Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#0Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:32pm
I like it way too much anyway.
Footloose. I have a huge soft spot for it. *ducks rocks*
What are your favorite shows that you don't tell your theatre-snob friends about?
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#1re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:34pmBombay Dreams. I saw it twice, and loved it! *bows head in shame*
"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
#2re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:35pm
I was going to try to keep my love for Chitty hush-hush.
Obviously that didn't happen.
::is ashamed but doesn't hide::
::sings title song and skips::
#3re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:36pmI am a sucker for Camelot, and since no one mentions it I figure they don't like it.....
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#4re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:37pmsome people here had violent reactions to dessa rose, but i am completely enamored with it.. also little women!
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#5re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:37pm
I have two that is the other way around. I absolutely LOATHE Grease and Annie, but I don't tell anyone (except BWW of course) that I do because everyone else loves them.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Updated On: 5/2/05 at 08:37 PM
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#6re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:37pm
um, wicked. is that wrong?
and the music man.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#7re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:38pm
Annie. *Ducks head*
I can't help it- that show is adorable (and what got me really interested in theatre).
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#8re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:50pm
Bek, I also harbor a secret love for the Music Man. Brings back good school theatre memories. 
#9re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:51pmSince when are THE MUSIC MAN, ANNIE, CAMELOT, etc - some of the most classic and best shows ever written - bad theatre? Come on now...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#10re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:51pm
I have to agree with footloose. I have actually never seen it but i find the recording quite entertaining. 
i also have a soft spot for you're a good man charlie brown.
"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!
#11re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:53pmThe Music Man DEFINITELY isn't "bad" theatre. It may be theatre that people don't so openly profess their love for, but I think that's just because it's not as.... "cool" for lack of a better term, to be a die-hard Harold Hill fan as it is to be one of RENT or Wicked of whatever.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#12re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:56pm
Munk: I don't think it's that they're "bad theatre" so much as "theatre that is commonly dismissed as "cheesy" and/or "not posessing a hell of a lot of substance," by some people." Well, in the case of the shows you mentioned, anyway.
EDIT: *Points upward* What she said.
Updated On: 5/2/05 at 08:56 PM
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#13re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:57pm
*joins em with Chitty love*
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we love you..."
#14re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:58pmOklahoma!--the make fun of me for being in it *none of them can stand that show* but I actually do like the show!
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
#15re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 8:59pm
Okay, so shows I'm sometimes embarrased to admit that I atleast like (sometimes love):
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Annie
Little Women
Cats
Jane Eyre
Dance of the Vampires
Bombay Dreams
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#16re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:00pm
Oh, yeah... I forgot about Cats.
Spamalot too. I don't care if it was over-hyped, I thought it was hysterical, dammit.
#17re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:00pm
STAAAAAAAAAAAAAARLIGHT EXPRESSSSSSSSSS!!
I'm not really ashamed, I'll tell anyone who will listen that I love it!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#18re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:00pmzippyjen, i can't believe you just spoke that blasphemy! YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN is not bad theatre... it is one of my favorite shows.
#19re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:05pmNot ashamed of it but, WICKED (can't you tell?). I am a bit ashamed of this one though- Seussical The Musical.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#20re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:06pm
I'm so glad I'm not alone.
*tries to redeem self with 'good theatre'*
"You decide what's right
You decide what's good."
#21re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:07pmwell i never meant to say it was bad theater i just find it kind of embarrasing to say that i love it! well i think i should get rid of that fear and start scraming "i love yagmcb!" lol
"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!
#22re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:08pmI won't lie, there were parts of Brooklyn that were cute.
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#23re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:27pmLittle Women and some of Wicked. Not ashamed, just "bad" theatre that I like.
#24re: Yes, I know it's 'bad' theatre, but....
Posted: 5/2/05 at 9:31pm
Good Vibrations
Jane Eyre
Mamma Mia!
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