What's the worst musical? I'm talking the musical that has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
One on my list is "Yours, Anne" A musical about Anne Frank might have made it if Sondheim were writing it, but the lyrics to this musical are so banal and repetitive. I don't think there is one good song in the whole score (but just to be sure, I'm going to pull out my copy and give it a listen one more time).
What do you nominate as the worst musical ever?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!"
-Kermit the frog"I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P."Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu""...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu
After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
"Does Carrie qualify? Or does that have one or two redeeming qualities... "
No it doesn't qualify because as bad as the show was, there are one or two nice songs. A colleague of mine once played a bootleg of the music and I seem to remember the mother's prayer as being an effective song.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Yours, Anne is so bad that the lyricist rhymed "jew" and "zoo". I can't remember the exact lyric, but when I pull out my cassette I'll let you know.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Are we talking Broadway musicals? Because I've been involved in some off-Broadway, and even workshop stuff that is really REALLY bad.
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
Growing Up Sicilian and Female? I actually saw it and I agree it was pretty awful, but how do you know about it, Munk?
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
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I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
Let's see: For the first 45 minutes of Jelly's Last Jam, I had no idea what was going on because no one onstage articulated. It took Phyllica Rashad's entrance to bring the show to life, and by that point I didn't care. I did sit through the whole thing, though.
Rent: I thought it was loud and obnoxious and I didn't care about the people, whose problems would all be solved if they just got a job. I stayed through that whole thing too, though.
Parade: What a ghastly idea for a musical! Furthermore, the young lady on whose murder the show turns, is dead and gone ten minutes into the show, and the rest of the show focuses on the trial. We never understand who Mary Phagen was and why she may have died, nor are the Franks likeable people, so we don't care about them. There's a really uncharacteristic song at the end of the first act where Leo sings about seducing young girls which is all wrong. I left at the interval.
King of Hearts. This I left at intermission as well. The film is so enchanting and magical, but the musical puts the themes in a different light and takes away all the charm that made the film work so well.
Timbuktu: Eartha Kitt couldn't save this dreary, dreck-filled variation on Kismet.
I'm sure there are one or two more over the years, but right now, I don't remember what they are.