Overrated Musicals?- Page 2

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:21pm

The Producers

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Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:22pm

Phantom of the Opera
Spring Awakening

I saw both because of all the hype it was getting and all my friends loved it. Saw them and they were "eh".

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:24pm

While iam not a fan of The King and I, you guys are right and really it is far from being a overrated show.
Just forget that i posted that.

:)

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:40pm

Quote: Wicked!!! WAY overrated

I love how you say that Wicked is overrated but yet your screen name has to do with Wicked.

I made it before I saw Wicked. Thought it was a cute song. I have since learned my lesson.

I also have to add Spelling Bee. I was expecting a lot more from it.

[zooxanthellae]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:40pm

The first thing to come to mind was Wicked.

I would agree with Spring Awakening and Rent.

[Mbmusic]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:02pm

I don't think Wicked is that overrated. You have to remember that a huge part of Wicked's success is that it's for a teen audience. The pop score attracts so many teenagers that it has become as successful as it is. Not to say that adults don't love it, but that is a major force behind it's consistent success. Personally, I think the music is alright, but the story is perfectly good. I give it an A as a whole show. Very creative and innovative.

[gypsy4]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:07pm

Spring Awakening all the way.

[Urban]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:16pm

I think it is time somebody wrote a show called "Overrated! The Musical"

[lakezurich]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:19pm

Phantom Of The Opera
Mama Mia!
Sound Of Music
Grease

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:20pm

Grease
Wicked
Cats
Rent
Phantom Of The Opera

[James885]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:20pm

Wicked
The Producers
Rent
Spring Awakening - I remember last year when people were calling it 'revolutionary'. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:22pm

The Fantastiks. It's a nice little musical, but 40+ years???

[acrocksyo]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:38pm

Les Miserables, I wanted Val Jean to just die already, and all the effing excuses that he was making for not getting arrested, uh I would have just cuffed him and thrown him in the clink! Oh and the music was so pretentious. Bleh totally boring show.

Wicked, the music is fun and sweeping, but the book is so flawed, it just seemed like filler so that the actress of the moment can belt out some song about being a strong woman.

Curtains, it was just lacking something. They should have brought a showtune loving detective to fix that mess instead of the mess of the show within the show.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:44pm

As a BIG BIG ABBA, Mamma Mia Fan i must say i would rather mamma mia being like the gazillion bubble show thing lol or stomp. I would keep everything the same as it is but just not label it a Broadway Musical. But then again what else could it be called..... But it does so well cause it makes people happy. Spamalot was funny but once you recognize the humor , jokes become old. Imagine having Diva's Lament (which is an Excellent song) repeat on and on on your mp3 player.... But Voulez Vous or Super Trouper makes your spine shiver with the beat if you listen to it again and again. That is my opinion. Also the cast of the shows across the world are perfect cause a BIG Hollywood NAME would IMO ruin the ABBAGASM Experience. Big names are great but for most of the viewers it becomes the main focus. Be Happy, BE Sad, reminisce about your own life and past or future. It is not supposed to beat any theater records but make the beats of your heart become enlightened in the darkest days of our lives. I suffer from very dark days and if the show was recorded onto a cd not the london cast crap but with the clapping and the oomph of the cast singing to an audience not a mic. For me it would turn my life upsidedown then it is now. The Word of the Bundy

Response: Thanks Be to ABBA (hey it means father)

go ahead and flame me lol i just am very passionate about what helps me out through this rough patch in my life

[yellibean2]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:49pm

LEGALLY BLONDE. Ugggh, I just can't see what anybody finds appealing in that show.
Rent
Wicked
Spamalot (I'm still upset not just over the fact that Piazza should have won, but that all three of the shows it was up against were about a million times better than this)

...just to name a few.

[Mbmusic]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:58pm

"Les Miserables, I wanted Val Jean to just die already, and all the effing excuses that he was making for not getting arrested, uh I would have just cuffed him and thrown him in the clink! Oh and the music was so pretentious. Bleh totally boring show." -acrocksyo

And I don't suppose you'd say that wanting Valjean (one name, not two) "just die already" is at all pretentious? And if you overlooked the symbolic reason for Valjean surviving throughout the show's plot, then you are in no way qualified to be calling this show pretentious. I'm always respectful of people's opinions, but not when they say such nonsensical and ridiculous things. Figure out what the story of Les Miserables really means, then come back and call it a boring show.

[george95]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 9:59pm

I think that Grey Gardens is the most overrated musical. Do you remember when that show was out? All anybody every posted about was how obsessed they were with that darn show.........I just didnt see what made it worth being so obessive.

Now you know I gotta defend my Phantom. It was "rated" best musical for 1988, but what made it "over" rated??? The fact that it won Tonys for its sets and lights? You can't watch Phantom as a grump and sit there and be like "well, its certainly not Grey Gardens" and be a crab through the whole thing, because of course the theatricality of it won't work then.
And as for RENT, yeah it did receive a ton of praise and "ratings". But, you really have to judge from a 1996 perspective, and at that time, it really was something special. Its in that awkward time now where the 90's arent old enough to evoke much nostalgia, and you could already hear the teenyboppers on here sayin "oh my god they like totally have to like totally change like Rent, ok, like totally". And they miss the entire point--it captures what its like to be a poor 20-something so well.....it captures that ear of history so well (ok so it romanticized East Village life a little bit still)

Updated On: 1/3/08 at 09:59 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:03pm

acrocksyo: Read the Les Mis novel and you'll understand.

The musical's good IMO, but it'd have to try really hard to suck with such excellent source material. It will always remain inferior to the novel, I believe.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:08pm

"Now you know I gotta defend my Phantom. It was "rated" best musical for 1988, but what made it "over" rated??? "

Well first, it was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Not that all of his compositions are bad, but I personally dislike most of them (Except his anthems). I think Phantom was over rated because the music just wasn't that good. Even the plot itself wasn't that good. The design area's are spectacular, but imo, that's all the show has going for it. And ALW must be a hack because come on, The Phantom of Manhattan?

Updated On: 1/3/08 at 10:08 PM

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:09pm

Rent is in no way over rated

SA on the other hand is

[george95]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:11pm

Most people who dont like Phantom blame ALW for it, but its odd for me because Phantom is pretty much is only show that I DO like.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:14pm

I understand. I have tons of friends who love Phantom.

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 10:18pm

THE LION KING.

[My Sobriquet]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:53pm

The Lion King
Wicked
Piazza
Curtains


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[sesot]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 11:59pm

I totally forgot about Cats- that and Spamalot are by far 2 of the worst musicals I ever saw. I don't understand why people are so passionate about these 2 shows. Spring Awakening is also overrated, but is still better than Cats and Spamalot.