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[broadwaybaby654]

hmmmmmm#0

Posted: 10/17/04 at 2:58pm

Is there any music that you don't like until you hear it a bunch of times? For example, the first time I heard Rent, I hated "one song glory" but now it's one of my favorite songs. Same with Tick, Tick..Boom! I didn't like "louder than words" just until recently.

[My Fair Lady]

re: hmmmmmm#1

Posted: 10/17/04 at 2:59pm

Rent, Assassins and Wicked.

[adamized88]

re: hmmmmmm#2

Posted: 10/17/04 at 2:59pm

i didn't really like adam's voice at all on the aida recording - i'd seen matt bogart do it twice and i like his melodic voice - but once i saw adam do aida - i was in love!!!

"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died

[BroadwayDiva]

re: hmmmmmm#3

Posted: 10/17/04 at 3:00pm

I feel really weird admitting this, but it took me FOREVER to like AIDA. I saw the show and then picked up the recording around 2 years later. I attempted to like the recording SO much, but I didn't fall in love with it until last year. Same thing with Godspell.

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

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: hmmmmmm#4

Posted: 10/17/04 at 3:01pm

Zanna Don't- at first i thought it was just bad, but now i really like it. Chess- didn't like the music, but after a year or so i think it's not bad.

"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

[bjivie2]

re: hmmmmmm#5

Posted: 10/17/04 at 3:23pm

LaChiussa's Wild Party took me a long time to enjoy. But now I really like it.

Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaannnnnddddd aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiyyyyyyaaaaaammmmmmmm teeeeeeeelllllliiiiiinnngg yyyyooooooouuuuuuuwwwaaaahh...

[luvtheEmcee]

re: hmmmmmm#6

Posted: 10/17/04 at 3:49pm

It took me a good few listens to really fall of L5Y, but I love it now.

Oh, and Avenue Q. I couldn't get into the music until after I had seen the show. After I knew the context, I was able to enjoy it MUCH more.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 10/17/04 at 03:49 PM

[DickonDefysGravity]

re: hmmmmmm#7

Posted: 10/17/04 at 5:56pm

Sweeny Todd- love it now
Seven Brides 4 Seven Brothers- still have tough time w/ it sometimes
Rent- like it alot now
Guys and Dolls- took me to do the show- now I love it

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)

[NoDayButToday2]

re: hmmmmmm#8

Posted: 10/17/04 at 5:59pm

Took me a while to really get into Aida and Tick Tick Boom
I had always liked Rent but actually seeing it made me absolutely love it
I'm not really into Taboo but I think it would be different if I'd had I chance to see it

[Alix7272]

re: hmmmmmm#9

Posted: 10/17/04 at 5:59pm

wonderful town. first time, didn't really like it and now as i'm hearing it more it's getting ok, even good at parts

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[CrowdMeWithLove]

re: hmmmmmm#10

Posted: 10/17/04 at 5:59pm

Most Sondheims take a few listens for me, with the exceptions of Company and Assassins. I actually had to see Sweeney Todd performed before I took an adoration to it.

[timote316]

re: hmmmmmm#11

Posted: 10/17/04 at 6:06pm

Took me a while to love:
Fiddler
Wicked
Aida
Urinetown
tick, tick... BOOM!
Taboo (not love yet, but getting there )

Instantly fell in love with:
Assassins
Rent
bare
Little Shop

Still haven't fallen in love with (but I really want to lol):
Caroline
Gypsy
Into the Woods
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Producers

All the other ones I have I like (but don't love), or just don't like at all (I actually only think there is only one in this category: Scarlet Pimpernel)

[dancinfan]

re: hmmmmmm#12

Posted: 10/17/04 at 10:37pm

Sunday in the Park with George

[Plum]

re: hmmmmmm#13

Posted: 10/17/04 at 10:43pm

Company, believe it or not, which was the first Sondheim musical I tried listening to. I stuck with it, and an addiction was born. :)

Also, it took me a while to warm up to A Chorus Line.

[TheBoyfromChi]

re: hmmmmmm#14

Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:18pm

It took me awhile to get into Thoroughly Modern Millie...and I love Children of Eden now.

"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank

[ponine24601]

re: hmmmmmm#15

Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:21pm

'I hated "one song glory" but now it's one of my favorite songs'

*gasp* o well. it's all good now. hm...when i first listened to rent, i couldn't stand daphne's voice. now i love it.

"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon

[millie_dillmount]

re: hmmmmmm#16

Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:24pm

Most of the songs from The Producers, now I love them all!

"Conga" - Wonderful Town
"Mr. Cellophane" - Chicago
"Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" - Hairspray

Sometimes you also may see these songs performed and that influences your liking, or you get that sudden burst of, "I love that song!" feeling.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[lvpblues]

re: hmmmmmm#17

Posted: 10/20/04 at 2:39am

It took me a couple listens to warm up to "Company", "Pacific Overtures" and "Sunday in the Park With George" (it actually took me three viewings and a reading of the script as well for the latter). I'm still working on "Passion" and though I respect it and have listened to it several times, I'm just not a big fan of the work (ducks). (With "Company", it was the first time I listened to a Sondheim score and didn't really know what to expect - but I warmed up to it very quickly).

I instantly fell for LaChiusa's "Wild Party" on my first listen, which surprised me very much. Also "A Little Night Music", "Sweeney Todd", "Into the Woods", "Follies" and "Assassins" (I first experienced those shows when I had developed an ear for Sondheim). I also had cast album zen when I first experienced the original Broadway cast recording of "The Most Happy Fella" one long summer afternoon several years ago. (I can never listen to just highlights from that recording, I always listen to it when I have the 2 1/2 hours to devote to it).

I had to see "Urinetown" to fully appreciate the score.

[evwicked77]

re: hmmmmmm#18

Posted: 10/20/04 at 11:43am

Lippa's Wild Party & the first three times I listened to Wicked, which was 8 months ago, I didn't like it. Now of course I can't stop!