Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

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Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/27/07 at 10:19pm

I know I am in for a stoning, but I can't sit through Guys & Dolls or My Fair Lady, but I love the scores and listen to them often. Same thing with Miss Saigon. Hated the show, love the score.

#2

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/27/07 at 10:25pm

Um, this is obvious but...
Spring Awakening.

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#3

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 2:26am

Phantom and Tarzan

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#4

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 2:30am

Tarzan - Phil Collins is great...but the show is just awful.

RENT

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#5

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:14am

CAMELOT
TENDERLOIN
MACK & MABEL

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re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:21am

"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" !

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re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:30am

Company.

Les Miserables, especially with the recent revival where D-R-V murdered that song. Boy did I cheer inwardly when Fantine died.

Into the Woods

#8

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:49am

Brooklyn.... GOD AWFUL plot. But the music and all the voices are incredible!

#9

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:56am

Now I will definately get a stoning for this!

"Sunday in the Park with George"

I love listening to it, but everytime I have seen it it just draged.

#10

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:03am

R & H theme here:
Oklahoma!
South Pacific
Carousel
love most of the music for all these shows, the books are another story entirely.

And the same goes for Steel Pier.

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#11

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:11am

For me, it's Follies. Top-to-bottom my favorite score, but the book is so inferior.

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#12

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:16am

once on this island

#13

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:18am

Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Mama Mia, or anything else where they just make up a plot to fit the songs into it.

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#14

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:26am

Wicked. The score is amazing, but the theme is repetative.

#15

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:56am

Spring Awakening.

#16

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:04am

Guys & Dolls for me.

#17

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:11am

Hate is such a strong word...

One that comes to mind for me is Chess...although I have always LOVED the score, the book has always been what has held it back IMHO.

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re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:16am

I agree with Chess, it one of my favorite listens, but the show's book is just....hummm...whats the word?

#19

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:33am

Or as I like to call it, "The CD Was Better":

Kiss of the Spider Woman
All Shook Up
Camelot
The second act of Sunday in the Park With George

And I'll probably add to the list...The Pirate Queen.

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#20

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:34am

Company
Seussical

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#21

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:35am

Jersey Boys

#22

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:43am

Once On This Island
Carousel
Man of La Mancha

#23

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:54am

I certainly don't hate CITY OF ANGELS or A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, but I have absolutely no desire to sit through either one again.
They are, however, two of my most-played OBC CDs.

Updated On: 3/28/07 at 11:54 AM

#24

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 1:30pm

I agree with Chess, it one of my favorite listens, but the show's book is just....hummm...whats the word?

Atrocious? If we're talking about the Broadway version. Something less demeaning but still negative if referring to other versions.

#25

re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show

Posted: 3/28/07 at 1:33pm

I agree with Chess, it one of my favorite listens, but the show's book is just....hummm...whats the word?

Gay?

I LOVED the OLC of MARY POPPINS, but the show was a big befuddled mess.

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