Overrated Musicals- Page 5

[Musica_Drama_Queen]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 12:28am

I 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."

[rosekwbp]

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

[misschung]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:59pm

musica_drama_queen, i love your icon!

I agree wholeheartedly with Phantom

[mollyml05]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 9:19pm

Phantom 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.

[Theatreboy33]

Posted: 3/12/07 at 9:29pm

Parade and Chicago I've always felt were two overrated musicals.

[Jellylorum]

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.

[MissChablis]

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.

[LeavelHeded]

Posted: 3/13/07 at 8:30pm

TARZAN!
And that's considering that very little has been said about it that's positive.

[morganastyle]

Posted: 3/13/07 at 9:44pm

So what musicals do you like, there are a lot of shows your list!

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 3/13/07 at 9:56pm

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.

[MovieGuy1031]

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.

[Crapgame13]

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

[Eastwickian]

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.

[Scaulter]

Posted: 3/14/07 at 9:20am

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.

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 3/14/07 at 3:43pm

Drowsy Chaperone

[SeanMartin]

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.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/14/07 at 6:13pm

I doubt CATS is overrated

It just caught on for some reason

Rent
Drowsy
Wicked