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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.
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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.
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