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Hmm...

Not a dissopointment but BKLYN wasnt as bad as a excpected it to be. I guess the opposite of a dissapointment.

Avenue Q. It was just ok. No big deal here, IMO. And this was BEFORE Wicked.

The Phantom of the Opera. My grandma took me to see it and she had seen it 5 times before and LOVED it and since it was such a gigantically popular show, I was expecting so much more.

Chicago. It was nothing compared to the phenomenal movie.

The stage version is still great but its nothing compared to the movie. Theyre so unbelievably different in the staging, costumes, sets, etc. Different in a good way, though. Just dont expect it to be a clone of the movie like I did.

You should go see it, nonetheless.

I was SO disappointed with Thoroughly Modern Millie. I had only heard amazing things about it, and I thought I was going to love it. It's one of my least favorite shows. I didn't see what the big deal was.

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I was very disappointed in "The Lion King." I saw it on tour and, with the exception of the opening number, I was alternately bored out of my mind and felt like my intelligence was being insulted. It felt like a kid's show with nothing to entertain adults. Considering how so many people raved about it, I left feeling very shortchanged.

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The Producers

The recent revival of NIGHT MOTHER did absolutely nothing for me. It should have been brilliant, considering the pedigreed cast and Pulitzer Prize winning text, but it was just not as magical as the original.

SIXTEEN WOUNDED also left me cold. Some good acting (esp. Omar Metwally), but not a very good show overall.

Never expected much from BROOKLYN, but it was much worse than I ever thought it could be.

THE GOOD BODY was dumb and dull.

The Encores! production of BYE BYE BIRDIE, with the exception of Karen Ziemba as Rosie, was not good at all. Doris Roberts was awful, and seemed like she was just thrown in so that they could promote it with a big name star.

The Phantom of the Opera was a huge, huge disappointment for me. If we're talking more recent stuff, Last Easter was kind of a disappointment after Frozen.

I loved LAST EASTER. You can't compare it to FROZEN. They are too different.

Avenue Q...I mean, it's a great show, but after listening to the CD before going to the show, I was a bit disappointed. It wasn't quite as I expected it to be.

Phantom of the Opera - everyone told me if you loved Les Miserables, that you'd absolutely be wild about POTO. I loved Les Mis, but I felt POTO was overrated.

Aida and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Both were ok, but I felt I was watching a rock performance then a broadway musical.

Eileen

Mine would have to "Phantom". I had heard so much about this show after it opened in London. Everyone talked about how fantastic the show was. I sat there during a Wednesday afternoon performance on Broadway and was so bored and disappointed.

I thought that it might have been the day that I saw it. Maybe they were off or maybe I was in a bad mood and something did not click so I gave it another chance and saw it again a few years later. I was again disappointed.

Just last year a friend and I were in New York and they had never seen a Broadway show and wanted to see "Phantom" because they had heard so much about it. It still was boring.

For the life of me I still can't understand how it has lasted for seventeen years.

For what it's worth, I enjoyed "The Producers" and "Hairspray" each of three times that I saw them.

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I saw the National Tour of The Producers and was very disappointed. Yeah, it was funny, but it was in no way the greatest musical of the last 50 years or anything. That's what I was expecting to see. It was good, it just wasn't THAT good.

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Pippin...after everyone raved, I was expecting a better book. I think I'm still bitter about that.

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