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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#1
Posted: 6/7/16 at 3:20am

what is your favourite musical that may not have been received well or not many people like?

Put your answer down below :)

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#2
Posted: 6/7/16 at 4:04am

I don't feel "guilty" for liking any musicals and no one should. But the one musical I like that many don't is Mamma Mia. It's a fun time

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#3
Posted: 6/7/16 at 4:46am

Yeah that's what I meant really. I didn't mean feeling guilty just what is your favourite musical that not many people like :) I probably should have rephrased it

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#5
Posted: 6/7/16 at 4:57am

I love Mamma Mia, it's just pointless fun. Also...this is pretty embarrassing...but I enjoyed certain parts Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Although the costumes looked pretty cheap, the show had some visuals that I thought were mesmerizing. Other than that it was a very boring and tedious show.

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#6
Posted: 6/7/16 at 6:55am

Too many to remember

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#7
Posted: 6/7/16 at 7:29am

To the OP: you chose your words just fine.  The well known phrase is exactly the way you worded it:  Guilty Pleasure.  You are guilty of finding pleasure in something few others do.  

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#8
Posted: 6/7/16 at 7:33am

Lestat

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#9
Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:00am

Got Tu Go Disco

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#10
Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:02am

Rockabye Hamlet (only because it is reviled by virtually everyone except me, and I actually thought it was terrifically exciting - having seen it FIVE times! )

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#11
Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:17am

Heathers

Honeymoon in Vegas

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#12
Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:28am

Off the top of my head: Cats, Rock of Ages, Xanadu!

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#13
Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:37am

TABOO!!!!!

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#14
Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:47am

Mamma Mia, Rock of Ages, Rocky

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#15
Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:05am

To Jay

 

I am with you on Rockabye. Saw it and was like nothing I have seen then and since. Have a live audio of the show and a 10 track LP of songs from it. I also have a cd of an opera Jones did on Marilyn Monroe called Hey Marilyn. Where is Encores when you need them?.

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#16
Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:32am

Mine is more movie musicals than stage musicals, but: Xanadu and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. Yes, the 1978 movie with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees. I was 14 years old at the time and thought Peter was the cutest thing ever.

If I'd seen it as an adult who knew anything about the Beatles I probably would have been appalled, but as a teen I thought the use of Beatles songs in the story line was pretty clever.  And hey, it had Earth Wind & Fire and Aerosmith in it, so...

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#17
Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:43am

It Shoulda Been You

 

Honeymoon in Vegas

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#18
Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:55am

I don't know if I'd  put Rock of Ages in the category of a show not many people liked, since it was a huge hit, but it's one of my favorite shows.

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#19
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:03am

Enjoyed them both

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#20
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:05am

After Eight said: "Got Tu Go Disco

 

Interesting choice. How was Irene Cara by the way?

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#21
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:08am

Hedwig.... and the amount of times I saw it. 


Also loved It Shoulda Been you when it was getting ripped in the reviews.

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#22
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:09am

Wedding singer, heathers, and if American Pyscho counts then that also.

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#23
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:15am

Mamma Mia!, Lestat, Scandalous... I think you can sense a bit of a theme.

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#24
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:20am

Legally Blonde

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#25
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:51am

@z5 said: "Hedwig.... and the amount of times I saw it. "

Hedwig is a great musical though. Don't be guilty about loving something which is truly generational, phenomenal, and fantastic! :)

Mine's Legally Blonde too. OMG you guys...

 

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Favourite Guilty Pleasure Musical#26
Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:57am

High Fidelity.


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