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Worst show you've seen
MusicSnob22
Swing Joined: 12/20/04
#100re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 12:47am
pair-o-dice ~ absolutely hilarious! I thought that my group of friends and I were the only people to see By Jeeves. At the end I was like "What in the name of God is going on here, and why is everyone wearing costumes from The Wizard of Oz?" Totally terrible...though it is ALW, so what could we expect!
My choices, as I've listed on here before, are Brooklyn and Bombay Dreams. Both are tied, in my opinion, for the worst show ever put on a stage.
As for productions that were terrible, the most recent one that I've walked out on was the NYU Fall 2004 production of Sweeney Todd. I thought that NYU was supposed to be good for musical theater...little did I know.
Have a great day!
sipos
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/04
#101re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 1:03am
TOMMY - the bus and truck
They couldn't even hold up the mirror "slivers" before the actual mirror got smashed-scene where fat tinsle confetti rained down clearing my glossed over eyes.
They kept trickling down. I was like, "Oh F*ck, I hate this"
#102re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 1:37am
Blood Brothers, SF Tour....Petula Clark and BOTH of the Cassidy brothers. Terrible story that couldn't keep my interest past intermission and none of the leads were doing well. Nobody seemed like they wanted to be there.
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#103re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 1:54am
Oklahoma, Grease, The Music Man...
They were fine the first 5 times around, but when everyone and their brother has Curly Oklahoma on a resume, one's gotta wonder...
Overdone shows, terrible talent.
#104re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 2:06amive seen a few, Little Women, the play, it was a very bad production.
need to defrag my brain.
#105re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 9:53amTitanic...I liked when the boat sank though...
"Oh some like it hot, but I like it *really* hot." - Heat Miser
#106re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 10:00am
Jeckyll & Hyde
Dracula
Movin' Out
Cabaret
Take Me Out
The Kareoke Show
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#107re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 10:16am
Oh please!
Wait till you all sit in a little hole-in-the-wall theatre and have to endure the 'art' of people who think they deserve to be famous. Holy sh*t!
As for Broadway (since it seems we're focusing on that), I'd have to go with THE RED SHOES.
HOLY, HOLY SH*T!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#108re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 1:07pm
I'll limit my choices to those shows that I saw on Broadway or the West End. I've seen a lot of show I didn't like; but these are my least favorite:
CATS (just hate seeing adults prancing around like kids or animals), and the whole thing was a mind-numbing bore.
MARY POPPINS (lots or professional effort; but the end result was dreary and depressing. Couldn't wait for it to end, so I could go home and watch the masterpiece that is the film.)
SUNSET BLVD. (garish over-the-top nightmare, with Glenn Close's alleged singing (I call it screeching) and acting with the finesse of a sledgehammer)
scooter3843
#109re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 2:02pm
the worse 10
1.movin' out
2.the lion king
3.the producers
4.bklyn
5.reckless
6.the phantom of the opera
7.the beauty and the beast
8.mamma mia
9.les miserables
10.cats
"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-
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#110re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 2:17pm
I cannot believe anyone has not mentioned this show yet...
I saw the worlds worst show EVER....
COPACABANA.
I sat there with my mouth open the whole time. And the sad thing is I enjoy Barry and I liked the London Cast Recording...but then I saw it. I was in such shock. I was not sure what was worse, the fact that I paid 100 bucks to see it with a date, that the show ruined the date completely, or the fact that show was just that bad.
I wish Rico had just taken out (shot) Lola and Tony.
kiss_me2_fiercely
Swing Joined: 12/14/04
#111re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 3:35pm
I really did not care for the show '1776'.
but then again it might just be because i dislike history.
#112re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 4:07pm
Broadway - GRAND HOTEL with John Schneider and Liliane Montevecchi Total crap on a grand scale. Oh, what was the point of the clanging silverware?
West End - TIME with David Cassidy He creaked worse than the set.
Tour - SONG & DANCE with Melissa Manchester. You know Patti LuPone's story of THE BAKER'S WIFE in Washington? Only four people in the audience and they didn't have sense enough to sit in the same row? That was our experience at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans. We at least moved down from the last row of the balcony, but it didn't make Ms. Manchester any better.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#113re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 4:47pm
Some others i left out this year:
Bklyn
Dracula
personB
Chorus Member Joined: 12/28/04
#114re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 9:29pm
Please don't kill me, but...Les Mis. I need my dialogue. I can't have characters singing their way through their lines on the same two notes over and over again.
Oh, and to be seen...Joseph. The tunes are catchy, but do they really fit together to make a musical? Not really.
#115re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 9:38pm
Cats
Does memory give anyone else a headache?
"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!"
~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be
MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#116re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 10:26pm
The most recent: Little Women.
Not only does nothing work in this show but the very heart and soul of the source material have been eviscerated and ground into dust.
A non-starter.
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#117re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 10:39pm
It figures....I loved Little Women.
The worst I've ever seen? Probably Phantom of the Opera.
#118re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 10:40pm
BWay musical/Recently: Boy from Oz
Bway musical/Ever: Steel Pier/Sunset BULL-evard
Play: Six (seven? five? I don't remember) Baboons Adoring the Sun
Road Show: Starlight Express. Oh God help us all.
Greatest disappointment: Bounce
"They have never understood, and no reason that they should.
But if anybody could . . . " --SS
Mr. Tuttle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#119re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 11:02pmBlood Brothers....booooooooring
Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity last forever.
Watch out BWW...
HE'S BACK.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#120re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/20/05 at 11:18pm
AVE Q!
(I don't care what every one else says- 1 good song)
#121re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/21/05 at 8:18pm
MUSICALS
Brooklyn, Dracula, Imaginary Friends (oh, god! when cherry jones can't save a show, you know it's doomed), Radiant Baby, Dance of the Vampires...
PLAYS
Prymate, Sixteen Wounded, The Good Body
#122re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/21/05 at 8:53pm
GREASE
horrible
Some people analyze every detail/
Some people stall when they can't see the trail/
Some people freeze out of fear that they'll fail/
But I keep rollin' on/
Some people can't get success with their art/
Some people never feel love in their heart/
Some people can't tell the two things apart/
But I keep rollin' on
NativeNewYorker
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/03
#124re: Worst show you've seen
Posted: 1/22/05 at 1:18amI'd have to say the most recent tour of The Music Man.
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