Munk's comments on ALTAR BOYZ — Page 2

Guys, with all due respect, I did say that I had a good time, and I mean it when I say I think it's GREAT that the show has such devoted fans, but I hardly said that it was the worst thing I'd ever seen. Very far from, in fact. I mean, I feel like this reaction is one that I should be getting if I had said that I hated it, and that it was complete crap... that I was bored out of my mind and I wished it would close. I don't think my thoughts were anywhere near close to that. I didn't bash the show, for God's sake.

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Updated On: 4/27/05 at 11:42 PM

It's okay! It's more of a general sense I'm getting from this overwhelming reaction. I love that it has so much support, but I really didn't mean to stir up trouble. I wanted to like it!

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I understand. There's quite a bit of nut in me. Just find someone who doesn't like Adam.

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Updated On: 4/28/05 at 12:05 AM

My, how this thread has grown since I was last online!

I'm sorry guys, but I didn't post this review with any mean spirit in mind. I don't wish bad things on the show or those that love it - I just clearly and simply posted my opinion of the show. Anyone who has a problem with me because of what I wrote about this show really needs to get your head out of your rear end.

Al Dente: Get off your old, tiresome high horse! What do you mean "If you don't get the camp value behind the religious songs, you don't get satire?" Believe it or not, I absolutely understand the camp value behind the songs. Anna Nicole Smith or Christ's sake would get the camp value behind the songs, and the show as a whole. I giggled here and there, but thought nothing was particularly fresh or new. The first couple songs were amusing, but then it turned into them beating a weak and dying horse. That's all I'm saying. I understood the jokes, stop trying to find a reasoning being my dislike of the show.

Again, I don't understand why my negative review of this show seems to have been taken so personally. By telling me that I'm the only one that didn't like it, and hundreds of other people love it doesn't make my opinion any less vaild, or yours any MORE valid. Obviously I knew when writing this review that I was in the minority...but for that reason should I not have posted it?

Why is it that whenever the worst shows get positive reviews on this board, the reviewers are applauded, and when someone posts a negative review, it turns personal and people begin to dis-credit the opinions of others. I don't understand. This one negative review will not lead to the demise of the Altar Boyz as we know it...relax, all.

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MEF, you loathed everything? Including those absolutely precious lamb puppets?

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MEF: I'm assuming since you didn't support your rather strong statement about the show with any details, your reasons are the same as Munk's. Is that correct? I didn't intend for that to sound bitchy- I'm just curious, because I don't think there's a lot (if anything) that I don't like about it, personally. I kinda want to see the opposing viewpoint, just so I know where you're coming from.


"Why is it that whenever the worst shows get positive reviews on this board, the reviewers are applauded, and when someone posts a negative review, it turns personal and people begin to dis-credit the opinions of others."

I didn't think they (people who enjoyed a show most people didn't like) WERE applauded. Quite the opposite, really. If someone came on, now and wrote a glowing review of Brooklyn, or Good Vibrations (I know it closed- this is hypothetical), a lot of people would probably dismiss them as a "shill" almost immediately. Maybe I haven't been reading the right threads...?

However, you do have a very valid point about people "dis-crediting the opinions of others" when they don't enjoy a generally well-liked show. I don't think that's really happening here (the majority of the posters here haven't said anything that implied they would no longer consider you or your opinions to be worth hearing), fortunately, but it has happened.


Anyway, to each his own. I shall be fangirling (yes, that's a word now) over the sound clips on the ABz website, if anyone needs me.

What part does expectation play in how we react to a show?

I saw Altar Boyz in March, had no idea what I was going to see, and loved it - thought it was funny, engaging, and full of surprise and heart.

Saw Spelling Bee the next night fully expecting to love it to pieces (I ADORE all things Finn, and I am a former 8th grade State Speller, so that's two reasons to have the night of my life). I came out going, "ehh". There were some good laughs but not much to carry with me past that night.

Same with Wicked. Wanted the transformative theater experience I'd read so much about here. Walked out thinking "Wow that was a big set".

Had my show-to-expectation ratios been reversed would my reactions change?



I love to see things before I know what they are.

Which is why you're my straight male soulmate.

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Thanks for your review, made me think.

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