Worst Chemistry
Worst Chemistry
#1Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:11am
What's the most awkward, uncomfortable, nonexistent chemistry you've seen between two performers onstage?
I'll start: Matt Cavenaugh and Josefina Scaglinone in WSS.
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#2Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:14am
During intermission of ROAD TO MECCA, Rosemary Harris and Carla Gugino did some O-Chem bonding equations together, and it was pretty painful to watch.
Wait. No. Maybe it was the first and second acts.
I... cannot... remember...
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#2Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:15am
Haven Burton & Eric Peterson in SHREK
The current Belle & Beast (I don't know their names) in the NETworks tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
They all call me a troll. Ok, call me a troll. If I stand on my own, so be it.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#3Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:17amNick Jonas and talent. I just never really saw that connection.
#4Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:18am^ They couldn't even compromise and meet halfway. Not very generous partners.
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#5Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:20am
Nick Jonas and talent. I just never really saw that connection.
Finally, someone else understands.
They all call me a troll. Ok, call me a troll. If I stand on my own, so be it.
#6Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:26amWhen Richard Kind took over as Andre in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, he had no chemistry with anyone else on the stage.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#7Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:37amI could not believe for a second that Kelli O'Hara was in love with Matthew Broderick in Nice Work.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#8Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 12:35pm
Now Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr. was finally some real chemistry on stage.
Despite all shows being love stories, a believable "chemistry" today on Broadway seems rare to me.
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#9Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 12:58pmKate Jennings Grant and Craig Bierko in 2009's GUYS AND DOLLS. They didn't have an ounce of chemistry. (Chemistry? ... Yeah, chemistry...)
#10Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 1:22pmLane and Neuwirth. Altogether ookie.
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#11Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 1:25pmI did not see them in action, but what about Roger Bart and Sutton Foster?
#12Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 1:55pmMarisa Lupe (Glinda understudy) and Merideth Kaye Clarke (Elphaba standby) in the Wicked national tour a couple years back... I had a hard time even thinking they were friends.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#13Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 2:06pm
Tony Roberts and Stockard Channing who were the first replacement cast for "They're Playing Our Song".
Zip; nix; rien; zilch; bupkis.
Plus they hated each other.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#14Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 4:07pm
Roger Bart and Sutton Foster worked very well together in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
I thought that Lane and Neuwirth's chemistry in Addams Family was good - Their voices just didn't blend well together, and the material was just so bad. Roger Rees didn't seem to connect very well with Brooke Shields when she stepped in, but he was great with Bebe.
#15Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 4:11pm
Despite all shows being love stories, a believable "chemistry" today on Broadway seems rare to me.
Then you haven't seen Once.
The worst chemistry I've seen recently is easily Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick in Nice Work.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#16Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 4:40pmDee Roscioli and Amanda Jane Cooper in Wicked on the 1NT. Just terrible chemistry but it might have been because Amanda Jane Cooper was an awful Glinda.
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!
NoHSMisNotAMusical
Stand-by Joined: 10/21/11
#17Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 8:57pm
What's with the italics?
I would like to nominate Cris Groenendaal and Betsey Joslyn in SWEENEY TODD.
#18Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:07pm
There's not an ounce of chemistry on the EVITA stage. Sad, since the musical is all about passionate people,
Patti LuPone and Boyd Gaines in Gypsy. She has the sex appeal of a ham hock and he never seemed into Rose.
Spring Awakening-non Equity tour. The 20 year old who looked 40 Melchior making moves on a tiny adolescent looking Wendla. Just gross.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
suspendabledisbelief
Swing Joined: 7/16/12
#19Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:10pmReally good chemistry I've seen is Caissie Levy and Richard Fleeshman's in Ghost
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#20Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:19pm
Worst; Levy and Fleeshman. He's a well built stick of wood with one emotion (EQUITY should be ashamed to have let him in this country) and she's a wash rag (in this show) with a decent voice, they kiss a lot but I felt zip between them and the dreadful book does not help them.
Updated On: 7/17/12 at 10:19 PM
#21Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/16/12 at 10:37pm
Ahhh... Nick Jonas is awful. I also agree with Matt and Josefina. I know the show is humorous and the love story is not the main point of it, but I thought the chemistry between Daniel Radcliffe and Rose Hemming way was non existent.
Best Chemistry: I know the show didn't last long, but Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes in Bonnie & Clyde was amazing and totally believable.
Updated On: 7/16/12 at 10:37 PM
#22Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/17/12 at 3:29am
Stephanie Umoh and whatever that guy's name was who played Coalhouse in the Ragtime revival had terrible chemistry. She didn't seem all too into him, from what I remember. (add this to the reasons why it failed)
O'Hara and Szot's chemistry in the South Pacific revival was fantastic, however. They really convincingly played the whole "opposites attract" thing well.
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#23Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/17/12 at 12:23pm
Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas in HAPPY HUNTING.
From Kallow's Bio:
"Lamas' penis size was already the stuff of Hollywood legend, and he required (Irene) Shariff design his costume to be as tight as possible, so he could show off his endowment. ...Several cast members heard Ethel scream at the stage manager in the wings:
'I had people out front! I know what's going on! You tell him to wear a godd*mn jockstrap!'"
#24Worst Chemistry
Posted: 7/17/12 at 2:03pmHugh Jackman and Jarrod Emick in the Boy from Oz. Their scenes together were SO uncomfortable....
"This is wanting something, this is reaching for it,
This is wishing that a moment would arrive.
This is taking chances, this is almost touching, what the beauty is." --The Light in the Piazza
