Most Underated musical(s)
Most Underated musical(s)
Chicboheme
Swing Joined: 3/28/06
#0Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:15pmI 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..
#1re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:18pmAmour
"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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#2re: Most Underated musical(s)
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
#3re: Most Underated musical(s)
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#4re: Most Underated musical(s)
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
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#5re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:25pmI 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
#6re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:26pmA 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
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/03
#7re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 8:47pmHonk! It' rocks.
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#9re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:04pmTaboo. 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
#10re: Most Underated musical(s)
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)
#11re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:13pm
Taboo
Dracula
The Shook Up
Lennon
The Woman in White
La Cage Aux Follies
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#12re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/2/06 at 9:16pmNot 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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Blanche
Stand-by Joined: 10/1/04
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#15re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/3/06 at 2:18amSaturday 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"
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"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"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
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Featured Actor Joined: 1/18/06
#17re: Most Underated musical(s)
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
#18re: Most Underated musical(s)
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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#19re: Most Underated musical(s)
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#20re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:43amAll American *lol*. Grind is underrated as well. It's a Bird, it's a Plane, it's Superman comes to my mind too.
#21re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:50amas 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
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/03
#22re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:55amTHE 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#24re: Most Underated musical(s)
Posted: 4/3/06 at 12:29pm
1. Cyrano (1974)
2. The Robber Bridegroom
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