Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
#1Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:20pm
There's a silver lining to every dark cloud. Say something nice about shows and people you aren't crazy about.
Wicked-- I love the way it gets so many people into theatre. And I really like the opening number and "What Is This Feeling." It also made Kristin Chenoweth and Norbert Leo Butz household names, which they definitely deserve.
Ruthie Henshall-- She has a very expressive face and a lovely clearness to her voice. She managed to stay on pitch and sing her way through the live recording of Les Miserable's TAC even though she was ill.
Spring Awakening-- "Totally F***ed" is catchy. The concept is interesting, and I like the costumes. It's a great opportunity for really talented young actors to get their chance to shine. There's something really liberating about watching it, too.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#2re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:42pmWhen it's over.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#2re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 5:45pmAh. That, too.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#3re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:20pm
Spamalot - it's, like, closing. All over the place. 
Oh, fine. Okay, it probably deserves some prizes for being a musical that got straight men saying "hey, wanna go see a show?". Sometimes I feel theatre-goers are a little stereotyped (harhar) and it's nice to see producers willing to give us stuff that will reach out to the masses.
#4re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:25pmWhen Terrance Mann says "Oh, yes!" on the Beauty and the Beast cast recording. Don't like him usually, but that's one of my favorite things ever.
#5re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:28pm
Hahahahaha, total opposite reaction from me, CATS!
(Basically, all of his spoken dialogue on that cast recording is hilarious. "Alright... alright... alright... NNNAAAAAAAOOOOW!")
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#6re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:33pm
don't forget "it's... it's... a SUUURRRRPRRIISSSEEE!"
It's the music and I'm its hapless victim
#7re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:36pmI know a four-year-old who phrases everything the exact same way as OBC Beast when he speaks... though, like, nine octaves higher. Maybe Terry was, like, channeling his inner four-year-old? After all, the Beast is basically an overgrown spoiled child.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
geekgirl06
Featured Actor Joined: 11/9/06
#8re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 1/3/09 at 6:45pm
Young Frankenstein has one of the most intricate sets on stage and I did love seeing my money on the stage.
"A Little More Homework" is a really touching song from 13, and it makes me kind of tear up, especially when I think that in a few more years I'm leaving school forever. It seems like it could be a really touching graduation song.
"Defying Gravity" is a wonderful Act I closer, hands down a thrilling moment in the show and is definitely the reason I've seen Wicked twice.
Light in the Piazza is actually a great show. And yes, this totally counts because I really didn't like it at all before I saw it. Same with South Pacific.
The lighting in Equus was wonderful. As were any of the scenes with horses in them.
Jonathan Groff is nice to look at.
Dancing through life...
For the next ten minutes
#9re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 2:16pm
Audra McDonald in Marie Christine says something along the lines of "I can arrange to have the money you need given to you"
it's audra, so it's amazing, but anyone else and it sounds like a bad high school line reading.
It's the music and I'm its hapless victim
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#10re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 2:22pm
13: The pure energy and youth of the cast.
Cats: The amazingness of "Memory".
Idina Menzel: She WAS amazing in Wicked. Even though she breathes weird.
Legally Blonde: How much fun it is.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#11re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 2:22pm"As If We Never Said Goodbye" is not only my favorite song from Sunset Boulevard, it's totally one of my favorite songs of all time. and it's not even really that good a song.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#12re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:57pm
PiraguaGuy2, Idina does breathe weird! I've always noticed that!
Wicked- "Defying Gravity" is a cool moment (the effect, not the song itself) I also like the song "For Good"
Cats- I love most of the choreography by Gillian Lynne. Also, Elaine Paige is amazing!
Seussical- It is a very high-energy show. The score is very catchy.
#13re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 4:20pm
The Fantasticks- Lousia and Matt have some wonderful duets together.
Hello, Dolly!- I love most of the male characters, and it's a great show for dancers.
Men don't even belt.
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#14re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 5:12pm
Seussical- Amazing Score. Great kids show to proform and see.
Ragtime- Moving and I love the score
Wicked-A mega hit, with an it quality about it
#15re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 8:59pm
grey gardens - christine ebersole
passing strange - there is a lot of lyrical genius in some of those songs
<-- 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!)
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!)
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#16re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:00pmJames Barbour - Well, at least he didn't do it with an underage BOY.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#17re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:02pm
Mandy Patinkin-- Well, at least he doesn't sound like an underage GIRL, despite his name.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 09:02 PM
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#18re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:08pm...I don't get it.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#19re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:11pm
He sounds like a thirteen-year-old boy. I was going to make a comment about him, but couldn't figure out how to word it. Your post inspired me, but I guess mine still sucks. *Will have to work on my delivery*
Granted, I still think his range is outstanding, but his voice just rubs me the wrong way.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#20re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:14pm
Lippa's The Wild Party - the riff in The Juggernaut. *and by riff i mean the guitar riff...actually wait the quartets riffing too...and the trumpet and finger snaps intro...okay the whole entire song!*
Wicked - Defying Gravity and some of the amazing belting throughout
Phantom - The Overture
Spamalot - it is damn funny, and got more people interested in Bway
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
Updated On: 2/9/09 at 10:14 PM
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#21re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:27pmI'd hardly call Kristin Chenoweth and Norbert Leo Butz household names.
#22re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/9/09 at 6:43am
I'd hardly call Kristin Chenoweth and Norbert Leo Butz household names.
Yeah, you're right. I was surprised how many little Suburbian nine- and ten-year-old kids know who they are, though!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#23re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/9/09 at 8:09am
Saturday Night Fever - Orfeh almost made the show worthwile. Almost.
Mammia Mia - hated the show, loved the concert-like encore/curtain call.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#24re: Favourite Thing About Shows/Performers You Don't Like
Posted: 2/9/09 at 5:21pm
Pajama Game - Kelli O'Hara was good and I like Steam Heat and There Once Was a Man. Hated Harry Conick and don't like the show itself.
Light in the Piazza - It has a very traditional lovely score. Its just not my type of show.
Spelling Bee - I Speak 6 Languages is kind of catchy but I despise this show.
Erin Davie - She was good in Applause but I generally don't see the hype that was built up for her.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
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