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What are the worst musicals you ever saw
#150What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 1:39pm
The national tour of Dirty Dancing...and I even got free tickets. Horrible
#151What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 1:42pm
songanddanceman2 said: "This thread really shows people ages "
Maybe it'll show my age when I say not the worst musicals I've ever seen but musicals I nodded off at! LOL!
When a movie (or show as I've discovered) doesn't capture my interest, I find it hard to stay awake and forcing to keep my eyes open. I've nodded off for several nano seconds at movies and at the shows below:
Wicked (yes, hard to believe, right?)
and
An American in Paris (I guess I enjoyed the movie more)
I've been wide awake at every other show.
whatdoesntkillme
Featured Actor Joined: 8/15/16
#152What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 3:06pm
I saw The Spongebob Musical earlier this summer and was not a fan. Most of the tech and design were great, but the book was awful, the characters/voices tried too hard, and the songs were forgettable at best. The best part of the show was the last 20 minutes, though it didn't quite redeem sitting through the previous two hours. I have no clue how it plans to succeed on Broadway.
jessepp
Chorus Member Joined: 11/28/11
#153What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 4:02pm
A high school production of Anyone Can Whistle.
...is a puzzlement.
#154What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 5:34pm
I am a lover of bad musicals when they're interesting, a la American Psycho or the original Carrie. But mediocrity and lazy writing riles me up like no other, and for that reason I'm going to say the worst musical I've ever seen (and one of the only professional shows I've ever wanted to leave at intermission) is Memphis. I thought I had mentally exaggerated its badness for several years, but then I got a Netflix subscription and watched the recorded version and...yep, just as bad as I remembered it.
Also, The History of War at NYMF and The Sphinx Winx at Theatre Row (the spelling alone...) were intolerable, and neither had an intermission so I couldn't leave.
#155What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 6:14pm
I saw a regional production of "I Love You Because" first show I've ever walked out of. The music, actors, and story was crap. I left at intermission.
#156What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 7:25pm
I have only been frequently going to the theater since I moved to Chicago, but trust me, I have seen some doozies.
I pity anybody who had to sit through First Wives Club during its Chicago run last year. I saw it right after previews and it was horrendous. The Playbills weren't up-to-date because it included songs that were no longer in the musical. Including the Bar Mitzvah scene that they were going on and on about in the first act. It also featured a Dee Snider-looking caricature of a flamboyant gay man who had the only redeeming song, "Payback's a B----." You ended up rooting for the second wives throughout the show because none of the first wives had redeeming qualities. The cherry on top of this melted, spoiled sundae was leaving out, "You Don't Own Me."
The show was even offering $12 orchestra seats toward the end of the Chicago run if that tells you anything.
The other show I disliked was Gotta Dance! You could just tell they were trying to make it into the retirement home's response to High School Musical. Just boring and poorly acted.
Please, don't waste your money if either of these shows come to Broadway.
Shaunthedog
Understudy Joined: 8/6/16
#157What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 7:26pm
Nothing all musicals thrill me at some level
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#158What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 9:44pm
BroadwayNYC25 said: "To all the people that said Fun Home,
The only reason you didn't like it was because you didn't understand it. The direction is so unique that not most theater goers would understand. The same thing goes for the characters. It is not often that you see three people playing one character. But, the reason it won Best Musical is because it is a beautiful piece of musical theater. If you looked at the people in the audience you would see how much it moves people. Audience members of all ages are connecting with those characters. It is a wonderful show that you are just incapable of wrapping your head around.
P.S. If you have something wrong with the fact that Allison is a lesbian and Bruce is gay than you are on the wrong website.
i think this is one of the most condescending posts I have ever read. Essentially, if you don't like Fun Home, you are a homophobe. Well, I am not a homophobe and I really disliked it. In particular, I was underwhelmed by the award winning direction, although I will concede that the Circle in the Square was just not a good theatre to see this in, also a sacrilege. And, I would have to be a moron not to realize the main character was portrayed at three stages of her life.
I am really sick of people who talk down to other people simply because they didn't like something you thought was amazing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#159What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 9:46pm
Next to Normal- I didn't like most of the music. I felt like every time Aaron Tveit was on stage all he did was hump things. I thought it did a bad job of portraying mental illness. My friend loved it but I think I fell asleep during the second act. I feel like I may have liked it better if I saw it with Kyle Dean Massey as Gabe.
Other than that I have enjoyed every musical I have seen. I didn't hate Next to Normal but I didn't enjoy it.
mostly_musicals
Chorus Member Joined: 6/18/14
#160What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 10:10pm
I feel like there is a distinct difference between worst musicals and musicals one dislikes, which are not always the same.
I DISLIKE Carousel intensely for so so many reasons. More recently, i really did not enjoy Once (i found it slow moving, thought the characters had a lack of chemistry, and i did not feel that the stylized movement integrated with the story).
However, I think Brooklyn was a badly written, ill conceived mess that left me nervous whenever i see that a show will have no intermission (that was the show that made me realize that it was not necessarily for expediency, but so there would be no escape.) It may have had good intentions, but that's about all.
I go to a lot of festivals, and have seen my share of truly awful shows, but i grade them on a different curve, and wouldn't call them out here.
It's also interesting to differentiate between bad shows and bad productions. (i think i may have enjoyed Once more with a different cast.) Not that i think anyone doesn't realize these differences, but it's perhaps useful to clarify/define what we mean by 'worst'.
:)
BroadwayMan5
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/15
#161What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 10:20pm
I've seen some laughable bad amateur productions but my least favorite professional productions were A Gentlemen's Guide to Love & Murder (didn't get the appeal at all), the 2009 Guys & Dolls revival (complete trainwreck of an amazing show), and the early 2000s Jesus Christ Superstar tour starring Sebastian Bach
yellibean2
Featured Actor Joined: 5/17/06
#162What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/19/16 at 10:47pm
Man, so many people here just do not know the difference between "worst" and "overrated."
I can't believe no one's said First Date yet. Granted, I saw a very low-budget production of it, but I honestly couldn't believe that a show with writing that God-awful could ever make it to Broadway. I mean, it takes so many people and so much money to get something to Broadway, didn't anybody actually read it first? If you took every cliche out of that script you would be left with absolutely nothing. Talk about sexist, tired drivel.
#163What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 12:07am
I saw a middle school production of Les Miserables that was the funniest thing I've ever seen in my whole life. They took a French drama and turned it into a farce.
Was it bad?
Yes.
Did I love every second?
Yes.
#164What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 12:17am
Rock of Ages and Spamalot.
Stephanatic
#165What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 12:17am
Rock of Ages and Spamalot.
Stephanatic
seahag2
Featured Actor Joined: 2/15/15
#166What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 12:25am
mostly_musicals, I'm curious to know what you didn't like about Carousel?
so I smile like Mona Lisa and I lay my Visa down
#167What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 12:43am
Tuck Everlasting
An American in Paris
Heathers
Gigantic
Olivia11
Stand-by Joined: 7/30/16
#168What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 1:29am
theatregeek6 said: "Without a doubt it was Via Galactica (1972), a wonderful cast (Virginia Vestoff, Raul Julia, Irene Cara, Ralph Carter, Damon Evans, Keene Curtis, etc) in a truly awful show. 7 performances was a gift for this badly written and conceived musical.
Runners up:
Spiderman
Dance with Me (1975)
The West End version of Saturday Night Fever.
"
Oh sweet Jesus yes! Saturday Night Fever was horrible. For some reason, I had it in my head that it was going to be a spoof. The horror that went through me sitting in the Palladium, when I realized they were doing a straight theatrical version was so palpable, I can feel it as I write the words. I was stunned when it opened in NY. It was that bad.
There was also a show from the 80's called Teddy and Alice about Theodore Roosevelt that was so awful, we still talk about it today, as a measure of awfulness like "it was bad, but not like Teddy and Alice bad".
#169What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 7:58pm
Funniest read so far goes to Dancing thruLife2--
"An American in Paris (love the style but the songs are not at all memorable)" spoken about songs written at least 80 years ago that people still love enough to mount a Broadway revival built around. Huh?
The most wretched musical I saw on Bway must be A SCARLET PIMPERNEL. Made me want to crawl under my chair at the homophobia blasting off the stage.
Worst musical by pedigreed creators I saw in an out of town tryout: KEPT! by the creators of DREAMGIRLS and SIDESHOW. Something to do with a paid gigolo falling for the woman who's hired him, back in the days of Studio 54. The very worst.
Sondheim_Disney1595
Understudy Joined: 1/18/15
#171What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/20/16 at 10:06pm
For me, I didn't get "Once" and with all due respect to Faith Prince and (Sierra B), I felt like one of the poor, unfortunate souls when I left "The Little Mermaid"...how Disney can destroy a show like that is beyond me.
I Can Has Cheezburger With This?
#172What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/21/16 at 12:40am
In terms of material:
Ghost - wowza. Caught the national tour, and except for "With You," it was unbearable. Some of the effects were good, but most of them were just Disneyland magic tricks The lead men were not great, either.
Catch Me If You Can - I thought it was just the production, but after listening to it I still couldn't get in to it. The tour was horribly put together and the material didn't do any favors.
Camelot - Likewise, I thought it was just the production I saw (with Lou Diamond Phillips), but the show is just not strong compared to a lot of Golden Age musicals. I fell asleep during Act Two.
Jersey Boys - boring. That being said I'm not a Four Seasons fan, but the show itself was not good, in my opinion.
The Rat Pack - left at intermission.
Pippin, Act Two - how is the second act of a show THAT MUCH weaker than the first?
In terms of production:
Chicago - I caught the national tour about two or three years ago, and it was atrocious. The Velma could not have been less interested, Paige Davis was barely in key, John O'Hurley gave such a beige performance, and Mama Morton served as my only source of relief, hooting and hollering through her number, and spending the show cackling like Ursula the Sea Witch.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#173What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/21/16 at 1:32am
The national tour of Big The Musical in the late 90's immediately comes to mind when thinking about the worst musical I have seen. Most shows back then toured with very close replicas to their Broadway counterparts, and seeing that show I was in awe of how cheap and amateur the production was. The sets were bad, the actors were bad and the score and book weren't any better. Great movie, awful show.
sparepart973
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/12
#174What are the worst musicals you ever saw
Posted: 8/21/16 at 9:09am
Gone with the Wind.
Viva Forever
Pirate Queen (good score; horrible plot; horrible book; boring as hell)
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