Shows you just don't "get"
Shows you just don't "get"
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#1Shows you just don't "get"
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:05pm
There are shows that are popular and beloved and I just don't "get" why.
I'm not saying they are bad... but they just don't work for me the way they seem to work for others.
KISS ME, KATE
LES MISERABLES
AVENUE Q
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
OLIVER
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:07pm
I second the "Oliver!" motion.
Never understood the big deal with "Oklahoma!" beyond its historical significance.
"Ragtime," it's a good show and I remember that I loved it when I first saw it. However, I don't see why people are so enamoured with it.
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Updated On: 1/29/07 at 05:07 PM
Spacedog78
Featured Actor Joined: 11/3/06
#3re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:08pm
drowsy chaperone
i get it, liked it but didn't love it
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#4re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:08pmI will never understand why anyone would willingly go to Cats.
#6re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:09pm
Urinetown.
Everyone in the theatre laughed. Except me.
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#7re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:10pmspring awakening.....okay, but not my fav
#8re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:11pmI second cats. Its the only show i ever left during intermisson.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#9re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:11pm
I just don't understand what a bunch of my friends see in Little Women.
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purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#11re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:17pm
Wicked
I don't know, maybe I just outgrew it.
EDIT: Yeah and color purple
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
#12re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:18pm
"CATS" and "Jersey Boys."
Edit: Oh, and "Mamma Mia," "The Wedding Singer," and "West Side Story."
Updated On: 1/29/07 at 05:18 PM
#13re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:18pmI really don't get "Cats," either.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
#14re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:19pmThe Lion King
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Dibbledl01
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/07
#15re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:29pm
I second, third, fourth, fifth...whatever...cats
and if I could throw in a play here, I NEVER understood the greatness of "Death of A Salesman"...:hides behind door and prepares for the fight ahead:
#16re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:31pm
Oklahoma!
South Pacific
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Carousel
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#17re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:32pm
Hairspray
The Light in the Piazza
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#18re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:37pm
ANY Jukebox musical.
Don't care which or why or where.
I don't get why people want to see an artist's work inappropriately smashed together and squished through a story that tries to make it all work out.
Cages or wings - which do you prefer?
To The Stage!
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/28/06
#19re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:37pm
Cats
Les Mis
Oliver
So afraid of getting older
I'm only good at being young
I'm only good at being young
#20re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:39pm"Spring Awakening" - I really love the music, but I was the only person in my row who not only didn't care, but didn't cry. I feel like I somehow missed the emotional boat with this show.
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
#22re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:42pmThe Color Purple. The only thing I liked was the final number.
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AngusN
Broadway Star Joined: 3/23/05
#23re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:45pmAny jukebox musical especially, 'Jersey Boys' and 'Mamma Mia'. Yawn!
#24re: Shows you just don't 'get'
Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:48pm
Les Miz - watching it was really tedious
Phantom of the Opera - doesn't live up to its hype
Cats - I used to like this when I was a kid, but now I don't and have no idea why I used to like it. I guess it was the excitement of being in a theatre and it was my first musical?
Rent - same reason as Phantom
Spring Awakening - I enjoyed it, but it's definitely not my favorite. I went in expecting way too much from it due to the numerous rave reviews I read.
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Updated On: 1/29/07 at 05:48 PM
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