Overrated Musicals
Overrated Musicals
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:44pm
I will start with Grey Gardens
It is enjoyable, has a nice score & great performances but it is not the greatest thing since sliced bread
I liked SA better & Mary Poppins & eagerly look forward to Curtains
Let the games begin
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Updated On: 3/4/07 at 06:44 PM
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:46pm
May I be extreeeeemely rude?
RENT, and
Anything by SONDHEIM.
Oh, I've done it now.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#2re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pmI think Wicked. The musical itself isn't bad at all, but critics are comparing every show to it.
Yankeefan007
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pm
I agree on RENT but like the movie more than the show
Re Sondheim, I must slighly disagree. He is talented & writes great scores but can we remove him from the pedestal many have placed him on
Follies was a once in a lifetime experience & one of the greatest musicals written
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Updated On: 3/4/07 at 06:48 PM
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#5re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:49pm
Oh man, this is going to be a fighting thread!
I'm going to go with:
Hair
Spring Awakening
Bare
Sunday in the Park
Into the Woods
They all have good qualities, but are held in higher esteem than they deserve, I think.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pmI was bored silly with Into the Woods
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#7re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
a) It's Grey Gardens, with an E.
b) How many more of these threads do we really need?
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#8re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
"can we remove him from the pedestal many have placed him on"
No.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:52pm
Ok
You want to keep him there fine. If that does it for you great
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#10re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:53pm
Phantom,Phantom, and Phantom
oh and Wicked
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:00pm
POTO
Into the Woods
Wicked
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.
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#14re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:01pm
Yeah, Sondheim is a great wordsmith, but not the world's great composer.
While I really enjoyed Company which I just saw, and I saw so much more with this new orchestration, I think his early work was bordering on genius, but his later stuff lacks his early punch and drive.
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#15re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:01pm
I STRONGLY disagree with Spring Awakening being overrated, although I think some people on here only dislike it because it's popular.
I think, I'm sorry, West Side Story.
Can, can I have it?
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#16re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:03pm
Spring Awakening- it was okay, not my favorite
grey gardens- better than spring awakening but still okay
phantom- it was visually stunning and amazing but now....
drowsy- its funny but not that all amazing
Updated On: 3/4/07 at 07:03 PM
#17re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:16pmMaybe I just saw phantom at a bad time, but yeah I was board. I'm a big fan of the book though.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#19re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:36pm
Wicked
Hello Dolly
"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#20re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:41pmDissing Dolly will get you the eternal wrath of Dollypop
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:42pmMusic Man was the one good musical Meredith WIlson wrote
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#23re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:43pm
"Dissing Dolly will get you the eternal wrath of Dollypop"
Oh no, how much wrath can an anonymous cipher bring down on a message board - not scared, i have an opinion.
"The theatre is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life." - Arthur Miller
