Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
#1Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:19am
Does anyone have a song that they secretly love from a musical that is the corniest, most poorly written, overrated piece of crap ever put on a stage?
(well, maybe not THAT exaggerated... :) )
Admit it. You know you want to... :)
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
#2re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:22am
Yes,
I love Legally Blonde.
....and I bake 
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"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#2re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:27am
HAHAHA
Mine isn't THAT bad...
I still get chills every time I watch/hear "Defying Gravity" even if Idina Menzel is singing it. Really typical, I know.
Whoever says money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to shop. - Bo Derek
#3re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:36am
The Wizard and I
Defying Gravity/Get Out and Stay Out (They may have subtle differences, but they're the same freaking song, people.)
Let's Hear It For the Boy (Footloose "OBC")
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#4re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:42am
Omigod You Guys from Legally Blonde, Popular from Wicked, and pretty much those two shows as a whole.
Beyond My Wildest Dreams and She's in Love from The Little Mermaid. The score is the only thing I like about that show actually.
#5re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:29pmCome Out of the Dumnpster- Wedding Singer. I heart it...
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#6re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:32pmEvery minute of the stage and film versions of Mamma Mia.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#7re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:37pmlegally_popular, I don't think your love of Wicked or Legally Blonde is something you aren't willing to admit.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#8re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:40pm
Its Your Wedding Day from the Wedding Singer
and all of Wicked. Dancing Through Life is one of my absolute favorites.
Because I look different you think I'm subversive.
#9re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:40pm
Ya know, I love Wicked and I'm not gonna say it like its a bad think. I think its such a great piece of theatre.
I do like Legally Blonde tho as my guilty pleasure.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#10re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:56pmPretty much all of Jekyll and Hyde... and most of Aida.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#11re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 3:59pm
Definitely As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Boulevard.
and Easy Street, which just came on my iTunes.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#12re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:16pmMost of Wicked (excluding Something Bad... could never really get into that one). It's fluffy and shiny... and I can't get enough of it :P
"It doesn't work when you lick it!"
#13re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:25pmLegally Blonde.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
#14re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:54pm
"legally_popular, I don't think your love of Wicked or Legally Blonde is something you aren't willing to admit."
Yes it is.
I have a few Wicked guilty pleasures but most of the music I can't stand. I also like the Spring Awakening music.
#15re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 4:56pm
Legally Blonde always puts me in a good mood.
"Not That Kind of Thing" from The Wedding Singer is a definite guilty pleasure, as is "Nobody's Side" from Chess.
And I have to agree with you all with the Wicked stuff. I don't listen to it a lot, but whenever I hear "Defying Gravity" I get chills!
"I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls!"-Funny Girl
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#16re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:39pmIn His Eyes from Jekyll and Hyde.
#17re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:53pmAlone in the Universe, Seussical.
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
#18re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 6:03pm
"legally_popular, I don't think your love of Wicked or Legally Blonde is something you aren't willing to admit."
Yes it is.
Her name is LLEGALLY_POPULAR... there's no denying what shows she loves.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#19re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 6:09pmSeussical and Aida. Love love love.
Because I look different you think I'm subversive.
#20re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 8:49pmChip On My Shoulder from Legally Blonde and Written in the Stars from Aida. Guilty is charged!
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#21re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 8:52pm
All. Shook. Up.
Top to bottom, I don't skip a song, it's ALWAYS on my ipod.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#22re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 8:58pm
Scott68 I deff. agree
I dont see any diffrence between get out and stay out and defying gravity.
Well I like
"I want the good times back" from the little mermaid. its tune and beat are nothing like the reast of the songs in the show but I LOVE it.
For good from wicked
I know its not a showstopper song but it means alot to me ( long story)
bitch/sl*t/liar/who*e from Toxic avenger.
Its a good song but seeing it live is just 100000000000% times better and funnier
"Everything in life, is only for now"
-Avenue Q
#23re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:01pm
Ireland from Legally Blonde
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Updated On: 7/24/09 at 09:01 PM
gravity87
Featured Actor Joined: 8/4/04
#24re: Guilty Pleasures of Musical Theatre?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 11:25pmany song that Stephanie J. Block has ever sung!!
