What Are Your Guilty Pleasure Shows?- Page 2

[N2N Nate.]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 7:50pm

Shrek

Wicked

Pirate Queen

Wonderland

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 8:15pm

Lately First Kiss

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[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 8:32pm

Why would Wonderful Town be a guilty pleasure? I don't understand.

For me, Love Never Dies.

[bwayboy22]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 8:32pm

Mine Would have to be Legally Blonde, Carrie, Ghost, 9 to 5, Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can and Zombie Prom.

[willrogers2008]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 8:48pm

CHAPLIN and NINE TO FIVE.
And the first JECKYL AND HYDE on Broadway.

[Hackasaurus_Rex]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 8:55pm

Here is a fantastic article that illuminates why the term "Guilty Pleasure" should be taken out back and shot in the head. It was created by pseudo-intellectuals who feel some kind of insecure shame for liking things that the "masses" enjoy. All of these previously mentioned shows are pleasures… no need for guilt… unless part of your enjoyment of these shows is murdering someone during intermission. Then you should probably feel some guilt.

http://www.esquire.com/features/chuck-klostermans-america/ESQ1104-NOV_AMERICA

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 9:21pm

Ghost, and I don't feel guilty about it.

[PTOPhan]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 9:44pm

POTO, but I'm not sure I should feel guilty about loving it so much, except that I've spent a fortune seeing it on stage nine times; buying the Blu-Rays for the 25th Anniversary, the 2004 movie, and LND; collecting just about everything I can afford from E-Bay, and having huge posters in the bedroom. Thank goodness my husband isn't jealous of men with masks, since their pictures are all over ... ok, maybe he's a bit jealous of Gerard Butler, but he has good reason to be.

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 10:05pm

The 2002 revisal of FLOWER DRUM SONG.

I considered it a guilty pleasure because I shouldn't have spent the money to see the show over and over, when there were other shows to see.

But the prospect of being able to hear Lea Salonga, Sandra Allen, and Jodi Long sell those great songs, get misty over Alvin Ing's 'My First Love' and drool over Telly Leung, Eric Chan, and Jose Llana was too much to resist so down Eighth Ave to the Virginia I would go. Again and again.

[justoldbill]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 10:11pm

The film version of SONG OF NORWAY.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 10:29pm

Scanning down the names others have mentioned-- the ones that are good (Bonnie and Clyde, Phantom of the Opera) don't deserve the term guilty pleasures at all-- they're just good. Most of the rest couldn't tempt me into the theater to see them in the first place. I guess WICKED was the last show I'm not supposed to love that I still mostly enjoyed.

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 11/20/13 at 11:25pm

Completely agree with Hackasaurus_Rex - I like lots of the shows mentioned in this thread and many others and don't feel any guilt about it. I can't think of any example where someone "should" not like a show - if they do, fine; if not, fine.

[allery]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 12:24am

I enjoy Legally Blonde and Xanadu but I'd have to say Hair and Little shop are my true guilty pleasures. I will put those albums on while cleaning my apartment and sing along from beginning to end. I sure do feel sorry for my neighbours.

[Princeton Returns]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 4:48am

Mamma Mia without a doubt. Always guaranteed to make me smile

[swoboda]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 12:53pm

Feeling guilt about feeling good? Why diminish the pleasure in the first place? I don't understand the idea of "guilty pleasure"

[BwayGeek2]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 1:03pm

Wouldn't necessarily use the term guilty pleasure, but I really enjoyed Shrek and Legally Blonde. Does Catch Me If You Can count?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 5:05pm

I've never felt a shred of guilt about any musical I've seen that left me feeling joyous and/or moved. If I had a wonderful time at a show that is flocked to by the unwashed masses or was a colossal flop and critically eviscerated, then that's just the way it plays out.

[JBradshaw]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 10:34pm

The Wedding Singer. It was just run, I always sing along the cast album when it comes on my iPod in the car.

J and Hyde is also a guilty pleasure.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 10:59pm

After tonight add to the list Big Fish

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/21/13 at 11:05pm

"I've never felt a shred of guilt about any musical I've seen that left me feeling joyous and/or moved. If I had a wonderful time at a show that is flocked to by the unwashed masses or was a colossal flop and critically eviscerated, then that's just the way it plays out."

This.



That being said, if you want some specifics:

Love Never Dies
Shrek
Sister Act
Anything Frank Wildhorn wrote ever.
Elisabeth
Mozart!
Tanz der Vampire
Rebecca
Notre Dame de Paris
Martin Guerre

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 11/22/13 at 6:27am

"I've never felt a shred of guilt about any musical I've seen that left me feeling joyous and/or moved. If I had a wonderful time at a show that is flocked to by the unwashed masses or was a colossal flop and critically eviscerated, then that's just the way it plays out."

"This." Me too. But what comes to mind first if I am thinking in this mode:

The Addams Family (and much of the music which is panned all the time. I think Happy Sad is a wonderful song and I like some others too).
..and First Date.

But yes I don't really feel guilty for not liking what others like - or liking something that others dislike. I am the one spending the money. If I get something out of it or not, it's up to me alone.

[andi1235]

Posted: 11/22/13 at 1:45pm

I agree about not liking the idea of guilty pleasures, but I'm going to throw out that I think I was one of maybe 5 people who had a fantastic time seeing Leap of Faith. :) I also loved the Hairspray movie (never had the chance to see it on stage).

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/22/13 at 2:36pm

Enjoyed Leap except for one of the most horrible sets in Broadway history.

[Amalia Balash]

Posted: 11/22/13 at 5:25pm

Legally Blonde and Spamalot. I wish I could have seen The Pirate Queen and hope Rebecca makes it to Broadway.

[Chowd95]

Posted: 11/22/13 at 5:34pm

IDK if I would consider Chicago a guilty pleasure, didn't it win best revival and best picture and only lost out to A Chorus Line the year it came out?

If Legally Blonde is a guilty pleasure then count me in. I've had the MTV broadcast saved on my DVR since it premiered, throw it on from time to time and usually can't turn it off. It's such a deceptively smart show, really well put together with some great songs that worm their way into your brain for days.