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

[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.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Hoo boy, it's so hard to narrow this one down! But I think I've got to go with END OF THE RAINBOW. Completely vile.

[Roscoe]

I was going to say WAR HORSE, but that was last year. Time wounds all heals.

This year it was certainly the appalling GHOST. A disaster from start to finish, shame on them all.

[jaqs]

Viva forever, I saw a lot of rubbish this year but that was the worst I paid full price for, utter trash.

[goldenboy]

Annie.. The revival.
smelled up the theatre.

[grumpyoptimist]

Look Back In Anger. No redeeming qualities (IMHO), and the poster looked like a splattered turd. Which in retrospect was oddly fitting...
Art for Look Back In Anger

[bobs3]

Without question LEAP OF FAITH. The producers should have closed that show on opening night. I can't believe they kept it running for a month and subjected paying audiences to that mess. And to believe they are planning a tour (non-union, I assume) but I suppose they will play split weeks in cities like Huntsville and Lexington and advertise it as "Direct from Broadway" and no one will know the difference and evangelical audiences in red states will probably think it is greatest thing since sliced bread.

[aaronb]

Excluding off-off shows, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER.

[canmark]

Technically, it was late 2011, but the UK touring production of Chess (directed by Craig Revel Horwood), which also played the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto was garish and miserable. The ridiculously sexy(?) costumes, the cheesy '1980s music video-style' set design, the second rate singing... the whole thing was ick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avTNh6BcJ78

[NoName3]

I'm listening to a live broadcast from the Met of their new production of The Tempest. Allegedly it's a recent operatic setting of Shakespeare by Thomas Adès. After ninety minutes all I've heard are cats and dogs being neutered without anaesthesia while a band grinds out random notes.

[mc1227]

While I would never categorize any theatrical production as "trash", I will say my least favorite show of the ones I've seen this year would probably be Leap of Faith. I thought Raul did the best he could with the material but it was weak all around.

[hushpuppy]

Broadway: END OF THE RAINBOW
Off-Broadway: WATER BY THE SPOONFUL

[Stewpot]

Once. Kazee is talented, but show was so overrated, not to mention BORING. Would rather be forced to sit through Scandalous with Kathie Lee actually singing it than have to see Once again.

[rosscoe(au)]

Ghost, I still have nightmares. That time is lost forever. The only only highlight was that squirrel looking wig she worn after what's his name died.

[broadwayjim42]

Newsical the Musical...thought it might have potential due to the fact that several cast members were connected to various "Forbidden Broadway" incarnations, but no go. Only Christine Pedi's Liza was the least bit funny...the rest was torture. And just plain sad.

[TheHappyPhantom]

cant believe people are listing Once. Guess it was just dealing with too many human emotions for some people. go back Mamma Mia.

[ChanceEncounter]

Excluding off-off shows, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER.


...so you don't know anything about quality?

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

...so you don't know anything about quality?

...so you don't know anything about opinion?

[PalJoey]

To me, these threads are pointlessly negative

Then why post in them?

"The End of the Rainbow" should be the end of the discussion.

[neonlightsxo]

Having just seen Water by the Spoonful, gotta add that to my list.

[ChanceEncounter]

...so you don't know anything about opinion?

not all opinions are equally valid, especially ones that claim Peter and the Starcatcher was trash.

[mar6411]

Opinion is opinion.

Yours is no more valid than aaronb who has time and again shown himself to be an avid fan with well thought out opinions and comments.

Anybody can like or dislike any show.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Would like to add Water by the Spoonful to the list. Thank goodness for comp tickets.

[TheHappyPhantom]

I agree. Not all opinions are valid. some people speak out of sheer ignorance. I'm not taking sides, as I haven't seen Peter and don't intend to based on the Tony's performance, which looked like cheap children's theatre, but not all opinions are created equal. Sometimes people are just wrong.

[mar6411]

Like you. Thanks for the example.

[PTOPhan]

I wouldn't call it trash because it was well-acted and well-sung, but "Jekyll & Hyde" disappointed me terribly. The real problem with it is that the story is so dated. I'd much rather see some nuances to both Jekyll and Hyde, instead of having one character be completely good and the other completely evil. Also, rather than having the story be completely escapist, I'd love to see it raise some modern moral questions. For example, how about having Jekyll be gay and Hyde be straight and having some fools embrace Hyde as "the good guy" because they're prejudiced against Jekyll?

My point is that I think that the story is too simplistic to be engaging. I hate spending $95 for a show and the next day, I feel as if I haven't even been to the theater.