musicals only you seem to dislike- Page 6

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#125

Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:13pm

TMM
and......... Gypsy

[MyDreamsRecurring]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#126

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:12pm

"I strongly dislike West Side Story. What's wrong with me? "
All of my friends hate WSS, but its my favorite

I'm not very fond of Cats..at all.
Don't like Gypsy either. Or A Little Night Music

Oh yes, and the Sound of Music. Probably because everyone sees it and thinks that thats what broadway is.
Me: "Do you like any Broadway shows?"
My friend: "Well, I saw sound of music..and i dont know..i dont really like broadway music."
Me: "DEFINE BROADWAY MUSIC."

"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness. Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings. Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end. But end it does. Another part of you vanishes. That's show business."-Anonymous

Updated On: 7/3/05 at 07:12 PM

[Hairspraydoll]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#127

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:31pm

Annie Get Your Gun

Be the change you want in the world....

[Unknown User]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#128

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:35pm

I agree with Annie Get Your Gun... but I instantly thought of Avenue Q

[Phantomerik15]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#129

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:43pm

sound of music
cats

Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#130

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:00pm

Oh yes, and the Sound of Music. Probably because everyone sees it and thinks that thats what broadway is.
Me: "Do you like any Broadway shows?"
My friend: "Well, I saw sound of music..and i dont know..i dont really like broadway music."
Me: "DEFINE BROADWAY MUSIC."

Ah, yes, don't you love those people? I've had the same conversation with about 6 different people. They think "Broadway music" is all the same. Granted, you could classify it as one genre, but it's so varied... the score from Dreamgirls is nothing like the score from Rent, which is nothing like the score of Sweeney Todd... etc. Nobody seems to get that. But I love The Sound of Music, despite what it's done to the non-theatre world.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#131

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:29pm

gypsy

Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"

[frontrowcentre2]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#132

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:18pm

Shows I HATE (i.e. Shows I feel have no reaon to exist!)

SUNSET BLVD
COPACABANA
JERRY SPRINGER
STARLIGHT EXPRESS

Shows I don't like (though many of these have one or two songs I like...)

OLIVER!
STOP THE WORLD - I WANT TO GET OFF
WICKED

Shows that I feel are weak or could have been a LOT better than they are...

ASPECTS OF LOVE
CATS
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA


ALl of these shows have millions of fans and I don't want to dampen anyone's enjoyment, but unless I have to I really don't want to see any of the above again.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

[Pinguin]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#133

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:20pm

When I was in high school I thought I was the only person who hated Rent...it was a dark time. I'm glad I have found others :0)

-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?

"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????

[phantom_tenor]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#134

Posted: 7/5/05 at 10:33am

i left out Oliver. I hate almost all musicals with kids in them. Poor Dickens

[LuvBroadwayHugs]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#135

Posted: 7/5/05 at 10:58am

Cats, West Side Story & Guys And Dolls.

"Mrrraaaawwww!" ♥

[Jimmyojimmy]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#136

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:09am

Frontrowcenter, I forgot about Jerry springer, I feel the exact same way, theresno reason that should ever be in production, thats stupid.

[Thenardier]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#137

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:12am

Taboo

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[Millie42]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#138

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:33am

I forgot Cinderella.

The only thing worse than seeing it is being in it.

"My friends have made the story of my life." -Helen Keller

[BertCCRI2]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#139

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:35am

The following statement was made by an earlier poster (no names, to protect the ignorant):

"I haven't seen it, and I haven't heard it. But I hate it all the same."

Does that level of thinking concern anyone else as much as it does me? You have the right to like or to dislike anything, but your opinion should be based on SOMETHING!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#140

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:41am

Aida

And I LOVED the recent revival of Sweet Charity which a lot of people seem lukewarm on.

[James2]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#141

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:58am

We were watching the movie of Grease in a class of mine, and I found it near unwatchable except for the song "Summer Dreams"

My avatar = A screencap from Avatar, arguably the greatest animated show of all

[Greekmusicalfan]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#142

Posted: 7/5/05 at 12:45pm

This is a very interesting thread ! And I love how there is no bashing, it's a matter of opinion and taste. I respect everyone's opinion ! Something that is heavenly for me can be crap for someone else and vise versa and that is perfectly acceptable.
Why am I saying this ? Because I am ready to come out of my Bway closet and say something I have never said here, out of fear ! But now I am strong...and confident... *sips a good gulp of strong drink* Ok, here I go...

I don't care for Sondheim !!!! I never enjoyed his works and yes...Gypsy does nothing for me ! If that makes me sacrilegious or bad tasted or unintelligent, than let me be ! I can understand that most people consider him a God and I respect it, but I am just not one of them !
*runs to hide for cover*

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#143

Posted: 7/5/05 at 12:59pm

So much West Side Story hate.

I'm not a Rodgers and Hammerstein fan. I generally like one or two songs in every one of their shows but thats it. They are way too long. I was in The King and I and I was bored stiff except during Uncle Tom's ballet. Their shows aren't particularily exciting to me.

Thou giveth fever.

[Di2]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#144

Posted: 7/5/05 at 1:05pm

1. I hate anything Sondheim..Oh God, so pretentious and the chords make me want to blow my head off.

2. Wicked is lame and always will be......

3. Cats- what a bore....

4. POTO - Oh God, kill me now....

5. Mamma Mia- the score is fantastic but the show is terrible....

6. Footloose (why mess with it? The movie is 80's perfection)It saddens me that some youngin's don't even know that Footloose is a movie....

7. Hairspray (same thing as Footloose.. a movie classic, the show ruined the movie)...


umm..that's all...

[kombatkoala]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#145

Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:54pm

Phantom of the Opera. Totally overrated
Annie.
Cats.

[TennesseeTwang]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#146

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:01am

"When I was in high school I thought I was the only person who hated Rent...it was a dark time. I'm glad I have found others :0)"

They are my people too. I tried to like RENT. I swear I did. I didn't want to feel left out either. But I just couldn't do it. And the more people gush about it's abiding perfection, the more glaring its faults become to me.

[mandy2loveRB]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#147

Posted: 7/6/05 at 11:04am

I saw Bee at last...mhh...didn't hate it but I would have enjoyed even more in smaller theatres. Somehow, that intimacy of the show and that theatre just did not go well together for me. Loved the show itself.

And I saw Smapalot again...mhh...Monty Python meets SNL. I love both, but separately. I have another ticket in August, but now I don't know...

[worrell4077]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#148

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:02pm

Cats(never wanted to a show to end, so badly in my life)
Seussical the musical
Chicago

I didn't dislike it, but I just didn't understand why Wicked was so popular. See I understood the hype around DRS, The Producers, Avenue Q, SpamAlot, and All Shook Up. Wicked is not one of my favorites
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[Sant]

re: musicals only you seem to dislike#149

Posted: 7/6/05 at 12:09pm

LES MISERABLES - way too much pathos!! Some nice songs though.

WEST SIDE STORY - just not my cup of tea. Sorry.

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE - just so 'blah'.

MISS SAIGON - yawn!!!