST PRETENTIOUS show I have ever seen.  The connections between actual Fosse numbers were agony for me to sit through.

-- Oklahoma.  I have never seen a production that I did not hate by Act 2.  As soon as Ado Annie, Will Parker and Ali Hakim take center stage, it is painful to sit through.

-- Grease...all the good songs were written for the movie.  I did like the movie and the live TV show, hated the original production.  Totally.  But not as much as CATS.

-- City of Angels.  I had a smile on my face for 15 minutes.  Then I realized that the inventive conceit was going to be repeated for the rest of the show.  OMG.

-- The Best Little Whorehouse...Tommy Tune's staging was incredibly inventive, but a musical is about the score IMO.  I didn't think there was a good song in it.  'That song' was written for the movie.  I guess I must have been prudish back then...cause I thought it was crude.

-- Two Gentlemen From Verona.  The fact that this beat Follies for Best Musical doesn't help.  I just thought the score was awful; what seemed like fun initially wore me down after 20 or so minutes.

-- Once.  The only good thing about this was Steve Kazoo's voice.  I guess I don't like 'mood pieces'.

-- Fun Home.  I get in trouble for this one, but I was depressed for days after seeing this show; and I wasn't entertained enough to justify the depression.  Would have liked it more if my expectations had not been set so high.  Circle in the Square is a terrible theatre for a musical.  I didn't see The Rocky Horror Show, but every other musical I ever saw there -- with one exception, Sweeney Todd -- was defeated by that layout.

-- On the Twentieth Century.  Did not see the revival, since I hated the original so much.  The original had A brilliant Kevin Kline and a perfect John Callum in Tony honored performances, and one of the great production designs ever.  I still hated it.  Two reasons: the pastiche score; and Madelyn Kahn, who I loved in everything else, was just terrible.  The show was barely open and she was already telephoning in her performance.  (Plus I always found her singing voice horrible, with all that vibrato).

Updated On: 11/25/17 at 07:52 PM