I liked Mama Mia! In my opinion (which I know matters, oh, so much) it was fluff but by far the best fluff I've seen in a long while. The book worked a lot better around the songs that I thought it would -- but yes, the material to shape it around isn't Haute Theatre. But it was fun.
I'm dyinggggg to find out more about "Carrie: The Musical" -- I've been on all of the sites, with any relevance, in the first ...12 pages of my Google returns. But alas, no songs or pics -- any help?!
Chitty is probably my ultimate "bad musical" I enjoy. I think all good Chitty fans know how bad it is in places, but that makes us love it even more. Haha.
All Shook Up (which I wouldn't consider bad in the slightest, but it didn't get great reviews...) and Taboo.
"The tick BOOM tick BOOM is so loud I can't hear the rain on the grass. I can't hear the wind. I'm about to scream. But I realize I'm not alone."
I (regretfully) never saw Taboo but after it closed I fell in complete love with the cast recording. The weak book was a big problem with the show, no?
Little Women made me happy for weeks after seeing it, though I'm a huge Sutton fan, so her presence helped greatly. I must say though, Maureen McGovern had the best songs. "Days of Plenty" Still makes me tear up.
I love Chess, too. "Nobody's Side" will come up on my iPod mix every now and then and my friends will look at like I'm insane.
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz
I listen to Jekyll & Hyde and Chess all the time at work. My favortie bad musical is Bat Boy. It's totally ridiculous but so funny and it has really good rock music.
the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of thier dreams
~eleanor roosevelt
I do not know if this musical is considered bad, but I love Kiss of the Spider Woman. The book and movie were just amazing too. (I first saw the movie, then read the book, then saw the musical.) I do like frilly musicals, like Phantom (It was in SF for years and years, never quite got why.) However, II like musicals with some message or historical perspective more. I never hear about Kiss of the Spider woman. I loved Cats when I ssaw it, but I was in my early teens. We eiither just had a showing, or are about to have a showing here again, and the commercials freaked me out. "And you thought we only had 9 lives" a very ugly cat said in a very sinister mamner. I didn't see Lennon, but I bet I would have liked it as I love his music. I had two ex boyfriends who love Abba, and Mamma Mia came around, once during each of oour rrelationships, but never got around to it. Woith tthose two it seems more like a musical rrevue than a musical.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Bad is a concept that you make. So if you enjoyed the show...is it bad?
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
Jekyll and Hyde Brooklyn Little Women Sweet Charity
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
I loved Lennon - saw one of the last tryout performances in SF. And I am looking forward to seeing the Brooklyn tour despite what I've heard about the show. Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast (Original B-Way - before all the cutbacks)
Some people come into our lives and quietly go, others stay a while, and leave footprints on our heart, and we are never the same.
lennon chitty footloose little shop revival lachiusa's wild party- if i remember correctly it didn't get the best reviews you're a good man charlie brown revival
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley