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uncageg said: "Jordan Catalano said: "BKLYN"



I saw BKLYN twice when it premiered at the New Denver Civic Theaterin Denver before it went to Broadway. Loved it. But I remember thinking, when the Broadway run was announced, that it just would not work in a bigger theater. I think it was meant to run off-Broadway. I never saw it on Broadway but it was "semi" interactive when I saw it in Denver, from what I remember. And I really wish t

n2nbaby said: "The two things I’ve hated the most on Broadway have been Jagged Little Pill and The Great Gatsby. Absolutely baffling that either made it. Abysmal."

I agree about JLP. I’m a longtime, diehard Alanis Morissette fan, but the show was atrocious. It was like being assaulted with every politically correct trope imaginable; in a sense, it gave the 2010s the ending the decade deserved.

I call it the flavor-blasted Cheetos of musicals.

Kad said: "The first answer that comes to mind was the revival of The Gin Game with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson. A dull, twee play, poorly staged and designed, and featuring a Jones who was barely a shadow of his formidable self- who could barely stand and was reciting lines. I left at intermission.

But I have to say,having to sit through fringe festival shows, entire off-Broadway seasons,and bottom-tier semi-professional regionaltheater for work drastically altered

KarenValentine'sheadband said: "On Your Feet - Just a sad sad show. My hope was high for it but it fell hard.



The last revival of Oklahoma. WOW! What a pretentious borefest."


The portrayal of Emilio alone - I blame the director and the Estefans themselves, not the actor - was so reductive, unfunny, incongruous and, above all, untruthful. I still can’t get it out of my head.

It was a fun celebration of Gloria’s music

scripps said: "BentleyB said: "“But “Burn This” I couldn’t run out of the Hudson fast enough along with several other audience members at intermission. I fell asleep at least 3 times in act 1."

I saw Burn This the summer day there wasa blackout that closed most shows but not this one! Oh, lucky me! I refuse to watch Adam Driver in anything since this travesty. I stayed for Act 2 because I have had a crush on David Furr si

Dreamboy3 said: "With apologies to Christopher Durang, Sex and Longing was really really tortuous.

I guess I had blocked out some truly awful shows that others have posted about. And I’ve excluded off broadway given the OP — otherwise In Transit and Women on the Verge would surely have been on my list. And a very obscure play from the 80s called Waltz of the Stork.


The Philanthropist truly was awful. The Play that Goes wrong I hated within two

kidmanboy said: "Absolutely has to be Memphis. Utterly baffling.


A few dishonorable mentions: Pirate Queen, Pretty Woman, The Last Ship, Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula. And, yes, Great Gatsby."

 

Yes, that Dracula is the single worst thing I’ve ever seen on a professional theater stage.

My mom got me tickets thinking it was a revival of the Langella play, which she enjoyed in her youth.

Strong performances. Godawful mu

yahyahyah said: "For what it’s worth- which at this point is just how the show is remembered and spoken of-

I was interested in this material and story from when I heard of the show’s run in La Jolla. Not because I am an Lempicka devotee- but because it stood out as different than so much of what we see coming down the Broadway pipeline. The jukebox, the film adaptations, revivals, established properties being pumped full of MT pizazz. (And yes I’ve enjoy

somecheapfrenchthing said: "Jordan Catalano said: "TotallyEffed said: "Jordan Catalano said: "A top notch "Whistle" would be great to see, to erase the Vanessa Williams concert from last year from memory."
That concert actually made me resent the show. Absolutely dreadful. I hope I am cleansed of the memory soon!"



Yeah, thank God I already loved that show because that debacle was enough to make someo

Jordan Catalano said: "Oh my God. They have ads out with a photo of Eden and the quote

"Eden Espinosa is best known to gay menacross the country as one of the best Elphabas of all time”.

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I must say that when I saw this my stomach churned, and I love Eden. 

It’s hard to imagine this ad selling more than one block’s worth of tickets to a single performance, which makes me think they must already be on tenterhoo

Square Peg2 said: "So glad I returned to the show the other night before it closes. I saw it during previews and then once while Nikki Renée Daniels played Bobbi (and a host of other understudies). It was thrilling to see (and especially to hear!) how Lenk's performance has grown, and I agree with some other assessments - I recall being blow away by Conte during previews, less so this week.

I also wanted to come here and give a little shout out to Terrence Archi