What Was The Worst Piece Of Theatrical Trash You Sat Through This Year?

[Visceral_Fella]

Oooohhh.... How could I forget the worst thing I've ever seen in my entire life: Showgirls the Musical. It was poorly done at a Non-Equity Theatre in Chicago. I actually left at intermission. Just terrible.

[wicked_beast4]

Dead Accounts. Just an awful, terrible piece of tripe.

[mjroberts972]

Does the TV show, SMASH count? Cause if so, that.

[perfectlymarvelous]

I thought The Anarchist was horrendous. It has to be one of the worst things I've ever seen on Broadway...just awful. Leap of Faith was also pretty terrible.

[wicked1492]

Jesus Christ, Get Me The Hell Out Of Here, Superstar

[taboo123]

Barbicide. Off Off broadway. I had to leave at intermission because it was unbearable.

And was Leap of Faith this year?
I erased that one off my memory bank.

[My Oh My]

Nice list.

But why did y'all think said shows were "garbage"?

[TotallyEffed]

It's a tie between A Bullet for Adolph and Forever Dusty.

Honorable mentions: Modern Terrorism, Golden Age, and Scandalous.

[Broadway Joe]

The Anarchist takes the award for me as well, one of the worst shows I've ever had to sit through. Terrible story and a complete waste of time. Thankfully the running time was only around 70 minutes and even that felt like an eternity.

[themysteriousgrowl]

I didn’t see anything this year that was utterly dreadful.

IF THERE IS, I HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET was probably the worst show I sat through, but it wasn’t execrable. I left RESTORATION COMEDY during the break because it was totally unengaging. But overall I wasn’t interested in any of the shows that turned out to be the year’s Most Hated, so I didn’t see them.

[CarlosAlberto]

CARRIE

[once a month]

Leap of Faith

[Jordan Catalano]

Growl, don't try to sound cool now by sayin you didn't like Jake's show. If I remember correctly, you grabbed my arm and started squealing like a little girl when he came onstage.

[themysteriousgrowl]

I'm pretty sure you were the only person who came onstage that night.

And by "onstage," I mean "in your undies."

[GilmoreGirlO2]

David Cromer’s awful “Rent” in Chicago. Never before have I seen a group of actors so into their own performances as much as this cast was (and, knowing someone in the cast and hearing about rehearsals, this undoubtedly came from Cromer telling them how this was the ‘true’ “Rent,” among other things). It was miscast, isolating, and laughable. And, in my opinion, they took so many liberties with the script it was hard to even call the show “Rent.”

[ChanceEncounter]

I didn't see anything I would call trash this year. House For Sale was certainly a struggle to make it through. And I left The Outgoing Tide at intermission because I was thoroughly uninterested it what was happening (for a play about planning a suicide to look like an accident to get your family a bunch of insurance money it felt completely stakes-less.)

[neonlightsxo]

Scandalous. And by "sat through" I mean the first act.

[Rainbowhigh23]

In New York: If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, Leap of Faith. Scandalous wasn't the greatest but Carolee Carmello and Roz Ryan saved it; bad in a humourous way.

In London: The Bodyguard - as tedious and painful to sit through as "If There Is..." - lasted only one act to hit the sale at Sainsbury's across the street.

[Idiot]

Oh, if more of you lived in LA, there'd be a lot of votes for THE EXORCIST on this thread.

[AC126748]

Harvey. Boring as hell with an awful central performance from Parsons. And what the hell kind of accent was Jessica Hecht using? Nearly three hours in those cramped mezzanine seats at Studio 54 watching the most unnecessary revival ever mounted bests any torture currently on display in Zero Dark Thirty.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Probably GHOST. My head hurts just thinking about it.

[little_sally]

The worst part of Ghost was that it seemed like the creators really thought that it was okay to put a crapfest on stage because people who like the movie would like the show anyway. Just put the movie on stage with a bunch of special effects! Meanwhile it had no heart and nothing to care about.

[Marianne2]

Magic/Bird first of all is just a terrible name for a play about basketball. I get that the play was about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. But together it sounds like it should be a fantasy play about a magic bird. It sounds really pretty.

I also thought the drama was not that interesting. I didn't end up caring about Larry Bird's announcement and the rivalry seemed like it was nonexistent.

[wonkit]

Once.

[little_sally]

I always thought Magic/Bird sounded like a puppet show.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Magic/Bird had so many actual news reports running in the background that I felt I could have stayed home and watched it on ESPN.