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_____ ruined one of my favorite shows
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#25re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:53pmI disliked Jim J. Bullock as Spritzer/Mr. Pinky/Principal/Guard last year in Hairspray. He seemed to be overacting way too much. I'm not sure how he is on tour as Wilbur.
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#26re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:06pmTrika, I totally agree with you. That was one trainwreck of a performance.
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#27re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:25pmIt sounds strange but JP Dougherty nearly ruined Les Mis for me a couple of times in the 1990s. He must have been on the tour for ever and he always looked lazy and bored in the role of Thenardier. Yet every time on a couple of occasions that I took a friend to enjoy the beauty of Les Mis, there he was sleepwalking through the role in the National Tour.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#28re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:29pm
Pretty sure I'm the only person who feels this way--but Jonathan Pryce in DRS.
It was one of my favorite shows before I saw him in the role--but when he came in...it was the most unpleasant theater experiences I've ever had.
Saycon and Jerad Bortz in Wicked last July were horrible. He had a decent voice, but he was too gay to play Fiyero. I hear she's improved a lot though.
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Updated On: 6/16/06 at 02:29 PM
#29re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:30pmARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME???? Chris was the best thing that ever happened to the idea of making the film version! At least he cared about the project. people are so dumb about movie musicals they complain when they don't get the OBC but they also complain when they do... It just really annoys me. Sry, but yeah that's how I feel, ya don't have to agree with me...
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"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#30re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:39pmI can't agree. What was up with his decision to set it in 1989!? And the random, OOC gay wedding scene? Seriously.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#31re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:47pm
sweetestsiren, Ehle is atrocious as Lady M.
Simpering, screeching. And the best she can do so far for physical acting is klutzily run up and down stairs during her sleepwalking scene. Why, why, why is that necessary?
#32re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:53pmI hate butchered classics. It's so sad that people who are completely unable to understand/interperet/present Shakespeare properly are given these jobs...meh.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
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Christoph
Stand-by Joined: 4/20/06
#33re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:59pm
I have to agree with the Matthew Broderick casting in the TV version of The Music Man. He can sing, he can dance, but there is a reason why he is primarily known for playing nebbishes. A nebbish cannot play Harold Hill...ever.
Also, Rex Smith in Anything Goes. He toured through here with Leslie Uggams for this production and he was far and away the worst Billy Crocker. No personality, no comic timing and sang nearly every song off-key in a weak voice. Usually I ignore reviews, but they were on the money when they lambasted him.
And, although not one of my favorite shows, I was really left cold by the stunt casting of Ann-Margret in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. I really like her on screen, but on stage she seemed wan and listless, and more than once screwed up her lines so that her co-stars had to feed them to her. She seemed so physically tapped out by the performance that the director really should have re-thought the use of a wheelchair on stage for her, as it only drew attention to her frailty in the role.
#34re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 3:42pmBrooke Shields/Frances Ruffelle for CHICAGO
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#35re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:24pmShirley Jones was HORRIBLE as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street when I saw it. She came in on the wrong pitch more than once, her acting was horribly cheesy, and she was simply too old to play the role. Did anyone else see her? Agree/disagree? Updated On: 6/16/06 at 04:24 PM
#36re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:31pmBrad Little in the Phantom/Opera tour! OMG, uncanny. He was awful, awful, awful...it made me wish I didn't spend money on that show and that is saying a lot since I really do love that show. His acting was embarassing.
#37re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:34pmI saw a tour of KISS of THE SPIDER WOMAN with no star in the role of the Spider Woman. I think in order to have a parallel experience with Molina you have to feel a certain amount of starstruck when she appears. I felt nothing. No zip at all. Even a TV celebrity would have worked. Just give me something. No heat or chemistry from the newbie Spiderwoman.
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#38re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:49pm
RENT is set in 1989, whether you're watching the movie or Broadway. And RENT had a few too many montages, but that's okay.
(I am right on the date, right?)
Cenoern
Stand-by Joined: 10/26/05
#39re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:56pmchris columbus ruined RENT for me.
#40re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:59pmWhatever. Maybe it's because I saw the movie first, but I couldn't stand the tour. Yes, it's not the entire show. It's a different medium. You have different rules. And I loved the Tango Maureen sequence. Idina Menzel in a hot red dress. SO HOT.
#41re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:59pm
Brooke Shields for CHICAGO
Geeze! I don't want to know what you would think if you saw Melanie Griffith as Roxie. Atleast Shields did all the original Reinking choreography for Roxie, thank you very much. 
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Leading Actor Joined: 3/18/06
#42re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:05pmMadonna in Evita. little to no emotion especially in A New Argentina. It sounded like Ben Stein was singing.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#43re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 5:56pm
"ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME????"
May I throw that question back at you? 
I see you and FictionWriter joined post-RENT film release. And my wrath on the subject has settled down a little, lol.
But yes, he ruined it. I think the film is an absolute disgrace to what the show used to be.
Fiction...RENT the show has no time setting. It was assumed to take place in the 90s, actually, since the setting was "present" and it opened in the mid-90s.
#44re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:02pm
I've never let an individual performance/director outright RUIN a show for me... might have scared me off of it for a little while, though.
I second (third?... fourth by now?) the TV movie version of "The Music Man" with Broderick. I remember closing my eyes and shaking my head during his "Trouble". Kristen Chenoweth did a very nice job, but Matthew was out of his depth.
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#45re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:13pm
I knew a lot about the show before I saw the movie or on stage. I've always assumed it takes place in the late 80s, early 90s. And doesn't La Boheme (Puccini) take place in late 1800s?
And I quote, "But yes, he ruined it. I think the film is an absolute disgrace to what the show used to be."
I've underlined what I wanted to point out. Theatre changes. People changes. Our culture changes. Nothing is what it used to be.
But the thing that comes to mind is the decision to drag the first act into 3 days. I didn't like that.
#46re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:42pm
here in the uk we were really excited when we got jeckyll and hyde on tour but that soon vanished after 5 mins.The set was minimal to say the least the direction awfull the lighting sucked and paul nicholls playing jeckyll and hyde was awfull so awfull audience members started to booo him.He made hasslehoff look like a tony winner.
Also lets stop the whole bashing madonna in evita she was great and you know it(i swear people bash her for the sake of it)
And CC direction of rent was good very simple so it let the actors and music take centre stage unlike the jump shots flashy lights etc of chicago
#47re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:46pmI haven't seen CHICAGO live, but the movie is one of my favorites. Mostly for Queen Latifah.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#48re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:49pm
Fiction Writer: RENT contains references to many early 90's things, such as Thelma and Louise.
Also, so what if La Boheme is set in the late 19th century? Mimi also dies in that and Maureen/Musetta isn't a lesbian.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#49re: _____ ruined one of my favorite shows
Posted: 6/16/06 at 6:54pm
Well, it's not exactly one of my favorite shows, but Phylicia Rashad almost ruined Bernard Alba for me. I thought she was atrocious. If it wasn't for Daphne's phenomenal turn, and Nikki James' amazing talent the show would have been completely lost on me.
Updated On: 6/17/06 at 06:54 PM
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