BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions — Page 24

My recently developed controversial opinion is that, although Katie Travis (Christine in the POTO tour) is one of the best Christines I've seen, and surpasses a few of the icons, most of the recent leads in national tours are not up there with their Broadway counterparts. The supporting performers, however, are often superb. A notable exception to substandard leads is the Wicked tour. If/Then is also an exception, for obvious reasons.

Audrey Liebross

Kinky Boots was just boring. Seeing a musical about shoes is not my cup of tea.

-I find Fun Home hard to sit through.

-Lesli Margherita's singing sounds like screeching. She is rude, obnoxious, and full of her self. Her fans are annoying as anything. I would enjoy if she just disappeared from Broadway.

-13 the Musical should have lasted longer.

-The overhyping of Hamilton and School of Rock is getting really old.

Ditto about Lesli's singing/screeching although she seems like a very nice lady

g.d.e.l.g.i., precisely what I meant!

It's an argument for shortening the show, in response to Audrey's proposition that reducing it to a one act would involve cutting songs out. I think that all the songs could be kept in shortened form to make a streamlined and slicker show (except maybe the counterpoint act finale which I would actually be sad to see go).

I liked Lena Hall until I started following her on Instagram.

I hated Something Rotten. HATED. The only reason I stayed past intermission was to hear Christian Borle sing It's Hard To Be The Bard.

I have watched Legally Blonde on YouTube like twenty times.

Here goes

i thought Bonnie and Clyde was the best musical of that season and both leads were outstanding. Can't help thinking if it was not a a Wildhorn show that the critics would have been far more positive.

i really enjoyed the London musical Desperately Seeking Susan and thought the Blondie songs fitted the narrative far more than most jukebox musicals (thought the production was ugly)

I think a fun jukebox musical exists in Good Vibrations but they messed it up, my company is trying to get permission to rewrite the entire show.

Broadway has become far too snobby to fun light musicals such as Legally Blonde, a show I thought was a modern day musical comedy classic (the London production was better). I also think The Wedding Singer was great.

Im the personal responsible for finding the RSC video of Carrie the Musical (I may have stolen it from the archives at the RSC, copied it and sent it back about 14 years ago) so if you don't like that Carrie has lived on then blame me.

I thought Madonna was great in Evita.

I hate phantom, Wicked, Les Mis, Annie and Cats. I also think Starlight Express is one of the most embarrassing shows in theatre history.

As a brit Im supposed to prefer the UK version of Taboo but I don't, the orchestrations and new songs for Broadway were better and whilst Charles Busch book wasn't perfect it was better than the UK book. I also think Taboo was the best new musical of that season (above Wicked, Ave Q and the hugely overrated Caroline or Change)

Patti LuPone is terrible an overrated and loves her own hype.

Betty was the far superior Norma Desmond. Also I adored Sunset.

i think people's obsession with bashing Leah Michelle and Ryan Murphy on here says more about them than who they are bashing.

I believe that a stage Version of Elm Street could work if it was stripper back and explored fears and nightmares.

Chicago go is a great score wrapped in a cheap production.

I enjoyed the flawed Rent Movie and thought that Rent Remixed in the UK was one of the funniest shows I've ever seen.

I don't get why so many want Zorro to go to a Broadway, watched it here in the UK and it was dull and cheap (though Leslie was great as was Emma Williams)

Hate Sunday in the Park, boring and self indulgent.

Really enjoyed Ghost and thought it mixed movie visuals and live theatre together perfectly.

I hated Phantom of the Opera, like a lot. I found it horribly repetitive and thought the story was lame. Some of the songs are good in isolation but together they are a snoozefest.

I also hated A Little Night Music. I know many people hail it as "Sondheim's masterpiece" but I thought it poorly written, boring and didn't know what it wanted to be.

Betsy Wolfe is the most underrated actresses in the business and I continue to wait for her to get her big break. For me she is the definitive Cathy and she was the only good part of Bullets Over Broadway.

Carly Rae Jepsen was fantastic in "Cinderella", and if she had originated the role she also would have been Tony nominated, just as Laura's amazing performance was. I can't wait to see her make a return to Broadway.

RE: Carol Channing - Would have gone to see her on stage/concert instead of Lupone, any day.

I confess that I went to see Hamilton prepared to rip it apart but left speechless and admit that it was the best live theater performance I have ever seen. So no controversy there except with my "traditional" theater inner self.

School of Rock is the most fun show I have seen in a very long time.

If A view from the bridge had an intermission i would have left...sorry.