Most Underated musical(s)

[Chicboheme]

Most Underated musical(s)#0

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:15pm

I was just wondering if there were any musicals people have seen that they felt were underated and should still be playing today. I have a few.. Seussical, I thought the music was great, Lennon, it just needed some tweaking but the music was amazing, of course john lennon was brilliant, but they gave it a musical theater feel. Those are just a couple off the top of my head..

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#1

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:18pm

Amour

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[bare_nakedlady]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#2

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:20pm

I'll Second AMOUR!

And add JANE EYRE

"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL

[EponineThenardier]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#3

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:21pm

"Lennon, it just needed some tweaking but the music was amazing"

That's how I feel about Lestat.


Martin Guerre comes to mind.

[musicaltheater1]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#4

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:24pm

Flower Drum Song, the Broadway Revival.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

Updated On: 4/2/06 at 08:24 PM

[bare_nakedlady]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#5

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:25pm

I saw Martin Guerre in Detroit before it fizzled and it was amazing! Erin Dilly broke my heart!

"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL

[thez914]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#6

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:26pm

A New Brain. Such a great story and the music is phenomenal.

"Art is always in crisis: you must work fast to write in the breath on the window." -Edward Bond

[Bwaybaby109]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#7

Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:47pm

Honk! It' rocks.

"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"

[Michael Bennett]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#8

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:02pm

Lolita My Love.

[boxers7]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#9

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:04pm

Taboo. It truly would have benefited soo much from an out-of-town tryout (as Raul has said.) I still believe it was robbed of a Tony for Best Score.

"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored

[broadway86]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#10

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:06pm

Honk!
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
A New Brain
Seussical
The Wiz
Kiss Me, Kate
The Wild Party (LaChuisa version)

[brad3]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#11

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:13pm

Taboo
Dracula
The Shook Up
Lennon
The Woman in White
La Cage Aux Follies

[MargoChanning]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#12

Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:16pm

Not sure how The Wiz, Kiss Me, Kate or La Cage are underrated when they were all Best Musical Tony winners which were long-running hits and have been produced thousands of times around the country since their Broadway runs.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

[Candleshoe2]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#13

Posted: 4/2/06 at 10:10pm

Ruthless

[Blanche]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#14

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:14am

Celebration!

[jimnysf]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#15

Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:18am

Saturday Night Fever! It was a hit, twice, in London but they screwed it up on Broadway by picking a leading man who could not sing or dance very well. By the time he was replaced, it was too late.

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[??]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#16

Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:05am

Wicked

[Mister Matt]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#17

Posted: 4/3/06 at 10:11am

Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Goldilocks
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[broadway86]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#18

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:10am

Margo-

I knew someone was going to say that. It just seems to me that some people, especially those my age, don't look on those musicals very fondly.

[King Stevos]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#19

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:32am

Jane Eyre Got Robbed of best score... I'm sorry all you Producer fans, I like the Producers too, but Best Score? Even Full Monty had a better score that year. So, that's two shows that had better scores.
KING STEVOS

"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#20

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:43am

All American *lol*. Grind is underrated as well. It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Superman comes to my mind too.

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#21

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:50am

as soon as i saw this thread i had to write HONK!- i had no idea others felt the same way :)

"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)

[robyn525600]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#22

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:55am

THE CIVIL WAR

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."

[Yankeefan007]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#23

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:17pm

anything by Sondheim

[MisterRussell]

re: Most Underated musical(s)#24

Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:29pm

1. Cyrano (1974)

2. The Robber Bridegroom