Underrated Musicals Question
Underrated Musicals Question
#0Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:07pmWhat do you think the most underrated musical of the past 10 years? My vote goes towards "The Capeman".
#1re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:14pmRagtime. It should've latest much longer than it did and that is unfortunate.
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#2re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:17pm
I agree. "Ragtime" should still be on Broadway.
Also, two of my very favorites, "Side Show" and "Amour".
#3re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:22pmSIDE SHOW
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#4re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:27pmYes, "Side Show" is criminally underrated. I'm hoping for a revival some time in the next ten years. Hopefully, they will do some work on the book, though. And Emily and Alice will have to reprise their roles. Nothing less will do...
#5re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 12:35pmBat Boy!
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joniray
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/04
#6re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 1:02pm
I also was going to say Side Show and Amour, but melissa errico fan beat me to it. Nonetheless, I wanted to get another vote in for them.
I also thought Triumph of Love was underrated.
I actually really liked enough things about The Capeman to go back and see it a few times. But I don't think it was underrated. It was a fascinating failure, but a failure nonetheless.
jim coleman
Stand-by Joined: 1/10/05
#7re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 1:15pmI think TITANIC was underated. That beautiful score. I saw it 7 times and loved it!
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twogaab2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#8re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 1:54pm
Amour,
Sweet Smell of Success
A Class Act (although most of the reviews were excellent)
Habius Corpus
TWOGAAB
"A Class Act" will never die!
#9re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 1:56pm
Urban Cowboy!!! just kidding...
I wholeheartedly second "Ragtime"
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Posted: 3/3/05 at 2:00pm
Not only underrated, but arguably the two best new American musicals of recent years:
SIDE SHOW
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
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Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:19pmSide Show - I pray every day for a broadway revival or an encores revival or a one day concert with Alice and Emily. The music is brilliant!!
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#13re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:18pmWe totally forgot STEEL PIER and JANE EYRE.
#14re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:19pmBecause STEEL PIER was not underrated.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#15re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:22pmI think it is, personally. Most people-and those are the key words-only remember it as Kristin Chenoweth's Broadway debut. They probably wouldn't be able to give you a single lyric from "Willing to Ride" or "Somebody Older". In my book, that constitutes underrated.
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Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:26pmomg i LOVE steel pier. willing to ride, somebody older and running in place are FANTASTIC songs! i hope debra monk is it a hit sometime soon...she's had a bunch of flops. MEF, you have good taste in shows.
#17re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:30pmYou people who liked STEEL PIER - did you see it, or are you going off the recording?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#18re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:32pm
WithoutATrace-Thank you. And Debra Monk was in "Reckless", which was a hit.
Rath-Saw it twice.
#19re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:33pmYou didn't sit there scratching your head at the inconsistencies, and thinking, Poor Karen - how the hell can she keep up that grueling physical role 8 shows a week??
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#20re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:35pmI didn't see it...totally going by the recording. Plan on seeing it in Lincoln Center eventually though.
#21re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:36pmIt was rough to sit through - and I did, three times.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#22re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:37pmThere were definite whole in the book, which would have to be rewritten for this show to ever back it back to New York. But the score was ravishing. I was so in awe of Karen, who gave such an incredible performance. I loved the whole cast.
#23re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:38pmOh god, there have been SO many underrated musicals in recent years. I'm going to have to agree with Ragtime though...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#24re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:40pm
meffie - it was very well cast, except for Daniel McDonald. And Karen was amazing. But the show...just a big ol' mess.
Remember how hotly anticipated it was? Remember how Karen was going to be a huge star? Ugh. Makes me nauseous to remember.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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