Actually, the number of Wicked threads have declined considerably. Not even worth whining about any more.
Most popular:
Favorite ________
Least Favorite Blank _______
Book/Movie that should be a musical
Best Overture
Hot or Not
Jukebox musicals (or How Mamma Mia is singularly responsible for the closure of every subsequent book musical on Broadway all the while arrogantly entertaining millions worldwide)
"I told you so" for every bad/mixed review
Norma du jour in the film version of Sunset Boulevard
Liam's spelling and how it unquestionably proves he can be nothing other than an imposter and therefore must be treated with the cruelty reserved for serial killers and rapists
Musical plagiarism based on a 4-5 note phrase
Sondheim is the standard, not the exception, to which every composer must be compared
The Golden Age is the only era of Broadway musicals and everything before or after does not exist or should at the very least be ignored and treated with disrespect (unless it was Show Boat, Sondheim, Gershwin or Porter but we will pretend they were Golden Age because we like them)
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 3/7/05 at 04:11 PM