"You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You're Making Love)" from Avenue Q, although I think it's intentionally supposed to be over the top and cringy.
Laurapattifan said: "The baby being thrown off the train in Bright Star."
I second that it was a cringer -- we also knew it was coming for most of the show -- but I disagree that it was a great show. I actually enjoyed it, but thought that it was pretty mediocre.
Probably a minority opinion, but I thought A Sentimental man was a cringer in Wicked.
The Midas Touch in Bells Are Ringing.
For me. Little Lamb in Gypsy. I know it has a purpose, but that does not keep me from cringing every time I see Gypsy.
In the musical Sound of Music, not the movie, Maria and Mother Abbess singing My Favorite Things has always made me cringe.
In the original SITPWG, the Chromulume scene in Act 2 made me cringe.
Community theatre productions of the Wizard of Oz where the Tin Man pumps his elbows and goes “Toot Toot,” because they wanted the moment where he spouts steam but couldn’t afford a special effect.
aimeric said: ""I Shall Scream" fromOliver! Much of Oliver! iscringe camp for me, but that's the only one that makes me physically cringe when I hear it come on.
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I was going to mention this exact song! Also, in Mean Girls, the line from “Stop” that turns child p*** into a punch line...... The whole audience was visibly uncomfortable when that happened...
I wouldn’t go far to say she completely ruined it but it was a very disappointing performance for me given the standards set by Bernadette, the surely countless alternatives available and everything else that was good about that production.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
AlexxGee said: "The Prom when Barry said d*ke after “Changing Lives Reprise.” I love the show but that moment??? Unnecessary."
I wouldn't call Mean Girls a "great show" in the same sense of others on this list, but it does the same thing - in one of the only songs I can listen to from the show, "World Burn," the entire ENSEMBLE screams the word when reading from the Burn Book. It's not a great moment for the show, and I always mute my speaker for that one second when I listen to the song. It's also pretty egregious considering they changed the line in that same song where Regina calls herself a sl*t, supposedly because it was "too offensive," although I think it's just because of the rhyme with "Regina is a fugly cow/Hey Cady, how ya like me now".
"I think that when a movie says it was 'based on a true story,' oh, it happened - just with uglier people." - Peanut Walker, Shucked
qolbinau said: "I wouldn’t go far to say she completely ruined it but it was a very disappointing performance for me given the standards set by Bernadette, the surely countless alternatives available and everything else that was good about that production. "
Not only her, but Jenna Russell was stunning too. Ashford was a disgrace compared to the first two.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE