Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.

[dramarama2]

Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#1

Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:25am

A show I didn't like at first was Les Miz. I first saw the show in 1997 and I didn't really like it, but when I saw it about a year later again, I started feeling different about it. The more I saw it and listened to the OBC the more and more I liked it. Now it is one of my favourite shows.

Are there any shows where you felt like this?

A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.

[Weez]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#2

Posted: 5/29/07 at 8:35am

I'm talkin about cast recordings here, because I still don't get to see as many shows as I'd like, despite the fact most of my disposable income goes on theatre tickets. ^_^

But yes! This happens all the time! Occasionally, I'll get a new CD, stick it on the player, and fall in love right away. Other times, it can take weeks, months, or longer for me to click with it. I didn't at all enjoy 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' at first because I found some of the humour crude. But after a few more listens, I kinda realised that was the point, and ended up loving the bejesus out of it. I bought the OBCR of 'Company' last August but it wasn't until about February this year that I realised I actually really enjoyed it (although I clicked with the revival recording straight away). I still haven't clicked with 'Into The Woods', but I keep trying dagnabbit.

In fact, it's rarer for me to love a recording right away than it is for me to be "eh" at first then love it later on.

As for shows, I tend to love them all. I'm very easily pleased when people are mincing around onstage in front of me. (Actually, that's a lie, I have disliked some shows, but usually that's going from "loving the recording" to "have now grown bored by the show" so may not count...)

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

Updated On: 5/29/07 at 08:35 AM

[ahmelie]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#2

Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:58am

It took me a while to warm up to Follies, it's now my favourite show.

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[TapTapTapioca]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#3

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:01am

Spring Awakening

I shave me Xanadu every morning!

[jordangirl]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#4

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:09am

It's not an exact thing, but...

I really didn't like The Rainmaker. But I love it as 110 In The Shade.

Though in all fairness, it could be where I was in life when I saw the play vs. where I am in life now seeing the musical.

Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!

Updated On: 5/29/07 at 10:09 AM

[Dancinqueen123]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#5

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:10am

Same thing with me Weez, I really don't get a chance to see that many shows, seeing as how I kind of live far away, but I listen to cast recordings all the time and sometimes it takes awhile for me to start liking them. It happened with Little Shop Of Horrors, which took me about 5 months before I really started liking it. The Sweeney Todd revival too, that took me about 10 months before I started liking more than just 3 songs

<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#6

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:12am

The Fantastiks

Avenue Q

I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

[Mattbrain]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#7

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:17am

Jelly's Last Jam

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[HumATune]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#8

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:46am

RENT

First saw it when I was a sheltered girl with a heavily Christian background (I think you can guess why I didn’t like it). Fast forward several years after seeing some of the world, which changed my views (I now consider myself a liberal Christian) and while I’m no RENThead, I appreciate the show.

JERSEY BOYS

Saw the first national tour back in December. While I didn’t think it was a bad show, I wasn’t all that impressed either. I saw it as a overrated jubebox musical, just with the real story of the Four Seasons instead of a fictional story. It took five months for me to give the show a second shot (and now the cast was the second national tour) and I liked it LOT more, though nowhere near the extent of most people who see it. (It’s kind of like RENT for me; I’m entertained but not blown away.) Maybe the third time will be the charm and I’ll fall in love with it. But if not, at least I can appreciate it.

[Esparzafan]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#9

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:51am

I was on the fence about Company the first time I saw it, but really enjoyed it the second time and can't stop listening to the CD.

[shesamarshmallow]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#10

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:54am

Grey Gardens and Legally Blonde.

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[Dancin Thru Life]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#11

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:30am

Damn Yankees and South Pacific.

Hated them until I was in them.
Funny how that happens......

:)

"To love another person is to see the face of God!"

[songanddanceman2]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#12

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:38am

"(I now consider myself a liberal Christian)"

Im sorry but as a brit that just made me laugh a little(we dont do religion so much in the UK) but a liberal Christian LOVE IT

I hated Guys and Dolls when i first watched it on stage years ago but after watching the New UK production i love it.

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[RentBoy86]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#13

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:39am

I couldn't get into "Sunday in the Park With George." I bought the OLCR, but since the show isn't full of melodies that you can just latch onto, it took me awhile. But after seeing the video of Bernadette and Mandy, I fell in love with it. And now it is - hands down - my favorite show.

[jordangirl]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#14

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:48am

Not to threadjack, but songanddance...there IS such a thing. And we're more common than you realize. Just because you hear the conservative freaks doesn't mean there's not another side.

Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!

[raphael06]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#15

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:53am

Cabaret and Sunday in the Park With George. Didn't like or "get" either of them at first, but after sometime, they have grown into being two of my favorite shows.

"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George

[raphael06]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#16

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:54am

And very true Jordangirl!

"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#17

Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:05pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[songanddanceman2]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#18

Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:16pm

arrrrrrrrgh i didn't mean it as an insult i meant it when i said I LOVE IT (I think that is the best kind of christian)
I just meant ive not really heard that saying before thats all..x

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[HumATune]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#19

Posted: 5/29/07 at 12:29pm

I'm not insulted. I know that in certain parts of the United States I'd be out of place, but in the San Francisco Bay Area there are plenty of liberal Christians and it’s not a big deal.
Updated On: 5/29/07 at 12:29 PM

[Jade]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#20

Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:24pm

Rent. The first time I saw it I didn't know anything about it, thought it was too loud, and couldn't understand what was going on. I'd already been given the cast recording, though, and thought it'd be a waste if I didn't listen to it. It really grew on me, so that when I saw Rent again six months later I really loved it. It's now my favourite show.

[unckristen]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#21

Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:33pm

The Producers -- The first time I saw it was near the end of the second run for Broderick and Lane and by that point, they seemed to be playing more for each other and for bloopers. I enjoyed it but not as much as when I saw Alan Ruck on tour -- when I could just enjoy the show. (Yes, I know that sounds a bit crazy.)

Rent -- the first time I saw it was on tour and the cast did nothing with the material. I couldn't understand what the appeal of the show was. Then I listened to the two-cd original cast recording and loved it. I was moved so much more by that recording than with the actual tour performance.

"She sang each word, the angels heard ... They closed her mouth and shipped her south. The woman's done."

[WithoutATrace]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#22

Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:36pm

Little Women...hated it the first time (in previews). Then bought the OBCR, fell in love with it, and attended the final performance, which was excellent.

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#23

Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:37pm

"It took me a while to warm up to Follies, it's now my favourite show."

Same with me.

[EganFan2]

re: Shows You Didn't Like at first...but you liked later on.#24

Posted: 5/29/07 at 2:39pm

"Guys and Dolls". I saw it in summer stock somewhere and I really didn't care for it. I wanted to smack the really annoying girl who played Sarah Brown (she only got worse when she got drunk in Havana--I wanted to slit my wrists at that point). Then I was cast in it as one of the Mission Dolls and I ended up really liking it after all. Our Sarah was lots better.