BROADWAY SECRETS: Wherein we confess our controversial opinions- Page 3

[broadway guy]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:24pm

CZJ wouls have been PERFECT for the witch. Streep will be fine but CZJ would have knocked it out of the park. Missed Opportunity.

[dreaming]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:28pm

Yes indeed. I totally agree there.

[sondheim94]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:55pm

I really enjoyed Spider-Man early in it's previews

[hanschens]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 2:59pm

- I love Wicked, but I can't stand the obc
- I really can't stand Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel or Stephanie J Block
- I prefer the Newsies movie to the broadway show
- I enjoy watching the Legally Blonde musical, but I find the music to be incredibly mediocre
- I really don't like Next to Normal
- Samantha Barks was a terrible Eponine
-Sierra Boggess is extremely overrated (that diction- ouch)
- Aaron Tveit is overrated
- Shrek the Musical was really great visually

[ABB2357]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:00pm

I can't believe Billy Porter got a Tony for playing that cliche, offensive, and retrograde drag queen stereotype. And his performance did the role no favors.

I think Lin Manuel Miranda is an overrated one trick pony.

Patti LuPone's Rose was a one note, self-indulgent train wreck.

NEXT TO NORMAL is bland and uninspired. No idea how it won a Pulitzer.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:17pm

I loved Matthew Broderick in NICE WORK...

I hated PASSING STRANGE.

I had a crush on Christian Borle in LEGALLY BLONDE.
(okay, maybe that's not controversial. Just weird...)

Updated On: 3/23/15 at 03:17 PM

[mormontorentandback]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:21pm

I don't like Spring Awakening and I feel Jonathan Groff was the best part not JGJ. I also really liked Lea Michele. And I do believe the score for SW is one of the most boring scores ever.

Patti LuPone is overrated. She is great in Evita, but otherwise her performances are recycled. The fact she won a tony and Bernadette Peters didn't for Gypsy irks me to no end.

Sutton Foster is the only Reno Sweeney I can stand. I felt her performance was the first time someone got the role right.

I was SOOOO done with NPH at these Tony Awards. But I think he did a good job this year. That opening number was one of the best in awhile.

I think The King and I is one of the worst if not the worst shows out there, but I still love Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Daphne Rubin-Vega's performance as Mimi was so atrocious. Even though she was the only actress in the role to work one on one with Larson, her interpretation does not work.

I love Legally Blonde! I think it is such a fun, hilarious and unique show. Laura Bell Bundy is flawless and so are other members of that cast.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:24pm

Lea Michele's career and talented is being ruined by GLEE. Everything she does now will be in her dramatic Rachel Berry style.
I actually really like LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL.
PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT was also a really good show.
Sierra Boggess needs to choose better vehicles to establish herself. She should be doing everything Laura Osnes has been doing.
JEKYLL & HYDE has one of the best scores of the 1990's.
WICKED and NEWSIES should have won Best Musical.
THE LITTLE MERMAID has an incredible score.

[James2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:38pm

Most of Spring Awakening's score stinks.

Douglas Hodge was a much better Cyrano de Bergerac than Kevin Kline.

Hair is Diane Paulus's only well-directed Broadway revival.

Taylor Louderman in Bring It On was way more deserving of a Best Actress nomination than Patina Miller in Pippin.

I liked The Road to Mecca.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:46pm

Nathan Lane deserved an Oscar for his role on The Birdcage,

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:51pm

Tim Curry deserved an Oscar for ROCKY HORROR.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:51pm

Nathan Lane deserved the Tony for The Nance, yes, even over Tracey Letts. Which reminds me--

I found Tracey Letts' performance as George mannered and mechanical compared to the breath of fresh air that was Amy Morton.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:56pm

I love how most of these aren't controversial opinions at all. They're just OPINIONS.

[CJ N2N]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 3:59pm

Spring Awakening is the most accurate portrayal of being a teenager I've seen (well, based on, shall we say, "videos" I've seen).

I haven't been able to get completely through any Jekyll and Hyde CD I've ever had.

I love the new songs in Carrie but I think the orchestrations are god awful and think it deserves a larger orchestra like it did in the 80s.

There should be a You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown revival off-Broadway running constantly (a la The Fantasticks).

Horror musicals can work.

I'm excited for American Psycho and really hope it transfers.

I loved both revivals of Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell (I had fun during it!).

I think the whole Sondheim v. Lloyd Webber argument is stupid. I personally prefer Sondheim, but they are two completely different composers.

I think Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is hysterical and should've run longer.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 4:04pm

"There should be a You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown revival off-Broadway running constantly (a la The Fantasticks)."

But without the new music.

I think the problem with that idea is that every church, community theater, school, daycare and nursing home does YAGMCB. Would anyone come into NYC to see it when they can see Little Timmy and Big Sis doing it locally.

[evd1232]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 4:16pm

I'm kinda obsessed with The Capeman OBC

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 4:30pm

Spring Awakening is the only show I have seen twice in one week and I went by myself both times. I think the score has breathtaking moments. I think it had a vision of what it was trying to do and succeeded on that level tremendously.

I loved both the original Broadway production of Into the Woods AND the revival. I loved the original Broadwat production of Angels in America AND the off-Broadway revival.

Seeing Hairspray the Monday night before it opened on a hot August night was one of the most ebullient experiences I have ever had in a theater.

[IronMan]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 4:46pm

Charlotte D'Amboise is a talented ensemble performer and nothing more. I don't understand why anyone casts her in speaking parts (or solo dance roles, for that matter). She's the definition of 'mediocre' to me, and her Cassie was so ironic (being that she IS a performer who belongs in the ensemble) that it was laughable.

For more of my opinions, see that other, longer thread.

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:13pm

I don't get Matthew Broderick. BLAND in every way.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:14pm

^ Agreed, but that's GOT to be the vast majority view, no?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:31pm

Broadway secrets?
Elaine Stritch was a drunk
Liza Minnelli was a druggie and lip-synched
Mary Martin was a lez
Ethel Merman had a mouth like a sailor
Uta Hagen was doing the horizontal mambo with Paul Robeson
Patti LuPone likes to yell at stage managers

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:32pm

oh, I didn't know that. I thought he was widely admired as a performer.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:56pm

The Book of Mormon was an overlong episode of South Park. Eh.

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 6:06pm

Carol Channing had a little accident on stage.

[ArtMan]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 6:48pm

Once bored me. The Book of Mormon was so overrated. I like Patti Lupone, but don't get the diva worship. Love the entire score to Evita. I don't get people who see shows in the double digits. A couple of times, maybe. I would think it would start to be boring. To each their own. I love ushers who enforce policy (cell phones, talking, etc) at shows. Hate the ones who are too lazy to do their job.