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#1

Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 12:33am

For me, I LOVED Wicked, but after two performances or so, I got sick of it.
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy
#2

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 12:54am

RENT
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#4

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 1:21am

I saw Phantom when I was a kid, and LOVED it. I saw it again several times.

When I finally saw it as an adult...I realized how much I hated it. It is now my second most hated musical, right after Cats.

I also loved Wicked the first time I saw it, but subsequently got a little blah over it.
#7

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 1:55am

Wicked.

The score is great but the book needs to be reworked.

Brigadoon.

Such great music. Such a lousy book.

Once Upon a Matress.

The novelty wore off so fast.

Little Women...loved the soundtrack and then went and saw it...

I sat how long to hear one good song? "Astonishing".

#8

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 2:10am

I guess all the Lloyd Webber stuff.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#9

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 2:10am

but fossemoves...i dont understand...if you loved the soundtrack at first, then wouldnt that mean you thought that it was full of good songs? or do you just mean you changed your mind after seeing it?
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
#10

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 2:18am

Fossemoves made a mistake in listening to the MOVIE SOUNDTRACK not realizing that the music in the Broadway show was totally different. He should have listened to the ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING and then he would have heard the songs featureds in the stage musical!
:)

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

#14

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 10:27am

"And Fosse76, I'd be tired of ANYTHING I saw four times! "

Perhaps, but it's not as if I saw them all in a row. They've been spread out by months. I've seen Avenue Q four times as well, and that's starting to lose it's luster. And the time in bewteen viewings of that show is much greater than of Spelling Bee.
#15

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 10:49am

Wicked. Predominantly because wherever I go all I hear is off-key renditions of Defying Gravity.
And also Phantom. I still have to love it becasue it's the first show I ever saw on stage when I was young and innocent. But as I'm old and embittered I can now see the banality of ALW's work. Shame...
#18

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:08pm

I totally agree with timote316: I loved the cast recording of Wicked, but when I actually saw the show I was slightly disappointed. I saw it again 6 months later (giving it another chance)... and was even more disappointed. I've given up on it now.
#19

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 3:17pm

I was obsessed with Annie in my early teens. I wouldn't call my attitude towards it now hate, but it certainly doesn't get much play anymore.
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#20

re: Shows you adored, but then started hating it.

Posted: 2/1/06 at 9:56pm

Mamma Mia. The first time I saw it I was not really expecting anything, and I loved it. Then I started listening to the sound track all the time. What a fun show! About a year and a half later, I saw it again and I really hated it. I couldn't understand why I liked it the first time. It may have just been that the cast was much worse, but I don't have any desire to see it again, or hear the album anymore.

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