Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals — Page 7

Blair5 said: "Matilda - Saw this one on tour, so maybe it was better on Broadway, but I couldn't understand the lyrics to any of the songs and the little girl playing Matilda kept switching between an American and British accent."

The Broadway production was very different and far superior. We saw it twice on Broadway and then one more time on tour. The cast of the tour was weak; the actress playing Mrs. Wormwood was an insult to the eternally fabulous Lesli Margherita.

The only show that I ever came close to walking out of was Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, and in hindsight I wish I had because the second act was no better than the first. Even with the savings from purchasing at the TKTS booth, it was still a waste of money (and time).

I almost nodded off a couple of time during Anastasia and War Paint, both of which I really wanted to like.

Just in the last four years:

Broadway:

Honeymoon in Vegas

Big Fish

Miss Saigon

Tuck Everlasting

War Paint

 

Including off-bway, I'd replace Tuck and WarPaint with 

Southern Comfort (The Public)

Joan of Arc - Into the Fire (The Public)

those two were BAAAAAAAAAAAAD.

Please pardon my self-righteous spit take.

Why?  You sound like a jerk.

And what have people seen?

It doesn't matter because it's their opinions, not yours.

Unless you are in LA, DC, Chicago, or Boston where shows try out, or go to previews in New York, you probably won't see them. 

So, you're not familiar with other US cities.  Got it.

So, OK - it's perfectly understandable that Gypsy or Follies does nothing for you.

THANK GOD WE HAVE YOUR CONDITIONAL AFFIRMATION!  Oh wait...nobody wanted or needed it.  People can like/dislike whatever they want for any reason.  I've seen hundreds of shows, which is why I'm still not a fan of Follies.  And I truly cannot stand Annie Get Your Gun.

And if you never had to sit through Carrie or the musical versions of Gone With the Wind or Doctor Zhivago, then I see where you are coming from when those experiences end up at the bottom of your list.

I've been in love with Carrie since I first discovered it in Houston in the mid-90s, where I also performed Hollywood/Ukraine, Hello Again, Sweeney Todd, a workshop of Craig Carnelia's Actor Lawyer Indian Chief, worked with Jerry Bock on one of his last original musicals before he passed, studied with the Tony-winning producer of 1776, Pippin, Chicago and M. Butterfly, and used to hand out and chat with the playwright of Who's Afraid of Viriginia Wolf, A Delicate Balance, Three Tall Women and The Goat.  I also remember seeing the tryouts out Gone With the Wind, Beauty and the Beast, Jekyll & Hyde, Civil War and others, there as well.  And there are thousands of others like me in all those cities across the country you so readily dismissed.

In no particular order:

-HAMILTON

-MY FAIR LADY

-THE MUSIC MAN

-STARLIGHT EXPRESS

-RENT

Book of Mormon, partially because of all the half-rhymes, a good portion for the hideous politics, but mostly because Parker and Stone are huge, huge pieces of ****.

LIST 2 (overrated or just plain bad):

BLOOD BROTHERS

DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES

WILL ROGERS FOLLIES

ONCE

EVERYTHING BY ALW

1. Heathers

2. Rent

3. American Psycho

4. Anything Goes

5. Sweet Charity

Updated On: 5/14/18 at 02:09 AM

Once

Grease

Bye Bye Birdie

Cats

Phantom of the Opera