Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:07pm

I pity the fool who's never falling in love at first sight.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:14pm

And they can spontaneously sing in perfect harmony, no less. I hate that about musicals.

[winter_sky]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:30pm

Cry Baby and Allison.
(In a way) Melchior and Wendla.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:39pm

My favorite is The Light in the Piazza. They didn't even speak the same language.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:52pm

It's much easier to fall in love if you don't speak the same language (Cable and Liat), or if one of you doesn't speak at all, or if you've been kicked in the head by a pony.
Updated On: 4/12/08 at 09:52 PM

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 10:55pm

Sometimes falling in love is hard to distinguish from being kicked in the head by a pony.

[Prisoner 24601]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 10:58pm

NYC, it sounds like you mean "falling in love too quickly" as in, too early in the show. Or do you mean too early after the characters' first acquaintance? Do you have more of an issue with the passage of time being too fast during the relationship or with how quickly the relationship actually begins? Because for the kinds of shows you mentioned, the "falling in love" is the inciting incident for the plot, so the author has to get it out of the way early in the show in order to advance the story. Millie can't break up with Jimmy without having met Jimmy. In the Romeo and Juliet case, as Priest said, the falling in love too quickly is quite intentional, and if you have seen the ending, you should know that it drives the author's point home at the end. Either way, in most cases there are intentional and quite justifiable reasons for having characters fall in love "too quickly."

[skb2010]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:04pm

they mean falling in love like 2 seconds after they meet, not the amount of time into the show

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:07pm

Too True Our Time.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:23pm

jasonf & caitiesus1522 on Broadway World...oh, you mean in MUSICALS?

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:30pm

I absolutely cannot stand how fast Tony and Maria fall in love.

[skb2010]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:34pm

me either, which is why i STRONGLY dislike the whole show.

"AGAIN, that is the point of every single couple that you mentioned. Disaster DOES lie ahead for every one of those couples."

lol. tony DOES die... =]

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:34pm

I thgink Jerry Herman answerred your question best in "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly, here sung by John Barrowman, with whom I fell in love in a moment that will last my whole life long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuvalwhclOg

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:38pm

I thought Charles Nelson Reily was singing to you.

[puppetman2]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:38pm

Rose and Herbie in GYPSY - at least Herbie does, gives up his business and goes off on the road with Rose. Really extreme, not even the length of a song.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:41pm

I fell in love from across a crowded room watching her struggle to put ice in two drinks at once while balancing a plate of food. It really can happen (and before you ask, the other drink was just for a friend, thank Sondheim).

I had her in love with me by the end of the evening. Took some effort, but it was worth it.

Did it last? Two years, eleven months and three days.

Not an eternity, but enough. I was loved.

And it all happened in an instant.

[skb2010]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:43pm

hence "AGAIN, that is the point of every single couple that you mentioned. Disaster DOES lie ahead for every one of those couples."

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:48pm

Even jasonf & caitiesus1522?

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:50pm

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 11:50 PM

[Tkt2Ride]

Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:58pm

What's more crazy is when it happens in real life. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. For some reason people still do it and hope for the best?

You can try to read the stories these shows are based on first, if that will help with the time progression for you. It rarely does happen in real life but when the chemistry is there, how can you resist? It's happened to me, once or or twice.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:25am

Peter Alan & Liza Minelli in The Boy from Oz

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:49am

It takes me less than two minutes to know if I will sleep with someone I just met.

[skb2010]

Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:59am

seeing as thats not love, why is that relevant?

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:34am

everything is relevant when it comes to sex, my dear.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:37am

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 03:37 AM