Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
#1Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/27/07 at 10:19pmI 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.
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#2re: 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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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#2re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 2:26amPhantom and Tarzan
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#3re: 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
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#4re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:14am
CAMELOT
TENDERLOIN
MACK & MABEL
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#5re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:21am"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" !
Sarah bernhardt to a fellow actress:
"Have you got stage fright, dear?"
"No," the young lady aswered astonished.
"Don't worry, it will come along with talent!"
Parsley
Featured Actor Joined: 1/7/06
#6re: 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
bwaybound865
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/05
#7re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 4:49amBrooklyn.... GOD AWFUL plot. But the music and all the voices are incredible!
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#8re: 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.
#9re: 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.
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
#10re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:11amFor me, it's Follies. Top-to-bottom my favorite score, but the book is so inferior.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#11re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:16amonce on this island
#12re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:18amAnything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Mama Mia, or anything else where they just make up a plot to fit the songs into it.
"In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."
#13re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:26amWicked. The score is amazing, but the theme is repetative.
#14re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 10:56amSpring Awakening.
#15re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:04amGuys & Dolls for me.
#16re: 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.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#17re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:16amI agree with Chess, it one of my favorite listens, but the show's book is just....hummm...whats the word?
#18re: 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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#19re: Shows Where You Love The Score But Hate The Show
Posted: 3/28/07 at 11:34am
Company
Seussical
"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite
Updated On: 3/28/07 at 11:34 AM
#21re: 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
joeybiltmore1
Leading Actor Joined: 2/22/05
#22re: 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
#23re: 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.
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#24re: 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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