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"Bad " Musical You Enjoyed
#75re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:58pmI love Jekyll & Hyde. Love, love, love. Especially the concept cast. Mmm...
#76re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:56pm
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?!
~Sam
bryan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#77re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:26pmif you guys enjoyed good vibrations and in my life and lennon then all of them should get cast cd's made i whould love to have them in my collection.
#78re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:32pm'Dance of the Vampires' and 'Jekyll & Hyde'
#79re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:46pm
I love any and all Wildhorn...I'll admit it!
I also love Mamma Mia! It's pure fun.
Updated On: 1/31/07 at 12:46 PM
Wicked_fan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/25/04
#80re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:48pm
Brooklyn...
terrible musical, but I enjoyed it. Plus it was the first musical I saw on Broadway, so it's close to my heart.
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"
-Feste from "Twelfth Night"
bigrab1018
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/05
#81re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:50pmBROOKLYN!
"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee
#82re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:55pm
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."
NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#83re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 1:13pm
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
jaybrrd
Understudy Joined: 4/9/05
#84re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:24pm
I'll go with the rest of the thread and say Taboo... and add:
Bright Lights, Big City: Soooo much potential in the original production. So awful. Loved it.
Little Shop Revival: Like pizza, even when its awful its still pretty good -- a testament to the writing.
A Man Of No Importance: Can't figure for the life of me why this didn't charm every last critic -- they're ALL Alfie Byrnes.
And..finally... please don't lose respect for me over this...
Footloose.
Totally rotten, but TOTALLY fun.
#85re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:26pmI know this sounds weird but I actually liked Dracula.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
#86re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:31pmI 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
saschasf
Stand-by Joined: 12/7/05
#87re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:11pm
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.
#88re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:41pm
i agree jaybrrd!
what happened with A Man of No...?
it was such a brilliant show
"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
Sally
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#89re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 7:21pm
Dance of the Vampires---I enjoyed it!
The Woman in White---The reviews didn't condemn it as a bad musical, but it certainly didn't last long. I liked it, music, projections, and all.
#90re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/26/06 at 8:17pm
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
#91re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/27/06 at 3:30pm
All said before, but...
Lennon (oh man, I love this show!)
Brooklyn
Little Women
All Shook Up
#92re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/27/06 at 3:32pm
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
To Kill A Mockingbird
#94re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/27/06 at 6:33pmI 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.
#95re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/27/06 at 7:59pm
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!
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#96re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/27/06 at 8:23pm
In My Life (its a disease, i can't help it)
jekyll&hyde
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#97re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/27/06 at 10:19pm
Aspects of love
Anyone can Whistle
By Jeeves
Other than those I can't think of any at this moment
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#98re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/28/06 at 12:28amHairspray, Chitty and Jekyll and Hyde.
"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
Updated On: 3/28/06 at 12:28 AM
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#99re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/28/06 at 12:55am
These are shows that I loved, and think it's a shame they have a reputation for being "bad":
Lennon (!)
Dance of the Vampires
All Shook Up
Taboo
And, while I enjoyed Good Vibrations, it wasn't a very good show, I'll admit that much.
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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