1 word sum up for best musical nominees

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 4:54pm

if u could, sum up the following shows: boy from oz, caroline or change, wicked, and avenue q, each in one word and dont be cruel!
heres mine:
c, or change: gripping
boy from oz: depressing
wicked: thrilling
avenue q: fun(ny)

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:00pm

caroline: harrowing.
boy from oz: exhilirating
wicked: spectacle
avenue q: witty

um...wickedfan? boy from oz was depressing? what show did YOU see?
-d.b.j-

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:04pm

i thought it was..i mean peter allens life was anything but happy...

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:06pm

CAROLINE-moving
WICKED-amazing
AVENUE Q-hilarious
BOY FROM OZ-blah

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:10pm

Boy from Oz-Agitating
Avenue Q-Honest
Wicked-Cheesy
Caroline or Change-Can't really say.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:10pm

hm. i thought his view on life was always to the positive, thus giving the audience (at least ME) an uplifting message. but you can draw from it what you like. whatever stabs your goat.
-d.b.j-

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:11pm

i thought wicked was anything but cheesy..it was exciting!

[HotTicket]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:18pm

Caroline or Change: Disturbing
Boy from Oz: Awesome
Wicked: Good
Avenue Q: Sesame Street Updated On: 6/13/04 at 05:18 PM

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:18pm

1 word...sry to rain on ur parade

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:35pm

Just an observation WickedFan...

if you're asking for a one word summary of each musical, why are you following up with an editorial comment if you don't agree with the poster's one word?

Cheers! Jose'

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:36pm

im just making a point and i was joking wen i said that but read the name of the thread :"1 word sum up for best musical nominees"

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:43pm

Wow, I completely disagree about Peter Allen's life and BFO being depressing. What an incredibly happy life he had and all the friends who knew him always remark at how happy and fulfilled he was up to the end (Liza always talked about how he was the one always cheering HER up). Here's someone achieved and surpassed every single dream he ever had in his life -- from working with all of his childhood idols to winning an Oscar to selling out Radio City for a month and dancing with the Rockettes. He became a national hero in his native Australia and a star around the rest of the world. He was rich, had tons of wonderful friends, a loving and accepting mother and even managed to find the love of his life and live with him for many years. That he and his partner died of AIDS is sad, yes, but that doesn't mean he had a depressing life and I can't fathom how anyone could call "Boy From Oz" a depressing show.

Not to be flip, but everybody dies of something and just about everybody loses a close loved one or two over the course of his life (if you were lucky enough to have loved ones to begin with). For me, AIDS doesn't equal depressing -- very few of the dozens and dozens of friends of mine who died of AIDS over the years had what anyone could term a "depressing life" and none of them ever won an Oscar, none of them were rich, and not all of them were surrounded by family and friends when they passed away as Allen was (many were rejected and estranged from their families, who had considered them "dead" years before they had become infected).

Despite the melodramatic handling of the end of Allen and his lover's story, BFO strikes me as a campy, silly, giddily happy confection, all fluff and flash, just as Peter Allen would have wanted it -- to me, there just wasn't anything in it to take seriously enough to get depressed about.

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:44pm

really? true but...i dunno...pretty good show tho

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:47pm

Margo I apologize that such a well thought out and superbly written response was given a reply such as wickedfan330's

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:49pm

wtf is ur problem!!!???? im not being mean its a friggin opinion...god...myob

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:52pm

If you're going to post your "opinion" on a message board that anyone can read then I'm sorry, but I find it my business, or anyone else's for that matter, to read it.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:52pm

lets not bring "f" into this...

ooh and margo. RIGHT ON! we agree quite often.
-d.b.j-

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:52pm

Well, I'm kind of the asshole of the board. And I just plain don't care for you.

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:53pm

u said it

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 5:57pm

"wtf is ur problem!!!????"

Ur was an ancient city in Mesopotamia.

Can you be bothered to type like a human being?

[wickedfan330]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 6:01pm

its called abbreviating...

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 6:01pm

Thank you for clearing that up.

[NYCbabe3789]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 6:03pm

Sumofall you didn't say it right! It's "thank u 4 clearin that ^"

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 6:03pm

"its called abbreviating..."

No, it's called presenting yourself as a lazy, mouth-breathing cretin.

[NuggetMonkeys]

Posted: 6/13/04 at 6:52pm

Ditto + 1 !
-d.b.j-