Children and Musicals

#1

Children 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.

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#2

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:16pm

Remind me not to sit near you at a show or at least remind me to bring an umbrella.

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#3

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:27pm

I don't know if I necessarily think the children in Gypsy's main function is comedy/parody.

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#4

Children 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.

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Updated On: 8/4/10 at 07:31 PM

#5

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:41pm

Oh geez I think the Baby June numbers are wayyy more irritating than Castle on a Cloud.

#6

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:43pm

Yeah but that's the point. It's hilarious.

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#7

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/4/10 at 7:52pm

UGH I can't stand it when there are children in musicals either. I don't know why but it really bothers me. A lot.

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#8

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/4/10 at 9:48pm

This is why I cannot stand Annie. Sitting through it is pure torture.

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#9

Children 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

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#10

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:51am

Stage managing Oliver with 17 kids in the cast. Miserable.

#11

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 12:08pm

I 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?

#12

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 12:13pm

Ragtime. God, those horrible kids!

#13

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 12:17pm

I actually don't mind watching kids on stage, but I don't know what it is like working with them.

#14

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:11pm

The 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.

#15

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:16pm

Sometimes 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.

#16

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:34pm

I loved Daisy Eagan in Secret Garden...

#17

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:45pm

bwayphreak234, I'm confused. If you can't stand children in musicals, why see Annie?

#18

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 9:39pm

What'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).

#19

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:43pm

I 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.

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#20

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:03pm

Brightasyellow - great positive example. I also loved Daisy.

#21

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:23pm

I 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.

#22

Children 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

#23

Children 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.

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#24

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:54pm

Maybe you just don't like the song Castle on a Cloud?

#25

Children and Musicals

Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:54pm

That Tam from Miss Saigon - what a lil loud mouth brat. All of them.