Though I'm also not a huge fan of these "negative for the sake of being negative" threads, I have to be hypocritical for a moment, since I can't pass up the opportunity to mention the single worst piece of theatre I have ever witnessed in my life: a recent musical at the National Theatre called Wonder.Land. An utter disaster in every conceivable way. After seeing it, I racked my brain to think of the shows I've hated the most in my life, and I came to the fully realized conclusion that Wonder.land was not only the most atrocious, but had the fewest (read: zero) redeeming qualities.

And that's all I have to say about that. I won't be opening this thread again because I'd like to avoid the complaint parade (hypocritical - I know).

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#7
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:30pm

Spamalot! Hated it! But I do love Monty Python and the Holy Grail! The movie just didn't translate well for a Broadway musical IMHO.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#8
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:31pm

Amazing Grace.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#9
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:34pm

Once

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I know I'm in the minority

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#10
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:41pm

NYC: The Last Ship

London: Behind The Iron Mask, or Too Close To The Sun (both by the same creator, may God forgive him)

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#11
Posted: 6/4/16 at 7:56pm

Most recent; Fun Home. Deadly score. Annoying kids. Boring. I couldn't wait to escape. Really very overrated.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#12
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:17pm

Leap of Faith on Broadway (Raul Esparza). Woof! Everything was so dreadfully mediocre, the whole was a hell of a lot less than the sum of its parts.

Paramour was also quite terrible.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#13
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:30pm

Ghost

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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#14
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:32pm

Leap of Faith

Amazing Grace

Sweet Smell of Success

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#15
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:35pm

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#16
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:42pm

Soul Doctor

Just give the world Love.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#17
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:45pm

Bandstand at Paper Mill ranks up there...

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#18
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:54pm

Civil War -- I even threw away the Playbill.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#19
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:55pm

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I didn't see it but in high school I was in a musical adaptation of The Getting of Wisdom, a classic Australian novel set in the 19th century about a girl who hated our school...it was really bad.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#20
Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:58pm

I saw a community production of Into the Woods once in South Carolina that would have made me hate Into the Woods if I didn't already know the material before going in. The most painfully bad two hours in a theatre I have ever experienced.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#21
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:00pm

Cut After Eight...

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#22
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:03pm

How can a theatre fan HATE fun home? I don't care if you hate the music, the story should at the very least make you feel empathy.

And I remember this musical I remember their brilliance And I might never sleep again...

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#23
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:12pm

Years back, there was a touring production of Doctor Doolittle that starred Tom Hewitt and a then unknown Tony Yazbeck that toured my hometown. I think Dee Hoty was in it as well? Regardless, it was the most dreadful thing I'd ever seen. I was a kid and always just happy to be at a show, but this one made even me want to leave during intermission. Sadly, we stayed.

I think it eventually closed down to retool and then went back on the road in a new version with Tommy Tune. If memory serves, it didn't get better.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#24
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:13pm

Call_me_jorge said: "How can a theatre fan HATE fun home? I don't care if you hate the music, the story should at the very least make you feel empathy.
"

The problem is, if you walk in Circle in the Square knowing nothing about the material, it may take some time to figure out the girls are the same person. This might ruin the first number depending on how perceptive you are.

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What are the worst musicals you ever saw#25
Posted: 6/4/16 at 9:19pm

Dirty Dancing. Hands Down, my worst night of "theater" ever.