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Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
#50re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 2/26/06 at 10:47pm
I wish I could have seen The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Pubic.
Just reading the reviews and reading about scenes of "middle aged men with their pants at their ankles singing about call girls who were spread eagled in lucite boxes representing computers..." wasn't enough!
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#51re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 2/26/06 at 11:44pmI actually saw Annie 2 when it toured the Kennedy Center...Of course I was like, 7 and loved it, but I coudnt tell you now how I would feel...I hardly remember seeing it, I just know my ticket stub is somewhere in the depths of my scrapbook lol.
*Krissy*
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TheaterAddict7652
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#52re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 2/26/06 at 11:53pmIn My Life, Carrie and Thou Shall Not- mostly because I wish I could have seen Norbert's performence
There's a lot I am not certain of...
#53re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 2/27/06 at 12:22am
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG WAS NOT AND IS NOT A TRAIN WRECK IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART
that said, i wish i'd seen ALL OF THEM!!!! after Chris J Hanke's performance at FLOPZ tonight, most prominently, I wish I'd seen Marilyn: An American Fable
I also would've loved to see Via Galactica and Dude
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#54re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 2/27/06 at 12:25amDefinitely In My Life.
What the puck?!
#55re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/2/07 at 10:36pm
The Train Wreck I wish I'd NEVER seen is my daughter-in-law.
Hold up. You have children, Dollypop?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#56re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/2/07 at 10:54pm
Merlin
The Wind in the Willows
Rue in Wicked
Once Upon A Mattress revival
Breakfest at Tiffany's
High Fidelity
Suzzane Somer's show
I'm sure there are more I can't think of...
EDIT: Macbeth w/Kelsey Grammer. I forgot that one.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Updated On: 1/3/07 at 10:54 PM
#57re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/2/07 at 10:55pmAnyone Can Whistle
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#58re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/2/07 at 11:38pmHigh Fidelty was far from a train wreck.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#59re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/2/07 at 11:50pmWell, it closed very fast so I counted it. :)
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
iliketheater
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#60re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:36amIn My Life... I'm not sure why (besides one the leads being a very nice guy who graduated from my high school).
samcd3
Understudy Joined: 10/24/06
#61re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:49amwould have loved to see peter allen in 'legs diamond'
Radioactiveduck
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#62re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:20am
I loved Dracula...but my God it was terrible.
I love the concept of a musical about Carrie, but I heard it was dreadful.
Bruce Memblagh!
Featured Actor Joined: 3/27/06
#63re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:07am
Carrie
Dance of Vampires
Which Witch
and High Fidelity - which I actually did see and my god that was just appalling in almost every sense.
#64re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:17am
Carrie
Dance of the Vampires
Dracula
Once Upon a Mattress revival
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#65re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:52am
What was Here's Where I Belong? I've never heard of it
A lot of ones have been mentioned already that I woulda loved to have seen... Some I haven't seen mentioned
Shogun the Musical!
That musical about thre Holy Shroud paid for by born agains starring Dean Jones (Something about Light?)
Raggedy Ann sounds fascinatingly bizarre. the sing songy Joe Raposo songs from the animated version with all teh fairy tale trappings but also odd Freudian nightmare elements involving child abuse, images of the little girls mother being hung froma nigthmare tree, etc.
E
#66re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:24am
HERE'S WHERE I BELONG was, if you can believe this, a musical of Steinbeck's "East of Eden". The material had possibilities, but it was in completely the wrong hands and never stood a chance.
IMHO, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE is hardly a trainwreck. It had a solid concept, great direction, and impeccable performances and design. What it *didnt* have was that "audience friendly" quota that a show has to have to succeed. It was in three acts, and the first act ended with the cast pretty well insulting most of the audience by mocking their applause... not the best way to send folks out for a drink, but not a trainwreck element.
I've seen more than my share of them, actually, but the one I wish I'd seen was MATA HARI, which was apparently so bad the audience stayed to see how much worse it could get. The script is at the Lincoln Centre library, and I spent a hysterical three hours reading it. According to legend, it surpassed the audience's wildest hopes of so-bad-you-cant-take-your-eyes-off-it theatre, with scenic changes that left the crew visible, error-filled choreography, and a final scene that had everyone leaving in gales of laughter: the actress playing Mata rising from the dead and standing because she thought the curtain had come down (which, natch, it hadnt). Like CARRIE, this was one of those utterly WTF evenings.
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NathanLaneStalker
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#67re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:29am
I've only seen a few horrible shows. I saw Dance of the Vampires...horrible. But Michael Crawford was great.
I saw The Odd Couple revival. I personally LOVED it but Matthew's performance sucked...badly...I couldn't beleive how bad he was. They should've gotten Mark Linn-Baker.
Tarzan was bad but far from a train wreck.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#68re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:15am
Interesting--I didn't realize it was a musical of East of Eden--like you said not necesarily a bad idea but the fact itself that they named it Here's WHere I Belong makes you think they probably started off on the wrong note... Was it Terrance McNally's first musical? And Alfred Uhry did the lyrics? I don't recognize the composer's name though I know he did Robber Bridegroom with Uhry a show I always intended to find out more about--but with those names you'd think it would at least be slightly more sucessful...
I agree about ANyone Can WHistle--while I don't think the book (which I've read but never seen performed) was truly ahead of its time as some fans claim it's definetly solid (if unconventional for the time) and it sounds liek the direction and choreography--and of course performances--were more than solid. I guess some people realized too--you didn't see most "infamous flops" of the 60s being recorded by major producers.
(having seen the video of Merrily We ROll Along that Lincoln Center hosts of the original production--far from a great documentation but--even the ugly physical production they ended up with likewise doesn't make the show a true trainwreck IMHO--much of it still works very well)
Would Illya Darling fit into this category? Wasn't there a RUssian themed show that closed outa town which I believe both Loesser and Fosse were involved with in the 60s?
SOme shows I guess are trainwrecks partly or even only just because of such high expectations because of who's involved (ie Fosse's Big Deal).
ALso the majority of these I think are musicals partly because a bad play (unless truly insane sounding like Moose Murders) is usually just boring--but a bad musical is often spectacularly bad.
E
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#69re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:15am
Interesting--I didn't realize it was a musical of East of Eden--like you said not necesarily a bad idea but the fact itself that they named it Here's WHere I Belong makes you think they probably started off on the wrong note... Was it Terrance McNally's first musical? And Alfred Uhry did the lyrics? I don't recognize the composer's name though I know he did Robber Bridegroom with Uhry a show I always intended to find out more about--but with those names you'd think it would at least be slightly more sucessful...
I agree about ANyone Can WHistle--while I don't think the book (which I've read but never seen performed) was truly ahead of its time as some fans claim it's definetly solid (if unconventional for the time) and it sounds liek the direction and choreography--and of course performances--were more than solid. I guess some people realized too--you didn't see most "infamous flops" of the 60s being recorded by major producers.
(having seen the video of Merrily We ROll Along that Lincoln Center hosts of the original production--far from a great documentation but--even the ugly physical production they ended up with likewise doesn't make the show a true trainwreck IMHO--much of it still works very well)
Would Illya Darling fit into this category? Wasn't there a RUssian themed show that closed outa town which I believe both Loesser and Fosse were involved with in the 60s?
SOme shows I guess are trainwrecks partly or even only just because of such high expectations because of who's involved (ie Fosse's Big Deal).
ALso the majority of these I think are musicals partly because a bad play (unless truly insane sounding like Moose Murders) is usually just boring--but a bad musical is often spectacularly bad.
E
Smartful Dodger
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/05
#70re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:47amKelsey Grammer in MACBETH, which was scheduled for Broadway but closed out of town (I think in Boston).
#71re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:52am
I'm laughing at how many of these I worked on.
Yes, I can laugh now. 
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#72re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:54am
Kelsey Grammer's "Macbeth" did open on Broadway and lasted a week and a half.
Trainwreck or not, I wish I'd seen the original "Anyone Can Whistle." It was regarded as a train wreck at the time, although it has gained in reputation ever since.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#73re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:54am
"In My Life" and "Carrie."
I saw "Dance of the Vampires" and actually kind of enjoyed it. I also saw the great Rob Evan go on the one time that Michael Crawford was out.
Smartful Dodger
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/05
#74re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:59am
Holy Cow! I can't believe the MACBETH made it to New York.
Similarly, having seen it in Boston, I was shocked when WAIT UNTIL DARK actually opened on Broadway with Marisa Tomei and Quentin Tarentino. What a mess! To quote John Guare, "It was an all-time low in a lifetime of theatre-going."
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