annoying things in shows

#1

annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:29am

theres a scene in Tarzan where Tarzan is looking through an old chest and he puts down a jewelery box and a few minutes later it starts playing music. those sorts of jewelery boxes only play music when theyre open... not to mention wound.

what annoys you?

Updated On: 12/3/06 at 01:29 AM

#2

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:40am

it's one of my favorite scenes on broadway... Mimi lives downstairs from Roger and Mark, but she goes down the fire escape to get to their apartment.

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#3

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:41am

In a play or movie when a character is opening up a present, but instead of unwrapping the paper like a normal person, they simply just lift off the lid. Who the heck would go to the trouble of taping wrapping paper to a box and to a removable lid anyway? It makes the whole act of opening a gift so unsuspenseful. I understand why it's done in showbusiness, but it's annoyed me ever since I was little.

#4

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:45am

...when people reply to a joke post with a response that blows out the dimensions of a thread. Please contain your unspaced HAHAHAHAs to the parameters of the board!

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#5

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:46am

Just a fair warning, Mistress-- you should put more of a specific subject in main subject line because it "annoys" some people not knowing what the thread is about.

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#6

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 1:49am

I thought it was an obvious topic title actually... oh wells, i could change it.

Another one: It really annoys me that for some reason Link knew Motormouth but not Seaweed in Hairspray.

#7

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 2:16am

In A Chorus Line, when the cast goes off stage before Music and the Mirror, they all take their bags. Cassie even has hers when she is about to leave, before she is stopped, but after her song and fight with Zach, she leaves the stage without taking her bag.

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#8

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 2:21am

I hate it when people over analyze the little nit-picky things.

Gosh, that just drives me bananas!

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#9

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 2:30am

It drives me nuts how RENT starts with the house lights up. I never like that, in any show. ARGH. The first time I saw it, I thought there was something wrong...

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#10

re: it really annoys me...

Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:05am

When there's no curtain call music... It just doesn't feel right.

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#11

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 10:04am

The "costumes" that are used in a few of the numbers in NAKED BOYS SINGING. I mean, really, no one paid to see men singing in costumes.

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Updated On: 12/3/06 at 10:04 AM

#12

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 10:10am

In Wicked (during WWOTE): that mirror on the wardrobe. Uggh. You can always see the orchestra, and it's very distracting.

#13

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 12:26pm

That bag thing is probably an artistic reason in ACL...

I hate the awkwardeness of wedding scenes in most shows, they always have the couple up front with the priest standing on the side...

Only show I've seen with the wedding done without big issues was The Woman in White, because most of the wedding scene had the couple in the back.

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#14

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:24pm

I hate that gold curtain stuff or thing in CHICAGO during HOT HONEY RAH. Oh, yeah and I hate that Roxie and Velma are never perfectly together in that dance.

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#15

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 3:33pm

"Oh, yeah and I hate that Roxie and Velma are never perfectly together in that dance. "

I don't know who you've seen.

#16

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 6:57pm

I really don't like it when shows have actors who play characters that don't appear until the second act or are totally out of the picture by the end of Act 1 never to return until the curtain calls. Here are examples of such shows:

Aida
Caroline, or Change
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Evita
Gypsy
It's A Wonderful Life
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kiss Me, Kate
Lestat
The Lion King
Mary Poppins
Peter Pan (there's three acts in that musical so that's enough time for the Lost Boys to get a game of poker going on)
Sunset Boulevard
Two Gentlemen of Verona
We Will Rock You

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Updated On: 12/9/06 at 06:57 PM

#17

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 6:59pm

Only show I've seen with the wedding done without big issues was The Woman in White, because most of the wedding scene had the couple in the back.

In PIAZZA, the wedding is upstage at the end of the show.

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#18

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 7:41pm

the producers.

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#19

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 7:50pm

Are you referring to Aida's father?

#20

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 9:45pm

When colins is mugged in the beginning of rent. The muggers aren't even near him.

#21

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 9:45pm

When colins is mugged in the beginning of rent. The muggers aren't even near him.

#22

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 11:16pm

I hope that one is a joke ...

#23

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 11:19pm

Flying witches who shriek/"sing" while flying.

Also...

Vampires. Singing Vampires. Singing/Dancing Vampires. They just suck.

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Updated On: 12/3/06 at 11:19 PM

#24

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 11:25pm

hehe... vampires suck... duh

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#25

re: annoying things in shows

Posted: 12/3/06 at 11:25pm

"In a play or movie when a character is opening up a present, but instead of unwrapping the paper like a normal person, they simply just lift off the lid."

That has almost driven me MAD over the years. I hate that! Another thing I hate is when a character doesn't say "bye" when finishing a phone conversation.