shows you have grown out of ?

#1

shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 4:53pm

i guess my main one would chicago. after the seeing the film for a second time. i now can't bear to listen any of the songs. it just reminds me of rob marshal trying to cut up the songs into many chunks, interlinked with copias amounts of dialogue. Underscore with background noise. also really patronising perspectives, just in case the audience can’t understand fantasy and reality!

perhaps I should see it again and have my faith restored – the current london cast is good.

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#2

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 4:58pm

Wicked.

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#3

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 4:59pm

Sunday in the Park. Just find it dull now.

#4

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:00pm

Chicago and Cabaret, I have seen the movies and the stage versions too many times.

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#5

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:01pm

Wicked

#6

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:01pm

Phantom & Wicked

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#7

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:09pm

Cats. It was my first shows and I wanted to go back for a long time. Then I saw the version that they aired on PBS and I wasn't interested anymore.

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#8

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:12pm

Wicked for right now and West Side Story

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#9

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:19pm

was it the video that was filmed at the new london theatre, with elaine paige? - if so i found it really dull. it had no life to it. why film a live show, with out the audience?

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#10

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 5:48pm

Wicked to an extent. I should go back and reread the novel. I still love the characters, but the show has some very frivilous parts to it.

#11

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 6:09pm

cats- my experience of it was the video... which i watched alot at first, now i just shudder at the thought of the show

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#12

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 6:18pm

Phantom..saw it 3 times plus the movie, had enough
Chicago ..same thing

#13

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 6:26pm

The Wizard of Oz. We did it in highschool and ever since I tripped on my low cut Ozian gown and had a wardrobe malfunction...well lets just say it's lost its appeal to me.

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#14

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 6:31pm

Joseph...after performing it twice in less than a year, it gets old. But I was definitely a member of the Donny Osmond Fan Club when I was younger, and I think I actually still am.

#15

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:13pm

Peter Pan. I've been in it three times and I always had the same role- and Indian. I mean, the second time I also played the crocodile and the third time I was Mrs. Darling, but I don't want to see it or perform in it ever again.

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#16

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:19pm

I don't think it's possible to "grow out of" shows such as Chicago and Phantom. That phrase implies that you've become too mature for the show. I think one can grow out of a show like Wicked, but I would imagine that it's hard to become too mature for Chicago.

That said, I definitely find myself listening to Chicago a lot less than I used to. I didn't overplay it; I just lost interest. While I still like the songs, I rarely have an urge to listen to it or even watch the movie. I think the end of my Chicago phase really came after seeing Melanie Griffith as Roxie. Dear God.

#17

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:34pm

Wicked

#18

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:50pm

Probably the Lloyd Webber shows and even Les Mis and Miss Saigon to some extent. I think I obsessed about all of them too much when I first got into musical theatre, so now I hardly ever play those recordings anymore.

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#19

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:53pm

Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Spelling Bee

#20

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:54pm

I fear I may have grown out of The Last Five Years. I still love it, but it doesn't... impress me the way it used to. Or something like that.

And I outgrew Les Mis years ago. I can still listen to it and feel all nostalgic, but again, not the same feeling.

I have very much grown out of RENT.

I thought I had outgrown Evita... but I SO DIDN'T.

#21

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 8:54pm

Phantom of the Opera and Hairspray

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#22

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 9:23pm

Phantom
Wicked
Chicago

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#23

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 9:50pm

Definitely RENT.

I don't have it in me to believe in miracles or optimism anymore. I wish it presented a more complex view of those topics.

#24

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 9:53pm

Rent
Wicked
Anything Andrew Lloyd Webber (except Phantom and Woman)
and I'm starting to get tired of Passion for some reason. I love the storyline to death, but it's growing old for me.

#25

re: shows you have grown out of ?

Posted: 4/6/06 at 9:55pm

Phantom of the Opera (I'm tired of it- over exposure!!!)

Chicago (though I am going to see it when I go to NY in May as I want to see how it is done live and I really do enjoy the music- I just got overexposed to it)

Evita (I over listened to it)

Cats (need I say any more?)

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