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Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
#25re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 6:24pm
Into the Woods (Don't hurt me!)
Seussical
Cats
Aida
Phantom of the Opera
#26re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 6:41pm
-Rent
-Hairspray
-Grease!
-Caroline or Change
-Brooklyn
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#27re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 6:44pm
1. MY FAIR LADY.... I gave a speech to my bewildered mother about why I loathe this show so very, very much.
2. Grease- Just ew.
3. Oklahoma... bleh
4. Into the Woods- Just couldn't like the OBCR at all. I gave it my best shot.
5. The Music Man
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz
Updated On: 10/31/04 at 06:44 PM
#28re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 7:00pm
fom what i've seen:
1. DRACULA
2. VICTOR/VICTORIA
3. DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
4. SEUSSICAL
5.
#29re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 7:30pm
Bring Back Birdie
Angel
A History of the American Film
A Doll's Life
Platinum
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FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#30re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 7:32pm
Out of all the musicals I've seen since Phantom (Toronto 1997, I was 12; bear in mind, I'm 18 ), I'd have to say the worst ones I've seen were Mamma Mia, Titanic (oh, please kill me. Kill me now), and The Lion King. Just was not impressed with that last one.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
Updated On: 10/31/04 at 07:32 PM
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#31re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 7:33pm
1. Jackie Mason's Musical
2. Boobs, The Musical
3. Adult Entertainment
4. Urban Cowboy
5. Brooklyn
#32re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 7:48pm
not in any order.....
cats, dracula, grease, saturday night fever, brooklyn
InterestedBystander
Swing Joined: 5/20/03
#33re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 8:16pm
Wicked
Cats
Wicked
Les Miz
Wicked
FutureBwayPRGirl
Swing Joined: 10/30/04
#34re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 8:22pm
Titanic
Cats
Seussical
Civil War
junglered
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#35re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 8:22pm
Hair
The Civil War
Purlie
Godspell
shesings
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/14/04
#36re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 8:23pmInterestedBystander - I've been sitting here just waiting for someone to say Wicked. Just to see if they could really stir things up around here!
InterestedBystander
Swing Joined: 5/20/03
#37re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 8:24pm
Thank you shesings.....
I can't believe it took this long!
#38re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 8:43pmCATS. I just don't get why it's so freaking beloved. Ditto PHANTOM. BOY FROM OZ. Everything aside from some strong performances, there was nothing else going for it. Ditto NEVER GONNA DANCE. London TABOO had a great score, but possibly the worst book EVER.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#39re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 9:37pm
I've only seen one I really hated (OKLAHOMA) but these are my least favorites of the ones I've seen:
1.OKLAHOMA
2.SCARLET PIMPERNEL
3.CRAZY FOR YOU
4.ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
5.CAMELOT
Alix
geri loves wicked
Understudy Joined: 9/11/04
#40re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 9:37pm
Hey matt.
1) Anything Goes
2) Bat Boy: The Musical
3) Lil Abner
4) saturday night fever
5) The Lion King
6) (just one more i dont like) Sweeney Todd
My Fair Lady...watch out, AnothaPartofMe is a HUGE joseph fan. And who ever said into the woods and wicked, watch out cuz IM a huge wicked and into the woods fan.
Everybody's got the right to their dreams...
#41re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 9:44pm
1- Thoroughly Modern Millie
2- 42nd Street
3- Flower Drum Song
4- Dracula
I can't think of a "5" at the moment.... oh yes, those 4 aren't in order.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#42re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 11:34pm
In no particular order:
Broadway shows:
Titanic (a bad idea to begin with)
Annie Get Your Gun (just plain nauseating)
Dance of the Vampires (of course)
Dracula
Footloose
National tours:
Fame (worst musical EVER)
Not to mention some of the non-equity tours that try to pass themselves off as Broadway tours
#43re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 10/31/04 at 11:52pm
Geri loves wicked: How in the world could you NOT love SWEENEY TODD?
*looks at her username*
Oh. Nevermind.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
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The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#44re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 11/1/04 at 12:15am
I love you Priest.
1. Mamma Mia
2. Camelot
3. Crazy For You
4. How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5. Annie
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#45re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 11/1/04 at 6:07am
In order
5)any Juke Box musical
4)Jekyll and Hyde
3)Phantom of the Opera
2)Grease (stage show, not movie)
1)CATS
Updated On: 11/1/04 at 06:07 AM
BlueEyedKate
Understudy Joined: 10/26/04
#46re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 11/1/04 at 7:40am
in no particular order...
1. Hello Dolly
2. The Music Man (ugh...I think it was bad memories from being in the production)
3. Bye Bye Birdie (same as 'The Music Man' - although the actual premesis of BBB is rather silly, IMO)
4. The Civil War
5. Oklahoma
Raimiette
Understudy Joined: 7/23/03
#47re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 11/1/04 at 12:03pm
First I have a question for those folks who didn't like Titanic. What was it that you didn't like about it? Was it the music or was it the overall production? I ask because I own the cast recording which I love a lot but I've never gotten to see the production itself and there have been quite a few people who have been sticking it on their least liked lists. It didn't do badly on Broadway, I think it ran for about 3 years, it crashed when the film came out mind you but I'm sure that was to be expected. I don't think it did too badly critically when it first came out either. Any insight would be good here, thanks. O_o
Anyways, here's my list, in no particualr order:
1. Footloose
2. Steel Pier
3. High Society
4. Carousel
5. Children of Eden
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#48re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 11/1/04 at 12:09pm
"What was it that you didn't like about it? Was it the music or was it the overall production? I ask because I own the cast recording which I love a lot but I've never gotten to see the production itself and there have been quite a few people who have been sticking it on their least liked lists. It didn't do badly on Broadway, I think it ran for about 3 years, it crashed when the film came out mind you but I'm sure that was to be expected."
Well, I got the cast recording two years before I saw a production at the Kennedy Center, right after the movie came out. I thought it wasn't bad, but after I started seeing more productions, I just started comparing it and just thought that Titantic wasn't that great. I'm more of a story/song person myself, but I just sat during the production thinking, "I really hope the original version was better." Which I'm assuming it was.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
Updated On: 11/1/04 at 12:09 PM
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#49re: Your Top 5 LEAST Favorite Musicals
Posted: 11/1/04 at 2:10pmFrom a production design standpoint, TITANIC never should have come out of dry dock. The sets, such as they were, were these stylized line art things whose purpose and style escaped me. The model used at the end of the first act, when the ship sails off to meet its destiny looked every inch like a bad model. Even worse, we never saw the actual accident: the second act started after the collision.
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