Overrated Shows
Overrated Shows
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#0Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 8:53pm
I start with Altar Boyz & Wicked
We saw them once & once was enough. Wicked was better but it was not ( nor is any show ) worth seeing 15 or 20 ( or more) times
Poster Emeritus
#1re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 8:54pm
Spelling Bee.
i loved it. But the show was 30 minutes too long. it dragged like no other towards the end.
plus the I Love You Song simply stopped all the action in the show. it grounded it to a halt.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:02pm
Roxy, if WICKED isn't worth seeing 15 or 20 times, then stay home. No one is forcing you to pay multiple visits to a show you didn't like.
Geeze!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#3re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:03pmSpelling Bee is not overrated in my opinion, but Wicked and Altar Boyz are.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#4re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:03pmHairspray
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#5re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:09pm
Altar Boyz is just plain fun. It's not supposed to be life-changing.
I personally don't get the hype behind The Producers. The music falls flat for me. Same went with Hairspray until I saw the show on a school trip; the book completely saves it, along with great performances.
#7re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:11pmThe Lion King.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:13pm
Just an observation Dolly
No need to get your knickers in a twist. Lighten up on the caffeine son
Poster Emeritus
#9re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:15pm
Mamma Mia -- yuck!
and I didn't love Drowsy Chaperone.
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:19pmRoxy, don't EVER refer to me as your "son". When I was born you were already eligible for Medicare.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
QMAN03
Broadway Star Joined: 9/20/05
#11re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:19pm
Wicked
Altar Boyz
This may sound like an anti-god statement, but...
Sweeny Todd (current revival)
#13re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:22pm
oh I agree w/ Spamalot.
i found it funny, but highly sophomoric and unprofessional
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Updated On: 5/10/06 at 09:22 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:24pmCATS will always be one of those Overrated shows to me. I enjoyed it the first time but then it was like snooooooze!
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#15re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:24pmSpamalot and Wicked - loved them both, but I don't understand the hype surrounding the shows...however when I won the lottery for Wicked in Boston, my mouth was in a huge "O."
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:26pm
Cats was not a great critical hit but audiences loved it
One critic said: "Watching Cats was like having a cat pee on your leg for 2 hours "
Poster Emeritus
#17re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:32pm
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
The sets were excellent, and the performances were stellar as well, but the score was somewhat mediocre (Although they were ALL better seeing live than on the OBC) and while some parts were funny, the show just didn't do a lot for me.
And yet everyone seems to love it.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#19re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:34pm
Disagree on DRS
Show was a winner in every respect
Poster Emeritus
#20re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:36pm
DRS is the prime reason i think they should give TWO tonys.
one for score
one for lyrics
score = Piazza
lyrics = DRS
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#21re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:44pmThe Lion King, The Producers, Mamma Mia, Sweeney, DRS definitly overrated.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#22re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:46pmI have to agree on the Sweeney revival. I did enjoy it, but it wasn't spectacular or anything.
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#24re: Overrated Shows
Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:55pmEvery new musical this season.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
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