Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

#1

Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 3:58pm

Just the 5 musicals you don't like, wish would be thrown away and never be done again. Everyone's got their own opinion...

1) Anything Goes
2) Lil Abner
3) A Little Night Music
4) Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5) Annie Get Your Gun

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#2

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 3:59pm

1) Oklahoma
2) The Cocoanuts
3) A Little Night Music


That's really all I've got...it takes a LOT to get me to hate a musical...

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#3

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:02pm

A Little Night Music? It's your opinion, just a bit surprising.

#4

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:03pm

Too much singing about sex...creeps me out.

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#5

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:04pm

And, it's just incredibly BORING and POINTLESS.....

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#6

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:11pm

Grease (only the show)
Bye Bye Birdie
South Pacific
Oklahoma
Aida

Updated On: 10/31/04 at 04:11 PM

#7

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:17pm

Not in order (and please dont kill me for making these choices):
Avenue Q- (No, not because it beat Wicked for Best Musical...I never liked it in the first place)
Aida
Big The Musical
Titanic the Musical
and i cant think of another one

#8

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:20pm

i love all muiscals i donot have lease favorite. that why we should all write record companys to save all muiscals.

#9

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:21pm

I can think of only one.......
Oklahoma... too many bad memories of when I was Ado Annie

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#10

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:27pm

Phantom of the Opera

-- I have this feeling that this thread is gonna get large. The ppl'll will start to bash it!

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#11

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:34pm

1. Fame
2. Cats (at least the last touring company I saw- it was horrible).
3. Civil War
4.
5.
(There are others that I'm not a huge fan of, but I don't think they qualify for this list, so I'm leaving it at 3).

#12

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:34pm

MUSIC MAN!!!

I can't believe no one mentioned this earlier.

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#13

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:43pm

Ugh, not again with the cast recordings...

Seussical

That's all I can say for now, because I've liked all the other shows I've seen.

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Updated On: 10/31/04 at 04:43 PM

#14

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:44pm

Cats
Titanic
Annie (I love the original cast album - but my experiences with the live show have been horrific)
Grease!

#15

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:50pm

1) Cats
2) Music Man
3) Carousel
4) State Fair
5) Finnian's Rainbow
5) Blood Brothers

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#16

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 4:52pm

Oooh, let me add Cats and Bye Bye Birdie to mine...ugh

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#17

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:18pm

Miss Saigon
Titanic
The Full Monty
Fame
Rent

(I know a lot of these were major favorites. Just not my cup of tea.)

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Updated On: 10/31/04 at 05:18 PM

#18

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:21pm

The Music Man - being in it made me hate it

Rent - sorry, I know everyone and their mother loves it, but it really bothers me.

thats all I can think of...I'm not that fond of ALW musicals as a whole....

#19

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:23pm

No, No Nanette ..... sooooo boring

#20

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:23pm

We Will Rock You
Oh What A Night

.. spring to mind. Can't really think of five I hideously dislike.

#21

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:30pm

The ones that pop up to me are:
The Wiz
Annie Get Your Gun

They bored me to death lol. I dont hate them, they are just the ones I dislike the most lol

#22

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:44pm

Hairpsray: BIG hatred show for me.
Grease: Just so pointless. I liked the movie though
Oklahoma: Great score, but that doesn't make up for the horrific book

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#23

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 5:55pm

Les Miserables
The Sweet Smell of Success
Annie
The Lion King
The Civil War

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Updated On: 10/31/04 at 05:55 PM

#24

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 6:03pm

All commercially packaged shows:

1. LES MIZ
2. CATS
3. FOOTLOOSE
4. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

Insofar as everyone else's lists, all I can say is, it depends on the production. I really like FINIAN'S RAINBOW and LIL ABNER, and I've seen embarrassingly bad productions of both. Some shows just get overdone, but that doesn't make the work itself bad.

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#25

re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals

Posted: 10/31/04 at 6:10pm

Some of these surprise me so much! Mine are:
1) State Fair
2) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat
3) Annie Get Your Gun
4) Hello Dolly
5) Annie