Underrated Musicals Question- Page 2
Underrated Musicals Question
#25re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:43pm
Steel Pier
The Life
Jane Eyre
Taboo
Dance of the freaking amazing Vampires
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#26re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:44pmDaniel, who will always be Dexter to me, did leave a bit to be desired. Karen was simply wonderful, and it SHOULD have made her a star. Well, "The Opposite of Sex" will. Debra was also terrific, and "Everybody's Girl" still makes me howl. What can I say? I'm a whore for double-entendres.
#27re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:44pmDebra is always fantastic. I HATED Everybody's Girl.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#28re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:46pm
You hated "Everybody's Girl"? I won't hear it!
We played "Somebody Older" at my wedding.
#29re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:50pm"The Rink" is great, but we're focusing on shows from the past 10 years. If you want, I'll start a thread for underrated 80s musicals.
#30re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:51pmBombay dreams.
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#31re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:54pmI didn't see THE RINK, but had the OBCR and loved it. But come on - who wouldn't with Liza and Chita singing it?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#32re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:55pmScrew the 10 year gap! I loved "The Act".
#33re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 4:56pmtimes squares regular; "kiss of the spider woman" was a hit and won the tony for best musical,plus 6 more tonys....was it underrated or not a hit u think? im just wondering...i wish it was on ,instead of "phantom" or one of those shows that have been on since forever,that arent nearly as good as "kiss".
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#34re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 5:00pmBeav, I'm lifting the 10 year gap. It's been raised to 30 years.
#35re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 5:13pmMost definately Ragtime and Side Show. Two brilliant shows that screwed over, but such is life.
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#36re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 6:04pm
Im prolly gonna get killed for this but...
Brooklyn... I love Eden and Ramona so Im sorry if it is based on talent... I pick it!
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#37re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/3/05 at 6:15pmRagtime and Taboo... I'd say
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#38re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 4:48pmnot in the past 10 years but Merrily We Roll Along
#39re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 5:54pmShe Loves Me (though it won the Tony for Revival) it is underrated. No community theatres do it, when it first opened it was disliked and I think the music is very catchy and I also agree with Ragtime and Sideshow.
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#40re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:03pm
Once on This ISland (okay, so it was 13 years ago)
Parade
"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.
#41re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:07pm
Okay, just want to add my vote for Side Show...also Jane Eyre.
Does anyone know if there was ever a broadway production of Meet Me in St. Louis? I believe there was not too awful long ago, but I'm not 100% sure. If so, how well did it do?
Updated On: 3/25/05 at 06:07 PM
#42re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:14pm
muscle23ftl wrote: "Bombay dreams."
LOL
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#44re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 6:46pmragtime and taboo.
awkward.
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#45re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/25/05 at 8:35pm
Thankgod Justice mentioned Parade.
This show should have lasted so much longer, and should have had the Tony for Best Musical over Fosse.
Parade, Ragtime, The Last Five Years (outside the obsessive teenage Music Theatre cliques) and Seussical.
#47re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/29/05 at 1:03pm
Okay so many ---- 
CARRIE
SIDE SHOW
THE CAPEMAN
ZOMBIE PROM
STREET CORNER SYMPHONY (Please don't make fun of me
PARADE
SMILE
#48re: Underrated Musicals Question
Posted: 3/29/05 at 3:52pm
I'm not sure Ragtime or Titanic would qualify as "underrated". Ragtime won a few Tonys and if it was a financial failure, it received much praise. Titanic did extremely well at the Tonys and was also pretty highly praised at the time, especially considering the negative preopening buzz.
My pics:
Jane Eyre
Bombay Dreams
Parade (though it did walk away with two Tonys)
Once on This Island (a few Tony noms, but the show got lost in season of bigger spectacle hits)
Aspects of Love
Blood Brothers (had a healthy run, but has since been almost entirely forgotten)
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