Classics that leave you cold- Page 3
Classics that leave you cold
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#50re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 8/25/05 at 7:12amGuys and Freakin' Dolls. When will every single community and high school theatre realize that there are thousands of wonderful musicals OUTSIDE of Guys and Dolls?
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
#51re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 8/25/05 at 8:52amGypsy and Music Man
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#52re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 8/25/05 at 8:58am
MY FAIR LADY
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
FOLLIES
GYPSY
SOUTH PACIFIC
HELLO DOLLY
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
GUYS AND DOLLS
FUNNY GIRL
DAMN YANKEES
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#55re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 8/25/05 at 9:03am
OLIVER
PAINT YOUR WAGON
FINIAN'S RAINBOW
beenthere
Understudy Joined: 8/22/05
#56re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 8/25/05 at 9:05amSweet Charity (revival) the re-written ending is pathetic
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
Flahooley
Leading Actor Joined: 11/17/05
#58re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 3:55pmGuys and Dolls. Just never has worked for me.
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#59re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 4:06pm
Old thread!
Anyway, Finian's Rainbow does little for me, and Grease.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#60re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 4:26pm
How could anyone dislike "Kiss Me, Kate"?
And BTW, I've never seen a live production of "Guys and Dolls" OR "My Fair Lady", but I love the movies.
#61re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 4:30pmFollies - love the songs individually... but as a show, it leaves me cold every time.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#62re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 4:35pm
Guys and Dolls
Oklahoma
Annie
EDIT: How could I forget Cats.
Updated On: 7/26/06 at 04:35 PM
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#63re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 4:39pm
The Music Man -I actually like the Jr. version a lot more as silly as that may sound but I think the full version DRAGS like no other!
Oklahoma- could barely sit through my friends high school production
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
#64re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 4:57pm
*The Music Man
*South Pacific
*Camelot...I just finished this show, and I've never wanted to kill myself so much during a production. And I was hardly ever onstage.
#65re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 5:05pm
Annie Get Your Gun
The King and I
Camelot
The Music Man
Annie
#66re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 5:14pm
Cats
The King and I
Fiddler (I liked it the first time, but now I can't stand it for whatever reason.)
matt schneider
Broadway Star Joined: 7/3/06
#67re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 5:17pmMusic Man and Fidler on the roof
The bushes of Tex were nervous recks because their son was dim, But look what happened to him~Dirrty Rotten Scoundrels~all about Ruprecht
They say the thoughtful musicals dead on broadway~forbiden broadway : SVU~The crime scene
Never say never, there's always one more person you can hit up~avenue Q.~the money song
Life sucks, get a pacifyer~my own saying
#68re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 6:30pmFinian's Rainbow has never worked for me...
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#69re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 7:51pm
H. Higgins -- I LOVE your avatar!
Marquise -- maybe your list would be shorter if you listed all the classics you DO like? (Just teasing. 
)
Can we list movies? "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." I can't for the life of me understand what so many people like about that movie.
Also "Oklahoma." I like the songs, and I know with my head that it's a good movie (and a good show), but I can't bring myself to sit through it again. It's strange, because ordinarily I quite like simple little love stories, but that one nearly puts me to sleep. I like the rest of R&H, though.
Updated On: 7/26/06 at 07:51 PM
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#72re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 10:00pm
Oklahoma-one of the most passionless shows...ever.
Annie-what a load of...
Those are the only two...
Oh! And West Side Story...
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#73re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 10:01pm
Phantom of the Opera
Cats
Oklahoma
Guys and Dolls
Barnum
Pal Joey
Crazy For You (I dunno if that's really a "classic" but w/e)
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#74re: Classics that leave you cold
Posted: 7/26/06 at 10:19pm
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Funny Girl
And I still believe Mame and La Cage Aux Folles are way inferior to Herman's score for Mack & Mabel. Both of those shows don't do anything for me.
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