worst performance in a musical EVER!

I agree- he is pretty bad. I once heard him perform, and he wasn't that great. But Jekyll and Hyde is a hard part to play. He seemed kind of fake- that's his problem. It was clear he was playing the character, not that he is the character. I know that doesn't make any sense, but oh well.

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Updated On: 6/22/04 at 11:53 AM

Yes, he helped fund the filimng of the show, but only if he played the lead for it.

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I didn't think he was THAT awful when I saw him in it. Of course next to Cuccioli he wasn't any good but I don't think I'd call it the worst performance in a musical ever.

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Aaron Carter in Seussical?? What did he play?? I CANNOT imagine him doing something like that!

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i saw jekyll and hyde last night and i agree that it was awful. but the show itself isnt that great either, i loath the song "facade", the lyrics are so horrible.

I had the dubious honor of seeing Katherine Nesbitt in her encore performance as the mother in 'May Fair Lady'...YEARS after the woman should ever have gone on a stage. She was so far gone that they had to lead her on stage with a guy whose sole purpose in the performance was to get dressed in tails and a top hat and see to it that she hit her mark and left when she was supposed to leave.

She couldn't keep the names of the characters straight and kept callilng her son 'Henry' Colonel Pickering. It was a nightmare. Rex Harrison was so bored by the whole thing that he practically phoned in his performance and the guy who played Liza's father kept losing his cockney accent. If I hadn't been with a good friend whose sense of humor is as sick as mine and we hadn't laughed our way through the entire show I would have been VERY unhappy having spent my money to see this debacle.

No one in the audience seemed to mind that we were cackling at all the mistakes and gaffs...they were just glad SOMEONE was having a good time.

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I don't post much - think this is my third - but I do lurk excessively and just had to add my 2 cents on this one. I saw J&H with Robert Cuccioli and with Rob Evans and both were wonderful. I then had the most unfortunate experience of seeing the show with none-other than Sebastian Bach. Oh the pain! I have never seen anything so bad in my life. He can't act, can bearly sing, but the groopies were just loving each and every hair toss thrown at them. He was equally bad in the Rocky Horror Show - don't know what the casting directors were thinking in either case. David H's J&H performance was worthy of a Tony in comparison.

Worst ever? Let's see... I've seen some pretty bad ones.

Jon Secada in Cabaret, Joey Fatone in Rent, David Hasselhoff in J&H.... and from what I hear (I was afraid to go see for myself!)Toni Braxton in Aida.

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Ricky Martin in Les Miserables.

Its a wonder I was able to love the show anyway.

Hands down the single worst performance I've ever seen in my entire life.

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Vanessa Williams in Into the Woods

yeah I'm gonna have to agree with the majority on David Hasselhoff in J&H, Joey Fatone in RENT, and Vanessa Williams in Into The Woods

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I didn't see it but how was Brooke Shields in GREASE?

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