worst musical
worst musical
#0worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:08amwhat would make the WORST subject matter for a musical?
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
Attendthetale331
Featured Actor Joined: 1/8/06
#1re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:11amthe show takes place during the holocaust and people are about to go to the gas chamber.
"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."
#2re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:14am
ouch. hmm.. I'd say a place where everything is happy and there are sunshines and rainbows and daisies everywhere! ahhhh!
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Updated On: 1/16/06 at 11:14 AM
#3re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:15am
"the show takes place during the holocaust and people are about to go to the gas chamber"
isn't that the end of "Cabaret"?
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#4re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:21amThe beach-boys music! No just kidding, ohh I know, the prequel to the Wizard of Oz joking again, it must be. . . . Paleontologists in a meeting about dinosaurs that would SUCK!
#5re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:25ama boy with tourette's falls in love with a girl with OCD with a little help from above
#6re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:38amno i know... during the Great Depression (the happiest time in American history)a rich bald millionaire pedophile "buys" a little red-headed orphan girl all the while ignoring the advances of his sexually frusrated secretary driving her to insanity.
Don't f*ck with me fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo.
#7re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:03pm
A bunch of cats prance around and sing some crappy Andrew Lloyd Webber songs and then hold an ET-esque funeral for a dying cat.
or...
A phantom haunts a Paris opera house while singing the same Andrew Lloyd Webber song over and over again.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#8re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:05pm
Or...
A bunch of phantoms prance around and sing some crappy Andrew Lloyd Webber songs and then hold an ET-esque funeral for a dying phantom.
or...
A cat haunts a Paris opera house while singing the same Andrew Lloyd Webber song over and over again.
Not funny but I'm bored.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#11re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:06pm
okayy ^^ i love phantom but that was really funny!
I really don't think it is "worst musical" material though
#12re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:47pmHow about a black maid of a Jewish family who hangs out in a basement with a talking washing machine and other dancing and singing family appliances singing bad R&B. Oh wait...
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
#13re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:50pm
That one sucks too.
By the way, I met the kid who played the boy in "Caroline or Change." His name is Harrison Chad. I know you all are gonna say "Yeah,the stage door!" but I actually met him at All County Choir for Nassau County on Long Island. I didn't tell him "Caroline" sucked and all. (I'm not that mean.)
He also does the voice for the Monkey characthter of Boots on "Dora the Explorer."
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#14re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 3:35pm
I liked CATS, POTO & Caroline...!!!
But while I'm posting, I'll say a musical about a town where people are taxed to pee is downright ridiculous (even though it's one of my favorite shows 
).
#15re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 3:38pm
a musical about abortion, with singing mother and fetus.....
(and I am pro-choice, before anyone asks)
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#17re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 4:58pm
not to get defensive or anything buuuut:
Caroline was brilliant. and if you didn't like it than you obviously have no heart!
ok, so, what were we talking about?
:-P
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#18re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 5:05pmI say we set "Gigli" to music. I couldn't tell you what the plot would be because after watching that movie for 15 minutes I turned it off for my mental sanity. For good measure we could have a bunch of extravagantly costumed cats chasing aroung character from "Carrie", and we could run the same ALW song on a loop, a la "Phantom". We would make sure to throw in the aformentioned singing fetus too. Pure glory right there, let me tell you.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#19re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 5:05pmahhhh
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
Updated On: 1/16/06 at 05:05 PM
#20re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 5:05pmWhy me
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
Updated On: 1/16/06 at 05:05 PM
#21re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 5:05pmI may have set a record for multiple posts. Oy
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
Updated On: 1/16/06 at 05:05 PM
#22re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 6:11pm
Caroline-Q-or-Tbo:
That really was unkind. I do have plenty of heart. You're talking to man who openly weeps durring Carousel and Mary Poppins and admits it.
I thought Caroline's libretto really ruined the show. I wasn't overly impressed by that.
So I'm sorry if you think the people who don't like the show have no heart.
#23re: worst musical
Posted: 1/16/06 at 7:01pmYeah, and I weep at cheesy sentimentality as well. I just didn't like that show at all, and now I'm heartless. Wow, you remind me of a Nazi who kills people because they don't agree with their ideology. Productive...
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
alanimal
Chorus Member Joined: 5/12/05
#24re: worst musical
Posted: 1/17/06 at 1:09pm
"Vincent Price and the Amazing Technicolour (and by technicolour he means purple) Dream Mantle-Cape Combo"
Essentially the same as the ALW show, but with some creative Broadway-within-Broadway casting:
Joseph: Vincent Price ("Isn't he dead?" "That's what he wanted you to think!")
Jacob: Che
Joseph's brothers: Jellicle Cats
Hairy bunch of Ishmaelites: Elphaba and a dummy with her face pasted on
Potiphar's wife: Edna Turnblad
Pharoah: The Phantom of the Opera
And so on, and so forth.
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