Musical guilty pleasures

[Alex M]

Posted: 11/22/15 at 10:30pm

I am surprised no one has made a thing about this yet but what is your guilty pleasure musicals. Musicals that no one else seems likes but you just love. Mine is Wedding Singer.

Updated On: 11/22/15 at 10:30 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/15 at 10:50pm

Any Wildhorn show

 

Rockabye Hamlet 

 

Superman

 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 11/22/15 at 11:45pm

There actually have been threads, usually devolving into high-and-mighty posters degrading us all for calling any show a guilty pleasure. Although it seems more like you're defining it as more of a show you think is underrated.

 

SUNSET BOULEVARD is a big one for me under your definition. So many people seem to despise it but it's one of my favorite ALW works. Many of the terrible stage-to-screen adaptations are also guilty pleasures for me, such as A Little Night Music.

Updated On: 11/22/15 at 11:45 PM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 11/22/15 at 11:53pm

High Fidelity 

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 11/22/15 at 11:59pm

CATS is still to this day one of my favorite musicals, and no one can convince me differently.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 12:13am

I know everyone hates it, but I've listened to it a thousand times and my guilty pleasure is [popular, well-liked musical that has had multiple major and highly-acclaimed productions]

 

edit: I will admit to knowing Seussical by heart, which arguably isn't music for mixed company. In my head, shower, or car, however...

Updated On: 11/23/15 at 12:13 AM

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 12:17am

Charley Kringas Inc said: "I know everyone hates it, but I've listened to it a thousand times and my guilty pleasure is [popular, well-liked musical that has had multiple major and highly-acclaimed productions]"

Yeah, you know, you'd think that people would understand why CATS is so popular around the world, yet everyone likes to act like it's some floppy piece of trash that has no artistic merit whatsoever.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 12:20am

La Cage aux Folles

Sunset Boulevard

Bare

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 7:37am

JoseLee_ said: "La Cage aux Folles

 

Sunset Boulevard

 

Bare

 

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

 

"

did you manage to catch the LA revival (the one with Jonah Platt)? 

[MVintheheartland]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 7:40am

Rock of Ages.

[sng]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 7:48am

Mine is Mamma Mia. It was the first musical I've ever seen and although many trashed it I enjoyed it for what it was - a fun, entertaining and joyful 2 hours. I didn't know the concept of musical before this and it basically got me into the theatre. 

[JM226]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 8:08am

Definitely WEDDING SINGER and SEUSSICAL. 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 8:22am

Any Wildhorn show

The Wedding Singer

Mamma Mia!

 

[KCW]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 9:57am

Does the Blacklick Valley Les Mis count? I watch that thing almost every day.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 3:30pm

c0113g3b0y YES! I saw the Bare revival 3 times. I even got the poster signed by the whole cast. I was/am obsessed. More than because I was just learning to love myself. The 2007 Studio Cast recording is literally the whole show. I hear it almost every day. The music is in my heart. 

[GoblinKing2]

Posted: 11/23/15 at 11:23pm

Little Women.  I was first introduced to it when my daughter was cast as Jo in a community theater production a few years ago.  I assumed that my enjoyment of it at that time was due to obvious bias, but I later listened to the OBC CD that was distributed to the cast and really liked it.  Then I learned that the show was a huge flop on Broadway, although appears to be plugging along just fine on the community and high school theater circuit.  The show clearly has flaws (my wife thought it was too long and dragged badly), but it seemed to me that the problem was it simply lacked the scale to warrant being on Broadway in the first place.  

[OMG2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 12:13am

CATS.  In London 2 weeks apart in 1982 saw it twice. Eventually saw it in Toronto,  and L.A.

it came to N.Y.  The only place I loved it was in London and saw it again.  The staging in London was so superior,  love love Cats. Most people who didn't see it in London did not love it

[OMG2]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 12:17am

I loved in London, left disappointed in New York.

 

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 5:39am

Bare, Billy Elliot, Love Story.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 6:27am

I don't feel guilty for liking anything.

 

If other people don't like something who cares? I'm not looking for anyone's approval. I enjoy what I enjoy and that's all there is to it.

 

 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:23am

Here Here Tax

 

I second that thought.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 11/25/15 at 3:23pm

Catch Me If You Can.

[KCW]

Posted: 11/25/15 at 9:15pm

On Blacklick Valley, I am embarrassed at myself for liking it, so no one is influencing me in that. But as for other people, it may be the horrible attitudes on this board pressuring them to like things that makes them feel guilty of enjoying certain things.

[mallardo]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:35am

Agree with Catch Me If You Can. 

Plus Nick & Nora.

[evic]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:53am

Metro