"Bad " Musical You Enjoyed

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"Bad " Musical You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:29pm

I remember seeing Rockabye Hamlet & totally enjoyed it

It was a different take on Shakespeare. The critics, as we know, made it their own tradegy & killed it. I have a 10 track LP of songs from the show plus

Anyone else have their opinion of this or any other musical trashed by the critics where you disagreed with them ?

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#2

re: 'Bad ' Musical You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:31pm

I'm looking forward to seeing Brooklyn. I have the Cast Recording and I hope it comes near me on tour.

I also like Wicked and Mamma Mia if that counts.

Updated On: 3/26/06 at 02:31 PM

#3

re: 'Bad ' Musical You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:32pm

Ugh I hate BROOKLYN with a fiery passion.

I enjoyed TABOO and BOMBAY DREAMS - but I wouldn't really consider them "bad."

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#4

re: 'Bad ' Musical You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:32pm

Good Vibrations (not Shakespeare, but good fun....had I not gotten comps, I wouldn't have thought this way)

Dracula

Ring of Fire

#5

re: 'Bad ' Musical You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:35pm

Movin Out

#6

re: 'Bad ' Musical You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:36pm

Movin' Out isn't a bad musical

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#7

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:36pm

Definitely Dracula
Boy From Oz

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#8

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:39pm

Hey TheaterAddict7652, that's your opnion.

I expected it to be a musical (with dialogue), but ends up being a dancical!! Other people hated it because it's just, well, dancing. But I love the music in it though.

#9

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:43pm

The Billy Joel songs in it are classics--I loved the music even before it was IN the show :)

Choosing from shows that were flops but may not necessarily be bad I like Chess, Sweet Smell of Success, Subways are for Sleeping (the music, wasn't born yet so couldn't see it live), and I enjoy the music from Rags.

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Updated On: 3/4/06 at 02:43 PM

#10

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:46pm

I kind of like "Jekyll and Hyde"....a guilty pleasure

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#11

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:48pm

Well...for that matter...I like the music from all of Wildhorn's shows!

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#12

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:48pm

Jekyll and Hyde is a guilty pleasure of mine...I know I shouldn't like it, but I keep going back to that CD...

#13

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:51pm

I also loved the songs before they were in the show too!!

#14

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 2:58pm

Definitely any Wildhorn show which because anything he writes is automatically a bad show (before it opens) according to the esteemed critics

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#15

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:05pm

No, according to his terrible lyricists, book writers, and directors.

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#16

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:05pm

Suessical

#17

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:07pm

Well, for the record, I loved the original Scarlet Pimpernel.

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#18

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:12pm

Chitty, Taboo...

Look, a pattern.

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#19

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:18pm

IN MY LIFE. It was so bad that I loved it!

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#20

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:36pm

Beauty and the Beast

#21

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:44pm

Definitely Dance of the Vamps

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#22

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:45pm

Seussical and Jekyll and Hyde are both guilty pleasures of mine. I can't help it!

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#23

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:47pm

yea i have to agree, the wildhorn musicals are nice to listen to now and then...

#24

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:48pm

LENNON. Enjoyed it over 10 times.

And every single Wildhorn musical.

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#25

re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed

Posted: 3/4/06 at 3:48pm

I can listen to PIMPERNEL every once in a while, but JH just annoys me, and the rest are downhill from there.

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