I don't know if this has been posted but...
What are some shows that others love but you just don't get why people think its so great?
EDIT: As in they have a lot of reconition and you don't understand why
Updated On: 6/19/09 at 01:20 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
Phantom of the Opera
Les Miz
Wicked
All have their merits, but I found them either overrated or just plain tedious.
Stand-by Joined: 10/20/08
Featured Actor Joined: 8/28/08
Rent, never understood what people see in it.
CATS
Kiss of the Spider Woman-without a star as the Aurora, the show is a dud IMO.
The Producers
[title of show]
Xanadu
Legally Blonde
Jersey Boys
(I just don't understand the appeal of these shows.)
The Producers
Spring Awakening
Annie Get Your Gun
Side Show
RENT
Phantom
Curtains
Joseph and the blah blah blah
[tos] (I liked it, but didn't think it was any big deal.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Grand Hotel
Will Roger's Follies
hated them both.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
"Rent, never understood what people see in it."
Rent resembles Hair in that you really had to be there at the beginning to get into it. It was the experience more than it was the show. Anyone who saw it a year after it opened on Broadway really didn't get the full experience.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
Next to Normal.
Ragtime
Gotham---huh? I saw the original cast. Hated it.
And how could it possibly lasted for 12 years if ONLY the first year folks "got it"? That doesn't make sense to me. My HS students which CERTAINLY didn't see it in it's first year are certainly "into it" and have been for years....and that's no different than your average HS theater kid.
Billy Elliot
Jersey Boys
The Lion King
Spring Awakening
The Light in the Piazza
I love the movie, but I just don't like Grease on broadway. It was just, bleh.
Spring Awakening
The Light in the Piazza
Avenue Q
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Grease
Rent
Spring Awakening
Billy Elliot
Ragtime
and Frank Wildhorn/Hampton/Black's DRACULA, the musical. Like the music/songs, but vaguely remember being confused about the specifics of the story/wasn't a good telling of the story!
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