Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
#1Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:11pmI hope my Friend of Dorothy card is not revoked, but I'm starting to not like Ethel Merman. Whenever I listen to her on Sirius XM on Broadway, her voice is coming across as annoying. I mean, I used to like her strength and power, but there's really not much variety in her musical approaches. I understand her appeal and all throughout the years, but Ethel's voice is now more of an irritant than anything else. from RC in Austin, Texas
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#2Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:16pmConfession: LuPone's book made me like her a tiny bit less.
#2Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:47pmTony Vincent. Not after his JCS twitter bashing.
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#3Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 9:00pmMorgan James, but I never REALLY liked her. The worst was after the Into the Woods incident.
#4Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 9:11pmAgree re: Tony Vincent. He used to be one of my favorite young actors and now he's gone off the deep end and I haven't liked him in much recently (including that awful appearance on the Voice.)
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#5Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:25pmI was a huge Sutton Foster fan during Little Women (I know. I was twelve.) but now I think I'm bored with her.
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#6Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:28pmCame here to say Sutton Foster but was beat to the punch. I used to be enamored with her, and now I'm just "meh" on her in terms of being surprised.
#7Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:31pm
I was never a huge Sutton fan, but I certainly was a much more enthusiastic audience than I am now. Anything Goes was a disappointment for me, and I'm kind of just over her whole ~dorky~ persona.
I also used to be a huge Bernadette Peters fan, and no longer am.
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#8Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:34pmMadonna.
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#9Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:41pmAgreed on Tony Vincent. Chose my username after him in my ignorant youth. Soured on him during his shrieking episodes on the Voice, and my disillusionment was only confirmed with Twittergate.
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#10Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:12pmI agree with givesmevoice on Sutton... I mean I still like her but not as much.. same goes for Kristin Chenowith for the same reason...
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#11Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:37pm
Idina Menzel
Was neutral about Matthew Broderick, but now, don't like.
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#12Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:47pm
The Pone.
I was pretty crazy about her years ago, but then she became a shrew to work with and a broad caraciture of herself.
I want the old girk back.
Updated On: 12/5/12 at 11:47 PM
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#13Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 12:04am
Kristin Chenoweth.
I believe she has a wonderful voice, and I loved her on Pushing Daisies and GCB, but not much else. And she has ruined her face with all the plastic surgery.
She looked her best between the Kudisch and Wicked years.
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#14Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 12:12amNamo made me LOL!
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#15Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 8:40am
Mark Rylance.
Excellent in Boeing-Boeing.
Obnoxious Tony Award speech.
Fussy and self-conscious in La Bete and Jerusalem.
Updated On: 12/5/12 at 08:40 AM
#16Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 8:49amI have similar feelings re: Rylance. BOEING-BOEING felt like a breath of fresh air. Then LA BETE seemed like tired schtick. And JERUSALEM was more feat of endurance than performance.
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#17Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:30amMark Rylance. Saw him in London do RICHARD II, marvelous. Saw him in Brooklyn do MEASURE FOR MEASURE, marvelous. Saw BOEING BOEING, marvelous. Then LA BETE, then JERSUSALEM, and I'm not sure I'd bother seeing him again.
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#18Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:33amMatthew Broderick. Although he was terrific in his guest role on Modern Family, I don't like much of his recent work. And he was such a terrific young actor.
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#19Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:38amKristen Chenoweth and Bernadette Peters. I used to be a huge fan of both. Now I think they're overused...and in all the wrong parts.
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#20Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:58am
Sad to see Matthew, Patti, Bernadette and Kristin's name in this thread 
But to answer the thread... As much as it (sort-of) pains me... Idina Menzel. Perhaps now that I am older and can REALLY listen and pay attention, her terrible technique and "one-trick pony" style is, well... boring.
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#21Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 10:02am
I'm sure Mr. newintown has a list a mile long.
There that's my dig out of the way.
In all seriousness, I'll start with the ones most people have brought up the most, namely Patti. I still enjoy her in performance but when she's bitching about the sound system in theaters in interviews, it's like, "Just man up and take a damn Tylenol."
As for Tony...yeah, Twittergate.
Never even got around to liking Morgan James. Heh.
One that most people probably won't bring up is German musical theater actor Uwe Kroger. He was like THE number one star in Germany and Austria years ago but around '08 or '09 or so...he blew out his voice. And he's still tryin' to keep up his career. And it's sad.
Can't respect Hunter Foster and Jen Cody too much these days. Or Christopher Seiber for that matter.
John Lloyd Young...need I say more?!
Natascia Diaz...all you have to do is read her quote in The Theater Will Rock and/or look at her Facebook page to know she is a nightmare to work with and totally full of herself.
With Sutton, it was the complete opposite for me. I don't like Millie or Little Women but she started to grow on me after Drowsy. Even enjoyed her in Anything Goes.
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#22Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 10:05am
Adam Pascal
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#23Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 10:15amMaybe if I worked in the performance/production sphere of theatre I'd feel differently, but I don't think I've ever stopped liking a performer because of their personality. I try to separate talent from personal behavior.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#24Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.
Posted: 12/5/12 at 10:34am
" I'm sure Mr. newintown has a list a mile long."
Bitch.
I can only think of 2, and they were already named - Bernadette and Chenoweth. I don't hate 'em, I just don't enjoy their performances as much as earlier. Chenoweth has become pretty shrill and hysterical, and Bernadette is resorting to over-acting to mask an aging voice.
So - ha! You're negative list is longer than mine.
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