worst Off Broadway show you have seen?

[jbm2]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 2:12pm

[jbm2]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 2:13pm

without questions- JUMP
although I can't say I have seen the entire thing. I walked out half way through.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 2:17pm

Many will agree, I'm sure: THE PERFECT CRIME.

[aaronb]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:14pm

DANCING AT LUGHNASA at the Irish Rep.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:29pm

Back in the 80s at the York Theater..."Frankie!"
It was an atrocious re-telling of "Frankenstein" that starred Richard White and was the last work of Abe Burrows if I remember correctly.

[Skip2]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:44pm

Telethon!

I was sitting in the last row and half way through I turned around and almost the entire audience was gone!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:51pm

I recall BOY MEETS BOY being pretty bad, though the idea was radical and important at the time. I suspect there were plenty of worse off-Broadway productions, but the mind protects us by forgetting them.

Updated On: 9/19/12 at 03:51 PM

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:59pm

MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA at the New Group a few years ago.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:02pm

Walmartopia was pretty dreadful.

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:11pm

Some gawd-awful one man play from the early nineties (name escapes me) but the actor bent over and spread his cheeks to the audience and I sadly had to be in the front row and got quite a view.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:13pm

"MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA at the New Group a few years ago."

Yeah, this was pretty poisonous. Split at the first intermission, deeply embarassed for the cast.

And there's always FAME ON 42nd STREET -- a real low point.

[aaronb]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:15pm

Oh, I totally forgot about BENITO CERENO at the Flea. That was embarrassing.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:24pm

"Goatsee the Musical" Deena?

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:29pm

I choose Pinter's ASHES TO ASHES. I'm sure there were (are) worse, but CHRIST ON A CRACKER!

It was the closest I've ever gotten to standing on my chair and screaming 'STOP! PLEASE STOP!!! I CAN'T FOR ANOTHER MINUTE!!!!!'

I'm sure Lindsay Duncan would have appreciated it.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:41pm

Oh, I forgot CORIOLANUS in the Park back when Papp was experimenting with using "urban" actors speaking in their native dialects. Acts I-III were utterly incomprehensible except for Gloria Foster, who was regal, as always. I wouldn't know about Acts IV-V.

[It's a fine life!]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 4:52pm

Signs of Life.

[stevenycguy]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 5:08pm

2012 = "Bullet for Adolf" at New World Stages and "Us" at Theater Row. Both absolutely dreadful.

[Jon]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 6:58pm

In the early 1990's I saw a musical called "Just a Night Out" performed Upstairs at the Village Gate. Absoluetly awful. I left at intermission. The venue was a bar/cabaret space, and they advertised an 8:30 show time. What that meant is that they had no plans to start a minute before 9 PM, and hoped to sell as much liquor as possible in that half hour period.

The show was falsely advertised as being produced by the negro Ensemble Company. Truth is, it was an independent production by someone who had once worked for NEC, and got them to loan him some costumes and props.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 8:39pm

Death Takes a Holiday was fairly unbearable.

[winston89]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 8:54pm

The Marvelous Wonderetts was crap. I still haven't forgiven my friend for dragging me to see that one.

[Kevn520]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 9:19pm

The Burnt Part Boys. Ugh.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 9:26pm

Newsical...considering most of the cast of various "Forbidden Broadway" incarnations was in it, I expected at least some fun. Other than Christine Pedi's Liza, it was godawful.

[bobs3]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 10:41pm

There was a play at the Public Theater(?) in the early 1980s directed by Joanna Akalaitis(sp?) that was just a couple of flickering light bulbs onstage (and some prerecorded dialogue). Updated On: 9/19/12 at 10:41 PM

[boqboy]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 10:48pm

All Dolled Up at Theatre Row

[D2]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 8:12am

Without a doubt: MONEY TALKS, with the divine Dolores Gray looking lost, frustrated and on the verge of stopping the show to apologize to the audience.