Shows you just don't "get" — Page 4

#76

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/29/07 at 11:29pm

Brooklyn!!

Chicago...I didn't hate it but I expected much better...and the same goes for Mama Mia (but that was quite a few years ago, maybe I'd enjoy it more now.)

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#77

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/29/07 at 11:37pm

annie

do her and the old rich guy done get themselves married up in the end?

#78

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/29/07 at 11:39pm

Les Miz
Jersey Boys
Spamalot

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#79

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 4:07am

Phantom of the Opera - imagine growing up in a small town, where this is considered the epitome of 'high art'. Owning the cast recording made you 'cultured', so EVERYONE had it. I never did 'get' small towns either...

Cats - So they're cats... and...?

Mamma Mia - I don't even know where to start on this one...

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#80

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 4:17am

I love some Cy Coleman but I only really liked a few moments of City of Angels and while I've only seen Will Rodgers Follies on video--I appreciate some of Tommy Tune's staging and watch bits of it a lot but I think if I saw it live I'd have to leave at intermission with one huge headache.

Any Wildhorn musical though I do like a few of the individual songs--but in the same way I migth like a Whitney Houston ballad.

Any music written by Maury Yeston :P

#81

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 8:57am

Mamma mia
Cats
Phantom
Starlight
Light in the Piazza

and the ones i dont get how people couldnt get why they are hits?

Rent ,West Side Story

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#82

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:44am

C A T S and Starlight Express!

#83

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:53am

One word: Rent.

#84

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:19am

- Mamma Mia
- Aida
- Wicked

#85

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:21am

THE DROWSEY CHAPERONE
HAIRSPRAY
SPELLING BEE
URINETOWN

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#86

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:31am

Cats would appeal to T. S. Eliot fans, just to see what was made of the poems.
Also, costuming fans might be curious, but I guess that's not "getting" the show...

For me, it would be Urinetown.

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#87

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:42am

CATS
BROOKLYN
CAROUSEL (Although I love the score)

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#88

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:47am

Here are my list of shows that although I respect (most) of them artistically, I have never been able to develop a liking for -- although I have tried diligently with some (the few Sondheims).

-- Although I think Sondheim is a genious and I LOVE much of his work (Sweeney, Forum, and ITW especially) I have never bought into Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, or Pacific Overtures. I do like individual songs from each show, but not the whole package.

-- Drowsy Chaperone I enjoyed the show last year when I saw it, and I looked forward to the recording. However -- the recording quickly made it to my shelf and has been gathering dust ever since. (For example -- I bought it at the same time I got The Wedding Singer recording and DC was bumped out by THAT).

--Others: Hair, Taboo, Cats, Aspects of Love, The Color Purple, All Shook Up, and any of the Disney shows.

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#89

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 10:59am

Side Show - I know many folks here love this show, but it was lost on me. It had the most unusual audience response I've ever seen; some folks (like me) applauded politely, others leaped out of their seats with tears rolling down their faces.

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#90

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:13am

this is the stupidest thread of my life...

#91

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:21am

Then why don't you go back to your Wicked threads or mock people on another message board for things being the "stupidest" or pointless?

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#92

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:26am

The Baker's Wife
Children of Eden
Godspell

Sorry to Schwartz fans, but I just find them all so dull. And the awful cod-religious themes are handled in such a one-dimensional way. They always seem very popular with people who have performed them, but I found sitting through performances as an audience member torture...

#93

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:27am

For a play I second the Death of a Salesman

Musicals - Spamalot, Oklahoma, My fair Lady, Carousel, Cabaret (although having seen the london revival i now love it, naff film tho), Annie, evita (brilliant on film but bland on stage), Dirty Dancing, Fame, Dr Dolittle, High Society (classic film that shouldnt be put on stage)

#94

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:37am

Grey Gardens
Light In The Piaza
Rent (dopey kids on dope)
and of course...Cats
I was looking forward to Brooklyn, but got turned off after I got my sampler cd in the mail.

#95

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:40am

Evita.

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#96

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 11:54am

I don't really get "Movin' Out". I mean, the dancing is wonderful & so is the music, but I don't really "get" it, I guess. I dunno. I am so smrt!

#97

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 12:20pm

I seriously don't get the appeal of Phantom.

Or Avenue Q.

Or this revival of Company.

(I will probably get shot now)

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#98

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 12:21pm

AIDA
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
SPRING AWAKENING
SEUSSICAL
SIDE SHOW

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#99

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 12:33pm

Grease

Worst message EVER.

#100

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

Posted: 1/30/07 at 1:00pm

There are plenty that I just don't "get"; but the top of the list would be SWEENEY TODD.