What was the most comnfusing show you've seen?

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What was the most comnfusing show you've seen?

Posted: 10/11/04 at 8:56pm

Are there any shows that you have been to where by the end of act 1 you sit there asking yourself what the heck is going on? Or by the end of the show you STILL don't understand half the stuff that was going on?

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 8:59pm

Parade when I saw it in Chicago. I was fine until the end. The way they staged the ending was REALLY confusing. I still haven't got a clue what they where trying to say.

"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:01pm

Dracula. I had to process all the information, then ask my mom what was going on. I was SO confused. But then I understood it after awhile.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:08pm

Les Miserables because I was ten when I saw it, lol. Um....I didn't quite understand all of Phantom when I saw it, especially the ending. Although I was fairly young when I saw these musicals, so I have an excuse.

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:12pm

hands down, THE AMERICA PLAY by Susan Lori Parks. saw it in rep a few years ago, had no idea what I was supposed to do with any of it. then I read the script, and I just plain give up.

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:24pm

I havent seen it but i just finished reading a very confusing play, as bees in honey drown by douglas beane carter (or something like that) and there are 2 main characters and everyone else in the play is played by 4 other actors. I think that it would be less ocnfusing if i saw it though so i dont know if it should count?

need to defrag my brain.

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:27pm

Rhinoceros was SO confusing but highly entertaining. See the people running around like animals was worth the ticket price.

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:34pm

I didn't understand Les Miserables the first time I saw it but I was young and still loved it anyway. Also, when I was first getting into Rent, I only owned the 'highlights' and never really understood the plot of the story until I saw it for myself.

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:35pm

I agree with mizzie on Les Miz being VERY confusing. I too was young (9) and didn't understand alot of the story. lol when most children were watching teletubbies, i was learning about the french revolution and "lovely ladies" lol

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:37pm

Lol, the most confusing part for me was right at the beginning of the second act....I couldn't really understand what the Gavroche was saying, and that didn't help too much....

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:38pm

Rhinoceros is the 1st show I worked at Marymount! Running the fly system allowed me a lot of time to look downward at the stage and go "huh?" I understood what it was going for, but that's not a show that re-adapts well.

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:50pm

AS BEES IS HONEY DROWN is not AT ALL confusing in performance -- very straightforward actually.

RHINOCEROS was one of my favorite plays when I was a teenager and devouring every single play in my local library.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:51pm

Arcadia. At the end of the play I had to have a friend explain what happened. I felt really silly for the rest of the week having not understood it.

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:54pm

I was trying to watch Cats once...I had no idea what the heck those cats were singing about, but they sounded nice.

"I've got to get me out of here This place is full of dirty old men And the navigators and their mappy maps And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes While you stare at your books."

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:54pm

From the production I saw, which was a new translation and rather odd, I felt like RHINO works better as a text than as something performed. There are some great themes in it, but certain things just bugged me about doing it on stage. First impressions mean more than they should.

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:54pm

Confusifying Shows...

Finians Rainbow...(does anyone get it)
Myths and Hymn...(a little too much and not very conventional at all)

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 9:59pm

I hate it when more than one person is singing and the singer's voices don't sound good together, so you don't really understand what is being said....it happened to me quite alot when I saw Phantom.

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 10:12pm

mizzie, when that happens it's more often a sound level issue than the fault of the performers. if they aren't enunciating, that's their fault, but balancing sound for a live, fully miked musical is extremely hard and far from an exact science. i do hate it when two voices just blend badly, but a good vocalist should be able to blend as well as sing solo.

"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 10:23pm

Communicating Doors , by Alan Ayckbourn: A play about time travel set partly in the past and partly in the future with some intriguing plot sequences. But the story moves along so quickly that you're left thinking you're trapped in a "Clue" game where all the suspects are on crack.

Wacky even for Ayck-y!

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:24pm

time travel is ridiculous period.

But a good mystery musical does need to happen soon

And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:31pm

I went into a great state of confusion when I saw CRAZY FOR YOU because I didn't get why I did not like it when so many did.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:31pm

#23

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:33pm

NINE is divine when you already know every single lyric because you loved it way back in the 80s.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#24

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:35pm

I saw the revival knowing absolutely nothing about it except that Antonio was in it.
I guess that's my own fault.

#25

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Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:37pm

Bounce and My Life with Albertine... I still saw WTF to Albertine.... Bounce I've just blocked out.

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