Overrated Musicals
Overrated Musicals
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:44pm
I will start with Grey Gardens
It is enjoyable, has a nice score & great performances but it is not the greatest thing since sliced bread
I liked SA better & Mary Poppins & eagerly look forward to Curtains
Let the games begin
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#2re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:46pm
May I be extreeeeemely rude?
RENT, and
Anything by SONDHEIM.
Oh, I've done it now.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#2re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pmI think Wicked. The musical itself isn't bad at all, but critics are comparing every show to it.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#4re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:48pm
I agree on RENT but like the movie more than the show
Re Sondheim, I must slighly disagree. He is talented & writes great scores but can we remove him from the pedestal many have placed him on
Follies was a once in a lifetime experience & one of the greatest musicals written
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#5re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:49pm
Oh man, this is going to be a fighting thread!
I'm going to go with:
Hair
Spring Awakening
Bare
Sunday in the Park
Into the Woods
They all have good qualities, but are held in higher esteem than they deserve, I think.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pmI was bored silly with Into the Woods
#7re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
a) It's Grey Gardens, with an E.
b) How many more of these threads do we really need?
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#8re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:50pm
"can we remove him from the pedestal many have placed him on"
No.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#9re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:52pm
Ok
You want to keep him there fine. If that does it for you great
#10re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:53pm
Phantom,Phantom, and Phantom
oh and Wicked
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:00pm
POTO
Into the Woods
Wicked
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#14re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:01pm
Yeah, Sondheim is a great wordsmith, but not the world's great composer.
While I really enjoyed Company which I just saw, and I saw so much more with this new orchestration, I think his early work was bordering on genius, but his later stuff lacks his early punch and drive.
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
#15re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:01pm
I STRONGLY disagree with Spring Awakening being overrated, although I think some people on here only dislike it because it's popular.
I think, I'm sorry, West Side Story.
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#16re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:03pm
Spring Awakening- it was okay, not my favorite
grey gardens- better than spring awakening but still okay
phantom- it was visually stunning and amazing but now....
drowsy- its funny but not that all amazing
Updated On: 3/4/07 at 07:03 PM
#17re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:16pmMaybe I just saw phantom at a bad time, but yeah I was board. I'm a big fan of the book though.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#19re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:36pm
Wicked
Hello Dolly
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#20re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:41pmDissing Dolly will get you the eternal wrath of Dollypop
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:42pmMusic Man was the one good musical Meredith WIlson wrote
#23re: Overrated Musicals
Posted: 3/4/07 at 7:43pm
"Dissing Dolly will get you the eternal wrath of Dollypop"
Oh no, how much wrath can an anonymous cipher bring down on a message board - not scared, i have an opinion.
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