Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
#2Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:31pm
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Jane Eyre
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 12/13/11 at 03:31 PM
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
Baileyboo
Stand-by Joined: 7/28/09
#3Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:48pmHi Fidelity, Aspects Of Love
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#4Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:50pm
Henry, Sweet Henry
Illya, Darling
Follies (the original)
Minnie's Boys
The Boy from Oz
Cry Baby (all right, liked--not loved)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:52pm
Blood Brothers
Aspects of Love
I can think of more the other way around that critics loved and I hated. :)
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 3:53pm
Sorry for double post. Got an error message for the site and when came back my message posted twice.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Updated On: 12/13/11 at 03:53 PM
#7Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 4:01pmDid critics hate Blood Brothers? I loved that show as well. Saw it on Broadway and in London.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
JimCo
Chorus Member Joined: 1/2/09
#9Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 4:18pmIn recent history, Young Frankenstein and B&C.
#11Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 5:23pm
Lestat I really loved this show and was lucky enough to get tickets to opening night. The only show I ever got to see on opening night!
Titanic
"I'd rater be nine peoples favorite thing, than a hundred peoples ninth favorite thing"
#12Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 5:23pmLittle Women. Loved it loved it loved it.
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luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#13Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:07pm
Victor/Victoria. Of course I was so in awe of Julie that my judgment might have been clouded.
Catch Me If You Can. Still can't believe it closed so early...
Updated On: 12/13/11 at 06:07 PM
#14Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 6:34pmI also suppose Merrily We Roll Along, though I didn't see the original Broadway production.
kazacalo
Featured Actor Joined: 5/25/04
#16Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 7:10pmThey weren't perfect shows, but I thoroughly enjoyed Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (what a cast and "Model Behavior" had me in stitches) and Catch Me if You Can.
#17Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 11:48pm
The Secret Garden (saw it three times)
and mamaleh, the original FOLLIES was not panned by the critics, only the NY Times; other critics recognized it for the brilliant show it was (and still can be in the right production)
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#18Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/13/11 at 11:56pm
On A Clear Day
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
#19Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/14/11 at 12:52am
I can think of tons of shows that I love but critics were *mixed* on (it seems like nearly every Sondheim show when it premiered got decidedly mixed reviews, Night Music, Forum and Sweeney Todd perhaps being the exceptions), but not too many critically hated shows that I loved. I suppose Aspects of Love which is a sentimental favorite, but it did get decent to strong reviews in London I'm pretty sure...
Was The Secret Garden hated by critics? I love the score and saw the tour as a very young teen and LOVED the production--I always assumed it at least got decent reviews.
I suppose I did really love, huge plot faults and all, Tales of the City in San Francisco which definitely got mixed reviews. I have a soft spot for Miss Saigon, I always thought htat got bad New york reviews but better ones in London but could be wrong...
I do love Anyone Can Whistle (yes, even that libretto) and Merrily which I assume both got terrible reviews at the time... I also love the Pet Shop Boys penned Closer to Heaven (even though I think Jonathan Harvey's book is very lacking) which got scathing reviews in the British press but it's hrd to judge because most of the reviews focused on the tacky production, which I never saw, ands made a huge point about gay sex and drugs not being appropriate to West End theatre...
There are also of course scores I think are better than critics give them credit for--for example, Pippin while I think the show's a mess, and for me only really works in the stunning Fosse production, but the original reviews were nearly all incredibly dismissive and even hateful towards the score which, while I hate to stroke Schwartz' ego, I find charming.
LegallyBroadway2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/10
Vagabond Anarchist
Stand-by Joined: 10/29/11
#21Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/14/11 at 1:35am
Bonnie & Clyde
Catch Me if You Can
#22Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/14/11 at 1:43am
Women on the Verge
Spider-Man
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Dracula
Bonnie and Clyde
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#23Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/14/11 at 12:06pm
I loved TRIUMPH OF LOVE
I didn't love ON A CLEAR DAY, but I enjoyed it, on balance, found it an overall improvement on the original in notable ways, and certainly didn't think it deserved the evisceration.
Updated On: 12/14/11 at 12:06 PM
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#24Shows You Loved, But Hated By The Critics?
Posted: 12/14/11 at 12:15pm
I really loved Triumph of Love, too.
Others I liked and the critics didn't:
Jekyll and Hyde
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Bonnie and Clyde
I don't recall if Phantom or Les Miserables got particularly good reviews (I seem to recall not), but those are two shows I really love as well.
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