Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#0Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:27pm
What is the worst broadway or off - broadway musical/play you have ever seen and why?
BESIDES LESTAT!!!!!
"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: 8/11/06 at 11:27 PM
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#1re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:41pm
Oh, goodie. Another "Lestat" thread. 
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
Updated On: 8/10/06 at 11:41 PM
#2re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:43pm
The Great Big Radio Show.
At intermission, I almost asked the lady at the concession stand for a sedative.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#3re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:52pm
Don Juan In Hell- OY!
Vincent The Musical
BKLYN
Updated On: 8/10/06 at 11:52 PM
#4re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:06am
Jekyll & Hyde
The Life
#5re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:18amJimny you beat me to it, I opened this thread with the intent of asking if we needed another Lestat thread here?
Some people come into our lives and quietly go, others stay a while, and leave footprints on our heart, and we are never the same.
#6re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:21am
On that note, Lestat :)
But (am I gonna get beaten with clubs for this?) Cats is a close second.
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#7re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:43amYeah... Cats!
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#8re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:55am
I added something to my original post.
"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
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#9re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:02amCATS
What the puck?!
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#10re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:04am
So many people hate Cats. Why? It ran a long time on B'way!
I like 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
#11re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:12amaudiences just couldn't connect with Grizabella, the slut.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#12re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:15am
It has no plot. It struck me as self-indulgent, unfulfilling and above all, LONG. The only show I ever found more boring was Our Town, but since I never saw it on/off broadway, I didn't list it.
The costumes were interesting, and the dance numbers sometimes made me smile. Memory is a beautiful ballad. But, considering the budget of this show, I would think it could be made into more of a visual spectacle, like, say Lion King. I mean, if you're just gonna create little musical dossiers on a bunch of different types of cats rather than develop an actual story, they at least need to be INTERESTING looking cats, ya know?
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#13re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:17amAida rates as my least favorite show. Ever.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#14re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:19am
Aida...forgot that one.
Yeah, but Cats is based off a book of poems! It's not supposed to have a plot, it's basicly the book set to music.
"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
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#15re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:19amHey JaretSF. Have you noticed we've gotten through two whole days without someone posting a new "Lestat CD" thread?
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
-----
"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#16re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:29am
Well, that's what I'm saying. It just wasn't interesting enough to make up for the fact that it had no storyline. That's just my opinon of course.
I could see CATS being great as something other than a musical. Like CATS the calendar, or CATS doormats, or CATS ornamental wall hangings. But just because a concept works well in one medium doesn't mean it should be transferred to another. And I think that's what happened to T.S. Eliot's book.
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#17re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 1:56amBKLYN
"People that excel in the arts understand that the journey is the reward...the result an added bonus. Every day I act or train is a blessing and a dream come true. If Broadway beckons so be it. I have a personal definition of success that is unshakable by a possibly unobtainable goal." -HamletWasBipolar
#18re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 2:45am
Hot Feet
Frankenstein (off-off b'way)
Lestat
#19re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 2:45am
aspen, I think I freaking LOVE you. That's exactly how I feel about CATS. I have ONE song from it on my playlist..can you guess what it is? (Here's a hint: It's "Memory")
"Cages or wings, which do you prefer?"-- Tick, Tick...BOOM!
#20re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 3:24am
Prymate (Play - Broadway)
Drowning Crow (Play - Broadway)
The Blonde in the Thunderbird (? - Broadway)
The Violet Hour (Play - Broadway)
Defiance (Play - Off-Broadway)
Anna in the Tropics (Play - Broadway)
After the Fall (Play - Broadway 2004 Revival)
Spamalot (Musical - Broadway)
Dracula (Musical - Broadway)
Bernarda Alba (Musical - Off-Broadway)
Ring of Fire (? - Broadway)
Wicked (Musical - Broadway)
Hot Feet (Nightmare - Broadway)
Barefoot in the Park (Play - Broadway 2006 Revival)
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Musical - Off-Broadway)
The Wedding Singer (Nightmare - Broadway)
That's all. Everything else has been brilliant.
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Updated On: 8/11/06 at 03:24 AM
-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)
#21re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 5:03am
I guess....I mean not that it was horrible or anything.
The Wedding Singer...I guess.
I have loved everything I have seen and this was the only show where I actually yawned and found myself kind of drifting to sleep. 
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#22re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:10am
Lestat! i had to struggle to stay awake for it
camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#23re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:22am
Aspen, CATS was created 15 years before The Lion King, and with about a quarter of the budget...did you really expect something that was created in London in 1981? Remember that this was when London was right in the middle of Thatcher's Britain. Not a happy time economically or emotionally. Remember Poll Tax? - That's what I think of when I think of CATS! In 1982 CATS was the best that they could muster, I'm afraid.
Taking that into consideration I think it is pretty big visually. It was quite an "out-there" set, and the costumes were also pretty exciting when it premiered.
Hey, I don't really like it either (although I do always have a small place for it in my heart as it was the first West End show I ever saw and I thought at the time it was "TOTALLY COOL").
exedore
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/05
#24re: Worst broadway or off-broadway musical/play you've ever seen?
Posted: 8/11/06 at 7:25am
I'm surprised that it's taken this long for someone to mention PERFECT CRIME.
/hasn't seen it, just saying...
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