Unpopular Opinions You Hold- Page 2

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 10:20am

I like CATS and Aspects of Love (CATS was my childhood... Aspects, well, has Michael Ball.)
I LOVE the Little Mermaid
I greatly prefer Terrence Mann's Javert to Philip Quast's
I don't get Harvey Fierstein
I really don't like Ruthie Henshall
"The Scarlet Pimpernel" is in my top three favourite musicals
"Spamalot" is my favourite musical overall

Qolbinau, is this a High School Musical reference? Oh yeah, I should mention that I like HSM as well, though I hate all of the crazed commercialism surrounding it.

Updated On: 1/3/09 at 10:20 AM

[cglaid]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 10:20am

Pound for pound; story, songs, set, costumes, lighting, sheer theatricality - "Les Miz" is the best musical ever written...

I second that.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 10:22am

I wouldn't say it's necessarily the best written, but it is definitely the one I'm the most obsessed with!

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 10:30am

I absolutely detest everything about XANADU.

I don't get what all the hype about GYPSY is about and I'm a huge Patti fan.

(Just a fun side note, but I just looked out the window and my dog is sitting in the snow. SITTING.)

The more I listen to EVITA, the more I wonder if I shouldn't kill ALW after all.

I don't understand why WICKED is so hated. Disliked, I can understand. But I just can't seem to not enjoy myself 100% whenever I see it.

Meryl was in her own movie in DOUBT and I'm not at all pleased with her recent movies (MAMMA MIA! and DOUBT).

[gilvisto]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:10am

I detest Spring Awakening.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:13am

As do I... and all of my friends are obsessed... (Granted, my tastes in musicals are a lot worse than most of my friends'.)

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:17am

gilvisto - Please tell me your signature is referring to BOEING BOEING.

[into_the_woods2]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:26am

I don't care if they submitted her for nomination or what, but Bernadette Peters as the Witch blew Joanna Gleason's Baker's Wife out of the water. Bernadette's performance was one of the best I've ever seen and while Joanna was fabulous, she just didn't do it for me.

Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda made me want to be an actress...I think she's incredible.

Spring Awakening: What is the big deal about this show? I feel like it's such a teeny-bopper kind of attempt at deepness...sorry to sound mean but that's how I feel. And yes, I am a huge Wicked fan.

[SoFarAway]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:27am

Cats may be getting old, but it's still fun once in a while. The tour's Anastasia Lange is incredible as Grizabella. Take her out of Cats after a while and put her in a new show and people will notice her.

Carmen Cusack was such an amazing Elphaba. I saw nothing I didn't like about her portrayal.

I do not care for Spring Awakening. Is it me? I didn't see a love story. I saw... something else.

Patti LuPone's voice can be irritating.

Elphaba should stay dead at the end of Wicked.

Sutton Foster should be in something other than Shrek.
Updated On: 1/3/09 at 11:27 AM

[gilvisto]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:32am

Color: yes, indeed it is. Glad to see someone get it, ha ha.

I doubt either of these are terribly unpopular, but I have huge celebrity crushes on Bernadette Peters and Julie Andrews... I just need to find their younger reincarnations, lol.

[broadway122]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:36am

I don't like RENT (rentheads are CrAzY!)
I LOVE Disney on Broadway shows
I LOVED The Pirate Queen
I LOVE Wicked
I don't like Spring Awakening
Harvey Fierstein's voice make me cringe everytime he talks. (his voice sounds like it is killing him. OUCH!)

[kissynose]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:49am

I HATE HATE HATE Patti Lapone!!! If she wasn't so ugly I would say she slept her way to the top. I don't get it. She sounds the same in every show. I can't name how many shows she has killed for me. I'm tired of people telling me I have no taste because I don't like her.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:52am

It's weird, I used to not be able to stand Patti LuPone either, but then I got Sweeney Todd and Evita cast recordings for Christmas, and all of a sudden, I liked her a lot more. She's still not in my top performers list, but although I can't put my finger on what it is, there's something I really like about her.

[broadway122]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 12:04pm

Ooo Schmerg_The_Impaler I was the same way about Jersey Boys. I didn't like it because I really wanted The Drowsy Chaperone to win Best Musical and once Jersey Boys won I didn't like it. Then I listened to the OBCR and loved it!

[dg22894]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 12:11pm

I do not like Jersey Boys
I LOVED 13
I think Brenda Braxton is amazing Velma Kelley

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 12:26pm

-I love Wicked, Rent, and Spring Awakening (I know they're not the greatest shows in the world)
-I thoroughly enjoy High School Musical
-I was bored out of my mind during Wonderful Town
-Carol Channing is horrible
-I think Thoroughly Modern Millie is a terrific show, and it deserved all of its Tony's

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 12:38pm

- I enjoy Disney and jukebox musicals.

- I am happy David Hyde Pierce won the Tony for Best Actor.

- I did not like Sweeney Todd.

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 12:42pm

I loved the revival of The Threepenny Opera

I like LaChiusa's Wild Party better than Lippa's

I really like Shock Treatment

[fizzthelibertine]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 12:45pm

I don't think all Disney musicals are terrible.

[geekgirl06]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 1:25pm

I only like Disney movies for the new songs.

Patti LuPone... wonderful actress, great singer, but she shouldn't do any shows unless Sondheim has touched them. Because I can't even listen to the 95 Pal Joey recording. And her Reno makes me cringe. In fact, I like Madonna better as Evita.

The Producers is one of the worst shows to ever win a Tony and how it one the most Tony's ever is beyond me. The only way I could see it winning anything is by comparing it to the abomination that was Young Frankenstein.

Jersey Boys is a glorified concert, and while entertaining, shouldn't even be considered a musical. Nevertheless, I do love the music and think the OBCR is ten times better than anything the Four Seasons ever released.

I was a RENThead... okay, not an original, but before the movie came out I had homemade RENT school supplies and listened the the OBCR to the point where I knew every word. I even went to a pre-screening of the film. And then, one day, something clicked and now I can't stand it. To the point where I won free tickets to a show and ended up selling them to see SA instead. And I have no regrets whatsoever.

On the same lines... I used to be a huge Spring Awakening fan. Now, I've grown out of the music, and frankly would rather listen to something else, but honestly it is one of the most heartbreakingly true stories on Broadway and therefore remains one of my favorite shows. I guess you could say I really just like the play, but honestly I think the music puts the show all together, so I'm sticking with the musical. But seriously, how many shows do you know where the only reasons for parents to not bring their children to the show are the very problems depicted in the show! And I have no idea who ever called this a love story, but I have to disagree wholeheartedly

I think Harvey Fierstein (sp?) sounds like a dying frog and I don't understand how anyone would put him in a show, whether he had to sing or not. Same with Carol Channing.

I think people in showbusiness are the bravest people in the world, and I can only aspire to that sort of commitment.

[Parsley]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 1:36pm

Rent is overrated, overblown and mostly crap. Some lovely songs but its more a case of throw in every disfunction, every sexual interest and every type of forced emotion regardless of coherence and credibility. What message it might once had went very quickly.

Ruthie Henshall - good singer when she isnt singing through her teeth but not that convincing when acting - graduated from the school of overacting and over-gesticulation.

I love Sondheim except for Company - an emotionally barren, vacuous piece with "what the hell is the point?" stamped all over it

[andrewcomp]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 1:39pm

I like Godspell
I don't like Spring Awakening
I thought Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen were the only good things in the Sweeney Todd movie.

[toddlisatyriem]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 3:39pm

I don't care about anyone's spelling or grammar on this board.


AMEN TO THAT!

[BroadwayDivaaa]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 3:59pm

I LOVE Harvey Fierstein and his voice DOESN'T bother me.
I can't stand Spring Awakening.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 1/3/09 at 4:05pm

I enjoy "Wicked"

And I didn't see what all the LITP fuss was about.