"Bad " Musical You Enjoyed- Page 3
"Bad " Musical You Enjoyed
#50re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:51amLestat.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#51re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:53amActually, Mamma Mia got good reviews, even from Ben Brantley. So, even though we all love to hate it, it still doesn't qualify as being critically panned.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#52re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:55am
Yeah, that's true. It was in the Tony's that year. I suppose ABBA in general is just a guilty pleasure. 
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
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"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#53re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 2:23amCats...
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
#54re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 2:34amLittle Women
♥♥♥
#55re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:57amI didn't see it, but listening to Princess Diana the musical always brings a smile to my face on a bad day.
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#56re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 11:47am"Big: the Musical" (becuase I did it last November and fell in love with "The Real thing") and "Clue: the Musical" (ran off-B'way for 29 performances, I've seen 2 local productions and loved both).
-- SDG
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#57re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 12:14pmUrban - I loved CHESS too. That show deserved a better fate.
#58re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:25pm
Bombay Dreams
Little women sans Amy McAlexander
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
Updated On: 3/6/06 at 01:25 PM
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#59re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 1:29pm
Chess wasn't a flop in London at all. If you talked about Broadway production, that can be said "Bad".
Mama Mia cannot be called "Bad" either, finacially or critically.
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
Trina55
Stand-by Joined: 12/11/05
#61re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:28pm
Dance of the Vampires was quite possibly the best $20 I have ever spent. (actually $40 - I had to go back)
I have never laughed so hard at anything in my life!!!
(and didn't see In My Life, but shoudl have)
they made a musical of Clue? that's awesome! I hope it was based on the movie...
"monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC."
heee. love it.
#62re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 7:49pmLittle Woman in my opinion is one of THE BEST musicals ever... but it definitely got trashed. WHY IS THIIIS???
some things are meant to be...
#64re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 7:52pmI have nothing to contribute to this thread yet (I haven't really enjoyed any bad musicals). But I'm SO hoping to add Lestat to this thread when I see it. Cause it looks like SO much kitschy fun.
#65re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:02pm
I'm proud to say I loved Taboo and Bombay Dreams, despite their faults.
Good Vibrations, that's more of a guilty pleasure. Because it was rightfully panned.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#66re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:11pm
I like Annie.
Don't make fun of me. It was my first exposure to musical theatre! It's become a bit of a sentimental thing now.
Chess wasn't a flop in London at all. If you talked about Broadway production, that can be said "Bad".
I never saw the Broadway production of Chess, but I like the OBCR and prefer its admittedly muddled book to London's book.
#67re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 8:58pm
LENNON - Saw it 3x
BKLYN- I enjoyed it at first, but got really tired of it.
LITTLE WOMEN- I loved it. End of story.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#68re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/5/06 at 10:10pm"Dracula","Chita" and "Wicked", and i would say "Bombay Dreams" but the reviews weren't really bad, and i think the show was not bad at all!
"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-
#69re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 6:50am
Moby Dick - The musical. Well, I was only ten but I had a fantastic time! Having only seen South Pacific at that point, I didn't know musicals could be fun...
Romeo & Juliet - The musical. Hilariously bad lyrics ("Tybalt, Tybalt, you're gonna die") set to sub-Eurovision music (not quite as bad Notre Dame de Paris) performed by 12 year olds (albeit very talented 12 year olds). Great way to get over a recent break-up 
Updated On: 3/6/06 at 06:50 AM
#71re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:53am
Taboo (5x)
Dracula (5x)
Chitty (3x)
In My Life (2x)
Little Women (2x)
If I like a musical, it means the critics won't and it's destined to close pretty quickly.
#72re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 12:28pm
Dance of the Vampires
and Jekyll and Hyde
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
#73re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 5:14pm
I quite enjoyed "Sweet Smell of Success".
I absolutely loved "Aspects of Love" when I first saw it...I still think it's one of ALW's under-rated scores (it does borrow heavily from Rachmaninoff and Tschaikowski)
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
Elizadoolittle6
Understudy Joined: 3/30/05
#74re: 'Bad ' Musicals You Enjoyed
Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:46pm
"movin out isn't a bad musical"
YOU"RE RIGHT MOVIN OUT ISN'T A MUSICAL AT ALL. LOL
