Classics that leave you cold

[Orpheum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:47pm

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Death of a Salesman

Mamma Mia

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:48pm

WOW, I didn't realize that Mamma Mia was a revival!! When was it written? I mean, the R&H score IS amazing!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:49pm

My Fair Lady

Evita

The King And I

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:49pm

Carousel

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:50pm

Everything by Jerry Herman (except La Cage - sort of).

I can understand someone not really liking Evita or My Fair Lady (I love them) - but The King and I??? Really?

[Orpheum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:50pm

Annie Get Your Gun

(and shoot yourself)

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:51pm

I didn't realize Mamma Mia is considered a classic.

The revival of "The King and I" with Yul Brynner/Constance Towers left me cold. I was 13 and remember not liking it at all because I couldn't understand a word that Yul Brynner was saying. He made a big point of emphasizing the "etc.'s" though. But then the revival with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips changed my mind (I saw it 8x).

Updated On: 8/24/05 at 04:51 PM

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:51pm

Fiddler...but I am seeing it again when Rosie goes in it!

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:51pm

Kiss Me Kate

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:53pm

All right, I'm going to stop reading this thread because it's just going to make me angry.

[supafreak]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:53pm

Hello Dolly
South Pacific
LaCage
...and I second whoever said Death of a Salesman, Fiddler & Kiss Me Kate.

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:57pm

The Music Man

[JoMarch]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:04pm

Show Boat
The Music Man
Kiss Me Kate
Once Upon a Mattress

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:05pm

South Pacific....I've had just about enough of that.

[Starburst]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:05pm

Oklahoma

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:05pm

yes jasonf, the king and i just didn't interest me. maybe it was the cast i saw... but i found it boring and, BORING.

[Plum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:06pm

Guys and Dolls
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Evita

And...Fiddler on the Roof.

Yes, I'm the world's worst Jew.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:11pm

The Music Man
Annie Get Your Gun
The King and I

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:11pm

i used to like oklahoma, but after doing a production of it, if i hear farmer and the cowman ONE MORE TIME... someone won't see tomorrow

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:13pm

Carousel

Some of the music is great. Some of it is nice. Some mediocre. And one in particular is a complete WTF song. And the story is somewhat f*cked up.

Updated On: 8/24/05 at 05:13 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:18pm

Company

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:20pm

Bite your tongue, gotham! (Or your fingers, I suppose.)

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:21pm

"Bite your tongue, gotham! (Or your fingers, I suppose.)"

Well the ending is that Robert just sort of sneaks off leaving his "friends" sitting around waiting for him. I think it's a cold ending.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:23pm

here's another one 4 Carousel

[joniray]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:28pm

Gypsy
South Pacific - though Carousel is one of my absolute favs - go figure.

I didn't care for Death of a Salesman until I saw the Falls/Dennehy/Franz revival in '99, which I absolutely adored (and sobbed like a baby during). I'm curious as to whether Orpheum saw that production.