Most overrated musical?
Most overrated musical?
Fiyero13
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/07
#1Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/29/07 at 1:07am
I'd say anything from andrew lloyd webber, my friends think Wicked and Rent are overrated,
thoughts?
#2re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/29/07 at 1:10am
Okay, you're new, so I'll be nice.
Here's a thread about this same subject:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=938050
I found it using the search function, which is very useful in finding past topics.
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#2re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/29/07 at 2:05amSome people get supa agro if theres already a post on the same subject. I don't. I hardly use the search feature myself =)
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evadiva
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
#3re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:08pm
And sometimes stuff doesn't come up when you search, so you post and you still get lectured.
#4re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:11pmYour friends are correct.
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evita the akita
Swing Joined: 6/30/07
#5re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:13pmYour friends are insane!!!!!! Wicked is the best musical I have ever seen, and Rent is fabulous! I'm curious, what do your friends think IS good? Wow!
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#6re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:14pmOne of my pet peeves: Why do you care if someone else likes something "Too much?" I just don't understand why that would affect you. Do you like Spring Awakening? Great! Why be upset because it won "too many Tonys!" Don't care for Wicked? Why be upset that others do? Think for yourself-- don't worry about something being Over-rated.
#7re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:14pmAnything other than Rent and Wicked.
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#8re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:16pm
Your friends are insane!!!!!! Wicked is the best musical I have ever seen, and Rent is fabulous! I'm curious, what do your friends think IS good? Wow!
See more musicals.
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Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#9re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:17pm
Here's a few better that Wicked . . .
West Side Story
Gypsy
Sweeney Todd
Hello Dolly
Mame
Chicago
Cabaret
There are so many more . . .
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evita the akita
Swing Joined: 6/30/07
#10re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:18pmI've seen plenty, and I still cannot believe that someone would not like Wicked. Lack of imagination?
#11re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:19pmGood taste, perhaps?
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#12re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:19pm
I've seen plenty, and I still cannot believe that someone would not like Wicked. Lack of imagination?
Well, I can't believe people who hate fruit juice, but it happens.
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evita the akita
Swing Joined: 6/30/07
#13re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:20pmI've seen 5 of the ones you mentioned, and they were good, the best of the ones you mentioned was Chicago in my opinion, but none were as good as Wicked.
#14re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:21pmAdvice, dude: Don't post so much (or at all) the day you join.
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Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#16re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:21pmWicked is ok. Not great, but it slides through when it comes to quality (getting a lot of audience points). But a lot of people hate it for because its writing is flawed.
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#17re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:22pm
I can't believe people hate cucumbers, but cucumbers don’t have a weak book, boring power ballad after boring power ballad, and screaming 10 year olds in the audience.
Cucumber - the musical!
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evita the akita
Swing Joined: 6/30/07
#19re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:24pmShould it matter?
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#20re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:24pm
Welcome to the board!
Don't forget to do a search first.
Wicked is overrated however Spamalot is the most overrated!
evita the akita
Swing Joined: 6/30/07
#21re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:25pmWow, popular, no good deed, defying gravity, did you say weak?
evita the akita
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#23re: Most overrated musical?
Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:27pm
Darling, the book of a musical is the part that's not the songs. That is what I was refering to in my response.
"Wicked" the novel by Gregory Maguire, I have read.
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