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#101re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Title of Show
Brooklyn
Passing Strange
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
And that craptastic show that Kathy Lee Gifford wrote about the female evangelist. Whoever produced that thing has a pile of rocks in their skull where a brain ought to be.

#103re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

BuddyStarr said: "Matt Rogers said: "Title of Show
Brooklyn
Passing Strange
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
And that craptastic show that Kathy Lee Gifford wrote about the female evangelist. Whoever produced that thing has a pile of rocks in their skull where a brain ought to be."

Interteresting that two of your shows are some of my favorites (Title of Show and Bloody Bloody)"

Yeah, I get it. People LOVE title of show. To me, it is narcissistic drivel. As for Bloody, I found it atonal and incomprehensible. 

But hey, people on here are naming Pulitzer winners, Sondheim classics, etc as worst, so to each their own, I guess.

#105re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

1. Dear Evan Hansen
2. Cats
3. Grease
4. Rent
5. Love Never Dies

#107re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

I have seen all of these:

1) School of Rock

2) Elf the musical

3) If/Then

4) Les Mis (it just gets so boring after the first act)

 

#109re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

I don't have five, but three shows I've seen that I've disliked are: 

1. Spamalot

2. A Christmas Carol

3. Dirty Dancing

#111re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

1. Cats

2. Starlight Express

3. Aspects of Love (sorry, most of Lloyd-Webber's stuff just doesn't do much for me)

4. Mamma Mia!

5. Ghost: the Musical (a hauntingly beautiful overture with a crappy musical following it)

#113re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Cats

Come From Away

Grease (with the right cast- 2007 revival, movie, live broadcast- it can be great, with the wrong one, though, it’s truly a messy thing)

Spring Awakening

The Little Mermaid

#115re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Catch Me If You Can

Company

On The Twentieth Century

The Fix

Urinetown

#117re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

I have to make one revision...as much as I dislike Carousel (which is about half the score and much of the book), I have to replace it with Dear Evan Hansen.  By intermission of DEH, I wasn't really sold on the story, but by the end, I was angry and felt sick.  The fact that it won Tonys for Musical, Book and Score seemed ludicrous to me.

#119re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

1. The Addams Family (a nearly perfect piece of junk)
2. Wonderland ("I know, let's have THREE divas!")
3. Ghost (see below)
4. Les Mis (leave Victor Hugo ALONE)
5. Hamilton (had me chewing my leg off)

Dishonorable Mention: most shows based on movies. Let's just do the movie word-for-word with a bunch of crap songs shoved in (I'm looking at you, 9 to 5).

And I will NEVER sit through Sound of Music again! Updated On: 11/25/17 at 03:42 PM

#121re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

In no particular order (also I'm going to stick to popular shows):

Legally Blonde
Come From Away
SpongeBob
Grease
Cats

#123re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

I will also stick to popular shows.  Couldn't keep it to 5.  Went for 10.  Listed in order, so the first five are my least favorite / most intensely disliked.

-- CATS...2:20 of total boredom, with both acts ending with goosebumps.  One great song.  Sung twice.

-- Fosse.  This was THE MOST PRETENTIOUS show I have ever seen.  The connections between actual Fosse numbers were agony for me to sit through.

-- Oklahoma.  I have never seen a production that I did not hate by Act 2.  As soon as Ado Annie, Will Parker and Ali Hakim take center stage, it is painful to sit through.

-- Grease...all the good songs were written for the movie.  I did like the movie and the live TV show, hated the original production.  Totally.  But not as much as CATS.

-- City of Angels.  I had a smile on my face for 15 minutes.  Then I realized that the inventive conceit was going to be repeated for the rest of the show.  OMG.

-- The Best Little Whorehouse...Tommy Tune's staging was incredibly inventive, but a musical is about the score IMO.  I didn't think there was a good song in it.  'That song' was written for the movie.  I guess I must have been prudish back then...cause I thought it was crude.

-- Two Gentlemen From Verona.  The fact that this beat Follies for Best Musical doesn't help.  I just thought the score was awful; what seemed like fun initially wore me down after 20 or so minutes.

-- Once.  The only good thing about this was Steve Kazoo's voice.  I guess I don't like 'mood pieces'.

-- Fun Home.  I get in trouble for this one, but I was depressed for days after seeing this show; and I wasn't entertained enough to justify the depression.  Would have liked it more if my expectations had not been set so high.  Circle in the Square is a terrible theatre for a musical.  I didn't see The Rocky Horror Show, but every other musical I ever saw there -- with one exception, Sweeney Todd -- was defeated by that layout.

-- On the Twentieth Century.  Did not see the revival, since I hated the original so much.  The original had A brilliant Kevin Kline and a perfect John Callum in Tony honored performances, and one of the great production designs ever.  I still hated it.  Two reasons: the pastiche score; and Madelyn Kahn, who I loved in everything else, was just terrible.  The show was barely open and she was already telephoning in her performance.  (Plus I always found her singing voice horrible, with all that vibrato).