Least-Favourite Musical?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 7:21pm

Which musical leaves the worst taste in your mouth? I think I'd have to go with "Starmites." I do quite like the song "Reach Right Down," but in my opinion, it's the most obscenely, comically bad show to ever be nominated for Best Musical. This is it on the Tony Awards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEenp3n7T6g

My school put it on several years ago, and though I was in it, I still can't explain or, frankly, understand the plot.

[Gobstopper]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 7:29pm

The Freaking Sound of Music... Here's how much I hate that stupid show: it was the final straw that made me decide I hated musicals for a few years (and I grew up in theatre)!

It's like an Austrian Brady Bunch without the postmodern irony. What a dreadful, syrupy piece of crap.

[mominator]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 7:30pm

One word..... OKLAHOMA. Talk about PTSS

[crc03772]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 7:34pm

Mominator, i'm in TOTAL agreement with you...yes I understand what Oklahoma did for musical theatre, but that doesn't make me like it any better.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 7:35pm

I will always have a love-hate relationship with Oklahoma. I love some of the songs to bits, and I can't stand some of the other ones. I absolutely love the character of Ado Annie, and Will is just adorable (as are all of his songs). On the other hand, Laurey just bores me. But I'll always like Oklahoma, in the same part of me that likes the Captain Underpants books and getting popsicles from the ice cream man.

[george95]

Posted: 9/12/08 at 10:10pm

I don't see any irony in the Brady Bunch,post-modern or not. I think that's what makes the show today so charming. The movies were ironic yes, but not the show.

[christhefish]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 7:34am

Grease.

[yankeegal]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:27am

Mamma Mia.

[broadwayfan310]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:40am

I agree with Oklahoma!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:42am

Annie

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:45am

Annie.

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 9:55am

Wizard of Oz

[leobloom169]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 10:08am

FAME!

[sally1112]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 10:10am

"Annie" Ah, it is one of my favorites.

For me it is The Lion King, maybe if it hadn't not been so hyped, and didn't have that really cool opening, and then nothing else. It is a show that just bored me.

[monestere]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 7:57pm

RENT. I dislike the show almost as much as the score.

[James885]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:03pm

Grease
Annie
Mamma Mia!
Aida
Cats

Updated On: 9/13/08 at 08:03 PM

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 9/13/08 at 8:29pm

La Cage Aux Folles..I never get tired of saying that.

Wicked, The Lion King, Phantom and Les Miz were disappointments at various levels, but La Cage was in a crappy class all by itself.