Overhype- Page 2
Overhype
evwicked77
Understudy Joined: 9/18/04
evwicked77
Understudy Joined: 9/18/04
#27re: Overhype
Posted: 10/14/04 at 4:07pmAida...but then again, it wasn't really percieved well when it opened (well, from the critics anyway).
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#28re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:11amThe Producers. But then again I didn't see Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and I heard most people say that the hype was true about them, and hasn't been the same since they left, which I completely believe. Those two are amazing.
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Speed
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/03
#29re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:17am
how/where did you see WICKED in the summer of 99?
I don't believe it was even written yet in 99!
Al Dente
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#30re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 8:58amIt's putting it mildly to say that Wicked the musical, strayed a bit from the book, it's not even remotely the same, with it's neat little bow-tied happy ending. Meanwhile,my answer would be, just about everything that gets hyped on this board. You blow people and shows up to such unfathomable heights, that it's never going to be as good as the way it's gushed about here. In fact, often times, it's the polar oppposite. And don't make me list examples, as you know I will and I just don't have the time to sit here and defend myself about why I don't think all the crappy shows and mediocre "talent" is worth raving about.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#31re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 3:14pm
Speed, evwicked meant Rent. I saw Rent this past June in Boston, and it was amazing. Sorry it didn't live up to your expectations 
Hope
Understudy Joined: 9/28/04
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#33re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 3:29pmHairspray and The Lion King
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#34re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 4:01pm
THE LION KING
It was impressive, but the singing was HORRABLE!!!! The girl that played Nala was HORRABLE HORRABLE HORRABLE!!!! Shadowland is one of my fav. songs from the show, and she TOTALLY ruend it!!!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
#35re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 5:33pmAs soon as I read the title of the thread, I knew that someone would mention WICKED.
sndtrklvr
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/04
#36re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:05pmThe producers, hands down. Good, funny but not GREAT!!!!! as I expected.
So my dear you think you can get to Broadway. Well, let me tell you something. Broadway has no room for people like you. Not the Broadway I know. My Broadway takes people like you and eats them up and spits them out. My Broadway is the Broadway of Merman, and Martin, and Fontaine, and if you think you can build yourself up by knocking other people down... ...GOOD LUCK... Seinfeld
#37re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:29pmI am going to have to say Hairspary, it was good, but not at all as good as I expected it to be!
"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn, and we are lead to those who help us most to grow if we let them and we help them in return" Galinda
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#38re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:47pm
The Lion King
Still think it has one of the most amazing opening numbers ever but overall I was disappointed.
QM
'He really wasn't good as Fieyro. Is it just me or does he sort of come across as a pimp? Just...the hand motions I've seen him do and the attitude..not that Taye is a pimp.' - SallyBrown on Taye Diggs as Fiyero
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
#39re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 7:50pm
The Producers.
Honestly, it's fun, Mel Brooks, Susan Stroman, blahblahblah......but nothing can live up to that kind of hype. And I saw it with "THEM" when they came back to the show last winter, and frankly the audience really disappointed me: no one seemed to be responding to the story/music/performances but instead to the EVENT of seeing those two, the adlibs, etc. Maybe I'd feel differently had I not been practically sitting on the ceiling of the St. James. I liked it a lot, but I wasn't blown away.
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#40re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 8:03pm
The Producers. Saw it on Wednesday. I'd heard it was a must see from a lot of people, but I never decided to actually see it until Hunter Foster was cast as Leo Bloom. Hunter was adorable, but I didn't like the show at all. I will never understand the hype.
And Wicked.
Jgssf
Understudy Joined: 9/29/04
#41re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 8:37pmI was so dissapointed in Wonderful Town. Spent a fortune on tickets and parking etc and it was interminably boring. I felt like it was such a waste of time and money.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
I Defy Gravity
Swing Joined: 10/11/04
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#44re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 8:55pmThe Phantom of the Opera remains by biggest disappointment in a theater. My most recent one was Last Easter, though it wasn't neary as bad (or expensive.)
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#46re: Overhype
Posted: 10/16/04 at 9:41pm
The Producers
~Some of it was funny, but overall I thought it was boring and overdone
Hairspray
~It was good, but not at all what I expected from what other people said. I enjoy myself just as much listening to the cast recording, and that doesn't cost $100
StrStruckDreamr9
Featured Actor Joined: 5/11/04
