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

[Jordan Catalano]

"Best of" threads are fun, but these are more funner.

For me it was THE ANARCHIST.

[little_sally]

Ghost, no, wait...Scandalous, definitely Scandalous

[capnkidd]

Just about every negative thread written on this board, like this one. It's one of the reasons I hardly ever lurk here, and seldom post.

People post these kinds of things to "prove" how clever and sophisticated they are, and it really has the opposite effect.

[Plum]

If this thread has already caused you more agony than any show you watched this year, congratulations! You're good at picking out shows for yourself. I'm glad you had so much fun at the theater this year.

[Marianne2]

Magic/Bird

[capnkidd]

"If this thread has already caused you more agony than any show you watched this year, congratulations! You're good at picking out shows for yourself. I'm glad you had so much fun at the theater this year."

"Agony", Plum? Hyperbole, and your word, not mine. Absolutely any time I spend in a theater is an improvement over reading people bitching about how bad the theater they saw was. To me, these threads are pointlessly negative - I'm glad you enjoy them, I guess?

[James885]

It wasn't on Broadway, but this past May I saw a horrific community theater production of West Side Story where the entire cast (including the Sharks) was lily white. It also didn't help that the actor playing Tony was virtually tone deaf.

[bwayphreak234]

Million Dollar Quartet - I left halfway through because I couldn't take it anymore.

[little_sally]

So, are we not supposed to express how awful we thought certain shows were? Wouldn't be much fun then.

[capnkidd]

It's all about extremes, little sally. Calling people's work "trash". Saying " I couldn't take it anymore" or equating watching any performance as "agony". Just seems silly to me.

Anyway, a question was asked. I gave my answer. You don't approve of it. I suppose we'll both live.

[Broadway Baby8]

End of the Rainbow

[Knowitall]

You have it for Jeffrey. Good, he is a total looser

[Visceral_Fella]

I was pretty lucky this year. Scandalous was the only show that struck a cord to me as truly bad. I'm lucky that I got to see it for free. I still can't believe that I saw a show like that on Broadway.

I didn't really care for Cyrano either, but that was again free and some of the performances were beautiful when I wasn't asleep. Still Cyrano isn't nearly on Scandalous' level.

[Matt Rogers]

What an absolutely moronic and hateful thread. Butt not surprising, considering who started it.

[Kad]

Every show is always good always.

[JoeKv99]

I thought we had all decided (more or less unanimously) that even though "Lucky Guy" was not this year, it was, by far, the most execrable piece of garbage ever.

[Plum]

I'm glad you enjoy them, I guess?

Now who's putting words into someone else's mouth?

[RENT_is_Wicked2]

Scandalous and Magic/Bird.

[Jordan Catalano]

"What an absolutely moronic and hateful thread. Butt not surprising, considering who started it."

Thanks!!!

[stevenycguy]

Bullet for Adolf

[bjh2114]

Broadway: Scandalous. Hands down.

Off-Broadway: Last Smoker in America. So bad.

London: Detroit. Didn't bother seeing it here since it was so terrible there.

If I had to pick one of the 3 that felt like the biggest waste of time, I think it would be Last Smoker. At least Scandalous was humorously bad at points.

[GatorNY]

I guess, for me, it was Romney's performance in the first debate.

[Newsiesgirl67]

THE ANARCHIST
So boring!!!!!!!

[SNAFU]

Ghost. I knew it was going to be bad when it opened with that Christmas Spectacularesque opening of flying to Main Street in DUMBO by flying through New York from the Battery to the Bronx! Annoys the hell out of me when they do not get geography right!

[OperaBwayLover]

For me, it was a local production of Anything Goes. The only good song was the staging of the title number (which heavily borrowed from the recent B'way revival); the rest was acted/sung in a highly cartoonish manner.

[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.