Least-Favourite Musical?

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Least-Favourite Musical?

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.

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#2

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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.

#3

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

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

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#4

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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.

#5

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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.

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In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

#6

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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.

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#7

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

Grease.

#8

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

Mamma Mia.

#9

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

I agree with Oklahoma!

#10

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

Annie

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#11

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

Annie.

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#12

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

Wizard of Oz

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#13

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

FAME!

#14

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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.

#15

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

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

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#16

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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

Grease
Annie
Mamma Mia!
Aida
Cats

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#17

re: Least-Favourite Musical?

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.