#26
Posted: 9/6/15 at 10:25am
Chaplin
Heathers
The Last Ship
And also Bullets Over Broadway
Updated On: 9/6/15 at 10:25 AM
Musicals you love but many don't — Page 2
#27
Posted: 9/6/15 at 10:43am
Big Fish and The Last Ship - both beautiful and gone too soon.
#28
Posted: 9/6/15 at 10:50am
The Addams Family, Ghost, Bonnie & Clyde, Big Fish, The Visit.
"I have maggots in my scrotum!"
#30
Posted: 9/6/15 at 11:36am
TITANIC
QUEEN OF THE MIST
THE WILD PARTY (LaChiusa)
#31
Posted: 9/6/15 at 11:40am
Braniff Forever said: "THE VISIT.....I loved it and the music is spectacular. I'm not sure why so many people loathed it. I thought it was, cool, unique and different. I got to see it with Roger Rees before his passing.
"
It actually had a ton of fans and supporters by the time it closed.
#33
Posted: 9/6/15 at 1:11pm
Honeymoon in Vegas
It Shoulda Been You
Phantom (at least some on this board hate it)
Hedwig with Taye (not more than the other Hedwigs or anything but I still love it with him)
Bring it On (I don't know if people affirmatively dislike this but it sure didn't last long so I'm left to assume...)
#34
Posted: 9/6/15 at 1:15pm
My Favorite Year
Bonnie & Clyde
"He wants to know who cares. I care you stupid fool we all care..." John Wilkes Booth (Assassins)
#35
Posted: 9/6/15 at 1:49pm
It Shoulda Been You
Bring It On
First Date
Bombay Dreams
#36
Posted: 9/6/15 at 2:01pm
Bring it On
If/Then
Bridges of Madison County
#37
Posted: 9/6/15 at 2:25pm
Goya [recording-don't know if a performance was ever done]
#38
Posted: 9/6/15 at 2:31pm
Jekyll & Hyde
Love Never Dies
Chaplin
Legally Blonde
Bring It On
The Addams Family
Bonnie and Clyde
The Last Ship
Finding Neverland
Tarzan
Updated On: 9/6/15 at 02:31 PM
#39
Posted: 9/6/15 at 3:03pm
Taboo
Dance of the Vampires
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#40
Posted: 9/6/15 at 3:08pm
Goblin Market, though I would call it just very obscure more than unloved)
Phantom; as others have stated, it's become very popular to express disdain for the show, but the original production really is a wonderful example of near seamless collaboration between all of the artists involved, and one of the few long-running shows that I do enjoy taking in once every few years or so (and as a friend of mine is going to be stepping into the ensemble for a week in the near future, it will probably be my "excuse" for another viewing)
#41
Posted: 9/6/15 at 5:16pm
Count me in the BONNIE AND CLYDE and BRIDGES group as well. (Are they unpopular shows in the general consensus? It doesn't seem that way here on BWW.)
Classics I've loved that never got a huge following:
THE RINK
ASPECTS OF LOVE
PACIFIC OVERTURES
and a recent play with music that approached being a musical: THE NANCE!
#42
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:00pm
Old:The Apple Tree
Ballroom
Cyrano ('73, Anthony Burgess book/lyrics, Michael Lewis music)
Inner City
New:
Bridges of Madison County
Finding Neverland
It Shoulda Been You
The Visit
#43
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:07pm
I'm surprised by some of these answers, such as Side Show and Passion. Also, both Bridges and Bonnie and Clyde have large fanbases. I guess this question is very subjective?
Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#44
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:15pm
Steel Pier
Never Gonna Dance
Bullets Over Broadway
#45
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:16pm
Does my choice of PASSION surprise you because you thought the show was popular? I've seen even diehard Sondheim fans turn red in the face at the very mention of that show, as if Sondheim and Lapine took dumps on the stage! (I didn't see the recent off-Bway revival, so perhaps opinions are changing.)
Someone, we're getting MADISON COUNTY at the Ahmanson for Christmas and I am very much looking forward to it based on the score. I never bothered to read the book or see the film because the story sounds like some lonely housewife's wet dream. But I am looking forward to the musical.
#46
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:28pm
^ No, I am surprised that you said Passion because I think it's one of Sondheim's/Lapine's best musicals. But I see what you mean and why you included it - a lot of people overlook it/brush it aside. :/
Haha, "housewife's wet dream." I can see that. I might see it at the Ahmanson, too, but I do think it's overrated.
Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
#47
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:28pm
Bonnie and Clyde
Heathers
First Date
I would say [title of show], but the only people I've seen strongly dislike this show have been on this board rather than people I've met.
#48
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:33pm
Marie Christine
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Bernarda Alba
Queen of the Mist
Passion
Bridges of Madison County
Caroline, or Change
I expect I will soon add First Daughter Suite to the list!
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
#49
Posted: 9/6/15 at 6:34pm
firebolts, I think those of us who appreciate PASSION tend to be devoted to it, but, yes, we are the minority. The same could probably be said of most shows mentioned in this thread.
#50
Posted: 9/6/15 at 7:43pm
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