worst Off Broadway show you have seen?- Page 2

[mamaleh]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 9:24am

Experiencing NORMA DOES MEN, staged a few years ago, was the dramatic equivalent of being waterboarded. I stayed for Act II out of morbid curiosity as to whether it could get any worse. It did.

Also, WALMARTOPIA was nausea-inducingly bad.

[willep]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 9:50am

Beirut.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 9:53am

The Toxic Avenger-It is probably better than other shows, but I kept asking myself why I decided to see it. Definitely something I could only see once.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:31am

Wow. I loved loved loved The Toxic Avenger.

[ClydeBarrow]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:38am

Toxie was definitely NOT the worst Off-Broadway show.

[dreaming]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:06am

Clyde-no, Romantic Poetry would be my pick for that honor. I want those two and a half hours of my life back. It was goddawful with the exception of a young actress named Nikki M. James.

[once a month]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:13am

Mine was a tie between Fame on 42nd Street and The Third Story with Kathleen Turner and Charles Busch.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:32am

Well, the question was what we saw. It was my least favorite based on that alone.

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:55am

Lansky.

And we took friends.

Went to TKTS, and none of our top 10 choices were available. Should have taken the hint and done something else instead.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 2:06pm

It was a production of The Fanstasticks billed as the "first Off-Broadway revival" (not the one at the Snapple). One of the worst productions of anything I've ever seen. We left at intermission, which only left about 6 other people in the audience.

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:02pm

"Cock" this season. In the round, no props or costumes, and the most AWKWARD dialogue and hammy performances I've ever seen.

There's a "sex scene" involving a straight girl and a gay guy, and they're circling each other fully-clothed, talking about "yes, circles are good," and other really cringe-worthy things, and the worst part is that it was totally bright in the theater and when you looked away, all you saw was other members of the audience cringing and trying to look away as well. Except for one dude in the front row who was grinning from ear to ear. **SHUDDER.**

[LaCageAuxFollesFan]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 8:47pm

ROMANTIC POETRY is far and away my answer to this question. If anybody saw it, I promise it would be at the top of your list too. Words don't even begin!

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:06pm

Desperate Writers was particularly painful. I was trapped in the middle of the row with no intermission in which to sneak out. It was one of the few times I've actually considered just climbing over everyone else in the row, but my loyalty to a friend in the cast kept me there. If only I had been just a couple rows further back and it wouldn't have been an issue, since the theatre was fairly empty. It was just my luck that I was in one of the few crowded rows.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 2:28am

White's Lies. ...Painful.

[jdrye222]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 2:50am

that would have to be:

VIGIL ... with Malcolm Gets, and an old lady who died shortly after the production...
It was just dreadful (mostly because of Gets' terrible performance).

[gottadance2]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 8:10am

Wow easy...Peter and the Starcatcher

[wexy]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 10:38am

Ashes To Ashes.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 11:15am

I really hated Coraline.

[Kempster]

Posted: 9/21/12 at 11:38am

I would say this years Last Smoker in America, painful to sit through

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 9/22/12 at 1:10pm

I've seen some pretty horrible Off-Broadway stuff since moving here. The problem is that shows like these are always on the papering services.

A few things that haven't been mentioned so far:

A WOMAN OF WILL - The one-woman Amanda McBroom musical about a writer imagining conversations with Shakespeare's leading ladies to help solve her personal and professional troubles. If I recall it closed a few days after opening.

THE MUSIC TEACHER - Wallace Shawn's sort of musical, sort of play at the New Group made me want to sort of claw my eyes out.

ROMANTIC POETRY - When great artists go horribly, horribly wrong. At least everyone moved on to better things.

BLIND - At the Rattlestick. Veanne Cox and Seth Numrich in Craig Wright's shrill take on Oedipus Rex. One of the most unpleasant times I've ever had at the theater.

ALL NEW PEOPLE - I think this is the worst new play produced by a major Off-Broadway theater in the past several years. The only reason it got produced was because Zach Braff wrote it.

Out of what's been mentioned so far, the worst was definitely DESPERATE WRITERS.