Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 10:41pm

Has there ever been a time where critics weren't crazy about a show, you ignored the reviews and still saw a show to end up loving it?

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 10:45pm

Bonnie and Clyde.

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 10:45pm

Chess
Big Fish

Updated On: 7/6/14 at 10:45 PM

#4

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 10:54pm

The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War.

#5

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 11:17pm

If/Then

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 11:19pm

If/Then- loved it. The show's still in my head.

#7

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/4/14 at 11:24pm

If then...is the most recent and (just thought of this one) A Time to Kill.

In general, there are a lot of shows that the critics don't like that I do..I keep thinking that maybe I am not so fussy.

Updated On: 7/5/14 at 11:24 PM

#8

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 6:41am

UTBU, Dear World, 70, Girls, 70, and many others.

#9

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 6:43am

After Eight, did you see House of Flowers?

And yes, Dear World is a wonderful show. Nothing like a Jerry Herman score.

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#10

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 6:49am

Not the original, but the Encores presentation.

#11

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 6:57am

Most of those they trash I like.

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#12

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 7:10am

I would have loved to have seen Tonya Pinkins in that role - she is one of my favorite performers. Especially with that full orchestra, Did they use the original Broadway score or the Off-Broadway version?

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Updated On: 7/5/14 at 07:10 AM

#13

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

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

^

I can't remember. But it didn't come across as well as what we hear on the OBCR.

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 7:17am

It would be hard to - it is a rather perfect recording with an extraordinary cast. Thank you for the information though - you are always so polite.

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 7:43am

If/Then, I loved it and seeing it again!
but in reverse I hated Peter and the Star catcher and critics loved it.

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 8:47am

Best example I can think of is Young Frankenstein. I really enjoyed that show. Had a great time seeing it with a school group I chaperoned.

Next closest is American Idiot. The NY critics were not nearly as positive as the LA critics but that was easily my favorite show that season .

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 8:55am

Bonnie & Clyde, Bring It On, Chaplin, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 9:15am

Wicked
Legally Blonde
Bring it On
Shrek
The Little Mermaid
American Idiot

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Updated On: 7/5/14 at 09:15 AM

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 9:22am

WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

#20

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 10:44am

I like you, ljay. I loved that show, too.

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 10:44am

I'll second the motion for Chaplin. I also thought Bullets Over Broadway was a hoot and a half.

Updated On: 7/5/14 at 10:44 AM

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Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 11:16am

I

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#23

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 11:24am

I second Wicked and Shrek.

I saw the tour of The Addams Family and enjoyed it fairly well, but I know the tour was revised from Broadway and was better received.

#24

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 11:24am

All the shows mentioned above

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#25

Ignored The Critics, Saw A Show, Loved It!

Posted: 7/5/14 at 11:39am

I saw "Women on the Verge…" before the critics (and with Iflit!) and it was the first preview they got all the way through with no technical problems. I enjoyed the hell out of this flawed production. I think Iflit was more on the fence. It was the chatter of a few attention seekers on this board that mystified me. It was their mission in life to declare it the worst show in the history of history, the most terrible thing that had ever existed. It made me think what a sheltered life they must have lived if that little show was the worst thing they'd ever seen in their lives.

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Updated On: 7/5/14 at 11:39 AM