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the most boring show you've seen
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#100re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 2:16pmI can't believe no one has mentioned FAITH HEALER or CAMELOT.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#101re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 2:49pmIt's fascinating to me how different our tastes can be. I found Copenhagen absolutely riveting. Go figure.
#102re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:16pmAint Broadway Grand
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#103re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:19pm
the most boring show imo..Beauty & the Beast...Lion King might be up there but I found Beauty to be a little more boring..not a big disney fan anyways, but just could not get into it.
I found the beginning of Act 1 in Sweeney Todd a little draggy/boring, but it got better at the end of act 1 & all of act 2 was great, so i don't consider it to be an entirely boring show.
Come on babe we're gonna paint the town...and all that jazz...
rflpfl2
Stand-by Joined: 10/31/05
#104re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:31pm
"I had been thinking it would have to be a tie between the second act of SHIPWRECK and all of SALVAGE, basically the half of COAST OF UTOPIA dominated by Brian F. O'Byrne"
Seriously? Wow- I thought that Shipwreck (both acts) was pretty brilliant. Granted you actually have to listen and pay attention- but just great. I haven't seen Salvage- but I've read it, and it's pretty good- so I'm hoping I'll like it just as much as the first two.
Why was it boring for you? Was it the writing, staging? Just curious because I've heard people complain that they feel "nothing happens".
#105re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:40pm
"Oh I forgot about "The Woman in White"! THAT tops my list, of Broadway snoozefests anyway. The man next to me literally fell asleep on the downbeat of the overture! That's basically all I remember of the show!"
too bad there is no overture for that show.
as for me: Jekyll and Hyde.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
Updated On: 2/22/07 at 03:40 PM
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#106re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:43pm
Off the top of my head:
Vertical Hour
The Frogs (the debate between Shakes and Shaw)
Nine
Company
Spring Awakening
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Into the Woods
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Light in the Piazza
It's weird that I've seen more boring musicals than I have plays.
#108re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:48pm
Brooklyn.
It didn't help that two of the leads were out and for one there was an understudy for the understudy and she was from out of town and used her script the entire time. I don't remember much of the show...the box was comfy. They offered everyone a free ticket to come back and see it again...we never did.
The Grinch was a Christmas gift for the kids this year. I was bored, they seemed amused.
Saw a rendition of Footloose in AC. Not too memorable.
"Thought is suspect, and money is their idol, and nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their Bible." -Spring Awakening
#109re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:54pm
"Anyone who said "Caroline, Or Change" does not appreciate live theater."
I totally agree. I also cannot BELIEVE people have said COMPANY and THE HISTORY BOYS. I mean, I can understand not liking the shows, but finding them the most boring you've ever seen? Wow.
Mine would have to be SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE in London. I wanted to die.
#110re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:57pm
If I were the type of person that left shows at intermission, I would have left at intermission of The History Boys...it was the most boring play I have ever seen on the stage.
I also forgot to mention Spring Awakening...I wanted to leave at intermission for that show too.
#111re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:59pmThe recent revivals of TOUCH OF THE POET and FAITH HEALER were the two longest nights I've had at the theater in over 20 years. I couldn't believe I stayed until the end of both of them.
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#112re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 4:01pm
WithoutATrace, you are better man than I.
I leave during intermission... and If I can get away with it - earlier!!!
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#114re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:12pm
Perhaps I'm blessed; while I certainly have been bored at shows, I've also purged those experiences from my memory. So I can't name the most boring show I've seen; it was apparently boring enough that I've forgotten it.
I have fallen asleep once, during an RSC production of The Winter's Tale. It did have pacing problems, but the main reason I fell asleep was that I had just flown in to London that morning on a red-eye and was jetlagged out of my mind.
#115re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:24pm
I'd feel guilty leaving at intermission after paying to see it. I'd want to judge the whole thing.
The one show I'd have left at intermission if tickets were comps would be Inishmore. The first act was treacherous for me, but the second act made up for the first and it was a nice night at the theater.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#116re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 9:33pm
Yankeefan007:
"Vertical Hour
The Frogs (the debate between Shakes and Shaw)
Nine
Company
Spring Awakening
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Into the Woods
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Light in the Piazza"
I would replace Millie with Butley, and Into the Woods with Amadeus. Then I have some boring stuff
jspaeth87
Understudy Joined: 2/10/07
#117re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:04pmi'm hoping it was just the production i saw because the summerstock company i usually do is doing it....the secret garden. only show that's ever made me fall asleep and it seemed to go on forever
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#118re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:15pm
LESTAT was never boring. Always funny. At least up in the balcony.
CompletlyNakedStatue
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/06
#120re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:27pm
Soooo bored at Brooklyn.
Fell asleep at Sunset Boulevard.
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#121re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:29am
My "top" 5:
Miss Saigon
Light in the Piazza (granted, I only saw it on PBS, but it was enough for me to skip the tour)
Mamma Mia!
Chicago
Curtains (I really wanted to like it, but it was dull; hopefully they've made a lot of changes)
#122re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:32amPhantom of the Opera
"I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
#123re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:47am
Titanic (1st national tour)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tour)
Mammia Mia
The Producers
#124re: the most boring show you've seen
Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:58amBad theater is better than NO THEATER!
"Bad theater is better than no theater"
Some smart guy.
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