Overrated Musicals- Page 5
Overrated Musicals
Swing Joined: 2/3/07
re: Overrated Musicals#100
Posted: 3/12/07 at 12:28amI agree, Wicked is overrated. It's not that it's bad, it's actually great, but it's being treated as though it is the best musical to ever land on Broadway and is nothing short of the work of a God. I love it dearly, but I hate to say Wicked has just become too "Popular."
re: Overrated Musicals#101
Posted: 3/12/07 at 12:37am
NOT onverrated:
Anything Sondheim
Grey Gardens
Drowsy
Overrated:
Disney
Wicked
The Producers
While I enjoy them I don't understand all the hype.
Updated On: 3/12/07 at 12:37 AM
re: Overrated Musicals#102
Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:59pm
musica_drama_queen, i love your icon!
I agree wholeheartedly with Phantom
Chorus Member Joined: 3/12/07
re: Overrated Musicals#103
Posted: 3/12/07 at 9:19pmPhantom of the Opera and Les Mis. I think they're both pretentious and I don't understand why they've been on Broadway for so long.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
re: Overrated Musicals#104
Posted: 3/12/07 at 9:29pmParade and Chicago I've always felt were two overrated musicals.
re: Overrated Musicals#105
Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:11pm
Spring Awakening
Rent
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera
Cats
Hairspray
I don't actually hate any of them, I just didn't think they were as good as the hype made them out to be.
Swing Joined: 3/13/07
re: Overrated Musicals#106
Posted: 3/13/07 at 8:18pm
Spring Awakening
Grey Gardens
Curtains
Mary Poppins
Pirate Queen
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was a list of this year's possible Best Musical nominees. But seriously, all of these shows are pretty good but there isn't a GREAT show among them.
Swing Joined: 2/15/07
re: Overrated Musicals#107
Posted: 3/13/07 at 8:30pm
TARZAN!
And that's considering that very little has been said about it that's positive.
Chorus Member Joined: 3/13/07
re: Overrated Musicals#108
Posted: 3/13/07 at 9:44pmSo what musicals do you like, there are a lot of shows your list!
re: Overrated Musicals#109
Posted: 3/13/07 at 9:56pmHm, that's funny that somebody said that the staging of Les Mis is why it has been successful...I actually think the score is the best part.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/06
re: Overrated Musicals#110
Posted: 3/13/07 at 10:01pm
IMO, Rent isn't anything to shake a stick at... Unless you plan on throwing it at Frenchie when you're done shaking it.
And Chicago has just never truly enthralled me.
- Eeyore
re: Overrated Musicals#111
Posted: 3/13/07 at 10:38pm
dipping a few years back:
Miss Saigon-I always thought this was erratic even with Lea as Kim
Updated On: 3/13/07 at 10:38 PM
re: Overrated Musicals#112
Posted: 3/14/07 at 6:45am
Children of Eden. Some think it's a charming show. I find it cloying, vapid, trite pseudo-religious schmaltz with oh-so-subtle moralising that just makes me want to vomit repeatedly.
The Producers and Rent. Didn't particularly hate either of them, but nothing made me want to ever see them again.
Chorus Member Joined: 3/14/07
re: Overrated Musicals#113
Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:20amI think the most overrated musical has to be The Producers. How in the world it ever won 12 Tony Awards, I will never know.
re: Overrated Musicals#115
Posted: 3/14/07 at 6:11pm
>> I think the most overrated musical has to be The Producers. How in the world it ever won 12 Tony Awards, I will never know.
Look at the competition that year. Pretty lame stuff all around.
>> Hm, that's funny that somebody said that the staging of Les Mis is why it has been successful...I actually think the score is the best part.
If the score is the best part, we're all in serious trouble here. I had real problems staying awake during the second act because nothing was doing it for me. It was just mechanical.
And frankly, the same can be said for Chorus Line. It's a bunch of 2D characters and facile stereotypes that we all fall for because we all know people sorta/kinda like them in the most general of terms: the aspiring dancer, the gay boy, etc etc etc. There's nothing new in it, just that they all happen to be in one place at one time. The score? It has some moments, but not many, and that finale makes me want to start throwing cabbage heads at someone for its unbelievable predictability. True, what else *can* you do in the end without driving the audience into depression that *this* is the best these perfomers could manage after that psycho-babble of an audition? Part of me wishes they had had the courage to follow it -- push the line into the background or have them turn their backs on us and perform to someone else upstage or *something* that would reinforce how sometimes meaningless a place on the line can be.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
re: Overrated Musicals#116
Posted: 3/14/07 at 6:13pm
I doubt CATS is overrated
It just caught on for some reason
Rent
Drowsy
Wicked
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