What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Greennow
Swing Joined: 8/21/05
#0What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:08amWhat is the most overrated show you have see ever seen on Broadway?
#1re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:10am
Either Phantom or Cats
#2re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:10amThe Producers. It was fun, but not everything I expected after all of the hype.
#3re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:11am
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - even the daily critics were less harsh on this show than others.
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#4re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:11amWicked
#5re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:15amCats
#6re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:19amPhantom, Cats and even though I more or less enjoyed it, I think Wicked is very overrated.
ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#7re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:20amCATS
#8re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:49am
Cats and Wicked.
I enjoyed Wicked IMMENSELY, but it is NOT the end-all be-all of musical theatre that many of its hardcore fans believe it to be.
#9re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:50amSame for me- I love Wicked, but I think it is overrated. Its not the best musical ever written in my eyes.
#10re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 11:57am
Hairspray. I didn't like Cats either, but I didn't honestly expect to with what I knew about it going in.
I thought I was going to really like Hairspray, but most of the score is just blah (I like maybe three songs -- Good Morning, Baltimore, Welcome to the Sixties, and I Can Hear the Bells), and it's really not that funny. I sat through most of the first act bored - pretty much the only part I liked in the whole thing was "You're Timeless To Me" because Bruce Villanch - and whoever I saw as the father - were adlibbing like crazy.
#11re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:01pmHave to say Wicked too. I loved it, but I can't see how it's many people's all time favorite show...
#12re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:07pm
Phantom of the Opera bored me.
Wicked was eh. Slightly enjoyable, but not amazing.
#13re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:07pmHairspray and some of Spamalot.
#14re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:16pm
Another vote for Hairspray!
I saw it with Michael McKean and Carly Jibson (it definitely was not her best performance!)
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#15re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:32pm"Spamalot" and "The Phantom of the Opera" are by far the most overrated musicals.
#16re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:34pmSpamalot, Wicked, and Mamma Freakin' Mia!
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Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#17re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:36pm
THE PRODUCERS. Entertaining? Yes. Worth of all those Tonys? No.
So much fuss and hype over such a mediocre show.
Updated On: 8/21/05 at 12:36 PM
#18re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:39pmWicked. It was fun to look at (pretty costumes, lovely sets...), but not the holy grail of musical theatre that I heard it was.
MusicalDirector109
Leading Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#19re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:53pm
"The Producers" - did it really deserve all of their Tony awards?
NOT
and "Wicked" - terribly "overproduced" IMHO
#20re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:57pmthe producers
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#21re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 12:59pmOh, definitely Wicked. I mean, I was amazed by a couple of things. But, it wasn't the best thing I've seen in my whole life.
#22re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 1:04pmGonna have to agree with Producers...did not see what all the fuss was about
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cathyhyatt
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#23re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 1:11pmhairspray.
#24re: What is the most overrated show on broadway you have ever seen?
Posted: 8/21/05 at 1:11pmI also agree about Wicked. I was expecting it to be much more exciting than it was. It was good, but definitely not my favorite.
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