Unpopular Opinions You Hold — Page 2

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

I second that.

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).

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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!

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-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

I loved the revival of The Threepenny Opera

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

I really like Shock Treatment

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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.

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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.

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

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