Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals- Page 7
Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#150
Posted: 11/28/17 at 12:17pm
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.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#151
Posted: 11/28/17 at 12:18pm
asoftplacetoland said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "1. The only musical that ever made me genuinely mad that I paid money to see it was It Shoulda Been You. Just inconceivablybad.
Can you elaborate? I’ve heard mixed things about ISBY. I’m interested to hear why you didn’t like it."
ISBY may not have been a great musical, but it was charming and funny.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#152
Posted: 11/28/17 at 12:21pm
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.
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#153
Posted: 11/28/17 at 12:34pm
Dear Evan Hansen
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
The Band’s Visit
Chicago
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#154
Posted: 11/28/17 at 1:04pm
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.
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#155
Posted: 11/28/17 at 2:10pm
Soaring29 said: ". Gypsy- I don't hate this show, but my choices are surprisingly limited(which is a good thing!)..."
Please pardon my self-righteous spit take when I saw you mention the legendary Styne/Sondheim/Laurents show. But your follow-up note about limited choices was an insightful piece of context not just for your opinion, but for the entire discussion.
Of course people can only choose from the shows they have directly or indirectly experienced. And what have people seen? Mostly the big hits of the past and present.
The fact is that the laws of supply and demand plus survival of the fittest mean that truly bad shows barely survive more than a couple of months. 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. They close fast and rarely get a cast recording.
So, OK - it's perfectly understandable that Gypsy or Follies does nothing for you. 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.
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#156
Posted: 11/28/17 at 9:49pm
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.
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#157
Posted: 5/12/18 at 10:24am
-Sunday in the Park with George
-RENT
-Once
-Dear Evan Hansen
-Spring Awakening
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#158
Posted: 5/12/18 at 10:30am
In no particular order:
-HAMILTON
-MY FAIR LADY
-THE MUSIC MAN
-STARLIGHT EXPRESS
-RENT
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#159
Posted: 5/12/18 at 10:31am
Damn Yankees
Cats
Rock of Ages
Kinky Boots
Matilda
I’ve been lucky enough to avoid far worse musicals.
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#160
Posted: 5/12/18 at 12:14pm
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 ****.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/16/13
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#161
Posted: 5/12/18 at 12:21pm
- Cats
-How the Grinch Stole Christmas
-Shrek
-On The Town
-On the 20th Century
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#162
Posted: 5/12/18 at 12:52pmElf the Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, Into the Woods, Once, We Will Rock You
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#163
Posted: 5/12/18 at 1:02pm
American Idiot
Spring Awakening
We Will Rock You
Rock of Ages
Passing Strange
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/17
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#164
Posted: 5/12/18 at 1:14pm
Be more chill
Dear evan hansen
Heathers
Hamilton
(The stans runied all those)
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#165
Posted: 5/12/18 at 1:24pm
List 1 (the shows that never stop running or being revived, and were enormous hits):
PHANTOM
LES MIZ
CATS
MISS SAIGON
MAMMA MIA
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#166
Posted: 5/12/18 at 1:26pm
LIST 2 (overrated or just plain bad):
BLOOD BROTHERS
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
ONCE
EVERYTHING BY ALW
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#167
Posted: 5/12/18 at 10:54pm
My Top Five Worst Musicals Ever: 1. Book of Mormon- So offended walked out during intermission
2, Spring Awakening- Didn't like any song during Act 1- walked out
3, Fun Home- Insulting to the LGBT community- walked out
4. Aida- Couldn't understand a word that waa said-walked out
5. Miss Saigon- Just too too. I stayed but hated it.
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#168
Posted: 5/13/18 at 12:10amWait... How exactly is Fun Home insulting to the LGBT community?
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#169
Posted: 5/13/18 at 4:29pm
Spring Awakening
Dear Evan Hansen
Fun Home
Waitress
Into The Woods
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#170
Posted: 5/13/18 at 4:33pm
1. Heathers
2. Rent
3. American Psycho
4. Anything Goes
5. Sweet Charity
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#171
Posted: 5/13/18 at 4:57pm
So fascinated that somebody was offended enough by Book of Mormon to walk out. I’m curious what specifically was it that offended you ? And do you find yourself being offended by satire frequently or just satire that uses coarse language? Not judging at all, just curious.
My top 5 least favorite musicals:
1. Hairspray.
2. Matilda
3. School of Rock
4. Godspell
5. Hair
Stand-by Joined: 9/7/14
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#172
Posted: 5/14/18 at 2:09amUpdated On: 5/14/18 at 02:09 AM
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#173
Posted: 5/14/18 at 9:30am
Hamilton
Cats
On a clear day (revival)
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals#174
Posted: 5/14/18 at 12:55pm
Once
Grease
Bye Bye Birdie
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
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