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#26

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:54pm

I love Sweeney. But it's impossible for whoever is playing the part of Sweeney to maintain a healthy voice throughout the show.

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#27

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:54pm

a) I'm pretty sure Happy Spring is just sarcasm

b) I ALWAYS interpreted "I hate the fall" as Falling down, falling into the abyss, falling to pieces, falling into misery, not the season!

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#28

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:55pm

"But it's impossible for whoever is playing the part of Sweeney to maintain a healthy voice throughout the show."

Tell that to George Hearn.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#29

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:57pm

I don't see anything wrong with Nine (the revival).

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#30

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 12:00am

I love Thoroughly Modern Millie, but I didn't like how quickly they revealed everything at the end about the whole brother/sister/mother situation.

I love Urinetown, but I wish they gave a time period (was it in the 1960s, 1970s...???) rather than "Just after the Stink Years".

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#31

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 12:14am

Wicked..Something Baaaaad is something awful. And I'm not too fond of the Wizard's songs.

Les Miz...saw it too many times, and was annoyed by the whole confession scene between Marius & Valjean.

Noises Off. One of my fave movies (I know it was a play first) but the revival was Terrible! Or was that just Patti Lupone?

Big River - Great show. HATE I Huckleberry Me.

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#32

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 12:26am

VIET, if you hated all those things about Wicked and still adore the show, you're a far more generous soul than I. :)

#33

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 1:08am

I think the implication is that URINETOWN is set in the not-so-distant future. It's a cautionary picture of where society is headed if we don't get our shlt together, if you will.

#34

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 1:19am

I know Plum. Sometimes I wonder why I would like Wicked that much considering it's shortcomings. I think I just like the idea of it and what they tried to do. I still think it has the potential to be something great. Maybe in 50 years, someone will do a revival of it and totally re-work the book and staging.

P.S. I also think my undying love for Chenoweth had something to do with it as well.

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#35

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 9:36am

Yeah..."sentimental man" is boring too. I know so far whoever plays the Wizard has been famous (other than Sean McCourt) but there is no need to stick in a pointless, boring song just so people can hear him more. If that is totally necessary, at least give him a better song!

#36

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 3:06pm

I really was getting into Once on this Island, but when I got to the ending, which I think is a little bit too deep, I left saying "Ok... that was really stupid."

#37

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 3:08pm

But do you understand the symbolism of the tree? It's not stupid when you realise that the tree is where it all started, and Daniel's son meets his own peasant girl. It's a beautiful sentiment.

#38

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 3:44pm

LOVE "Sunday in the Park With George," but HATE the lyric:
"I love your painting!
I think I'm fainting!"
(Just the fainting part).
It's too much of a rhyme, but hey, it's Sondheim so he obviously had a purpose for his actions.

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#39

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 4:27pm

Justice, I really DO understand, and I am usually the one who is so big on "the deeper meaning," but for some reason this one just didn't click with me.

#40

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 5:52pm

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: I love the show, but I think the character of George's ex-wife in Act II is completely superfluous and, quite frankly, a detriment to the show. She's undercharacterized and underused, and if she were removed, I think there'd be a stronger focus on the relationship between George and Marie.

But I rather like that painting/fainting rhyme, it's funny.

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#41

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 7:46pm

In the Lion King I don't like when he start singing "It's a Small World Afterall"

#42

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 10:23pm

The book to Pippin is really weak, and the original ending doesn't make sense. It's a good thing they rewrote the ending.

#43

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/25/04 at 10:27pm

Some Thoroughly Modern Millie songs suck, like Muzzy's. I love the score but some of the songs make me cringe.

#44

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/26/04 at 12:50am

The book to Pippin is really weak, and the original ending doesn't make sense. It's a good thing they rewrote the ending.

I think Pippin is supposed to be playful and fantastical, with only a thin thread of darkness. But I agree, I like the new ending.

#45

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/26/04 at 12:53am

I totally agree with Cosette being under-developed.

Since Rent was mentioned so much, I'll add my 2cents: Benny is SO flat. He's a sterotypical "bad guy" the whole show and outta the blue he becomes friends with the gang at the end. Where does it come from [rhetorical]?

I'm a fan of The Producers(yes, very overrated), but the love story with Ulla and Leo gets in the way. The story behind the creation of Springtime for Hitler becomes so darned entertaining that their song and dance at the top of Act II makes me wanna scream, "Who cares? Stop dancing on this horribly bland white set! Show us dancing Nazis!!!"

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#46

re: I love the show but...

Posted: 12/26/04 at 2:24am

I think there was a purpose to George's ex-wife, but I agree that she wasn't used too well. I just like the characters in Act I better than the ones in Act II in general, though none of them get much depth. They're all just dots for George to move around.

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