Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
#0Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:03pm
What is the weirdest show/preformance art you've ever seen? The more obscure, the better!
(I wonder how amny people will say 'In My Life')
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#1re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:07pm
for a broadway show, would have to say Mamma-Mia...you come all the way to see the show and find out who sophie's dad is, go thru it miserably, and in the last 5 minutes, sophie says she doesn't care you her dad is...? very dissappointing and strange to me
but non-broadway, i would say the barnum and bailey's circus...
#2re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:20pm
It's not Broadway or anything, but I compete in a program called Odyssey of the Mind and to try to sum it up, we have to create performances. I was at World Competition a few years ago, and a team from Lithuania had the most peculiar skit. Here's the plot line: A hamburger wakes up and doesn't know what he is, or what the license plate on his back means. He goes to the professor and asks him. The professor tells him he's a hamburger and the license plate on his back means that he only has three minutes to live unless he goes to grandma's house, which is built on eggs, and have her make him dry bread. So the hamburger went to grandma's house on eggs, they did some squealing, and "they all lived foreva.'"
They didn't win by the way. They were in the bottom three teams.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#3re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:21pmDr Selavy's Magic Theater - Off Broadway
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#4re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:33pm
Mr Roxy - wanna elaborate?
That goes for anyone. Let us all in on the craziness
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
BrianWilsonFan
Featured Actor Joined: 1/3/06
#6re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:51pm
On The Razzle by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Peter Hall.
National Theatre Production with a nice cast including:
Dinsdale Landen, Michael Kitchen, Ray Brooks and Felicity Kendal, most of whom are still names in the U.K. today, only Dinsdale Landen has dropped from view. The awfulness of this play has long since been rinsed from my brain but watching it was on a par with losing the will to live.
My husband and i reached a gentleman's(?) agreement that day. He came to no more Theatre and i went to no more Grand Prix's.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#7re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:52pmAt NYU's ETW a few years ago, there was a production of "Tom Thumb." The performers' costumes consisted of paper, cardboard, and tinfoil. They spoke in a strange altered version of English that was almost impossible to understand. Tom Thumb was represented by a potato. The front of the stage was covered with potatoes. While the show went on, another cast member, in normal clothes, would videotape it. She would stop the show at certain intervals and turn to the audience to deliver monologues in which she would scream about potatoes and their cultural relevance.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 7:53pmAnother vote for IN MY LIFE.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 8:08pmshbrt, lol, keep em coming
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
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AshleyBrownFan123
Broadway Star Joined: 3/24/06
#11re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 8:32pm
THE LION KING and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
How could they win Tonys and still be running?
More signs of apocalypse.
Let us milk the cow that is theatre-Monica Trausch
Shoshana's Future Ex
Understudy Joined: 3/12/06
sweeedboy
Stand-by Joined: 10/31/03
#13re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 8:37pmThe wierdest show i have ever seen was "tropicana" by the performance art group "shunt." The whole thing took place in the London Underground and it was brilliant. You walked through a non-descript door in a station and you were in this work office thing that was very dirty...after standing in their awhile you walked through a locker and were in the main HUGE performance space...where for an hour or so things went on in the dark and in strobe light(you sat against the wall) Then a huge elevator was moved down the middle of the space like it was going up... but it was going to the side... then you finally went in the final room where an autopsy was performed(fake). Very odd, but oddly entertaining! I am leaving out soooo many things that took place that night, but it was very interesting
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#14re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 8:43pm
Massacre (Sing to Your Children)...A LABrynth Theatre production housed at The Public. Very surreal, but I loved it.
Edward II at Julliard. It was staged entirely in a modern-day school cafeteria; the lighting was actually those flourescent lights you'd mornally find in a place like that. The king's crown was a pair of sunglasses, there was a grand piano in the corner of the room (the cast broke out into "I'll Make Love to You" at one pointm actually), a fight scene was staged as a food fight, all of the actors were on stage the entire time.
It was strange, but I loved it.
#15re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 8:52pm
A staged production of the St. Matthew Passion. The choir and soloists were supposed to be homeless people. And then dancers "interpreted" the arias....which was interesting when the dance during the aria about Peter helping Jesus carry the cross turned extremely homo-erotic. The dancer representing Mary Magdalene was dressed like MImi in Rent, and she too got quite "friendly" with her Lord.
Add to this, I was sitting in the balcony, where a second choir was seated to sing only the chorales, which meant that everytime there was a chorale, the lights went on in the balcony...which wouldn't have been so bad, except the light operator had NO CLUE where the chorales came, so after every aria, the lights would flash on, then off again, if they weren't needed...it became laughable.
#16re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 8:55pm
I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar a few weeks ago, and while the show itself is not weird, they updated the show and had an Apprentice scene... and a Sopranos scene...
It was entirely too strange for my taste.
"The tick BOOM tick BOOM is so loud I can't hear the rain on the grass. I can't hear the wind. I'm about to scream. But I realize I'm not alone."
#17re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 9:02pmI would have to say the most boring and bad show i have evar seen must be "Miss Saigon" when i saw this show the cast was terrible, the show was just so borin. That show was torture.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
#18re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 9:04pmseusical
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#19re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 10:13pmSHOW PEOPLE at second stage was pretty weird plotwise. a little too weird for me. I wanted it to be over.
"Labels are for cans, not for people."
--anthony Rapp
#20re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 10:59pmNot very creative, but Cats. It just scares the hell out of me, it's so bizarre.
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#21re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:24pmFor me, it's a toss-up between Reefer Madness and Jerry Springer: The Opera. I really liked Jerry (RM, not so much so).
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"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
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TheaterAddict7652
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/06
#22re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:28pmI liked Reefer Madness...but it was really weird!
There's a lot I am not certain of...
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#23re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:41pmThat Suzanne Somers thing wierded me out for days!
#24re: Weirdest Show You've Ever Seen
Posted: 3/24/06 at 11:48pm
Reefer Madness, Bat Boy and The Green Bird. Liked them all, but, they were undeniably weird. :)
Oh! Also The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui... amazing cast (Al Pacino, John Goodman, Chazz Palminteri, Billy Crudup, Steve Buscemi and Tony Randall) and I was glad I saw it, but, WEIRD.
