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musicals only you seem to dislike
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#100re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:21pm
Hmm
1) Rent, I hate most of the Score
2) Floyd Collings, well I don't like country music
3) parts of "parade", JRB at times bores me terribly
4) John&Jen.... ugh, can't listen to it!
5) Pipe Dream (R&H) .. some nice songs, but dull score overall, weak book
6) Lion King ... merely a hollow spectacle
7) Aida ... poor Verdi, good he doesn't live anymore to watch that, about two good songs and a lot of crap
Sooo, enough of my rude thoughts, back to smooth talking 
#101re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:36pmQuestion - Why do some people think Sunday in the Park is pretentious? Like... what makes it that way?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#102re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:37pm
Rent
Annie
Titanic (oh geez was that awful)
Anything Goes (the songs I love, but the book, ehhh)
CATS (someone gave me tickets and all I could do was ask what had I ever done to him that he should do this terrible thing to me)
AND.....
Piazza (I don't get it at all)
#103re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:42pmI personally love Falsettos.
Gypsy - Betty Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN5XoB5vFs&feature=youtu.be
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#104re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:42pm
I was wondering the same thing brdwaybaby. Or maybe I'm just stung that people actually dislike it, when I adore it so much.
Oh, and I feel like I'm the only one who dislikes the movie of West Side Story. I love the show, but I really don't like the movie.
elphie30
Understudy Joined: 2/5/05
#105re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:48pm
mama mia!
cats
Save him please, just save him
My poor Boq, my sweet, my brave him
Don't leave me till my sorry life has scene
Alone and loveless here, just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me, the Wicked Witch of the East
#106re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 4:56pm
I will do mine in four categories:
HATE:
The Phantom of the Opera
John and Jen (What crap)
Floyd Collins ( I never saw what all the hype was.)
The Sound of Music
A Chorus Line
Wicked (I know a lot of people who LOVED it when it came out, and now they're bored with it and therefore say they hate it. I NEVER liked it.)
South Pacific ( like some of the music )
Oklahoma ( Glad it existed for what it helped to create, but I hate the show.)
Don't HATE, but don't LOVE:
Annie
Carousel
Aida
Cats
I like these ones
Parade
The Tap Dance Kid (Guilty Pleasure)
The Will Rogers Follies
I LOVE these (other's don't)
Jelly's Last Jam
Evita
Falsettos
Aspects of Love
Passion
Sunday in the Park with George
NINE ( liked it before the revival so it's not a result of Antonio Love.)
There are probably more, but I can't think of them.
And also, I HATE West Side Story. Never liked it. Never will and I also HATE Grease.
Gypsy - Betty Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN5XoB5vFs&feature=youtu.be
Updated On: 7/1/05 at 04:56 PM
#107re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 5:00pm
I think my sig says it all.
I had said I didn't like and got bored at Wicked, Rent, Phantom and Hairspray...
Updated On: 7/1/05 at 05:00 PM
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#108re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 5:03pmRemember, guys: As a general rule, if it's Sondheim, it's widely-liked/loved by theatre folk. If it's Andrew Lloyd Webber, it's widely-hated by theatre folk. This thread is "musicals ONLY you seem to dislike..."
#109re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 5:04pmIn that case: Rent, Wicked and Hairspray
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#110re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 5:10pm
Floyd Collins (I'm a fan of PIAZZA but I just never understood the hype over it.)
Wicked (I was one of the first few to walk out saying how much I hated it. Still do.)
Anything Goes
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#111re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:04pm
I was about to say what Elizabeth did, there are quite a few being written that I certainly wouldn't think only one person dislikes Cats and most of Webber...
I myself don't care for Music Man but know there are others who agree.
The one that I think fits here is Hairspray. Love the CD, book and performance just didn't do it for me.
Ooh, and not sure I really can put this, you'll see why...but I borrowed the video of Sunday in the Park twice...the first time I fell asleep after 15 minutes, second time I fell asleep after 40 minutes(due to boring, not due to me being tired), and never made it through. Having never made it through, guess it's not fair to say I dislike it but yeah.
I'm one of those that think WSS was probably the best musical ever made. I'm curious, can some of you who put WSS tell me in more detail what you didn't like? Was it more personal taste or merit? Like I don't like Music Man more for personal taste, I can see its merit. Honestly curious, since I hardly hear anyone criticize aspects of it.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#112re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:14pmLes Mis. I can't stand it!
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
Cages or Wings
Featured Actor Joined: 11/27/04
#113re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:18pmI didn't put WSS but I should have. I hate it for personal taste. I can see why it is considered "the greatest ever" but just never was my cup of tea. Bernstein deserves to be regarded as highly as he is, (i can recognize his unbelievable talent) but just don't really like his style. Personal Preference 100%.
#114re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 7:44pm
"J&H" just can't stand it in fact it makes me giggle
"Annie" makes want to kick little children and I wish Sandie would attack during Tomorrow.
"Carousel" It is not okay to hit someone
"Rent" how did this win a pulizer??
"Spamalot" This won best musical???
"La Cage"
"Anything Goes"
"Showboat"
"Cats" even though it was fun to be in
The Vegas version of "Joseph and the Amazing..." when it first came out it was an hour long and sweet and honest.
"Phantom"
"Aspects of Love"
"STARLIGHT EXPRESS"!!!!!! I wasted way too much money on this and it was the worst show I have ever seen.
"Sunset Blvd" Oh my God this was bad.
"Lion King" What a bore
I am sure there are others but can't think of them right now.
Oh here's one. I am a huge fan of Sondheim's, I mean HUGE, but I can't stand "Saturday Night".
#115re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 7:56pm
The Light in the Piazza...not that I've seen it, but what i have heard from it is enough to make me not want to throw my money away.
"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.
Racetrack
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#116re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 8:07pm
Ave Q
Oklahoma
Carousel
Mamma Mia(sorry don't like Abba music)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Unsinkable Molly Brown
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear
#117re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 8:10pm
Ragtime. Don't get me wrong, I love Audra and I think it has a good theme and all, but it seems like you just get beaten over the head with the theme over and over...Also, all of Webber and Wildhorn I strongly dislike.
The only reason I enjoy Wicked is because I love Kristin Chenoweth..the show itself, not so much.
But I am not ashamed to admit that I enjoy Tick Tick Boom!, Oklahoma, Candide and Showboat. Oh and Passion!!
"I was good at everything in high school...except gym" -William Finn
Are you in the TFT cult?
#118re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/1/05 at 9:00pm
I can't stand most Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I can't even TOLERATE "The Sound Of Music" in addiion to Annie and Mamma Mia.
I dislike most Webber except Joseph...Dreamcoat.
Phantom: *Cringe*
And I like Wicked to a healthy point, but I think it's erally overrated.
phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#119re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:23am
ANNIE IS THE CRAPPIEST SHOW EVER WRITTEN!!!!
There is no melody to any of the songs. It has such an ugly score.
Guys and Dolls is a horrible show. There is one good song (no prizes for guessing which one that is), and the rest is just bad. Anyone who performs Adelaide's Lament should be taken out on sight. I hate frank loesser
Oklahoma to me is just intolerable. I don't care if it's a classic. And the inevidably cheesy southern accents don't help my opinion of it....
Joseph....Technicolour Dreamcoat makes me want to vomit, much like Annie. It's so saccherine and over done. The only good thing about it are the brothers. And close every door, which i believe is stolen from Mascagni or another one of the usual crowd ALW rips off.
Aida - Poor Guiseppe. He must be turning in his grave to see his opera reduced to this. I just hate elton john and his predictable crap factory of a songwriting ability that churns out song after song, almost identical. His songs are worse than the vast majority of Wildhorn's, who uses the same predictable formula. Even Tim Rice can't help here.
Lion King - ditto
Starlight Express - I haven't seen it, and i haven't heard it. But i hate it all the same.
Miss Saigon - overly sentimental, shallow garbage, with some of the worst lyrics ever written and a score reaking with mediocrity. THE worst smash hit musical ever.
"Like all surviors, i once thought
Once i'm home i won't give a damn.
But now i know i'm caught.
I'll never leave Vietnam"
WTF is that??!?! Need i say more?
Thankyou for reading my outrage at musicals i hate
#120re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:50pm
Seems Only I Dislike:
-Phantom of the Opera
-The Boy from Oz
-Hairspray
-Aida
-CHICAGO-- how did i almost forget to mention it?!?!
-Bye Bye Birdie
-A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Seems Only I Like:
-Dance of the Vampires
-Good Vibrations
now, just to clarify--"like" means "LIKE", not "love". and "dislike" means just that, not "hate". for instance, in the case of Aida, i love the score, but i despise the actual show and the character of Aida in general.yeah, i'm weird.
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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Updated On: 7/3/05 at 05:50 PM
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#121re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:54pm
Hairspray.
A lot of Webber.
Me, I like to live.
Me, I like to laugh.
Me, I like to love.
Me, I like to laugh.
Me, I like to love.
#122re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:56pm
Caroline or Change
Hairspray
Aida
Bye Bye Birdie
Miss Saigon
Mamma Mia
Oklahoma
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#123re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:57pmOh, I forgot about Bye, Bye, Birdie. Then again: that's only based on the movie... maybe the stage production is better. If it isn't, put that on my list too.
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#124re: musicals only you seem to dislike
Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:02pmI have never seen a Webber musical, film or stage production that was better than sh*t. I hate them all.
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
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