I Refuse To See a Musical! Yuck!

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:04pm

The responses of a GWM and a girl.
When I suggested to see Hairspray.
How do you guys react to those comments?

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:06pm

I walk away. I hate people who don't give musicals or Broadway a chance. I have a couple of friends who, when I say that people should listen to some Broadway and take a break from the rap they reply "Yeah but you can't dance to Broadway" or "I hate slow music" and "Ugh. But musicals are so innocent and pure." Ohhhh ignorance.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:08pm

"Thank G-d, me too!"

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:08pm

GWM?


Anyway, I hate it when people don't give musicals a chance. It's a pain, but what can ya do?

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:09pm

Gay White Male. I'm used to seeing that acronym on a message board. lol

I just say "screw you."
Updated On: 7/29/07 at 10:09 PM

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:10pm

"Yeah but you can't dance to Broadway"
Clearly, they have never heard "You Can't Stop the Beat".

[iliketheater]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:13pm

Close-minded people make me crazy, I don't deal with them.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:14pm

"Yeah but you can't dance to Broadway"
Clearly, they have never heard "You Can't Stop the Beat".

Or any other showtune from a musical comedy.

Updated On: 7/29/07 at 10:14 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:14pm

How do you avoid dealing with them? I mean, there are a lot of people like that out there?

[BroadwayDream1012]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:14pm

I second what popular elphie said!! I hate my friends who think me liking Broadway is just a waste of time and is a boring 'obsession' ..they have never seen a musical in their life, and I just don't argue with them and let them have their opinion. I pretty much end those conversations so no flames are thrown.

[Midoria]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:15pm

Depending on my mood and the person in question, I may laugh or roll my eyes.

I usually say, "There's a musical for everyone" and then proceed to give examples. If I'm in a sassy mood, I may taunt them by saying something like..."Scared you're gonna like it?"...generally followed by a devious smile.

Luckily, my friends listen to my suggestion about musicals they may or may not like. I also have a talent for being able to "sell" people on shows. I write a lot, so I can describe things pretty well.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:17pm

How do you guys react to those comments?

I don't, because musicals aren't to everyone's tastes.

Gasp, yowl, omg. No, really. We don't share the same tastes as the general population. Really.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:18pm

I say rip up his Gay-Card.
No more princess points.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:19pm

"Yeah but you can't dance to Broadway"
Clearly, they have never heard "You Can't Stop the Beat".

Or any other showtune from a musical comedy.
I can't really get down to "My Friend, The Dictionary".

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:25pm

"Or any other showtune from a musical comedy.
I can't really get down to "My Friend, The Dictionary"."

-too bad, cause I sure as hell can:)

[winston89]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:27pm

I wanted my friend to see Avenue Q with me because i wanted to go to the theatre and I thougth that he would like the show. He siad that he didn't typically like musicals. So, I told him my four favoirte songs frm that show nadh ad him download it of of itunes. I made a bet with him and said that if he didn't laugh once during the four songs then I would pay him back the four bucks he spent on the songs. he laughed during all of them. We ended up having a great time at the theatre.

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:32pm

winston, I had a similar experience. I was planning a trip with my friend to NYC, and I suggested we go see Avenue Q while we were in town (I had seen it once already). She went along with it so I bought the tickets, but she said the same thing, she doesn't really like musicals. Well, I played a few of the songs for her in the car on the drive down, and she got a good laugh out of each one, especially "Mix Tape". She ended up enjoying the show a great deal.

Now if I could just get her to see Hairspray, either on Broadway or at the movies. It's going to take much more convincing I'm afraid.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:35pm

People have different tastes.

Why worry about it?

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:35pm

Oops, double post. Updated On: 7/29/07 at 10:35 PM

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:35pm

Well, finally adding my own story:
Two years ago, I was doing a pre-college program at Barnard, and we were talking about musicals in my Sociology class. One of the girls, who was very rich, came from Germany, and was an overall b*tch, said, "I just can't stand musicals, and how everyone is so HAPPY." You all know that's never the case. It angers me when someone makes a stupid generalization like that.

[vfd88]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:36pm

"I say rip up his Gay-Card.
No more princess points."

*nods* I agree.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:38pm

"People have different tastes.

Why worry about it?"

Because they have never seen a musical, or Hairspray in particular. I say "Go see it, then hate it", but people judge a musical before they see it, and hate it just because it's a musical. That bothers me.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:40pm

Lizzie has a point... finally.

[Julian2]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:44pm

I have no problem with different tastes, but the absolute hatred of a genre of art is something I like to call "Artistic Nazism" and they can all **** off.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/29/07 at 10:58pm

StageManager2 approves of me...finally. :)