Operation Mincemeat vs Maybe Happy Ending - Race for Best Musical — Page 2

Quite the opposite actually....

pagereynolds said: "Mincemeat has no name recognition and is coming in with zero buzz. We'll see."

Sutton Ross said: "She's never seen it of course, she's just obsessed with Maybe Happy Ending like all the other 15 year olds in the world."

I actually don't like it all that much. I saw it once, and thought it was pleasant. Best Book for sure, serviceable score.

I agree that Mincemeat, Outlaw and MHE are the top three. And, because I just can't excited about MHE, that will win. (I kid, I kid - but that is just my luck!)



I haven't seen the other two yet, so really don't have an opinion past this.

Sutton Ross said: "She's never seen it of course, she's just obsessed with Maybe Happy Ending like all the other 15 year olds in the world."

And of course CoffeeBreak is obsessed with hating Maybe Happy Ending, in case anyone forgets they spent the first several weeks in the review thread panting for its imminent closing (that they were so sure was about to happen), rebutting every positive comment with a negative one, and saying how all their Tony voting friends (of which they have so many) though the show was weak, and Darren Criss isn't Asian enough to be in it, etc. etc.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/thread/MAYBE-HAPPY-ENDING-Reviews

Their biases have been as well-established as anyone else's around here. It's no surprise they're the loudest voice against it in this thread.

- Someone who thought MHE was...fine, is seeing Mincemeat next week, and may see DO when the prices aren't insane.

Updated On: 2/16/25 at 04:25 PM

Sutton Ross said: "^ I adore CoffeeBreak and wasn't talking about them but I appreciate your thoughts on the musicals. I haven't seen all of them so I can't offer my opinion (show vs show) yet."

You were calling out a poster's supposed bias (incorrectly as it turned out), by sneering that someone must be a 15-year-old obsessed with a show not to be bashing it. As long as you're discussing biases, it seemed worth pointing out the established bias of the loudest voice in the thread (someone with the emotional maturity of a 15-year-old to be such a firmly devoted hater that they've never been able to let a positive comment go uncountered), as well as being open about my own. I hope you enjoy the shows you have yet to see.

Updated On: 2/16/25 at 04:46 PM

MemorableUserName said: "Sutton Ross said: "She's never seen it of course, she's just obsessed with Maybe Happy Ending like all the other 15 year olds in the world."

And of course CoffeeBreak is obsessed with hating Maybe Happy Ending,


There is absolutely NO hate for MHE from us. Rediculous. We thought it was a cute evening out with some nice visuals. And the possible quick "closing" you suggest, for many weeks, was indeed in the cards if there was no turn around. Other shows WERE looking at those houses as the producers were unsure of MHE selling. Period. A fact established by financials. We follow the money and, at that point, there was none. That was commentary on those facts, nothing more.

Your "obsessed" suggestions indicate more about you than us. Makes me wonder your connection to MHE, rather than my lack of connection to ANY of these shows - but someone who following shows producing and finances.

We have just enjoyed both Operation Mincemeat and last year's Dead Outlaw more than MHE - and found them both to be the most oringinal and completely new musicals of the season. That's it. Case closed. It's an opinion and I'm hardly alone in it.

Troll elsewhere and on someone else, please.

Updated On: 2/16/25 at 04:59 PM

It's going to be an interesting spring for sure. I was not entirely taken with Maybe Happy Ending like most on here, but seem to be in the minority. Definitely looking forward to the upcoming crop of spring musicals, though!

Sutton Ross said: "Your anger towards CoffeeBreak is wild tho."

It's a fact that CoffeeBreak has made many, many negative posts about Maybe Happy Ending. That's their right, of course, and it doesn't bother me at all, but it's obviously true.

Did anyone see Boop or Real Women Have Curves out of town? Might by tickets soon if they were received well by folks on here.

I won’t make any solid predictions at this point, but this should be a fun, hotly contested 3-horse race for best musical, the likes of which we haven’t seen since 2017.

Soak it all in, because BENJAMIN BUTTON is next year’s runaway.

CoffeeBreak said: "Did anyone see Boop or Real Women Have Curves out of town? Might by tickets soon if they were received well by folks on here."





I saw Women at the ART. I really enjoyed it, but it was not yet B'way ready - and the potential was definitely there.

CoffeeBreak said: "Did anyone see Boop or Real Women Have Curves out of town?

I loved the play, the 2002 film, and the musical. It's uplifting, fun, heartbreaking, gorgeous and really solid when I saw it at ART. But, it needs a name to help sell tickets in New York and even though I personally think the cast is stacked with talent, no one in it is hugely well known. There will be some great promos and deals to get it going soon tho.