What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Greennow
Swing Joined: 8/21/05
#0What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:08amWhat is the most overrated show you have see ever seen on Broadway?
#1re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:10am
Either Phantom or Cats
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Updated On: 8/21/05 at 11:10 AM
#2re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:10amThe Producers. It was fun, but not everything I expected after all of the hype.
#3re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:11am
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - even the daily critics were less harsh on this show than others.
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#4re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:11amWicked
#5re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:15amCats
Whatever happened to class?
#6re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:19amPhantom, Cats and even though I more or less enjoyed it, I think Wicked is very overrated.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#7re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:20amCATS
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#8re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:49am
Cats and Wicked.
I enjoyed Wicked IMMENSELY, but it is NOT the end-all be-all of musical theatre that many of its hardcore fans believe it to be.
"I mean, how many of us could honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building?"
#9re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:50amSame for me- I love Wicked, but I think it is overrated. Its not the best musical ever written in my eyes.
"They hear drums. We hear music."
#10re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:57am
Hairspray. I didn't like Cats either, but I didn't honestly expect to with what I knew about it going in.
I thought I was going to really like Hairspray, but most of the score is just blah (I like maybe three songs -- Good Morning, Baltimore, Welcome to the Sixties, and I Can Hear the Bells), and it's really not that funny. I sat through most of the first act bored - pretty much the only part I liked in the whole thing was "You're Timeless To Me" because Bruce Villanch - and whoever I saw as the father - were adlibbing like crazy.
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#11re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:01pmHave to say Wicked too. I loved it, but I can't see how it's many people's all time favorite show...
#12re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:07pm
Phantom of the Opera bored me.
Wicked was eh. Slightly enjoyable, but not amazing.
#13re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:07pmHairspray and some of Spamalot.
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
#14re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:16pm
Another vote for Hairspray!
I saw it with Michael McKean and Carly Jibson (it definitely was not her best performance!)
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#15re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:32pm"Spamalot" and "The Phantom of the Opera" are by far the most overrated musicals.
#16re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:34pmSpamalot, Wicked, and Mamma Freakin' Mia!
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#17re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:36pm
THE PRODUCERS. Entertaining? Yes. Worth of all those Tonys? No.
So much fuss and hype over such a mediocre show.
Updated On: 8/21/05 at 12:36 PM
#18re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:39pmWicked. It was fun to look at (pretty costumes, lovely sets...), but not the holy grail of musical theatre that I heard it was.
MusicalDirector109
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#19re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:53pm
"The Producers" - did it really deserve all of their Tony awards?
NOT
and "Wicked" - terribly "overproduced" IMHO
#20re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:57pmthe producers
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#21re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:59pmOh, definitely Wicked. I mean, I was amazed by a couple of things. But, it wasn't the best thing I've seen in my whole life.
What the puck?!
#22re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 1:04pmGonna have to agree with Producers...did not see what all the fuss was about
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
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Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#23re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 1:11pmhairspray.
"You won't fight without layers of armor
Suit on up and come brace my sword
You look back when the pieces are missing
Hollowed out hope that no time can restore."
#24re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 1:11pmI also agree about Wicked. I was expecting it to be much more exciting than it was. It was good, but definitely not my favorite.
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