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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:11pm

I 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

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:16pm

Confession: LuPone's book made me like her a tiny bit less.

Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 8:47pm

Tony Vincent. Not after his JCS twitter bashing.

Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 9:00pm

Morgan James, but I never REALLY liked her. The worst was after the Into the Woods incident.

Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 9:11pm

Agree 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:25pm

I 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:28pm

Came 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.

Performers 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:34pm

Madonna.

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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 10:41pm

Agreed 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/4/12 at 11:12pm

I 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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Performers 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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Performers 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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Performers 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 12:12am

Namo made me LOL!

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Performers 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

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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 8:49am

I 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.

"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

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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:30am

Mark 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:33am

Matthew 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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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 9:38am

Kristen 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.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

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Performers 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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Performers 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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Updated On: 12/5/12 at 10:02 AM

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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 10:05am

Adam Pascal

I was young. I was foolish. I was a huge Aida fan and wanted my Radames.

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Performers You Used To Like, But Now...Not So Much.

Posted: 12/5/12 at 10:15am

Maybe 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.

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Performers 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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