Shows you love to hate and you hate to love

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 9/25/06 at 4:09pm

What are some of the shows you love to hate and hate to love?

Mine:

HATE TO LOVE:
Annie
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
RENT
Wicked

LOVE TO HATE:
Phantom of the Opera
The Magic Show
West Side Story
George M!
Aida
Mama Mia
Oliver

Updated On: 9/26/06 at 04:09 PM

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 6:40pm

bump

[alliez92092]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 6:43pm

How about this? Shows people make me feel ashamed of loving:
Rent and Wicked

Shows I love to hate:
Everything Andrew Lloyd Webber except Phantom.

Posted: 9/26/06 at 6:51pm

God, almost all of my beloved shows are on the "hate to love"/"ashamed to love" list. Aida, Chess, Rent, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar...

I lack taste, okay? Updated On: 9/26/06 at 06:51 PM

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 7:15pm

Love to Hate:
Phantom of the Opera
Fiddler on the Roof
Oliver
The Sound of Music

Hate to Love:
Mamma Mia!

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 7:22pm

Hate to Love:
WICKED
RENT
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Love to Hate:
MAMMA-MIA!

[logan0215]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 8:05pm

I hate to love(but sort of stand by my love for):

Ring of Fire
"I Want More" (the only redeeming value to Lestat
Wicked (in moderation)

I Love to Hate:

The Wedding Singer
Tarzan
The rest of Lestat
Les Miz (I'll see the limited revival, give it another chance)
Into the Woods (the reason I started hating Sondheim, thank God for Sweeney!)


I don't know, I feel like this thread doesn't apply to me, if I love a show, then hating to love it means I would be ashamed of that which I really am not...

Updated On: 9/26/06 at 08:05 PM

[Attendthetale331]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 8:34pm

Love to hate:

Jekyll and Hyde
The Phantom of the Opera
The Producers

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 8:35pm

Love to Hate:

Mamma Mia!
Movin' Out

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:00pm

Love to Hate:

Wicked
Good Vibrations
Tarzan
Mamma Mia!
We Will Rock You
Aida
Jekyll and Hyde
Dracula
Lestat

Hate to love:

Any of the shows that I love, I'm not ashamed of loving. Potentials would be:

Cats
Titanic
Steel Pier

[Show Off]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:04pm

HATE TO LOVE:
Brooklyn
Aida

LOVE TO HATE:
Mamma Mia

Thats all I can really think of.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:06pm

Add BROOKLYN to my list of shows that I love to hate.

[actor]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:08pm

HATE TO LOVE:
Wicked
Rent

LOVE TO HATE:
Mamma Mia
Hairspray
Annie Get Your Gun

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:23pm

Hate to love:
Tarzan.
Rent.
I'm done with Wicked, so it will kind of have to be on both lists.

Love to:
ALW.
Jersey Boys.
The Wedding Singer.
ANY jukebox musical even though I haven't seen any. Because they are unoriginal.
Wicked.
Mamma Mia
Anyone who says "This -enter tourist trap musical here, such as BATB or Mamma Mia or TWS or Wicked- musical was amazing!"

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:43pm

hate to love
Rent
Lestat (I love this show so much)
JCS
Revival of 3PO (its so F***ing out there its creepy but i often cant stop coming back to it -wink-)

Love to Hate
mamma mia
pajama game (you could win every revival tony you want I still ahte you!!!!!!!!!!)
Aida
Hairspray
MOVIN OUT (its the worse excuse of a musical I have ever seen)

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 9:52pm

Add BEAUTY AND THE BEAST to my list of shows I love to hate.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 10:06pm

Add Bombay Dreams to the ones I love to hate.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 10:42pm

Love to hate:
Mamma Mia
Wicked

Hate to love:
none really. Its pretty much I like it or don't.

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 10:47pm

Love to hate:
Avenue Q
Anything Andrew Lloyd Weber (sans Evita)
Mamma Mia

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 9/26/06 at 11:09pm

HATE TO LOVE:
Fame
Sweeney Todd (YES!)
Tarzan
Brooklyn
CATS (my dad loves it, but whenever I hear "Macavity," I'm starting to get SICK OF IT)
All Shook Up
Lennon
Actually, every jukebox musical, because I like pop/rock as well as Broadway.
Dance of the Vampires

LOVE TO HATE:
Carrie (WELL, SOMEBODY HAD TO SAY IT!)
Brigadoon
Carousel (Sorry R&H fans!)

[bill mobley]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 9:24am

Love to hate
Guys and Dolls
Sweet Charity
Carousel (especially the main theme in the overture)

Hate to Love
The King and I (the most delightful song, and I grew up listening to R&B, rock, etc., is "Shall We Dance).

[Color and Light]

Posted: 9/27/06 at 10:43am

HATE TO LOVE:
Rent
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

LOVE TO HATE:
Lestat
Starlight Express
Jekyll and Hyde
Wicked
The Phantom of the Opera
Beauty and the Beast
Bye Bye, Birdie