jaso_n
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/05
#0Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:34pm
This thread is for those opinions that you KNOW you're in the minority for holding. I'll go first.
-Moulin Rouge was too long and kinda terrible.
-Beyonce and Jamie Foxx belong nowhere near the Dreamgirls movie.
-I've seen Wicked and eh, I don't get the big deal.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:38pm
I hated In My Life, but it was the most original musical I've seen in about five years.
I enjoyed In My Life more than Brooklyn and Good Vibrations, but not more than Lennon.
Idina Menzel and Eden Espinosa have the same amount of talent, and are just as special as everyone else on Broadway.
#2re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:43pm
I'm a 34 year old, educated, rational, and savvy woman and dammit if I didn't love "Wicked".
I think 14 year olds have as much a right as anyone to post their opinions.
#3re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:44pmI despise Daphne Rubin-Vega's voice and I'm glad she wasn't in the movie.
#4re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:48pmI have a feeling my list is way too long. However, I will go with an oldie but goodie... I think Shoshana Bean blows!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#5re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:49pm
- There was never any reason to think the film version of Rent wouldn't be tremendously flawed.
- The Broadway production of Chicago might benefit from more glamorous sets and costumes.
- After Dreamgirls, Hollywood should stop adapting Broadway shows for the screen and just make Jason Robert Brown and other talents write musicals directly for the screen.
- It's wrong for a major actor, director or writer to use message boards to push his/her agenda and guilt other people out of expressing their opinions.
- Chris O'Donnell is a cute, good actor.
EDIT: I've actually been told by PM that my opinions (especially the ones regarding Rent) aren't unpopular. Oh well.
Updated On: 11/11/05 at 04:49 PM
AspectsofLoveLover
Understudy Joined: 7/30/05
#6re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:49pmI don't like The Music Man or Oklahoma and I don't like Claire Moores singing voice so there!
"It's telling me to hold you tight and dance like it's the last night of the world."-Miss Saigon
OasisBroadway
Leading Actor Joined: 9/28/05
#7re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:51pmPhantom is one of the most dull and over-acted shows I have ever seen.
greenegirl87
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/05
#8re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:51pmI can't sit through West Side Story!!!
"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:53pmLight in the Piazza is boring. It's a pretentious musical.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#10re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:55pm
On stage, Rent features the worst direction I have ever seen on or off Broadway.
Shoshana Bean's singing gives me a headache. No I'm not kidding, or trying to be a jerk.
"They hear drums, we hear music."- Passion.
#11re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:56pm
I like Cats.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Updated On: 4/29/06 at 04:56 PM
#13re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:57pm
I hate Moulin Rouge and I don't think Nicole Kidman should sing. Also I HATE the sound of Music. I think that "Galinda" is a pain in the rear and that Emmy Rossum's only line in the POTO movie is whispering "He's there, the Phantom of the Opera", which is beyond irritating. I think she was severly miscast.
Oh, and I think Heather Headly (spelling?) enunciates a bit too much, especially on the Aida cast recording.
#14re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:58pmI love CATS!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
#15re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 4:58pm
Loved Millie.
Didn't get Urinetown.
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:00pmBetty Buckley's voice is shrill and metallic.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#17re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:02pm
- CHICAGO the movie was a horrible let down!!
- Vanessa Williams is a talented actress in most (but not all) roles she has done on Broadway
- SPAMALOT is a little over-rated
- DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES is a funny show in that it is so stupid.
more later... probably.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#18re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:03pm
I liked Patti LuPone in the concert of Sweeney Todd.
I think Rent is good. Not bad, not great. Just good.
I adore Spamalot. I thought it was hilarious, and I still listen to the cast recording reasonably often. I'm not saying it's an extraordinary piece of theatre, but I love it.
The recording of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels did very little for me. I just didn't laugh as much as I'd hoped I would.
Sherie Rene Scott's voice grates on me.
... is this the part where I get chased by an angry mob?
Color and Light
Broadway Star Joined: 10/23/05
#19re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:03pm
-In my own opinion, "The King and I" is complete crap.
-Michael Crawford has an absolutely irritating voice.
Stop looking at my charisma.
Updated On: 11/11/05 at 05:03 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:04pmMeryl Streep is more of a mimic than an actress.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
AspectsofLoveLover
Understudy Joined: 7/30/05
#21re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:07pmI hate cats...who likes a show with humans dressed in way to tight spandex licking each other?! I also dislike Emmy Rossum in POTO movie...she sucked big time...her voice is way to breathy for Christine...
"It's telling me to hold you tight and dance like it's the last night of the world."-Miss Saigon
#22re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:07pmI love the Phantom of the Opera movie, and I really like Emmy Rossum's singing voice.
"forget regret <3, I love your post.....you give me hope for the next generation!" -Elphaba
#23re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:09pm
I despise Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell.
Sunset Blvd. is one of my top 5 favorite shows.
Urinetown is NOT funny.
twogaab2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#24re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold
Posted: 11/11/05 at 5:11pm
Where to start?
Sweet Smell of Success was a very entertaining musical, with a sound and style all its own.
Brooklyn was a charming and under appreciated musical with a very good score and superb performances.
The current production of “Sweeney Todd” was enormously self-indulgent and essentially empty. A current example of the emperor's new clothes.
"A Class Act" was one of the most beautifully staged and emotionally wrenching musicals I have ever seen. It does have a cult following however.
Just my opinions, I may be wrong.
TWOGAAB
"A Class Act" will never die!
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