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The worst I've seen: I reallyhate to say this, because it involved my friends, but "Some Assembly Required". The script was just....boring. And to me, it felt like they had rehersed too much and were jsut reciting. There was no spontanaity involved.

The worst show I have ever been in was Carnival. It wasn't that the set was a major peice of crap, it wasn't the fact that the ENTIRE chorus could not sing and had no idea what dynamics were, and it was not the director who was possibly incompetent because he didn't understand the fact that telling people what to do is the directors job, not his idea of yelling at them when they don't do what he wants even though he doesn't tell them, and it wasn't that the star of the show was just sharp enough on every song to make you cringe. The main problem was the script.
Synopsis: Orphan girl travels to the carnival looking for a job. Nasty old magician gives her a job as a girl who holds cards announcing acts. She interferes with the show and is fired. She is so distraught that she tries to commit suicide. The crochety old gimp who once was a dancer who hates her stops her by talking through puppets. She doesn't realize that the puppets aren't real, even though she knows 2 men are back there doing something. He falls in love with her then kisses her, she sings the climactic song named "I Hate Him." She tells him she hates him, he slaps her, forces her to leave, then tlees her he loves her through the puppets. She "Realizes" that he is controlling the puppets, and they go on their merry way with the carnival.

Oh, things have happened that would make a seasoned techie weep at my troop. Though I do have to admit the Chicago one with the Techie's Curse was pretty bad.

Quilters: Final dress, we performed to the local senior society. Four people were missing for a marching band award ceremony, including the guy playing prepared piano. Luckilly he actually showed up at the beginning of the second act. None of the girls did! Which was unfortunate because first thing in the second act was a squaredance. It doesn't work with an odd number of people, we quickly found, and ended up just looping around in circles until it was time for our spin-and-courtsey-do. Terrible.

The Importance of Being Earnest: The tea table fell down because it already had broken a leg off and someone decided it would be a good idea to TIE it back on. With rope. Because nobody had the guts to use the welding tools. And painting and balancing after the welding would just be too much work, so they used this white rigging rope. And this fricking 10 pound tea table crashed on the stage with an entire teacake, muffins (before the muffin scene, mind you), BORROWED CHINA and the director's good silver from her wedding day. So of course that all fell. Chipped the paint on the stage. It was at an appropriate moment at least. And the butler kept his composure in fixing everything. Nice save, Dave.

Noises Off: Oh, come on. The props nightmare that this is, Murphy's law is just biting to be proven. And we used REAL sardines, which just ups the ante right there. There was a three-row splash zone for those sardines because as opposed to Vicki, our Lloyd actually lost a contact lens, therefore, with no depth perception, was flinging sardines every which-a-way. I think one sardine actually at one point got down Dotty's apron. One landed on a front row person's shoe. And another slipped of a plate onto a pillow, which Lloyd stifled a scream with later. He improv'd a huff "outside" and sucked down the entire Jack Daniels bottle full of apple juice.

I can't think of anymore at the moment, but I know there are more. And I'll be back.

I dunno if I've been in a show where something didn't go wrong sweatdrop . Here's what I remember:
Guys and Dolls Sarah Brown couldn't sing a note...we all covered our ears when she went on. To make matters worse, the play is set in New York and the backdrop was Paris. You could tell it was Paris...it had the Moulin Rouge in it. stare I had a basket of fruit and every single show I lost the freakin apple. xp
Fiddler on the Roof A lot of times the characters couldn't get onstage. They posted freakin' bouncers at the door and wouldn't let them out, because they didn't know who went on when.
The worst show I've ever had to sit through would have to be Beauty Lou and the Country Beast. Nobody knew their lines, or where they were supposed to be. *hits head* Awful.

Edit: I take that back...I just got back from seeing Aida. The people sang beautifully, but there was nothing there. No heart. The tech stuff was awful too and so was the set design...ugh! It's such a beautiful story, I hate to see it ruined. stare

The worst show I've been in was most recently Oklahoma. Our Curly was horrible and couldn't sing at all, our Aunt Eller did nothing but shout all her lines and use the same gestures the whole time.

Everyone who critiqued us said that the girl that played Ado Annie and I (Ali Hakim) stole the show.

Ha ha, worst show I've ever seen? A little high school production of West Side Story up north. I love West Side Story, personally, but this was just HORRIBLE! The show got to the final scene where Chino is supposed to shoot Tony. Unfortunately, the director forgot to put out the gun! So, Chino had no weapon and Tony was already doing his monologue. The rest is better explained in script format...
Tony: CHINO!! Chino where are you?! You gonna shoot me Chino?! Huh, you gonna shoot me?!?!?!
Chino: Uh. No.
Tony: What...
Chino: Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm going to kill you, but not with a gun... I'm going to kill you with my.. My uh.. My uh.. *Looks down at feet* POISON BOOTS! Yes, my deadly poison boots! For years I have been building up an immunity to poison boots so that I may seek revenge on you for killing Nardo!

So then it gets to the end, where Maria is supposed to threaten them all with a gun and break down. She's seen this whole thing from back stage and has no clue what to do. The end of the play is in the gutter already, so she runs with it.

Maria: Chino! Do you have any more poison boots? Enough poison boots for you? And a poison boot for you? And a poison boot for... me?

True story, and I crack up whenever he says "Poison boots".

As for the worst show I've ever been in? The Empire Snacks Back. Written by our drama teacher and horrible beyond all belief.

i have Four letters for you all, FAME, yes every prefromance of fame we did blowed, i had to learn my line about 3 days before the show, what happen was is that i had just finished UIL competeion and all the main characters where part of the main UIL cast, so our production was not to its best!