GREY GARDENS for Best Musical 2007 — Page 5

"That is probably the most ignorant thing I've ever read."

Gee thanks. That's my opinion. I thought he shouldn't have won. I prefered Harold Wheeler's work that year.

"Caroline or Change is probably the only score I've ever heard that I found more bland and boring than Grey Gardens. That was way beyond awful."

Oh no he did not!

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I'm sorry if my opinions make me unpopular - but I can't make myself like something I hated. And Caroline or Change is without doubt the most painfully awful experience I have ever had in a theatre in over 30 years as an avid musical theatre fan. I know each person has different ideas of what they like. I just did not like Grey Gardens and found Caroline or Change to be pretentious in the extreme and painfully untuneful.

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bob,

I can understand not liking Caroline on one hearing. However, listen to the opening sequence with Caroline, the Washing Machine, the Radio and the Dryer again. (It's the first 7 or 8 tracks.) Do yourself a favor. It's brilliant writing.

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I wasn't all that impressed with Caroline when I first saw it. Yeah, I liked it and yeah Tonya Pinkins was extraordinary, but I still think that The Light in the Piazza is bound to join Grey Gardens as the two masterpieces of the decade more than Caroline.

<< Caroline or Change is probably the only score I've ever heard that I found more bland and boring than Grey Gardens. That was way beyond awful.
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WHAT !!!!!!???????????????


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bon8rich, I used to think Caroline wasn't subtle and spoon-fed it's audience (like when Caroline shouts "I can't hardly read") during "Lot's Wife". Don't get me wrong, I did feel it clearly had a great score with rich music (with great melodies), but I didn't get how brilliant it was and how much of it flew over my head until I actually listened to it about a year or two later (and I grew up some).

I think it's an incredibly American story about struggles most of the working-class can relate to. I think stories like Caroline need to be told more often because most people are like Caroline who have struggles with their dreams and life not being what they thought it would be. Bitterness, resentment, and anger but also acceptance and getting through life and trying to kill the part of you that makes you hateful. I felt it was incredibly moving, and I was glad to see a show with so much thought given to ordinary people (not just show people or middle to upper-class WASPs) and showed them battling their struggle in a realistic way.

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:Prays:

:Hopes:

:Wishes:

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Oh Jesus.

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grey gardens was boring. legally blonde had life and heart

im not ten

lwoods...

GO AWAY! Legally Blonde was a piece of S-H-I-T. It had an awful score, tacky design, a bland cast and surprisingly annoying direction and choreography by a choreographer who I've admired a great deal in the past. The folks that decice the Tony nominations most likely won't give it a spot in the Best Musical category. Good for them! It doesn't deserve it.