Shows you hated
Shows you hated
big_girls_don't_cry
Understudy Joined: 6/19/06
OOTI2004
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/05
#1re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 9:43pmI don't think I have ever seen a show that I absolutely hated. Even if I don't like the plot, music or acting, I can find something enjoyable, like the set or even the lighting.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#2re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 9:53pmBig girls don't cry, and posters shouldn't use exclamation points in every post!
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#4re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 9:58pmDidn't someone just post this same thread yesterday? I don't believe it went over too terribly well.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 9:59pmBugsy! Malone! irked! me! I! saw! it! and! thought! it! was! cheesy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111122222222222222222@@@@@@@@@@1111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111one111111111111111!1!
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:10pm
Seussical. The first time I saw it though, I had nosebleed seats in the Oakdale Theater (now the Chevrolet) in CT. I haven't been in the balcony a lot, but I remember the one at the Oakdale was pretty far back. And I was in the front row of it too.
So I saw a student production of Seussical. I had front row for that. I enjoyed it better the second time around, but I it remains on my list of least favorite shows.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#7re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:21pm
Musical: The Who's Tommy.
Play: The first one that comes to mind is Summer and Smoke. I know all you Tennessee Williams die-hards might kill me, but I thought it was so incredibly boring.
Arghh! Grammar pet peeve #1: your vs you're. "Your" is a possessive pronoun. "You're" is the contraction of "you are."
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#8re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:23pm
tommy is amazing Grrrrrrrrrr
I hated Chitty Chitty Bang Bang broadway and the UK production
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#9re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:34pmThe Secret Rapture by Hare writen for Blair Brown and the worst thing that I've ever seen by far.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#10re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:46pmRound about your sixth day of membership on Broadwayworld you realize: It's all been done before.
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I<3bway
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/06
#11re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/22/06 at 10:55pm
Ahh! There we go! Found it!!
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=901551&dt=76
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#12re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:33pm
Bounce
My Life with Albertine
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#13re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:36pm
Tarzan
Good Vibrations
Ring of Fire
Enchanted April
The Oldest Living Confederate Widow
Well
Lennon
Jekyll and Hyde
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#14re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:38pmDr. Dolittle.
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.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#15re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:40pm"Lestat". The absoulute worst show ever. By the way, thanks for starting this thread again. It's always nice to have another opportunity to discuss "Lestat"! :)
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#16re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:42pmI hated every minute of CATS-Now and Forever!
"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
#17re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:45pm
Aida
The Producers
The Woman in White
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#18re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 12:55pm
COPACABANNA (closed on the road prior to Broadway)
STARLIGHT EXPRESS
SUNSET BLVD
Then there are shows that I didn't HATE but have no desire to ever see again:
ASPECTS OF LOVE
BY JEEVES
CATS
FOREVER PLAID
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
RSVP BROADWAY (closed in Toronto without going to Broadway)
SONG AND DANCE
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 1:17pm
RSVP BROADWAY was a silly musical that opened in Toronto a few years ago saying it was heading to Broadway. Never made it there.
Story was set in the early 30s. A gangster/bootlegger in New York decides that with prohibition repealed, he will produce a big Broadway musical starring his girlfriend. Lots of tap dancing but it had a weak story, and highly derivative songs that were neither funny parodies (as in DROWSY CHAPERONE) nor authentic period pastiches.
It was a mess and folded quickly never to be heard from again. (I hope!)
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#21re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 1:54pm
I hated The Phantom of the Opera. The worst 40 bucks I ever spent at TKTS in my life.
I hate most of Lloyd Webber's crap, with the exception of Evita, which is sheer brilliance. At least we got one good show out of him.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
morningglory
Stand-by Joined: 2/7/06
#23re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 1:59pm
I know this may sound unreal - but, the first time I saw Les Miz - I found it to be totally boring and awful. I really could not understand how folks could love it so much. Then I saw the 10th Anniv on PBS and realized it might not be that bad - it was the night and the cast that did it in (the Valjean that night was extremely - um - bland). I decided to see it again and thankfully went back when J. Mark McVey was playing Valjean and then I loved it (and him) - It amazed me the difference he made - the rest of the cast even seem to come alive with him as Valjean(guess the correct casting does mean something! 
#24re: Shows you hated
Posted: 6/23/06 at 2:48pmMary Poppins
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
