Unpopular theatre opinions — Page 2

Dolly Parton's score for "9 to 5" is criminally underrated, I'm baffled as to how it didn't get more love.

I like Brooklyn the Musical.

I don't like Hamilton. At all. I'm not a contrarian, I wanted to like it. I like rap, I like hip hop, I'm Gen Z, I like Lin Manuel Miranda himself. I frankly just do not like the show or its music and don't find it particularly well made or impressive in any capacity except the fact that it made it as far as it did. To add insult to injury, I honestly think the choice of POC cast in addition to that story is ludicrous. I'm glad artists of color felt empowered playing those roles, but I think the casting was the antithesis of what the show is supposed to represent. I'm an LGBT person. I would not want to play somebody who systemically benefited from my oppression unless they were doing something important with it. Even though I didn't like the show itself, I would've been less miffed if the story was at least something that really celebrated people of color rather than acting like it was progressive because there's people of color in it.

Updated On: 6/12/20 at 12:49 AM

soulmistin said: "I don't like Hamilton. At all. I'm not a contrarian, Iwantedto like it. I like rap, I like hip hop, I'm Gen Z,I like Lin Manuel Miranda himself. I frankly just do not like the show or its music and don't find it particularly well made or impressive in any capacity except the fact that it made it as far as it did. To add insult to injury, I honestly think the choice of POC cast in addition to that story is ludicrous. I'm glad artists of color felt empowered playing those roles, but I think the casting was the antithesis of what the show is supposed to represent. I'm an LGBT person. I would not want to play somebody who systemically benefited from my oppression unless they were doing something important with it. Even though I didn't like the show itself, I would've been less miffed if the story was at least something that really celebrated people of color rather than acting like it was progressive because there's people of color in it."

I think part of the idea of Hamilton, though, was that POC were in fact playing people who systemically benefited from their oppression and as a result were sort of reclaiming those roles and almost saying "look, you did not win, because here I am portraying you now". It's a really interesting point you bring up and not at all trying to invalidate it or say that none of the actors felt that way, but I think the greater idea behind Hamilton was that this was an opportunity for white history to be told by the folks who never got to speak up during those times and to finally give them an opportunity to bring their voice to these events.

But for the record, I'm actually not a huge fan of the music either and have never really gotten into it. But I can see and appreciate what they were going for with it, just personally not my thing.

Updated On: 6/12/20 at 10:34 AM

I wish they'd revived the original Shuffle Along. I understand why they wouldn't (surely couldn't), but Langston Hughes cites it as the work that inaugurated the Harlem Renaissance.

I hate when people dwell on the past of awards shows and who "should have won". For some reason it just bugs me.



I am not a fan of Great Comet at all. I think it had a very specific audience, and that's why it didn't stay open longer.

People who say people who hate bootlegs hate poor people are absolutely, 100% ridiculous. People now are so used to getting what they want, when they want. When I was young, I didn't expect to see shows for free because I couldn't afford it. I found other ways to entertain myself. Now so much of peoples lives are online that they expect to get basically anything they want.

Honestly, Spongebob deserved more recognition.

The whole debacle with Beetlejuice and The Music Man is the result of some greed, yes. But it was also totally justified. The show was doing poorly. Beetlejuice was going to close. Rudin wanted the theater, and they tried to find a way to compromise. But he was set on having TMM in The Winter Garden. Per an article in the NYTimes, they tried to find a way to shuffle TKAM, Beetlejuice and TMM, but Rudin was stubborn. Obviously I don't work in the industry so I don't know what went on behind closed doors. But the fans who are acting like it's the end of the world, and that TMM should be boycotted are ridiculous. The show wasn't doing well, they evoked the stop clause, and then the ticket sales went up. How on earth could they have predicted that would happen??

I don't understand the appeal (for decades now) of Hello Dolly.

Sutton Foster's voice is like nails on a blackboard to me.

I think Jonathan Groff got a Tony nomination so that Hamilton could set a record for nominations.

I loved The Great Comet, and preferred Dave Malloy to Josh Groban.

kaybay2 said: "I don't understand the appeal (for decades now) of Hello Dolly.

Sutton Foster's voice is like nails on a blackboard to me.

I think Jonathan Groff got a Tony nomination so that Hamilton could set a record for nominations.

I loved The Great Comet, and preferred Dave Malloy to Josh Groban.

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I fell in love with Hello Dolly, through the Barbra Streisand film. While, I think it deserves it place in the history, what I will never understand is the love of Carol Channing in the role. I never play the original cast recording. It can't stand the screaming cat noise she makes. HOWEVER, I feel like maybe she was better on stage than on record.

Lot666 said: "fashionguru_23 said: "I think Come From Away should have won Best Musical over Dear Evan Hansen"

Me too. I think Ben Platt was completely deserving of his Tony for what he did with the role, but the overall show was a less successful package than Come From Away.

I also think The Ferryman was the most over-hyped, boring, and pointless show of its season."

I know almost nothing about The Ferryman so I can't really say whether I agree or not (about it winning or about it being over-hyped/boring, but I had really been hoping for the Tony to go to Choir Boy or What the Constitution Means To Me.

joevitus said: "I may be the only person who agrees with you about Hello, Dolly!"

Wow, there are three of us.

I loved A Catered Affair and thought the score was marvelous.

Phantom and Les Miz are two of the worst, most boring shows I've ever seen.

Caroline, or Change is the best musical of the last 20 years.

Sondheim's later scores, starting with Sunday in the Park With George, are overwritten, too obviously clever and over-reliant on rhyming patterns.

Disney musicals, as a rule, belong as attractions in Disney amusements parks, not in legitimate theaters.

Titanic has one of the best scores of all time.

Wicked has been the worst influence on Broadway musicals since Andrew Lloyd Weber wrote Evita.