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Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
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#25re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:07pmI pity the fool who's never falling in love at first sight.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#26re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:14pm
And they can spontaneously sing in perfect harmony, no less. I hate that about musicals.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#27re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:30pm
Cry Baby and Allison.
(In a way) Melchior and Wendla.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#28re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:39pm
My favorite is The Light in the Piazza. They didn't even speak the same language. 
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#29re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 9:52pm
It's much easier to fall in love if you don't speak the same language (Cable and Liat), or if one of you doesn't speak at all, or if you've been kicked in the head by a pony.
Updated On: 4/12/08 at 09:52 PM
#30re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 10:55pmSometimes falling in love is hard to distinguish from being kicked in the head by a pony.
#31re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 10:58pmNYC, it sounds like you mean "falling in love too quickly" as in, too early in the show. Or do you mean too early after the characters' first acquaintance? Do you have more of an issue with the passage of time being too fast during the relationship or with how quickly the relationship actually begins? Because for the kinds of shows you mentioned, the "falling in love" is the inciting incident for the plot, so the author has to get it out of the way early in the show in order to advance the story. Millie can't break up with Jimmy without having met Jimmy. In the Romeo and Juliet case, as Priest said, the falling in love too quickly is quite intentional, and if you have seen the ending, you should know that it drives the author's point home at the end. Either way, in most cases there are intentional and quite justifiable reasons for having characters fall in love "too quickly."
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#32re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:04pmthey mean falling in love like 2 seconds after they meet, not the amount of time into the show
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#33re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:07pmToo True Our Time.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#34re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:23pm
jasonf & caitiesus1522 on Broadway World...oh, you mean in MUSICALS?
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#35re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:30pmI absolutely cannot stand how fast Tony and Maria fall in love.
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#36re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:34pm
me either, which is why i STRONGLY dislike the whole show.
"AGAIN, that is the point of every single couple that you mentioned. Disaster DOES lie ahead for every one of those couples."
lol. tony DOES die... =]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
#37re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:34pm
I thgink Jerry Herman answerred your question best in "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly, here sung by John Barrowman, with whom I fell in love in a moment that will last my whole life long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuvalwhclOg
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#38re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:38pmI thought Charles Nelson Reily was singing to you.
puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#39re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:38pm
Rose and Herbie in GYPSY - at least Herbie does, gives up his business and goes off on the road with Rose. Really extreme, not even the length of a song.
It Sucks To Be Me
#40re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:41pm
I fell in love from across a crowded room watching her struggle to put ice in two drinks at once while balancing a plate of food. It really can happen (and before you ask, the other drink was just for a friend, thank Sondheim).
I had her in love with me by the end of the evening. Took some effort, but it was worth it.
Did it last? Two years, eleven months and three days.
Not an eternity, but enough. I was loved.
And it all happened in an instant.
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#41re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:43pmhence "AGAIN, that is the point of every single couple that you mentioned. Disaster DOES lie ahead for every one of those couples."
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#42re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:48pmEven jasonf & caitiesus1522?
PEACE.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#44re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/12/08 at 11:58pm
What's more crazy is when it happens in real life. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. For some reason people still do it and hope for the best?
You can try to read the stories these shows are based on first, if that will help with the time progression for you. It rarely does happen in real life but when the chemistry is there, how can you resist? 
It's happened to me, once or or twice.
#45re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:25amPeter Alan & Liza Minelli in The Boy from Oz
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#46re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:49amIt takes me less than two minutes to know if I will sleep with someone I just met.
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#47re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/13/08 at 1:59amseeing as thats not love, why is that relevant?
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#48re: Musical Theatre Couples fall in love too quickly..
Posted: 4/13/08 at 3:34ameverything is relevant when it comes to sex, my dear.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
