Are there any scenes or songs you just can't stand in shows? For me, the Uncle Tom sequence in King and I is like nails on a chalkboard. An extreme low to an otherwise fantastic show.
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Sorry, but I think the Uncle Tom's Cabin ballet in King and I is a highlight. The nails-on-the-chalkboard moment for me in that show is "I Have Dreamed" and "Western People Funny." The former is a pretty song, but unnecessary. The latter is something out of a 20s operetta...or earlier.
jv92, I don't love those moments but I can bear them. For me Uncle Tom's Cabin had the potential to be really a powerful part of King and I but I think the way it is presented is just choppy melodically.
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Addams Family. Period. I must say, also, that even thogh it's not the worst thing ever, "Little People" in Les Miz, though cute, does not fit at all with the rest of the story and sounds like a song in sesame street during the 1970's.
"Look I made a hat... where there never was a hat."
"Think of how I adore you, think of how much you love me. If I were perfect for you, wouldn't you tire of me?"
"Somebody, crowd me with love. Somebody, force me to care. Somebody, make me come through, I'll always be there, as frightened as you, to help us survive. Being alive. Being alive. Being alive!"
"There are worse things than staring at the water as you're posing for a picture after sleeping on the ferry after getting up at seven to come over to an island in the middle of a river half an hour from the city on a Sunday!"
I hate how the last 20 minutes of Evita is all just rambling about how she is dying. In my opinion, after the "oh, what I'd give for a hundred years, but the physical interferes" line in Waltz for Eva and Che, it just goes downhill until Eva sings her Lament.