Have You Ever...
Have You Ever...
SuddenlyMara
Swing Joined: 12/23/04
#0Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 12:37amListened to the score of a play before seeing it, therefore creating your own version of the play, then seeing it and being very dissapointed? Or am I the only one?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#1re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 12:39amMaybe not neccessarily being dissapointed with the whole show, but some songs in particular. I like to create visions in my head. Most of the time I am off, but sometimes I am close to what my vision is.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#3re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 1:14amnot the whole play, but little parts that didnt really make sense that i filled in w/ guesses
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#4re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 1:17am
The score of a play?
...
Oh, never mind. I give up.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#5re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 1:20am
not to be yelled at - but i have liked idina since her rent days (before ppl really knew who she was)
anyway, i had nightmares before seeing Wicked that she wouldn't be there, etc. In my dream, the cast was no in costume, i was sitting front row, and the stage was made of large gears (like what would be found in a clock) (i never saw any pics). lo and behold - the stage was made of what resembles large gears.
^that was from the Sentimental Man song
#6re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:39am
When I lived outside of NYC, I did that all the time. POTO was a prime example, as well as Miss Saigon. I was loving the recordings, until I saw it. I hated those shows (The latter of which I finally saw Lea Salonga in it, and loved it again, because she is the true Kim).
Now, I will not buy the recording until after I've seen the show. (unless it's no longer on B'way)
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#7re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:42am
Plum, you took the thought right out of my head....
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timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#8re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:48am
Well, I got The Producers before I saw it, and the show was better than my vision. Next was Rent, but I didnt have the Cast Recording beforehand. Then was Wicked, but I had seen pics and stuff, so I knew what to expect. After that was Evita (saw the movie) and then Lion King (originally worse, but I saw it again last night and it was amazing. meh).
But, because I hardly ever get to see Broadway shows, I must live with my visions given to me from my cast recordings... lol
#9re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 11:59amI've done that before, but I was never dissappointed except maybe a little but for Little Shop of Horrors. For Miss Saigon and Wicked it wasn't.
Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#10re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 12:23pmI wouldn't say I was disappointed, but I listened to The Producers OBCR before I saw the show, and some of the jokes weren't as funny because I had heard them before.
#11re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:31pmwhen you say score, if you mean the cd first i did and created my own play for wicked. but i wasnt disapointed except for the part when she flies. everyone hyped it as she was supposedly soaring thru the air, meanwhile its only a lift. its cool but i thought it wouldve been more. but maybe thats impossible.
A dancer might dream to see her name in lights and mean it,
but all she really dreams is to make someone
else feel the way she did when she first saw a dancer.
And that is so beautiful-Anonymous
LittleBitRacist
Featured Actor Joined: 12/5/04
#12re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:32pm
BwayBoy, the exact same thing happened to me with Avenue Q...while the rest of the audience was in tears with laughter, I was saying the jokes in my head along with the actors, and I wished i hadnt listened to it so much. 
oh well. its still a great show. Love the icon, btw.
#13re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 2:57pmWith Wicked. I saw it and I was like, "Why isn't this better?"
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#14re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:03pm
Yeah I made sure not to listen to Avenue Q before I saw the show because I didnt want it to happen again.
Let's try not making every thread into a Wicked bashing.
LittleBitRacist
Featured Actor Joined: 12/5/04
#15re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:13pmSeriously...i think some of these Wicked-bashers are just doing it for attention/to be "cool"...I liked Wicked even more when i saw it than when i just heard the music, and i didnt even think i would.
#16re: Have You Ever...
Posted: 12/24/04 at 3:14pmI'm not a Wicked-basher. I used to be Elpahaba the Good. I just said I thought the show would be better after listening to the music because I really liked the music. I liked the show. I just thought I'd like it better.
LittleBitRacist
Featured Actor Joined: 12/5/04
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