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#101

re: the most boring show you've seen

Posted: 2/22/07 at 2:16pm

I can't believe no one has mentioned FAITH HEALER or CAMELOT.
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#102

re: the most boring show you've seen

Posted: 2/22/07 at 2:49pm

It's fascinating to me how different our tastes can be. I found Copenhagen absolutely riveting. Go figure.
#103

re: the most boring show you've seen

Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:16pm

Aint Broadway Grand
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#104

re: 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...
#105

re: 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".
#106

re: 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.
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Updated On: 2/22/07 at 03:40 PM

#107

re: 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.
#109

re: 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
#110

re: 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.
#111

re: 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.
#112

re: the most boring show you've seen

Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:59pm

The 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.
#113

re: 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.
#115

re: 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.
#116

re: 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
#117

re: 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
#118

re: the most boring show you've seen

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:04pm

i'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
#122

re: 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)
#125

re: the most boring show you've seen

Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:58am

Bad theater is better than NO THEATER!
"Bad theater is better than no theater" Some smart guy.

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