Overrated Musicals?
Overrated Musicals?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:32pm
Drowsy Chaperone
Rent
Anyone else have any they care to name?
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#2re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:36pmTHE SOUND OF MUSIC. God, I loathe it so much. What a sugary, obnoxiously cheery, overlong torture session that musical is. Why anybody likes it or has the time to sit through it over and over is beyond me. It's like the Austrian version of The Brady Bunch with out the ironic, postmodern nostalgia.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:36pm
Spring Awakening
The Color Purple ~ even WITH Fantasia. or maybe especially with her.
I'd say Company but I know it's just not my thing, so I don't necessarily think it's overrated.
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#4re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:39pm
I agree: Spring Awakening
And don't kill me for this but: Les Miserables
"Light the candles! Get the ice out! Roll the rug up, it's today!"
#7re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:57pm
Spring Awakening
Spamalot
Cats
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
#8re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:58pm
Spring Awakening - I was never interested in seeing this show, and am sorry that I caved into the raving reviews and bought a ticket.
While I enjoyed The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Rent, Wicked, and Jersey Boys, I don't think they live up to all the hype they get.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:15pm
I liked SA but did not think it deserved a few of its Tony's most notably choreography or, in their case, jumping up & down
I like Curtains more
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#10re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:16pm
Wicked!!! WAY overrated
Spring Awakening - I liked it, but it's still overrated
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henrybutler
Stand-by Joined: 7/28/07
#11re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:17pmi don't think "drowsy" was overrated, it was not popular enough to be considered OVERrated!!! It was rated. justly, i believe. :)
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:36pm
"And don't kill me for this but: Les Miserables" -sondheimgeek
I certainly won't kill you for it. I fully respect your opinion, but being the Les Mis fanatic that I am, I'm just curious as to what you don't like about it. I'm honestly just curious, and I would never show disrespect for your opinion.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#14re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:40pm
I'd say SA but it's been stated here several times, so I'll say Lion King. Not a bad musical, but it is truly overrated. Just a very mediocre musical with too many bells and whistles.
cdh2585
Swing Joined: 7/15/07
#15re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:44pm
Quote: Wicked!!! WAY overrated
I love how you say that Wicked is overrated but yet your screen name has to do with Wicked.
Updated On: 1/3/08 at 07:44 PM
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#16re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:44pm
spamalot.
That year's best musical should be Light in the piazza.
#17re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:47pm
Piazza DEFINITELY should have won that year. Spamalot was fun, but not best musical.
Mamma Mia was a HUGE disappointment for me . . . I just don't understand how it continues to hang in there.
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#18re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 7:54pm
Rent: Should have closed Off Broadway
The King and I :Apart from the wonderful "Shall We Dance" and when it is staged right, is one of the most beautful moments in Broadway History.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#19re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:06pm
Bugsy Malone
Oliver
Joseph
Everything in life...is only for now.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#21re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:16pm
Disagree with King & I
Ragtime was a better musical than Lion King
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#22re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:16pm
"I certainly won't kill you for it. I fully respect your opinion, but being the Les Mis fanatic that I am, I'm just curious as to what you don't like about it. I'm honestly just curious, and I would never show disrespect for your opinion. "
It's not that I don't think it's good. I think it's great. It's just that I didn't see what all of the fuss was about when it came to the music. I must have very odd tastes in musicals, because I enjoyed the music of "The Pirate Queen" more than Les Mis. Maybe it's just because I couldn't get into it. (Granted I think the story is fantastic, I just didn't like a lot of the music.)
"Light the candles! Get the ice out! Roll the rug up, it's today!"
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#24re: Overrated Musicals?
Posted: 1/3/08 at 8:19pm
Rent - really just not that great.
Starlight Express (for the British anyway) - truly not one of Lloyd Webber's top 5 in my opionion
Wicked - VERY GOOD show, but where would it be without all the fans?
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