Children and Musicals
Children and Musicals
#1Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 6:56pm
Ok we may love Children and Art, but can anyone not *stand* children and musicals?
The best example I can think of is "Castle on a Loud", where whenever I hear I want to projectile-vomit.
Thank god in GYPSY the children are used for comedy/parody.
#2Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:16pmRemind me not to sit near you at a show or at least remind me to bring an umbrella.
#2Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:27pmI don't know if I necessarily think the children in Gypsy's main function is comedy/parody.
#3Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:31pm
I agree to say they are only comedy/parody is an extreme oversimplification. Because it's part of the development of the whole story, and obviously as soon as they transition into teenagers/young adults etc.. they become 'real'.
But I mean in the sense that in GYPSY, there is no taking itself overly seriously with the Baby June numbers like there is Castle on a Cloud.
rjm516
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/09
#4Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:41pmOh geez I think the Baby June numbers are wayyy more irritating than Castle on a Cloud.
#5Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:43pmYeah but that's the point. It's hilarious.
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#6Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:52pmUGH I can't stand it when there are children in musicals either. I don't know why but it really bothers me. A lot.
#7Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/4/10 at 9:48pmThis is why I cannot stand Annie. Sitting through it is pure torture.
#8Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 4:15am
Children and the roles they play in musicals aren't always bad
case and point:
Noah in Caroline, or Change
or
Jason in Falsettoland
I think they are very real and effective
#9Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:51amStage managing Oliver with 17 kids in the cast. Miserable.
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#10Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 12:08pmI find working with children in a show is irritating, but find it very cute when watching t them perform on stage. maybe you feel this way due to bad experiences?
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Joined: 12/31/69
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#12Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 12:17pmI actually don't mind watching kids on stage, but I don't know what it is like working with them.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#13Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:11pmThe most obnoxious, annoying kids ever were in the Broadway cast of "big - the musical". The most entertaining part of the evening was watching them act like idiots in Shubert Alley after the show.
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#14Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:16pmSometimes they're good, sometimes they're not. I, personally, can't stand listening to 5-year-old girls shout "It's the Hard-Knock Life", struggling to hit the notes. However, I did like the kids in Billy Elliot.
brightasyellow
Understudy Joined: 7/7/10
PastorErnst
Broadway Star Joined: 4/20/09
#16Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:45pmbwayphreak234, I'm confused. If you can't stand children in musicals, why see Annie?
bwaybug85
Understudy Joined: 1/3/10
#17Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 9:39pmWhat's that quote "Don't ever work with kids or animals unless you want to be upstaged?: Almost every show I saw with a kid in it, they tend to get the loudest applause (other than the leads).
#18Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:43pmI agree AwesomeDanny, I actually LOVED Billy Elliot. The last national tour of Annie I saw was one of the worst productions I have ever seen. The little girls were dreadful.
BosBroad
Stand-by Joined: 7/9/10
#19Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:03pmBrightasyellow - great positive example. I also loved Daisy.
#20Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:23pmI tend to hate most children actors. Mostly, because they OVER ACT EVERYTHING! I also hate working with them. There are only a handful I like.
#21Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/6/10 at 9:44am
Sorry to double post, but this sums up everything I hate about child actors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjtNKo68n94&feature=related
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#22Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:34pm
I very rarely like children's singing. There's one exception because usually I like the girls who play Mary in The Secret Garden. I saw a college production recently and the girl who played her was fantastic.
But what I REALLY hate are boy sopranos. Gustave in Love Never Dies annoys me so much. I only can stand him when he's using his lower register.
Not to mention you get a weird feeling because you have to wonder if those kids are really there voluntarily.
Re the link above: Yeesh.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#23Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:54pm
Maybe you just don't like the song Castle on a Cloud?
#24Children and Musicals
Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:54pmThat Tam from Miss Saigon - what a lil loud mouth brat. All of them.
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