worst performances on broadway?- Page 2

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 9:49pm

George Hearn as "The Wizard." I'm not bashing on the guy in other roles, or in general, but his portrayal of the Wizard was just cringeworthy for me. Definitely stood out as the weakest Broadway performance I've ever seen.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 9:57pm

Amen to the comment about Sandra Joseph in The Phantom of the Opera. I truly cannot understand how she is the longest-running Christine on Broadway. Doesn't anyone notice her fire-alarm vibrato and that she is constantly flat? I've seen her three times and she is a consistent disappointment.

[Gypsy2]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:34pm

Melanie Brown (aka Scary Spice) as Mimi.

[dry2olives]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:52pm

Suzanne Somers played herself in The Blonde in the Thunderbird and she wasn't up to the role.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 10:58pm

What an uplifting topic.

[RENTingFAME]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:34pm

Ditto, Aigoo...

How lovely to devote a thread to insulting people. I mean, yeah, everyone has their opinions, and they're certianly just as valid as everyone else's, but do we have to make a huge scene about it?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:40pm

but do we have to make a huge scene about it?

Please. It's a theatre message board.

[SirLiir]

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:45pm

Normally I would not post on such a thread. But I agree about Rue. She wasn't a horrible actress at all but her interpretation of the role was seriously lacking and unremarkable.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:27am

Sebastian Bach in The Rocky Horror Show literally made me want to vomit.

Also, Jerry Springer was a horrible narrator.

And lastly, Molly Ringwald in Cabaret brought me to tears, but for all the wrong reasons.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:39am

I will have to go with Melanie Griffith, who played Roxie in Chicago. She claimed she had a deep voice on a playbill interview. It was so deep it never came out!!!
but on the other hand Roxie is supposed to be a woman who is totally not talented. So maybe Melanie is really a great actress, singer and dancer and she was acting all along?

[faithanytwo]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 8:38am

my vote is also for rue, although i wasn't psyched for david ayers either. nice guy, couldn't sing the role though...

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 9:35am

my vote would probably have been for Rue if she had showed up to work on Wednesday, January 4th.

Posted: 2/14/06 at 9:45am

Yeah,yeah,yeah. I agree this is a mean spirited thread. However the devil in me cannot resist mentioning Raquel Welch in WOMAN OF THE YEAR. She was an abomination. Triple threat - She couldn't sing,act or dance. Updated On: 2/14/06 at 09:45 AM

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 10:16am

Rose Sayer, that comment is priceless. Yet, she was cast in Victor/Victoria. Go figure.

And I believe this particular subject has been discussed before, yet I question that this thread was started by someone who just joined yesterday. Hmmmmm.

Updated On: 2/14/06 at 10:16 AM

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 10:35am

both are from rent
manley pope as roger and mel b as mimi.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 10:46am

I love CCR on the Parade recording, but from clips and such that I've heard, she was really awful in BatB.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:25pm

Yep, Raquel in "Woman of the Year" - didn't realize how bad until I saw the show a second time with Lauren Bacall doing the tour. It was a TOTALLY different experience.

Marylou Henner in "Chicago" - amateur night in Hoboken. Not as bad as Welch but the worst performance of a "Roxie" I've seen (never saw Melanie G). Seriously what with Bebe being out sick I got to see her understudy Nancy Hess who replaced Chita the night I saw "Kiss of the Spiderwoman"...ugh!...I've seen better watching students in college productions.

Geraldine Page in "Blithe Spirits". My favorite stage actress totally miscast as Madame Arcati.

I've gotta say though as far as Broadway performances go, I have never seen a leading player "walk through" a performance. On tour the closest that ever came to dailing in a performance were Yul in "King & I" and Rex in "My Fair Lady". Granted these were their last revival days but they were almost mechanical in their delivery.








Updated On: 2/14/06 at 12:25 PM

[jasobres]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:37pm

Fame on 42nd Street is the topper. The show was not the movie, the performances were crappier than the songs.

[Music_Rules]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:37pm

CCR was the worst thing I have ever paid $65 to sit through...just awful!

[TLKfan]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 4:25pm

As much as I love this family, Shirley Jones just shouldn't have been in 42nd Street. It was kinda sad, but hey, it was so cool to see her on stage.

Les Miserables...I went a month before it closed with my mom and we thought the Javert was histerical. Then we looked at the playbill and saw that it was Terrence Mann. He just wasn't good, but I later did see him in Lennon and thought he was great. :)

Posted: 2/14/06 at 6:57pm

Thanks DottieD"Luscia. I didn't see Welch in VICTOR/VICTORIA but my friend knew someone involved in the production and said rehearsals were very tense. She and Blake Edwards did not get along and he hated what she was doing. Hell,he cast her!

Demitri 2 - Yul Brynner walked through the show when I saw it! And this was when it played The Uris (now the Gershwin) in the 1970s. I felt like yelling out,"Excuse me Yul,are we keeping you up?"

[WalveMalve]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 7:56pm

David Hasselhoff in Jekyll and Hyde, the closing cast of Miss Saigon

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 8:00pm

OMG, Rose Sayer, I saw Yul in the King in I in March 1978 (my 2nd Broadway show) and I left thinking that it was horrendous. I couldn't understand a word he was saying. The revival in 96 was so much better.

[DAME]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 8:09pm

Rebecca Luker in anything.

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 2/14/06 at 8:10pm

Matt Caplan in RENT
David Hasselhoff in Jekyll and Hyde