Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal?- Page 2

[ZONEACE]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#25

Posted: 5/14/09 at 8:23pm

Is it not obvious to anyone else that this thread was created intentionally incite a riot??

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

[heo1128]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#26

Posted: 5/14/09 at 8:31pm

dramamama:
"I liked LB....thought it was pure fluff...but really well done and I really had fun.

I loved N2N, for being everything that LB is not. "


Couldn't agree more.

[shh282]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#27

Posted: 5/14/09 at 8:43pm

Mmmm I already have popcorn handy - hooray

Oh, and I like all the shows mentioned..:3

[South Fl Marc]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#28

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:13pm

Love Next to Normal and 9 to 5 - Legally Bland was pure crap and the fans were even worse

[adamgreer]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#29

Posted: 5/14/09 at 9:45pm

Is it not obvious to anyone else that this thread was created intentionally incite a riot??

Which amusingly, hasn't happened yet.

[BroadwayBoy2]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#30

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:23pm

I wouldn't call myself a snob but I see a lot of theatre and I REALLY enjoyed myself at Legally Blonde it was a fun night out at the theatre and went home humming the lyrics, i thought it was a helluva lot better than 9 to 5.

I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"

[tonight]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#31

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:26pm

i love lb, but i really don't like n2n or 9t5.

on the evening of the great crackling is part of a hurricane named karen olivo, whose anita impact of the measure, if it is displayed. olivo, an alum of "in the heights", has an indelible personality, a galvanized insistence that latin women on stage. ~ susanne klatten

[ZONEACE]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#32

Posted: 5/14/09 at 10:31pm

Well, I'm glad you told us, I don't know what we would have ever done without that knowledge.

when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.

[little_sally]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#33

Posted: 5/14/09 at 11:24pm

I hate Legally Blonde but I love Next to Normal. I don't think liking one has anything to do with liking (or disliking) the other though.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[mormonophobic]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#34

Posted: 5/15/09 at 10:50am

Brian, that is actually a really good point. I hadn't thought about that. I was even going to counter with the fact that shows like Nine, 9 to 5, The Producers, Hairspray, and even Billy Elliot are at least adapted from either older films or just movies that weren't huge box office smashes (Billy Elliot may have been well received critically, but it was hardly a smash hit at the box office). At least I was going to counter until I woke up and read the headlines about Spider Man and Bridget Jones' Diary being made into musicals. One which we knew about for a while and both are technically also adapted from a comic and a book, but still. Wow...just wow.

[tazber]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#35

Posted: 5/15/09 at 11:36am

Given its budget, the movie of BE turned a profit.

....but the world goes 'round

[RippedMan]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#36

Posted: 5/16/09 at 7:19pm

It might have turned a profit, but I don't think anyone would categorize it as a "hit." (Yes, I know the term is financially speaking, but it wasn't a mainstream success).

And, I think the best new original musical of the season (or the past couple years) is [Title of Show] - I would see that show numerous times, and I felt so emotionally connected to the show, and I don't know why. When they were happy I was happy. When they were sad, I was sad. I just didn't get that feeling at Next to Normal, and I'm just baffled that so many people seem to connect to that show. I'm not sure why I didn't.

[Mealz1042]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#37

Posted: 5/17/09 at 10:21am

i absolutely adore both shows in very different ways.

<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

[leefowler]

re: Do theater snobs who hate shows like Legally Blonde love Next to Normal#38

Posted: 5/17/09 at 10:43am

Definition of a snob: Someone who doesn't like a show that I like.

Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.