What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

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What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:36am

NOTE: Please, don't use this as a place to post angry comments based on peoples responses. It's just silly.
I know this will probably cause anger in some parties, but what shows that are popular just make you cringe?
For me, it's:
-Phantom of the Opera
-Wicked
-Rent
-Grease
-Pippin
-Godspell

What else?

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:38am

It's hard for me to "despise" a show, but I think I can safely say:

Les Miserable
Aida

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#3

re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:40am

Spamalot
Hello,Dolly

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:43am

Wicked
Jersey Boys
King and I

#5

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Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:44am

Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat
Oklahoma

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:48am

Wicked.

At first I was absolutely in love with the show then after a while I got tired of it. I find it quite annoying. I'm surprised at how come the hype hasn't gone down for it yet.

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:56am

Phantom
Cats
Wicked

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:59am

The Phantom of The Opera

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:59am

Avenue Q
Cats
The Lion King
Mame
Spamalot
Spelling Bee
Sweeney Todd

I'm sure I'll think of more later.

Updated On: 8/27/06 at 12:59 AM

#10

re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 1:34am

Phantom.

Halfway through the show, I sat there thinking, "why is this long, dragged out thing still on Broadway when great shows are closing?"

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 1:37am

Oklahoma. It's just brutal.

#12

re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 1:39am

Les Miserables was the first thing that came to my mind. Very close second is Phantom of the Opera. Oh, and Cats.

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 1:51am

Sweeney Todd
The Phantom of the Opera
Sweeney Todd
Hello Dolly
Sweeney Todd
Movin' Out
Sweeney Todd
Cabaret

Updated On: 8/27/06 at 01:51 AM

#14

re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 2:11am

The Last Five Years. I don't really despise it... I just don't get it. not huge JRB fan anyway, though I did enjoy Parade.

#15

re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 8:45am

WICKED in a way, just because there is too much hype for it
JERSEY BOYS sort of

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 8:56am

I really don't like Mamma (is that how they spella 'Mamma'? There are about 50 different ways...) Mia or CATS. Both well known, but bleck IMO.

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Posted: 8/27/06 at 9:00am

oh yes, how could i have forgotten about MAMMA-MIA!
i despise it most of all...

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 9:09am

I despise Avenue Q and Rent

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 9:14am

Cats.

How that got to be the longest-running musical on Broadway for a few years is beyond me.

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 9:48am

Annie. It's the one show I've seen that I do not desire getting the cast album of. If I so much as hear the first strains of "Tomorrow", I am out the door.

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re: What Well Known Shows do you Despise?

Posted: 8/27/06 at 9:57am

Cats

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - when a prop gets a curtin call, you know you're in trouble.

#22

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Posted: 8/27/06 at 10:00am

Annie Get Your Gun

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Posted: 8/27/06 at 10:07am

Cats,
POTO

#24

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Posted: 8/27/06 at 10:13am

Chicago. I saw it yesterday. The only good thing about it is Usher.

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Posted: 8/27/06 at 10:14am

Beauty and the Beast - the film was perfect and it was just unnecessary to bring it to life. Kind of like Gigi.
The Lion King - I love the animation - hate most of the score and the stage version keeps lines written specifically for Jeremy Irons because he was Jeremy Irons and he's never been in the stage version. The puppetry is amazing, though.
ALW's Phantom - I can't stay awake. I've never seen most of Act II.
Jesus Christ Superstar - love this music - as a stage production I always slip off to napland. Once, three different times just while Ted Neely was on the cross. "Isn't he dead yet?"

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