"I Don't Get It": Well-Liked Performers You Don't Enjoy

[BobbyBubby]

Who are some audience favorites you just "don't get"?

Me:

Janine LaManna
Lin Manuel Miranda
Karen Olivo
Kerry Butler
Karen Ziemba
Barbara Walsh

[Rudy2]

Me:

Sutton Foster

[husk_charmer]

Mara Davi is the only one who readily springs to mind.

[LizzieCurry]

Patti LuPone

[juice23]

Raul Esparza *ducks*

[legally_popular]

Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal, ew.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Definitely Janine LaManna is the first one that springs to mind along with Jill Paice, Stephanie J. Block, and Laura Bland Bundy.

[manic_magic_n2n2]

I am going to be shot.

Sutton Foster
Patti LuPone
Ethel Merman

DUCKING FOR DEAR LIFE.

*edited for spelling

[dramamama611]

Patti LuPone
Cheyenne Jackson (those thighs scare me)

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Philip Quast
George Hearn
Most female singers

(Runs for the hills)

[Weez]

I don't think I can be friends with Schmerg anymore. D:

I get but am totally over Sutton Foster.
I think I can see what other people like about Ruthie Henshall but she does less than nothing for me.
I have yet to be thrilled by Patrick Stewart in a Shakespearean production, although he's certainly serviceable.
Similarly, I don't really like Mariah Gale but she apparently has something going for her, otherwise the RSC wouldn't continually cast her in plum roles.
While his successors have yet to prove themselves his equal, I always felt there was something missing from Douglas Hodge's Albin.

[rosscoe(au)]

I don't get the fuss over Sutton

Patti leaves me cold

Idina, just screams and screams and screams and screams

[CSonBroadway]

Sutton Foster. I like her, but I think she is overrated. She has a normal musical theatre sounding voice, and tons of girls out there could sing and dance as well as her.

[obsessedjb]

Sutton was the first person that came to mind when I saw the thread title

[PiraguaGuy2]

Alice Ripley
Patrick Stewart
Robin de Jesus

[tazber]

Raul Esparza
Cheno

[singtopher]

Patti is the first to spring to mind. Well, I guess her in Gypsy. I've enjoyed her elsewhere.

For the most part, these over-hyped performers get more of an "Well, they're good, but not the second coming or anything."

[South Fl Marc]

Matthew Broderick (Has he even attempted to act in the last 10 years?)
Adam Pascal
Idina Menzel

[jordangirl]

Add me to the lists for Sutton, Raul and Patti.

I've also never gotten what's SO "amazing" about Orfeh.

[bubbleblonde]

I don't get Stephanie J. Block's supposed good acting. All I hear is lines being yelled in that overenunciated twang complemented by rigid body language.

[richs52]

Liza

[tazber]

Orfeh is the single most talented human ever to walk this earth jordangirl.

In fact, (s)he is a demi-god.

[D2]

All the usual suspects: LuPone, Block, Esparza, Cheno, etc...

[madbrian]

OK, I'll say it: Nathan Lane. All the hamming it up, the knowing wink and a nod to the audience, the staged out of character moments, etc, etc. There are some others that I like, but I don't get all the fuss over, and most of them have already been named (Cheno, Esparza, etc.).

And while I really like Sutton Foster, I don't think she should get a Tony nom just for showing up. She's been smart and lucky in finding roles to originate, but she's due to find something a little more challenging than Young Frankenstein and Shrek.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Granted, I actually DO like Philip Quast and George Hearn... just not as much as most people seem to.

When it comes to performers I genuinely don't like, I don't feel comfortable naming them... except for Matthew Broderick. I'll say right now in the open that he has got DEAD EYES and I actually feel ill watching him. He acts like a dying insect that has just been stomped and is twitching lethargically before dying.