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[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:33am

I really don't like Alice Ripley's voice.

Alice, Louis, and J. Robert do not have the right vocals for N2N, AT ALL.
I wish they had used Norbert, Sherie, and Anthony.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:35am

"I loved Sunset Blvd and Wicked and In the Heights."

A lot of people love In the Heights...

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:02am

I am OVER Seth Rudetsky. The schtick was funny at first. Deconstruct your own crummy voice.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 11:02am

I can't stand Adam Pascal's voice. I know a lot of people love him, but I just don't get it.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 1:30pm

I did enjoy Wicked, but I don't think it is the greatest show on earth. And, I only saw it for the first time on Thursday, although it has been open for about 5 1/2 years now.

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 1:54pm

I never post, but I really like this thread!

-- I don't despise ALW's music as much as I wish I did
-- jukebox musicals make me angrier than I knew I could be
-- I am a young theatre geek and I love Spring Awakening, [tos], Xanadu, N2N, ITH, and a lot of the other shows we get bashed for, but I also love the classics and have a ton of respect for musicals that came before Rent
-- I love Sutton Foster and would see her in anything regardless of how horrible the show is (YF...)
-- I like Patti's voice
-- August: Osage County kinda bored me
-- Not sure if this is unpopular, but I vote Julie Andrews over any other Maria in SoM
-- The Lion King is scary

[The White Half-Mask]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 3:13pm

-I don't like "Rent". Nothing about it really appeals to me.
-I don't mind Disney musicals.
- I'm a big TPOTO fan.
-Apart from Gerard Butler's singing, I didn't think the Phantom movie was all that bad.
-Even though Michael Crawford was fantastic as The Phantom, I think many actors have played the role just as well, if not better, than he did.
-I loved The Producers movie.

Also, not theatre-related, but I actually enjoyed The Godfather Part III more than Part II.
Updated On: 4/13/09 at 03:13 PM

[ratherbewhaling]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 3:19pm

I didn't like Hair

[Geridith]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 3:43pm

- Love Joseph... and Jesus Christ SS, Wedding Singer, Scarlet Pimpernel, Jekyll and Hyde, and Little Mermaid
- Disliked the Sweeney Todd revival AND movie intensely
- Dislike Patti LuPone
- LOVE Sutton Foster in anything, even if her last two shows weren't the best...
- Think that the 3 Billys SHOULD win the Tony
- Loved N2N but wasn't really that fond of Alice Ripley's voice. Acting, YES. Voice, not so much...
- Did NOT think 9 to 5 lived up to the hype everyone at BWW gave it.

[lisaatje009]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 7:11am

I enjoy listening to the cast recording of Aida, but I just can't stand Adam Pascals voice in it.
Same for Rent!

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 9:21pm

I know it may sound elitist, but here goes: I just don't like the majority of contemporary Broadway musical comedies. Out of the past decade, I loved Hairspray, and Spelling Bee, liked Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Urinetown, and Drowsy, and thought [title of show] was pretty okay but vastly preferred its off-Broadway incarnation. It's not that every show I see has to be ~*serious art*~ - I love shows like Little Me and Bells Are Ringing with a pretty big chunk of my heart. But shows like Legally Blonde and Wedding Singer leave me totally cold.

Also, I have no opinion on Next to Normal either way, but I feel that I should mention that Alice Ripley's "Another Hundred People" on The Stephen Sondheim Album was actually one of THE songs that got me into Sondheim in the first place. Love her voice, but just don't care about N2N.

[little_sally]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 11:25pm

I don't like Cheyenne Jackson, Jenn Cody, or Laura Bell Bundy. I don't understand their appeal.

I thought Xanadu and [title of show] were overrated.

I think Jersey Boys is boring.

I liked A Tale of Two Cities.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/16/09 at 9:52pm

I don't like Hugh Jackman.

I liked Passing Strange at the tony's last year. A lot.

[esparza 333]

Posted: 4/16/09 at 9:58pm

I loved Pirate Queen

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/16/09 at 9:59pm

I'm trying to figure out why everyone is all GAH-GAH about this Susan Boyle woman

[metropolis10111]

Posted: 4/29/09 at 5:19pm

I think that it's the gay-ist thing for theatre queens to bitch and moan over what over the hill actress will show up to make them cry into their hankies in the latest Sondheim revival.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/29/09 at 10:03pm

^ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[breakfree303]

Posted: 4/29/09 at 10:24pm

I love jukebox musicals.


Chita Rivera is a great dancer, but I only wish her singing amazed me as much as her dancing...



I watched and loved Grease: Your The One That I Want religiously (the tv show) and I voted for Max and Laura. (Never saw it on Broadway, but knew it wasn't a masterpiece by any means)

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/29/09 at 10:27pm

R&H's Cinderella is awful. There are a couple of gems in the score, and that's it. The lyrics are horrendous, the score is mostly weak, the book is terrible, the characters have NO personality whatsoever. The chorus members have much more personality to work with than any leading character

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 9:43am

Sutton Foster hasn't done anything worth her hype since Millie.

I don't understand why so many people are obsessed with Les Miserables. I've seen it 3 times, thinking that maybe this time I'll "get it", but I still don't.

DC is having a better theatre season than Broadway is.

[kate86]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 9:50am

i love becky gulsvig way more than laura bell bundy.

i hated in the heights.

i love the pirate queen too! (wave to esparza 333)

i love julia murney. and think she has an amazing voice.

i think julie reiber should be lead in wicked.

i do not like kerry ellis.

[dgjbear]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:06am

I would say about 50& of people on this site are really up themselves.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:15am

I loved both TOTC and SOML and wish they both could have run longer and found an audience...

[brittyluvsbway]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:49am

i think legally blonde is a phenomenal show.

i think wicked is good, but highly overrated.

[Steve2]

Posted: 4/30/09 at 10:54am

I didn't care as much for "Billy Elliot" as I thought I would. Sure, Billy's dancing was great but the score was kind of unmemorable to me. I will see again and see if I feel the same way afterward.