"The rap Hava Nagila is possibly the worst number ever on Broadway."

[chanel]

This is about Gettin' The Band Back Together. (Scroll down to review titled "The Boys in the Band".

Do you agree?

http://www.newnownext.com/traci-lords-keanu-reeves/08/2018/

[newintown]

I'd alter that to read "among the worst," and include other atrocities like "Fricki-Fricki" (Honeymoon In Vegas), "Paris Makes Me Horny," (Victor/Victoria), and "Everybody's Girl" (Steel Pier), among others.

[Fordham2015]

I would also include "Out of the Sun" from Honeymoon and "Love Triangle" from Paramour

[BroadwayConcierge]

It is only currently rivaled by “Hygge” in Frozen.

[Esther]

Had it not been cut , the Costco song from N2N was pretty terrible.

 

 

[Fordham2015]

BroadwayConcierge said: "It is only currently rivaled by “Hygge” in Frozen."

I just saw Frozen this weekend and that number will give me nightmares. 

[little_sally]

I don't know, that Morse code tap dance number poor Faith Prince had to do in "Disaster" might take the cake for me. And don't forget "Pop Music" from "Priscilla..."

[BroadwayBear2]

little_sally said: "I don't know, that Morse code tap dance number poor Faith Prince had to do in "Disaster" might take the cake for me. And don't forget "Pop Music" from "Priscilla...""

I have a collection of pink ping pong balls at home.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

“Friki-Friki”? “Everybody’s Girl”?

Y’all must be forgetting about “Out For Blood”.

[Sondheimite]

little_sally said: "I don't know, that Morse code tap dance number poor Faith Prince had to do in "Disaster" might take the cake for me. ""

Oh MAN, I still have vivid DREAMS about Distaster!!  But at least I had a BLAST seeing Distaster!  At least it KNEW WHAT IT WAS and steered into the skid of people laughing AT IT not WITH IT!! 

[Kad]

"Everybody's Girl" gets plenty of play as a cabaret number.

"Friki-Friki" was the absolute nadir of a show that was already in the mud to begin with.

[CaseyBrent41]

Why does Hygge get a bad rap!? Sure its silly and borders on innappropriate for a disney show, but its fun and unexpected too! 

[newintown]

"Hygge" is a ridiculous song that could be cut from the show and no one would ever know because it has nothing to do with anything.

[Sauja]

newintown said: ""Hygge" is a ridiculous song that could be cut from theshow and no one would ever know because it has nothing to do with anything."

I haven't seen Frozen so I'm not defending "Hygge," but you could say the same of "Turkey Lurkey Time," and that's still a delightful number!

I remember looooooving Deb Monk doing "Everybody's Girl" in Steel Pier. She was electrifying. Even if the song was silly, it was silly in a fun way. The "Hava Nagila" rap is painful because it's embarrassing to have to watch a performer do it. I felt the same way about the song in Brooklyn where Brooklyn's father has a Vietnam flashback (was it "Love Was a Song?)"

[EthelMae]

"Filth" from Bring Back Birdie. My memory is hazy but after a terrible band number called Filth, performed by, I think, Rosie and Albert's son, Donald O' Connor is left sitting on a toilet as the Act I curtain fell. Then came intermission. Act 2 started with him again placed on the toilet and when some other number started, the toilet finally went off with him on it and the audience broke out in applause. It was quite a night.

[Mister Matt]

It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close.

[JSquared2]

"Tug Boat" from THOU SHALT NOT has got to be right up there in the top (or rather, bottom) 5.

[adamgreer]

I’m going to add “Murder Murder,” the act 2 opener of Jekyll and Hyde to this list. It’s lyrics are laughably bad (“they murdered dear old Bessie, I hear extremely messy”) and the choreography in the original production (the cast swinging umbrellas around) was extremely cringeworthy.

[chanel]

The review I linked mentions "Garlic" from Dance of The Vampires. Also, isn't there a song in The Rink that goes "Welcome home, you little pig/Don't you know you've got a big set of balls"? And one from In My Life, which goes "There's a little rumor/Someone's got a tumor".

[ViniFromBrazil]

chanel said: "And one from In My Life, which goes "There's a littlerumor/Someone's got a tumor"."

Omg that's awesome

[Mister Matt]

"Tug Boat" from THOU SHALT NOT has got to be right up there in the top (or rather, bottom) 5.

I remember seeing Thou Shalt Not and in a show that got SO much wrong, Tug Boat was the most effective number in the show.  What sounds rather boring and innocuous on a recording was rather brilliantly staged in the show.

I’m going to add “Murder Murder,” the act 2 opener of Jekyll and Hyde to this list. It’s lyrics are laughably bad (“they murdered dear old Bessie, I hear extremely messy&rdquo and the choreography in the original production (the cast swinging umbrellas around) was extremely cringeworthy.

 

Well, that was the Broadway production, which staged EVERYTHING horribly and that umbrella dance was indeed ridiculously awful, reminiscent of high school drill team choreography, utterly devoid of context or meaning.  But the pre-Broadway productions used newspapers instead of umbrellas, which underscored the intent of the lyrics.  Everyone was reading the articles in macabre fascination and spreading rumors and panic like wildfire across London.  Not unlike what we see in the media and on social media today.  I really enjoy the score to Jekyll & Hyde because I remember when the potential of the show was realized before it was completely ruined by what happened on Broadway (both times).

[GavestonPS]

The worst song I ever heard was from an off-off-Broadway musical where the opening number began:

"Marriage means monogamy,
They'll never make a hog o' me."

And went downhill from there. I never did figure out what that opening couplet was supposed to me.

***

The worst song I ever sang was in a college, musical adaptation of Johnny Tremaine: 

"It's a holiday, holiday, holiday for us today!
It's a holiday, holiday, holiday today!"

That was the entire lyric, repeated endlessly, as a duet, by the chorus, in a round, etc.

Not even "Saddle Bags" was as bad, though God knows it tried to be.
 

[Gink]

Mister Matt said: "It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close."

Lol--my high school did this show in the 80's. I believe some of the lyrics were "Although she looks like Venus, she may infect your penis" And "You don't want to dance the VD polka!"

[Gink]

Gink said: "Mister Matt said: "It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close."

Lol--my high school did this show in the 80's. I believe some of the lyrics were "Although she looks like Venus, she may infect your penis" And "You don't want to dance the VD polka!""

I can't find the lyrics on-line, but I'm trying to remember if 'penis' was sung aloud or if they did something else. Not sure this would fly today. Oh, the 80's.

[Gink]

Gink said: "Gink said: "Mister Matt said: "It's not as bad as Good-Time Girl from Over Here or The Beauty Underneath from Love Never Dies, but it's pretty close."

Lol--my high school did this show in the 80's. I believe some of the lyrics were "Although she looks like Venus, she may infect your penis" And "You don't want to dance the VD polka!""

I can't find the lyrics on-line, but I'm trying to remember if 'penis' was sung aloud or if they did something else. Not sure this would fly today. Oh, the 80's."

Found this--perhaps we just added the other line. "

Though she may look like Venus...

She might not be the cleanest!"