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what is the most overrated musical of all time
#50what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 5:27pm
The responses to my (completely false) reply to the OP's thread and newintown's opinion of Les Miserables proves my point.
Some people on this board are not interested in reading other peoples opinion so much as they are looking for someone to agree with and vindicate their likes and dislikes. WHATEVER.
#51what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 5:30pmAs long as you lead,Wynbish.
#52what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 5:33pm
"Some people on this board are not interested in reading other peoples opinion so much as they are looking for someone to agree with and vindicate their likes and dislikes. WHATEVER."
And some people are here to egg them on. Isn't that right?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Henoa
Swing Joined: 1/3/13
#53what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 5:43pmIsn't the Lion King aimed at Kids?
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#54what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 5:55pmI agree with "The Producers" and would add "Avenue Q" and "Spamalot".
#55what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 6:09pm
reNt, what a clusterf**k of a show.
The Lion King, stunning opening and that's about all. Thirty minutes in you just wanna slap that little kid off the stage.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#56what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 6:24pmNewintown, is your central thesis that shows with rock-based or rock-inspired scores have tended to be self-inflated by the "currentness" of the sheer IDEA of rock in theatre and thus tend to get lazy, or that "rock" is utterly incompatible with theatre by their very contradictory natures?
#57what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 8:11pm
I don't think either is my thesis. "Rock," as I've noted before, is a style of arrangement, not an inherent form of music. But many people, from an overwhelming desire to be connected to the mainstream, profess to love anything that they're told is "contemporary."
Many shows with "rock" scores would be totally ignored if scored for a more traditional pit orchestra, although the music itself (the basic composition) and lyrics were exactly the same.
#58what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 8:34pmOnce. Oh god, by a mile. What a pretentious piece of boring tripe. I've never felt so ripped off. I didn't feel like a single moment of it justified a top ticket price of over 100$.
"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#59what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/3/13 at 9:23pmHello, Dolly; Mame; and Man of La Mancha -- all three very much products of their times (the mid 1960s) and none of them have aged well -- it would take a genius director and choreographer to make any of them work on Broadway today.
TheHappyPhantom
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#61what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 12:02amA tie between Annie and Cats
#62what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 12:30amPhantom of the Opera. So dull. I don't get it.
lupone76
Featured Actor Joined: 12/9/11
#63what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 12:50am
I feel the following musicals are overrated: Phantom, The Producers, BOM(Big time overrated), Wicked(although, it's one of the best musicals of the millenium it's selling out way more than it should). If Wicked opened back in the days when really great musicals opened on Broadway I doubt it would be the sell out that it is today.
Updated On: 1/4/13 at 12:50 AM
#64what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 12:59amIt is impossible for me to imagine Wicked opening "back in the days when really great musicals opened" because its style is so unlike anything of the time....
"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
#65what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 1:16am
Phantom of the Opera is one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life. How this mess is still running is beyond me, but, hey, it's giving lots of performers jobs.
Mamma Mia is just... UGGGHHH! Hate the show, hate the movie. Awful.
Oklahoma is another one I never cared for. I understand the historical significance and everything, but it never really thrilled me that much. Lovely score, but the plot is pretty dull and that dream ballet serves no purpose to the story whatsoever. We just saw the first act. We don't need to see it again as a 20 minute interpretive dance.
#66what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 2:04amCarlosAlberto, everyone likes their opinion the best. That's why it's theirs.
#67what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 2:16am
The Producers
The Book of Mormon
Spamalot
And yes, I love comedies. My hand basket is bedazzled and ready to go.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
ifuweregay93
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/06
#68what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 2:37amYou listed Spamalot, yet your username is "Brave Sir Robin 2"?
#69what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 2:50amI saw the show when I was younger and joined the board pretty soon after I first saw it. Saw another production recently - just doesn't hold up.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
metropolis10111
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
#70what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 8:49am
This falls into two camps for me the most overrated in terms of commercial hype and they hype that happens here on the boards where rabid fans gush and gush and gush about a show. We here can just as bad as commercial hype. For the Former, I'd have to join in the Spamalot camp. I saw it here in Chicago before it transferred and while I found it very funny I was really perplexed by the awards it got. What is the most overrated show in the theater community? That for me would be Follies. It's talked up by the fans with so fervor much that, for me, it was such a... meh.... show when I saw it. Sometimes we here let our passion blind us to not see any flaws in shows we love.
Shows that DID live up to the hype. Ih the commercial sense, Avenue Q. It was hands down the most I've ever laughed in a show and I loved it. Most hyped community show that was as good? Grey Gardens. Still an amazing piece of theater that I am so proud to have gotten to see.
Tsao5
Stand-by Joined: 2/7/06
#71what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 9:20am
Phantom of the Opera- SO SO little heart (really, which character does one care about or route for?)
Aspects of Love-Aspects of total boredom.
The Producers-You need STRONG leads, failing that-show sucks.
Fame the musical-Just just........awful.
Wicked-unless you are a 14 year girl, then it's like: Awesome!!!!!
Meet me in St. Louis-I was hoping the trolley would lose control and jump from the stage onto me to put me out of my misery.
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#72what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 10:11am
I am in agreement with BOM. I just don't get that show.
but producers takes the cake for me. I left after act 1. It was horrible. Then i had to sit through the whole thing with some business clients 2 years later and it got even worse in act 2.
Outoftowner2
Stand-by Joined: 1/8/12
#73what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 5:35pmI know it's sacrilege but I've got to go with "Gypsy".
#74what is the most overrated musical of all time
Posted: 1/4/13 at 6:25pm
Annie
Annie
Annie
I recognize that my view is skewed by a college housemate played the original cast recording beyond incessantly but I feel towards Annie and Sandy the way the Wicked Witch felt about Dorothy and Toto.
