I won't have a year-end theater wrap-up in the paper. The decision was to take another angle, so the beat writers don't have the annual "best of the year" nominees printed anymore. However, I am going to post mine here. Plus, I can do something I never got to do in the paper: post the worst-of!
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I won't have a year-end theater wrap-up in the paper. The decision was to take another angle, so the beat writers don't have the annual "best of the year" nominees printed anymore. However, I am going to post mine here. Plus, I can do something I never got to do in the paper: post the worst-of!

Let's start with the best:

Best show of the entire 2005: "Urinetown" at the Phoenix Theatre. Great actors, great voices and a hi-larious script. I am not happy, however, that Footlite is going to be doing it in a few months. First, I don't want to see this show get over-done. Second, I fear they won't be able to do it justice. We shall see.

Runners up, in roughly chronological order:

"Running with Scissors" at the Phoenix
"Hairspray," part of the Broadway series
"Frozen," at the Phoenix
"Diaries Adam and Eve" at the IRT
"Cabfare for the Common Man" at the Phoenix
"Oppenheimer" by ShadowApe
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" at Theatre on the Square
"I am My Own Wife" at the Phoenix
"Quills" at the Alley Theatre

And now, the worst.

I think this show was during 2005, but it was so bad I asked to please not write about it because I had nothing positive to say about it.

The winner is ....

"This Is My Body" at the Phoenix Theatre. "I'M CLEAN! I'M CLEAN!" Single most pretentious piece of theater I have EVER seen.

A very close runner up is "Worzel Gummidge" at Theatre on the Square. Wow. Bad. Just ... painfully ... bad.

Posted by lgauthier at December 27, 2005 05:01 PM