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#1

Guilty pleasure shows?

Posted: 11/11/03 at 10:35am

What musicals or plays do you love despite their bad rap? For me, it'd have to be "Rags" and "Seussical."
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#2

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Posted: 11/11/03 at 10:38am

I like "Rags" as well. I also liked "The Life". Pamela Isaacs and Lillias White have beautiful voices.
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 10:41am

urban cowboy before they cut the opening menage...yum, yum
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 11:42am

Marie Christine.


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Posted: 11/11/03 at 3:06pm

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL! (How I wish they would have brought the revised tour to Broadway!)
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 3:42pm

SUESSICAL
seems to be the guiltiest of guilties....
but I also enjoy
METROPOLIS
(101.1111 get it up to 1.11 let me see that 11 on the dial!)

he he
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:06pm

I liked Cats. There. I've said it.
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#10

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Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:12pm

And not one 'Carrie' lover has posted that horrid failure in this list where it actually belongs.
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:16pm

SEUSSICAL
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:22pm

sweet smell of success, seussical, nd i guess cats hehehe l8r
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 4:44pm

I was also thinking of some others I enjoy when cleaning the house (those I call my guilty pleasures)

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 5:04pm

I alas must be one of those "carrie" posters. Some of the show is just too fun to hate. The mother daughter songs show such brilliance, ferocity, and potential(the duet, 'evening prayers' has the loveliest string arrangement)... I think people love to hate it and only dwell on the multitude of things that went horribly wrong(the sets, the costumes, story holes,etc.) Okay so a lot was wrong... rewrite and revive!!!
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 6:16pm

i saw CATS in the West End mid-80's and it changed my life. i know it's chic to hate it now, but i loved it and it's a great introduction to theatre for kids.

My "guilty pleasures" on stage are usually not musicals...but those atrocious "so-bad-they're-good" nudie comedies (or even more hilarious "dramas") with hot men in them.
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Posted: 11/11/03 at 6:19pm

"The Goodbye Girl". I never did see it on Broadway. I love the cast recording though.

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Updated On: 11/11/03 at 06:19 PM

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Posted: 11/11/03 at 6:25pm

i've posted before, i saw GOODBYE GIRL in Chicago before NYC and loved Martin Short and Bernadette. The show's not great, but they were.
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."
#21

"Carrie," perhaps the definitive guilty pleasure shows

Posted: 11/11/03 at 6:29pm

I agree with Sweeedboy. I saw "Carrie" three times, and have a bootleg audio tape of the final performance. Sweeed is right -- the mom-daughter stuff is another show. Not only not embarrassing, but some of it pretty thrilling. Buckly gave one of her most fully invested performances, and she knocked your socks off late in the show, after Carrie goes to the prom, with "When There's No One." (Only song still performed, though Alice/Em did a stirring version of the Darlene Love number, "Unsuspecting Hearts.")

Even when "Carrie" was over the top -- like the attenuated, tortured title song -- it has real feeling underneath. I hear many people want to perform it, but the authors keep saying no, except for letting Betty do "And Eve Was Weak" with Linzy Hately at Carnegie Hall. But then, those numbers didn't make the album from that evening. The authors themselves seem to have a love-hate relationship with the material -- perhaps appropriate,considering how all over the map the show was.

Any one else here a "Carrie" fan? We should start a separate thread.
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Updated On: 11/11/03 at 06:29 PM

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Posted: 11/11/03 at 6:47pm

B.O. John- How was Metropolis? I wanted to see it desperately in London but it closed before i could see it. Judy Kuhn sounds good on the CD - so does Graham Bickley (what happened to him???...) for that matter. Actually some of the songs are pretty good but some are pretty not.

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