worst performances on broadway? — Page 2

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

#26

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

#27

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

#28

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

Melanie Brown (aka Scary Spice) as Mimi.

You know it and you want it... you just can't believe you've got it.

#29

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

#30

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

What an uplifting topic.

This is my signature.

#31

re: worst performances on broadway?

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?

Measure your life in love, RENTheads, and keep it always in your heart.

Avatar: Me with Al Larson, Jonathan Larson's father.

#32

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

#33

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

#34

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.

My avatar: Yummy, no?

#35

re: worst performances on broadway?

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?

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

#36

re: worst performances on broadway?

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...

#37

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

#38

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

#39

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

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

#40

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

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

"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!

#41

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

#42

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

#43

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!" - Jimmy Durante "Breathe from your hoo-hoo." -Kristin Chenoweth

#44

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

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

#45

re: worst performances on broadway?

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. :)

2008 European Tour
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis

#46

re: worst performances on broadway?

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?"

#47

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

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

#48

re: worst performances on broadway?

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.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

#49

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

Rebecca Luker in anything.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

#50

re: worst performances on broadway?

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

Matt Caplan in RENT
David Hasselhoff in Jekyll and Hyde

← Back to Message Board

View all Videos

Tickets From $59

Tickets From $71

Tickets From $95