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musicals only you seem to dislike
#126re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
#127re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:31pmAnnie Get Your Gun
Be the change you want in the world....
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#128re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:35pmI agree with Annie Get Your Gun... but I instantly thought of Avenue Q
#129re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#130re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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.
#131re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:29pmgypsy
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
#132re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
#133re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:20pmWhen 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
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#134re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/5/05 at 10:33ami left out Oliver. I hate almost all musicals with kids in them. Poor Dickens
LuvBroadwayHugs
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/05
#135re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/5/05 at 10:58amCats, West Side Story & Guys And Dolls.
"Mrrraaaawwww!" ♥
#136re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:09amFrontrowcenter, I forgot about Jerry springer, I feel the exact same way, theresno reason that should ever be in production, thats stupid.
Millie42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/04
#138re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Chorus Member Joined: 5/16/05
#139re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#140re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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.
#141re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:58amWe were watching the movie of Grease in a class of mine, and I found it near unwatchable except for the song "Summer Dreams"
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#142re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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* 
#143re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Broadway Star Joined: 11/18/04
#144re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Understudy Joined: 5/12/05
#145re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/5/05 at 11:54pm
Phantom of the Opera. Totally overrated
Annie.
Cats.
TennesseeTwang
Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/05
#146re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Featured Actor Joined: 5/4/05
#147re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#148re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#149re: musicals only you seem to dislike
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!!!
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