BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions- Page 2

[Gothampc]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#25

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:03am

I think Broadway is too slick these days. The actors don't have the sparkle that actors years ago had. I don't think Mary Martin (who I always affectionately thought of as a warbler rather than a singer) could make it in a musical today.

I used to think Betty Buckley was a wonderful singer. But the more I listen to her, she has a metallic quality in her voice that I don't like.

I never "got" Bernadette Peters as being considered the chief interpreter of Sondheim. Cleo Laine's Sondheim album is superior to anything Bernadette attempted.

Neil Patrick Harris bores me.

Faith Prince never got her respect as a Broadway diva. Her performance of "Holding to the Ground" in Falsettos (albeit off-Broadway) was brilliant.

Joe Papp would be ashamed at what Shakespeare in the Park has turned into - selling the best seats to corporate sponsors.

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.

Updated On: 6/14/13 at 11:03 AM

[all that jazz]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#26

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:03am

I adore Audra Mcdonald's voice, but I HATE, when she speaks lyrics with that annoying dumb accent, like at about 55 sec. into this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxP8cI1Lnf4

ALW is my favorite composer and I'm not afraid to say it.

I also love Elena's Evita.

I don't care much for R&H, although I love Carousel.

[BrerBear]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#27

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:27am

I think Jonathan Larson wrote some of the cheesiest lyrics of all time.

Too soon?

[GilmoreGirlO2]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#28

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:40am

I thought Tracey Letts was a woman for longer than I care to admit.

You’re not alone. I was so excited that a woman had written “August: Osage County.”

[gchris11]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#29

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:46am

I hate Matilda!!!
I think A Christmas Story was the best show of the season and deserved the Tony.

[John Adams]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#30

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:50am

Is there no way to merge or copy/paste this thread with the original?

[Wishing Only Wounds]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#31

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:50am

I enjoyed Stark Sands a lot more than Billy Porter in Kinky Boots

I LOVED Tarzan

Formerly: WishingOnlyWounds2 - Broadway Legend - Joined: 9/25/08

[The Other One]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#32

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:54am

I never need to see another guy in a dress on Broadway. Bo-ring!

[lovebwy]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#33

Posted: 6/14/13 at 11:54am

I despise Kristin Chenoweth and that giant vain in her forehead.

I just don't get Daphanie Rubin Vega.

I'd like to do watersports with Jeremy Jordan and then get hit by a bus.

[gchris11]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#34

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:03pm

^^^ I want to watch!!! LOL

[dramamama611]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#35

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:08pm

Why oh why did I get demerits? I wasn't nasty in way!

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[broadwaybabytn]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#36

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:09pm

Sometimes Bernadette Peters' self-indulgence is too much for me. I appreciated Catherine Zeta-Jones' performance in A Little Night Music more than Bernadette's, despite a brilliant "Send In the Clowns."

I thought Rachel Bay Jones gave a much more interesting performance than any featured actress this season except possibly Andrea Martin. In fact, Andrea Martin was the only nominee in the category I actually thought should have been nominated.

[Brian07663NJ]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#37

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:10pm

Wishing Only Wounds... really? You loved Tarzan??? interesting - not judging you.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#38

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:14pm

I hate RENT with a passion.
The love story in CAROUSEL doesn't work for me and I'll never get into it, I find the character of Julie bland and boring.
I think Jane Krakowski is one of the most underrated performers in musical theatre. Donna Murphy is my all time favorite musical theatre actress, and I wanted her to win the Tony for LOVEMUSIK.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[Wishing Only Wounds]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#39

Posted: 6/14/13 at 12:53pm

Brian, I really did! I was shocked to read how much most people disliked it. I've always loved the movie, and it wasn't the best point in my life when the musical was around...maybe I needed a nostalgic pick me up. I'm not trying to make excuses for my enjoying it, as I'll stand by it, I just usually agree with the masses with opinions like that, but I thoroughly enjoyed Tarzan.

The Lion King though, is a different story. How that has stayed open and Beauty and The Beast and Mary Poppins have been axed will never cease to amaze me.

Formerly: WishingOnlyWounds2 - Broadway Legend - Joined: 9/25/08

[DramaticSquirrel]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#40

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:21pm

Hi all! First post:

I like Neil Patrick Harris, but am sick of him hosting the Tonys.

I enjoyed "Lestat" and "Spiderman: Turn off the Dark" (I know, I know...)

I loved Megan Hilty in "Smash" but did not really enjoy her interpretation of Glinda in "Wicked" (granted it she was still the standby at the time I saw her so I'll give her a pass).

Alan Cumming should have been nominated for a Tony for "Macbeth"

[broadway guy]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#41

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:26pm

- FOLLIES sucks
- Seussical is a good show
-Laura Osnes has a shrill and unlikeable voice.
- Kinky Boots is a horrible and mediocre show
- No one can even compare to match the quality of Patti lupone in EVITA.
-Sweeney Todd isnt really good.
-The Les Mis movie was a messs and full of mediocrity and missifres except for Hatheway ( who was heaven)
-Sondheim's music is bland except for a few shows
- Andrew Lloyd webbeer hasnt done a good show since Phantom.

Updated On: 6/14/13 at 01:26 PM

[FindingNamo]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#42

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:37pm

I dislike broadway guy. I know, "join the club."

Twitter @NamoInExile Instagram none

[Jordan Catalano]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#43

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:42pm

I love Namo more and more every day.

And I'm a proud member of that club.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#44

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:44pm

Raul Esparza isn't a great singer to me.

I liked BROOKLYN.

Ahrens and Flaherty are the most underrated composing team on Broadway.

I don't think Jonathan Larson was a great lyricist, either.

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[FindingNamo]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#45

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:45pm

"Why oh why did I get demerits?"

You do not get demerits, you issue them! You're the Professor McGonnagall of BWW. And with that, I get two points taken from Gryffindor.

Twitter @NamoInExile Instagram none

Updated On: 6/14/13 at 01:45 PM

[Kad]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#46

Posted: 6/14/13 at 1:57pm

I had no idea people on this board had controversial opinions.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[broadway guy]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#47

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:01pm

- Matilda should have won best musical
- A little night music sucks
- Catherin Zeta Jones deserved her Tony award
- Sound of music is a horrible show
- Wicked deserved best musical over Avenue q
- In the heights isn't good.
- I liked Little Mermaid
- Sierra Boggess is one of the most talented ladies working in the industry right now.
- Patti Lupone deserved to win for Anything Goes
- The Into the Woods film will probably be a huge mess.
- Streep is all wrong to play the witch
- Cats is a great Musical
- Jane Lynch is better than Kate
- Ricky Martin was great in the Evita Revival
- GHOST sucks
- Spring awakening is mediocre
- Memphis sucks
- NPH is a bad singer.
- Lea Michelle is crazy talented and most of the haters are just jealous that they will never have her talent.
- Amy Adams wasn't good as the Baeker's wife
-Madonna was the worst Evita i have ever seen
- I like Urinetown

[dreaming]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#48

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:17pm

-Sierra Boggess is very talented
-Catherine Zeta-Jones deserved her Tony
-I totally concur with broadway guy regarding Meryl Streep as the Witch (I think Catherine Zeta-Jones might have been better)
-I didn't love In the Heights no matter how hard I tried
-Passion is a great musical

Updated On: 10/19/14 at 02:17 PM

[all that jazz]

BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions#49

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:23pm

"Lea Michelle is crazy talented and most of the haters are just jealous that they will never have her talent."

^Amen!

"I think Broadway is too slick these days. The actors don't have the sparkle that actors years ago had. I don't think Mary Martin (who I always affectionately thought of as a warbler rather than a singer) could make it in a musical today."

I wholeheartedly agree, most of the new actors on Broadway feel like robots to me. Legends like Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Loudon, Elaine Stritch and Liza couldn't have made it on today's Broadway.