have u ever witnessed a butchered musical,,,- Page 2

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 8:42pm

My camp puts on some great shows, but also some really terrible ones. I don't like Seussical, but my camp made it worse. They cut out half of it, had an awful cast (except for a few people) and really bad sets.
My camp also cut out half of Grease and had an awful cast.
Peter Pan-No one flew!

[singinswinga]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 8:53pm

My high school did "The Sound of Music." The family Von Trapp didn't look at all related, Maria looked older than the captain, the makeup just made the actors look dirty, the sets were crap-tacular, and we used real kids in 3 or 4 roles, and they were cute and all, but couldn't be heard. Anyway. It sucked.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 9:29pm

My sister's college did Titanic... they made it look like a rickety tug boat

Then they did Chicago...the set was black white and fushia checkerboard....and Roxie was about 350 it was disgusting... they couldn't fit this girl in the spot light so they hit her with to spotlights that had to be open ful..... nothign rong with heavy people but it just wasn't believeable

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 10:18pm

I was recently in a production of Sound of Music... and wow. It was scary. We had more young children ("Townspeople") than real actors, and we added in about three scenes using them... "I Have Confidence" was replaced by Maria and a group of schoolgirls singing 'My Favorite Things', ect. We double-cast all the Von Trapp kids, and it was, frankly hard to believe that any of them were from the same family... oh, and our Maria and Captain were really, really, horrible. But the two people who should've had those roles ended up as Rolf and Elsa, thanks to a role stating that no person can have two lead roles in a row. Argh...

[DefyGravity23]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:32pm

"BYE BYE BIRDIE without the Shriner's Ballet?"

yup, my school couple years ago. I didn't even know it was missing til I watched the movie. Oh well, I hate that musical anyway.

Peter Pan without flying??? ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!! what did they do instead.......?

[nodaybut2day2007]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:38pm

Where are you people getting the rights to Chicago, last I checked the rights were NOT avalable. If they have recently become avalable where can i get them?

[kangaroo]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:40pm

Yes I have witness a butchered musical...

1. West Side Story [had 3 columns of blocks as their ENTIRE set]
2. Oklahoma! [Aunt Eller was NOT funny and SUCH a bad actor... the rest of them were decent, but still not up to par at all]
3. Annie Get Your Gun [bleh... enough said]

~kangaroo

[jaded_october]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:51pm

"Where are you people getting the rights to Chicago, last I checked the rights were NOT avalable."

our school had to BEG. they were touring right around the time we were going to start rehearsal. i have no idea how they managed to get the rights, but they did.

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 5/29/05 at 11:58pm

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 11:58 PM

[jaded_october]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:00am

im in big river right now. all the slaves are white. i have a feeling ill be reviving this thread in july when the show goes on....

[kangaroo]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:01am

costumemistress... that's an interesting way to put on Peter Pan...hmm

~kangaroo

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:33am

I saw a production of Copacabana that made me wish for my two hours back. I called it Crap-A-Ca-Boring.

I also was so upset when I saw a production of DREAMGIRLS that toured. The Effie was so aweful and could not sing, It made me so so mad. The I read the next day they fired her ass after that performance and got BJ Crosby to do the part. (damn a day early!)

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:58am

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 12:58 AM

[BwayDreams]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:52am

Ally....what town are you in that did "Miss Saigon" Its one of my favorite shows! I would hate to see it butchered! And you paid $150? Wow! Thats outrageous money for tickets to a local show! I saw the worst highschool production of INTO THE WOODS. Just wayyyyyyyy to challenging for them to attempt Sondheim.

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 3:38am

bwayDreams,

I'm from winnipeg in canada, i LOVE miss saigon as well, a touring company came by and gave me the pleasure of seeing it done magnificantly.

THEN a year later our big musical theatre company decided to do it. I'll say these things..:

*the stage was TINY, which was a write-off from the start...
*the set was SO cheap!! it was painted bamboo shoots on a tarp! :S aaahhh
*EVERY instrument was synth! The beginning was so musically weak i thought there might be something wrong with the speakers :S
*our actors were good but our 'kim' was drowned out by everyone she had a duet with
*for 'morning of the dragon' or whatever that song is called; the choreography was like...middle school styles with 10 minutes of marching with an occasional tiger/dragon kute being dragged across the stage by an actor

I'm not even going to get into the helicopter scene....gawrsh... i walked out of there like: :|