GUILTY PLEASURES....

#1

GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:39pm

What show do you LOVE that you know is no damn good.

My show is BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC. The score is a hoot. I'm still kicking myself for choosing to see Diana Rigg in MEDEA instead of WHOREHOUSE. I was in high culture mood. But after reading the script and hearing the score, I know I made the made the biggest theatrical mistake of my life.

What is your show?

Updated On: 12/15/05 at 10:39 PM

#2

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/15/05 at 3:07am

"Love" is probably a little strong. But the musical that I know all the words to and still consider terrible and saccharine and contributing to the demise of musical theatre:
Wicked.

One that I own the OBC of, but don't listen to religiously:
Zanna, Don't!

Musicals that have songs I enjoy (despite words exchanged with Marc Shaiman on one of these very message boards):
Hairspray
Footloose

But I should tell you that a search for this topic came up with:

GUILTY PLEASURES....
Favorite Guilty Pleasure
Guilty Pleasures Question
Guilty pleasure musicals
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure Flop
Your guiltiest pleasure
Our Guilty Pleasures...
GUILTY PLEASURES
Guilty Pleasure Shows
Guilty pleasure shows?
Guilty Pleasures

---

theatre.

#3

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/15/05 at 3:40am

Peter Allen in "Legs Diamond" - (I STILL don't know what all the fuss was about? I Loved it!)

---

"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor

#4

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/15/05 at 1:42pm

I'm surprised no CARRIE fans have chimmed in.

Updated On: 12/15/05 at 01:42 PM

#5

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/15/05 at 4:02pm

Probably because they all already chimed in on the twelve or so other threads on this topic.

EDIT: Wow, I was right, it's actually exactly twelve!

---

theatre.

#6

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/15/05 at 5:56pm

Thanks, Shortydudette, It is indeed a popular topic. I'll check out those threads. Moving on, anyone else interested in sharing on this topic is cordially and respectfully invited to post on this thread.

Updated On: 12/16/05 at 05:56 PM

#7

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/15/05 at 6:05pm

Closer to Heaven. EEK.

---

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#8

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 1:47pm

I don't know CLOSER TO HEAVEN? Who wrote it? What is it about?

#9

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 2:00pm

Lennon, although I couldn't see myself liking it that much if not for the cast.

---

Truth is beauty.

#10

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:30pm

I don't consider CARRIE a guilty pleasure. The score, IMO, is gorgeous and underrated, and Betty Buckley has never sounded better. It's such a shame the score was never (legally) recorded.

My guilty pleasure is the GREASE cast recording with Rosie O'Donnell.

#11

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:38pm

OMG Melissa Errico Fan that's one of mine too! Billy Porter is amazing and I actually was a huge Rosie fan back in the day when she had her show.

Cheers,

C.

---

www.christopherviolett.com

#12

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:55pm

Starlight Express...I grew up on the OLC.

---

Whatever happened to class?

#13

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:58pm

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Even though most of the songs are filler and I skip a couple of them, the ones that I do listen to I rather like.

P.S. Agreed with Wicked and Footloose!

#14

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:58pm

Yes, Carrie isn't a guilty pleasure. Just a pleasure.

Maybe, for me, ROZA is a guilty pleasure.

#15

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:59pm

hah, Roza.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. REALLY guilty pleasure.

---

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#16

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:00pm

Shut up!

Updated On: 12/16/05 at 06:00 PM

#17

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:01pm

---

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#18

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:02pm

I think there's a new picture of Adam's mullet on the RENT blog. Go find it.

#19

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:02pm

You LIE.

---

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#20

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:03pm

You LOOK...ed.

#21

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:06pm

I love ROZA!

#22

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:06pm

And I forgot about Amour!

#23

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:16pm

I really wouldn't call AMOUR a guilty pleasure either. The score is intoxicatingly beautiful.

#24

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:19pm

i love Jekyll and Hyde....yeah, i know.

#25

re: GUILTY PLEASURES....

Posted: 12/16/05 at 10:26pm

Oh, yeah!

Dracula!