Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
esparza 333
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/07
#1Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:25pmAre 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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#2Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:27pmParlor songs and The Letter in Sweeney Todd.
#2Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:30pmI Will Never Leave You from Sideshow. It almost seems like a bad joke to me.
#3Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:40pm
Wicked. Pretty much the whole show, but popular is like dying a slow painful death
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#4Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:54pmSorry, 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
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/07
#5Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 6:59pmjv92, 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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#6Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:07pmAddams 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!"
#7Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:19pmesparza 333, Understood. Jerry Robbins just can't do anything wrong in my eyes...artistically that is. Artistically.
esparza 333
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/07
#8Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:28pmI 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.
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#9Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 7:41pmTomorrow from Annie
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#11Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#13Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:04pmThe shoe song from Spiderman is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Also, The Addams Family, "In The Arms Of A Squid"...really?
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jdtp12
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/10
#14Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:07pmNot a big fan of The Legend of Miss Baltimore Crabs.
NotSinceCarrie2
Swing Joined: 12/22/10
#15Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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
Chorus Member Joined: 11/9/10
#16Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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.
#17Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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
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americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#18Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#19Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:45pmI 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.
#20Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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?
FunnyGirl617
Chorus Member Joined: 4/23/10
#22Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
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
#23Most Irritating Scenes/Songs in Musical Theatre
Posted: 1/23/11 at 8:55pmI can't stand the BATHING BEAUTY song from LOVE NEVER DIES. Also can't stand LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON from AIDA.
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sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
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