"I Don't Get It": Well-Liked Performers You Don't Enjoy- Page 6

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 5/29/09 at 11:13pm

Listen, we all have our opinions about people. But the level of immaturity in some reasonings for dislike is disrespectful to the hard work and talent many of these performers (note not necessarily all) have shared with audiences for years.

Let me start off by syaing that the performers I do not like are the ones who are lazy and consistently bring nothing new from role to role.

Let me continue by stating that every actor brings pieces of themselves to a role.

Performers such as Raul Esparza, Patti LuPone, and Bernadette Peters are not the greatest singers of our time. But what sets them apart from many is their drive to tell stories. They give 110% at arguably each and every one of their performances. They serve their audiences and create dynamic, thrilling performances that are remembered for years. Acting drives everything.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/29/09 at 11:14pm

OMG, PJ! Quit trying to convince people to "get" Merman. Some of us just don't like her voice, okay?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 5/29/09 at 11:36pm

ThankstoPhantom - Some of us don't have the luxury to see them in person and our only "Broadway experience" is the cast recording and that is what I am basing my opinions off of (except for Sutton, whom I saw in person)

Updated On: 5/29/09 at 11:36 PM

[chiuptown]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 7:14am

i know this will not fly but Barbara Cook gets on my nerves

[faithzilla]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 12:22pm

Patti in Gypsy. Love her anywhere else. Didn't like Gypsy.

Kristen in Wicked. Her Popular was bland, bland, bland.

[maggiwun2]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 12:40pm

Lizzie, I think you and I share the same taste. We both like Eric Kunze and not Patti LuPone. Saw Patti in the tour with Mandy Patinkin and she sounded extremely nasally. After awhile that got really annoying.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 2:31pm

Andrea Marcovicci. Seen her in person once. Once too many.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 4:08pm

OH, there's another one.

Mandy Patinkin. His lower range is really good but he goes into falsetto WAY too much and it is horrendous.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 7:05pm

Mandy Patinkin. LOVE him as an actor. I don't get his singing.

I may get a lecture on his resume or entire pedigree, but Colm Wilkinson, though a great singer, has very annoying diction to me. It's like Sean Connery as Valjean. That very proper, closed jaw sounding enunciation irritates the hell out of me.

Granted my opinions are based on different things, few are ones based on live performances, as I'm not one who just sees Broadway shows in my spare time. I'm not an NYC brat. Nor one with oh so much experience in the theatre that I can write the book.

And of course Adam Lambert, but we all know how I feel about that screechy tranny mess. Still don't get him.
Not too fond of Constantine Maroulis, either. I don't get him. Never got Frenchie Davis either. But enough of reality rejects.

I love Ethel Merman, that clip of her singing to Fozzie was so sweet. And Patti doesn't annoy me, except when she tries an accent. She's grown on me, though.

I don't care for her Fantine, or Mrs. Lovett in the 2005 Revival of Sweeney Todd (I prefer her 2001 concert performance). But since it's an either/or thing, love her or hate her, I love her.

I also don't get Marty Thomas. Or Nick Adams. Or Craig Bierko.

And I don't get Sarah Brightman, when she's singing musical theatre music. I do love "Harem" though.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 8:41pm

Mandy Patinkin. His lower range is really good but he goes into falsetto WAY too much and it is horrendous.

That is exactly how I feel. And the sort of odd nasality of his voice, both tone and pronunciation... there are moments of his singing that I think are great, and moments that really get on my nerves.

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 10:54pm

Idina Menzel (of all the actresses up for Tonys that year they gave it to the only one that can't act!)

Rebecca Luker

Christina Applegate (I know it was only that one time but I have yet to recover)

Kerry Butler

[provocation]

Posted: 5/30/09 at 10:55pm

J52-- SO AGREE about Kerry. She's awful.

[murron]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 7:33am

Idina Menzel, Scarlett Strallen, Michael Crawford, Ashley Brown and Kerry Ellis all come to mind

[EganFan2]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:09am

ETHEL MERMAN
Kristin Chenoweth (sometimes her singing voice isn't annoying, like when she sings operatically)

[AngusN]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:09am

Angela Lansbury - decent actress, although similar in everything she does. Terrible singer - her voice is not nice to listen to, at all. Very, very, VERY overrated performer.

And would agree with the majority, Idina.

[James885]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:08pm

Kristin Chenoweth - Her voice just irritates the hell out of me. I don't mind her singing voice though.

Lea Michelle

Nick Adams

Idina Menzel - I saw her in London's Wicked and she yelled and screamed her way through the entire show.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 6:12pm

Oh! Michael Cerveris is another one. Same with Mandy Patinkin and Harvey Fierstein.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 10:25pm

I can't hardly stand listening to Mandy Patinkin in general. But what really gets me is him singing "Soon its Gonna Rain" from the Fantasticks with Kristin Chenoweth. I want to tear my eyes out!

Adam Pascal also really doesn't do it for me. Everytime I listen to Aida or Rent, I'm just don't get him. But when I saw him live in Rent I liked him alot more. Maybe he just has one of those voices that doesn't record well.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 11:29pm

Marin Mazzie

Celia Keenan-Bolger

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Matt Cavanaugh

Brian D'Arcy James

Scott Nevins

Kate Shindle

...among others.

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[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/31/09 at 11:38pm

...how could I forget:

"Stew"
(Passing Strange)

SO don't get it.

[srg129]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 2:42am

Any of the boys from Billy Elliot. Great phenominal dancers. However, very mediocre actors and singers with obvious pitch difficulties probably due to impending puberty. They have a future for dance only.

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 8:14am

That woman who ruined GYPSY last year. What was her name? Oh. Evita Peron. Yes. Her.

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 8:18am

Alice Ripley-- I don't get the craze. Her acting is okay and her voice is annoying and pitchy.

Patti Lupone- Her vibratto and "jaw" are really annoying.

Mary Testa- Thought her performance in G&D was overrated.

[sarahsmile]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 3:04pm

ha ha! great post, in my opinion these ar e the two
Kerry Butler
Karen Ziemba
i love to hate the most!
Ed
http://www.smartlyrics.com

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 6/1/09 at 9:18pm

What's with all the Patti hating??? I think she is an amazing performer with such a powerful voice. She was the BEST part of Gypsy for me. Her performance was thrilling! Oh well... to each his own I guess.