THE MUSICAL IS BACK- OSCARS PERFORMANCE — Page 2

I didn't care that the High School Musical kids performed, I just thought the number sucked.

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David Rockwell's Sets are Incredible!

I really loved the three seconds of Evita... but in reality, I didn't at all.

It sucked.

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I didn't care that Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were in it, the segment as a whole was just a mess. And Beyonce WAS lip-syncing!

I totally agree that David Rockwell deserves some major props for tonight's sets!

The segment was a mess and it was stupid, but I appreciate the effort I guess. It's always nice to see musicals represented.

During the performance I was simultaneously enjoying it while going WTF, though I did like all the references to Broadway in this year's telecast.

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I loved Hugh...was willing to deal with Beyonce..at first..but then it lost me when the "kids" came out. Noble attempt, but still a failure.

I would rather not have musicals represented at all, then this sort of thing. The opening was cute, because Hugh can charm an audience through just about anything. They should have just left it with that.

Sure, the "Musical (Hollywood that is, not Broadway) is Back" number was a MESS.

But what about the "Best Song" category?

Making those three sing together was about the worst idea ever. I was totally embarrassed. For ALL involved -- including myself.

I hope it wasn't the reason that "Jai Ho" didn't get a longer performance.

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I would have preferred they have the best original song performances go longer than bother with this musical is back number.

I wanted to like The Musical is Back medley. But it just wasn't good. No one sounded good, the musical direction was terrible, the choreography wasn't impressive, the song choices were strange.

It wasn't even a shout out to Broadway at all. I don't know why people are saying that.


I wish they had struck this and given the three original songs full performances. At least then we wouldn't have had John Legend mucking up Down to Earth.

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Count me in for the minority who loved it. As a piece of musical theater - true, rather dreadful. But come on guys - who expected anything musical from an Oscars telecast? I mean this is usually made (well primarily to pat the industry on the back, but also) for mainstream America. So even with Jackman hosting I never expected anything like this or if I did I just thought we'd get a song and dance number like Billy Crystal used to do (if memory serves correctly). But to get a crazy mismatch of musicals from yesterday and today, no matter how poorly executed - I just adored it. Yes, even the two or three seconds of HSM. And I absolutely ADORE the fact that Amanda Seyfried, my little Lily Kane, my Mormon Sarah, my Karen - performed at the Academy Awards. I was beaming, even if it only lasted a little while.