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#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.)
"Thought is suspect, and money is their idol, and nothing is okay unless it's scripted in their Bible." -Spring Awakening
#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...
Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy I can't go on tonight
#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
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#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.
Here's to Patti And Tina And Yoko, Aretha And Nona And Nico And me
#87

re: Shows you just don't 'get'

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

CATS
BROOKLYN
CAROUSEL (Although I love the score)

"If you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better." - David Mamet
#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.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
#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.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson
#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?
#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.
Life goes on, but I'm gone. Cause I die without you.
#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)
"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
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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
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson
#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.

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