Musicals Most Love But You Don't- Page 2

[BwayDude2]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:19pm

Annie

Phantom

Music Man

 

Ugh.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:22pm

Passing Strange

[ZellMorrowsPledge]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:39pm

Into The Woods, Avenue Q, An American In Paris

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:49pm

AVENUE Q, RENT, SPRING AWAKENING

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 7:59pm

Rent, Pippin, Book of Mormon...liked them, but just not the extreme that so many do.

[ebontoyan]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 8:00pm

Avenue Q, Once, Gentleman's Guide, Fun Home

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[Julie Yard]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 8:19pm

Rent, Wicked, Next to Normal... everyone was a shrieker!

[mikey2573]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 8:49pm

I still consider RENT to be the worst thing I have ever seen on a Broadway stage.  I felt trapped. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 8:53pm

Kitt and Yorkey musicals make me cringe without fail. Something about their creations is just so pretentious and self-indulgent and I just can't do it.

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 10:11pm

Lion King

Heathers (It's really popular with my age group, but man do I hate this show.)

Shrek (Again, tons of my friends seem to like it for some reason.)

Grease

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[Glittergrrl]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 10:31pm

Wicked... Very underwhelming.  I saw it with one of my close girlfriends, so it kind of worked on me.  I thought the sets could be better.  I expected more.  Felt like a college production.  

[hork]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 10:45pm

I also think Next to Normal is kind of terrible, but I haven't seen it live, just listened to the cast recording and seen clips on YouTube, so I'm hesitant to say I dislike it (I didn't like Rent or Spring Awakening from listening to the OBCRs, but ended up loving them on stage). But I don't think I can ever bring myself to go see it, unless maybe someone else is paying for it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 11:12pm

I second or third Heathers .

 

Found it juvenile, moronic, total waste of time.

[phantomcrazy14]

Posted: 9/8/15 at 11:47pm

Fun Home. Saying I didn't like it got me so much criticism at my school, it's ridiculous.

[acekatherineplumber2]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 12:09am

Oooh, I hated Heathers.

[aj88]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 8:39am

These are mix of shows I don't like or shows I may kind of like but have never gotten completely into:

Rent

Phantom

Spring Awakening

Spamalot (it had moments but I honestly felt the show was very sloppy. Then you put it next to The Light in the Piazza, Spelling Bee, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I STILL shake my head in disbelief).

The Lion King (it was stunning to look at. Julie Taymor was properly rewarded for her efforts but as a complete show, I didn't love it and I still think Ragtime was robbed of Best Musical).

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 9:42am

Re Fun Home

 

A gay couple at our pool club saw it. Their take was the story was good but the music did nothing for them. They felt it would have worked much better as a stand alone play. Totally agree with that opinion.

[Falling]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 9:46am

My picks: West Side Story-I'd rather listen to the recording than watch the show. (Probably because that last ghastly revival is the only Broadway incarnation I've seen. I did see a local production and it was still not so great.)

Also...The Producers...I saw it and was like "this is IT?"

Hamilton (ducking)...it's fine, but this one for me was one of those shows I stopped thinking about when I left-which is probably what the vast majority of theatergoers want. (I do think, much like West Side Story, I'll listen to the music and appreciate it more that way.)

Spamalot-I felt really let down by this one.

Ragtime-OBC...I liked the revival A LOT more than the original. (I am in the camp that thought The Lion King rightfully won that year. Had the original been staged like the revival...I'd have felt very differently.)

 

 

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[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 10:42am

American Idiot and Spring Awakening

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 10:45am

Spring Awakening, Something Rotten, Book of Mormon, Spamalot

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 11:02am

Cats (no story, bad songs, grownups in face paint, make its stop...the worst)

Contact(won best musical with NO SINGING  WTF????)

Billy Elliot (overrated imo the score is weak and the story so so...)

Lion King (fantastic costumes, but boring i DID not feel the love that night)

 

 

 

[hork]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 11:35am

aj88 said: Spamalot (it had moments but I honestly felt the show was very sloppy. Then you put it next to The Light in the Piazza, Spelling Bee, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I STILL shake my head in disbelief).

 

Agreed. I thought the first act was fun, but the second act was just amateurishly bad. I get the impression that even Idle's fellow Pythoners think it's mostly an embarrassment (especially Cleese). And enough with "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"! It's never been a good song!

[SundayInThePark2]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 3:34pm

Grease, Aida, Jesus Christ Superstar, 13, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee... I just don't think these held much appeal for me. Don't get me wrong, the music for Grease is pretty good, it's just super overrated.

[alliesinger]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 3:37pm

Book of Mormon, and, more recently, Something Rotten!. 

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 9/9/15 at 4:10pm

Hello Dolly, Mame, Phantom, Les Miz, Passion