Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre

[esparza 333]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:25pm

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.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:27pm

Parlor songs and The Letter in Sweeney Todd.

[Ellski]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:30pm

I Will Never Leave You from Sideshow. It almost seems like a bad joke to me.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:40pm

Wicked. Pretty much the whole show, but popular is like dying a slow painful death

[jv92]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:54pm

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.

[esparza 333]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:59pm

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.

[SondheimFan23]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:07pm

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.

[jv92]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:19pm

esparza 333, Understood. Jerry Robbins just can't do anything wrong in my eyes...artistically that is. Artistically.

[esparza 333]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:28pm

I think my main problem is with the music not the ballet itself. In fact I think it is very cleverly staged. I agree Robbins is a genius.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:36pm

I've loved Spring Awakening for a long time, but I will never like The Mirror Blue Night.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:41pm

Tomorrow from Annie

[Overkill]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:50pm

Just about anything from Annie. Mainly, Tomorrow and Maybe.

I enjoy The Addams Family, but the one thing I can not defend, is "In the Arms of A Squid". HORRIBLE song.

Phantom of the Opera. Period.

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:53pm

The Wedding Singer.

[bwaynews]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:04pm

The shoe song from Spiderman is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Also, The Addams Family, "In The Arms Of A Squid"...really?

[jdtp12]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:07pm

Not a big fan of The Legend of Miss Baltimore Crabs.

[NotSinceCarrie2]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:27pm

I've always found "I Always Cry at Weddings" to be annoying. I don't care about the Fandango Ballroom at that point, just Charity!

Runner-up: "Hurry Back" from Applause

[Jake01]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:34pm

I LOVE "South Pacific" overall, but find Hunny Bun to be rather irritating.

"Little Women: The Musical" is definitely high up on the irritating scale.

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:36pm

CATS in general...
And a lot of scenes in POTO for me seemed like they were taking HOURS to get through

[americanboy99]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:41pm

"Cocktail Counterpoint" in LA CAGE is a completely unfunny, boring dud. I adore the show but despise that number.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:45pm

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.

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:46pm

Agreed with "Cocktail Counterpoint" from La Cage.

I also cannot take "Turkey Lurkey Time" from Promises, Promises. It's Turkey Lurkey Time. Really?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:47pm

Wicked.

[FunnyGirl617]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:47pm

"bali hai" and "i'm gonna wash that man" from south pacific

"never say no" from the fantasticks..."why did the kids pour jam on the cat"...horrible song

"shipoopi" from music man

"round-shouldered man" from secret garden...ugh

anything meers sings in millie

any scene with john cullum in the revival of 110 in the shade

[GatorNY]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:55pm

I can't stand the BATHING BEAUTY song from LOVE NEVER DIES. Also can't stand LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON from AIDA.

[sally1112]

Posted: 1/23/11 at 9:02pm

Little Lamb in Gypsy!