This troper's school's production of Pippin was a total disaster and a textbook case of this. The only redeeming factor was the slick stage design, makeup, entirely-black costumes, the battle scene, some of his buddies in the Ensemble including his friend who was the severed head, Theo, and the females who played Fastrada and The Leading Player. Pippin was a butt-ugly anorexic dude who cannot sing to save his life (this Troper- a petitioner- had his hypothetical earplugs in during Corner of the Sky every night), the arrangements were so effing off beat and even lost track at times, Lewis' voice was so nasal he sounded like an alien, Charlemagne and Catherine phoned it in GREATLY, the battle scene's swords would sometime break on stage (resulting in us having to pick them up plus we cut out the sex scene, and replaced it with an even MORE disturbing makeout scene that was AccidentalNightmareFuel to quite a few. People would tell me I was one of the saving graces of the show and my voice overpowered the ensembles', who sang like they're falling asleep, and that I should have been Pippin as my range is higher than the actor who plays Pippin's. The cast doesn't even think Pippin "counts" as one of our school productions since it was so awful. This year we did Urinetown, and the improvement skyrocketed- we sold out on all nights, Charlemagne played Bobby and was 10x better, Pippin was cast in a non-singing role, the energy was tuned
up past eleven, and it was loved by the audiences greatly and the Cappies (they even gave a standing ovation). Counts as our CrowningMomentOfAwesome without a doubt.