Shows that you don't get- Page 2

[obsessedjb]

re: Shows that you don't get#25

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:20pm

Spring Awakening
Rent
[title of show]
Billy Elliot

[sally1112]

re: Shows that you don't get#26

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:20pm

The Lion King! I didn't hate it, but it was the first time I was ever actually bored during a show! After the opening number it was all down hill for me.

[Sondheim_Geek]

re: Shows that you don't get#27

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:23pm

[title of show]
Billy Elliot
Urinetown

[SamanthaisFierce]

re: Shows that you don't get#28

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:40pm

Lion King (beautiful visually but BORING).
Spring Awakening
Miss Saigon

[RevolutionaryCostume]

re: Shows that you don't get#29

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:54pm

Phantom
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Light In The Piazza

[fgreene1938]

re: Shows that you don't get#30

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:58pm

To start with: Cats, Les Miz, Phantom...all boring and overrated (and sleep inducing)

Next: Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Aida, etc., etc. ...big holes where the musical should've been

Finally: Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages...junk

[ashley0139]

re: Shows that you don't get#31

Posted: 6/19/09 at 3:59pm

First and foremost:

Spring Awakening
The Producers

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[BwayTday]

re: Shows that you don't get#32

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:05pm

" ...big holes where the musical should've been"

I don't understand what you mean, fgreene1938, could you explain?

[Barney Stinson]

re: Shows that you don't get#33

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:06pm

Cats
Light in the Piazza
Nine
Wicked

[janice4]

re: Shows that you don't get#34

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:07pm

Well I'm obviously not alone in this: Spring Awakening

[J'aime GG]

re: Shows that you don't get#35

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:11pm

Spring Awakening
The Lion King
The Light in the Piazza

... but mostly Spring Awakening

[Scarywarhol]

re: Shows that you don't get#36

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:12pm

South Pisserific

[fgreene1938]

re: Shows that you don't get#37

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:28pm

To BwayTday: Sorry for being to vague...I just meant that these shows had a lot of flash but no real substance beyond the physical production (I should've said that in the first place).

[alightinthedark23]

re: Shows that you don't get#38

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:29pm

Rent. It has a few good songs but the ending is just weird.

"It's about the Benjamins, not the Bernsteins."-CapnHook

[LizzieCurry]

re: Shows that you don't get#39

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:34pm

Y/K Phantom

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[legally_popular]

re: Shows that you don't get#40

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:38pm

Rent.

Spring Awakening - I like the music, but I just don't think the show as a whole is that great to gain so much obsession.

[nealb1]

re: Shows that you don't get#41

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:41pm

"Wicked"

[jennamajig]

re: Shows that you don't get#42

Posted: 6/19/09 at 4:46pm

In the Heights.
I mean, I enjoyed it, but I didn't understand why everyone thought it was the best thing to hit Broadway in ages. (I did see the night after seeing Billy Elliot, however).

Wicked.
I'm not alone here. I gushed over the technical aspects but it's second act was a complete disappointment.

[inick122492]

re: Shows that you don't get#43

Posted: 6/19/09 at 5:00pm

Spring Awakening - surreal to me, it was good and a ****ty at the same time... just flawed I guess.

Les Mis - Ok story line, good music but it's nothing great. Why it is running STILL on London is beyond me... I should see so my opinion is fair. I'm an idiot :P lol

[RockabyeHamlet]

re: Shows that you don't get#44

Posted: 6/19/09 at 5:11pm

Billy Elliot
RENT
Spring Awakening

"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee

[GlindatheGood22]

re: Shows that you don't get#45

Posted: 6/19/09 at 5:12pm

Sunday in the Park With George (I'm trying...cut me some slack.)
Kiss Me Kate
Rock of Ages
Billy Elliot

And above all, RENT!!! I have a friend who said to me yesterday, "You don't even know how amazing Rent is. Gypsy and West Side Story should bow at Rent's feet." It made me want to slap her, and the worst part is that nothing I can say will change her mind. It's frustrating.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[BwayTday]

re: Shows that you don't get#46

Posted: 6/19/09 at 7:13pm

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Updated On: 6/19/09 at 07:13 PM

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Shows that you don't get#47

Posted: 6/19/09 at 7:24pm

Above All: Sunday in the Park With George. It's just plain boring

Wicked
Everything Rodgers and Hammerstein
CATS
The Produceres

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[breakfree303]

re: Shows that you don't get#48

Posted: 6/19/09 at 7:26pm

Cats.
I saw it 7 or 8 years ago, and I still don't get it.

"'Cats' is the second worst thing that ever happened to New York City"-Jersey Girl

[MisterRussell]

re: Shows that you don't get#49

Posted: 6/19/09 at 7:36pm

Maybe it's just me, and that I'm trying to be too literal, but it seems to me that the thread is about "shows that you don't get," not "shows you don't like," or "shows you want to dump on" or even "shows you don't get why they have endured/are popular/ever were written."

I'm not a huge fan of many shows, but I "get" them. I really love some shows, but still fail to "get" the message. In this amazing forum we have to discuss and debate the artistic merits of our favorite plays and musicals, why do we constantly miss the point and act like ignorant boobs?