Don't get me wrong, by me defending AIDA's music I wasn't at all saying I liked the show. I saw it back when it was first opened and almost walked out. I thought it was absolutely terrible. Be glad you saw TABOO twice. I saw TABOO 15 or so times and don't regret a single one.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
i am no fan of aida but the show was not as bad as others i have seen. don't ask why i felt the urge to post that.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
the music is sooooooo annoying. it's funny and stuff, but the music sounded like stuff i listened to when i wuz 2 years old (not the lyrics of course)
"Let the little girl go, and that poor little dog? Dodo." That's my favorite line in the whole show (Wicked). My next favorite line is "Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed."
Umm, you can think what you want, but the music for Avenue Q is SUPPOSED to sound like something you listened to when you were two. It's modeled after Sesame Street's music.
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Munk, baby,15 TIMES!? i looove that show, 15 times woulda been awesome. ive only seen the show 3 times (2 bway, 1 london) do u have the recording for Closer to Heaven? Boy George reviewed the show and decided to write a music, the songs are sorta tha same in theme.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
I found "Rent" fairly dull, too. I kept hearing how different it was, yet it kept reminding me of a variety of shows from the late 60's. While I don't get what all the fuss was about, it's nowhere near the worst show I've ever seen. I assume it's an age thing.
no no I'm just kidding again, your opinion, which is actually pretty interesting because all I've really heard is praise for RENT and now I know the other side of the story. very good very good
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
A close second would be that ghastly revival of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES with K.T. Sullivan. Blech.
And I must confess that while I've walked out of many, many shows at intermission, the only show that I actually walked out of during the FIRST act was JANE EYRE.
I was bored to tears with Cabaret - that would be my worse experience. The storyline for Movin' Out sucked beyond belief, but the band more than made up for this flaw.
I left at intermission during the tour of King and I this year. I would have left sooner but I was using a cane and couldn't do it without disrupting people. A number of people left in the first 15 minutes. The king was offensive he was so bad. Usually I can find something in every thing I go to see that I like enough to stay but not this one. Even Moving Out which I had no desire to see, I ended up liking.
"They said the war by now would all be over They said one day our land would be reborn But looking now at all that we have sacrificed There's nothing left but a world forever torn"
Justin Murphy
Ha. I seriously thought I was the only one subjected to Copacabana. Throughout high school, I used to usher at a pretty big theater in my area. We got all the big tours- the fabulous, the good, the decent, the bad, the ugly... and the Copacabana. *hides* I distinctly recall leaving the balcony to go hide in the ladies bathroom. I felt I'd been cheated, and when we ushered, we were seeing these shows for FREE!
And I actually didn't hate Saturday Night Fever TOO much... still pretty horrible, and I would NOT have spent my money to go see it... but there were some okay bits to it. ('Course it didn't help that the tour I saw was using one of those damn electronic orchestras... *rolls eyes*)
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Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
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