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A few people in that other thread are listing dozens of musicals, leading me to wonder if they are listing their favorites or simply dropping names . . .
List here musicals you hate. Double points in the "Emperor's New Clothes" category if they are musicals that everybody claims to love that you think are horribly overrated.
My list:
Cats Starlight Express Les Miserables The King and IPosts: 1112 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Cats is terrible, I agree. I also thinks Crazy for You needs to be hauled off into the street and shot.
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I can't really think of any I don't like, except Carmen which is actually an opera. I really didn't enjoy it.
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We just saw Cats and I really liked it. We saw a co-worker of Tom's there, though, who didn't know anything about it beforehand and didn't realize that THERE IS NO PLOT! *giggle* Its more a ballet than a musical. She was disappointed.
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Carousel is the worst, the absolute worst. Oklahoma (except for two songs) Finian's Rainbow Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Flower Drum Song Kiss Me Kate
I'm sure I'll think of more later. Just now, I remembered another favorite that I'll have to add to the other Musicals thread.
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I don't like Cats or Starlight because they don't have a plot . . . they are all spectacle. I'm not a big fan of Webber anyway, but to me those two are his worst--
Ooh, wait, I forgot Song and Dance. Yeah, that sucks too.
Anyway, I didn't like King and I because . . . how to put this . . . the songs suck. (other than the one, of course. The Music Man has the same problem.)
Les Miserables because it makes me want to go jump out a window. And shoot myself while in the air. With a noose tied around my neck.
And Chicago because all the characters are reprehensible human beings, and I generally need to like some characters to like a work.
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Ah, but Cats does have a plot. *ahem* A pretty, er, terrible one, but there is a 'story'.
So all the cats come together for their annual Jellicle Ball thing. At the ball, one of them will be chosen to go on to the Cat heaven. Much of the rest of the musical is a list of nominees, as it were, except for the occaisional entrance of Macavity, who stirs up trouble by kidnapping the Old Old Cat (whatever his name is).
At the end, they sum up what you have learnt about Cats and one of the cats is chosen to go on to the cat afterlife.
Starlight Express has a similar 'plot', actually. But they're on roller skates. How cool is that? Granted, I saw it when I was seven or eight, but I loved it then.
Personally, my least favourite musical I have seen or been in is South Pacific. It was no fun at all.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to like one and not the other, unless it's the unoriginality of Starlight you object to.
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Annie Get Your Gun is my least favorite of musicals I’ve actually been in. Although that may have had as much to do with the director and choreographer as the play itself. But after I read the real story of how that shooting contest turned out, it made me hoppin’ mad.
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I just remembered the one and only musical that is worse than Carousel. It's audience is somewhat limited, but I'd bet that close to 50% of the posters here have either seen it or have some passing familiarity with it.
Saturday's Warrior
Written by Lex de Azevedo (or Lex de Raw Potato, as my former seminary teacher/bishop used to say), this is the hideously cheesy and utterly blasphemous story of a Mormon family, beginning in heaven before they are all born, continuing through the adolescence of the oldest children.
In its heyday, this show did more damage to the testimonies of young LDS people (in my opinion) than almost any other human contrivance in history. It has been relied upon as quasi-scripture by countless gullible Mormons, and praised for its great "music" and "humor" when in fact it has none of either.
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What Icarus failed to mention is that Starlight Express is Cor's favorite musical. But, according to her, you have to see it with the original London staging or it just doesn't work.
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I'm generally pretty easy to please when it comes to musicals, but SP is an exception. Easily the most horrible thing I've ever seen on stage.
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o.k I put The Rocky Horror Picture show in the other thread coz it is really good, but in a cheesy, over the top way. It's also really bad the alien transvestite does squick a few people out funnily enough it is also promoted as a family show... and our former Prime Minister (Robert Muldoon) was the narrator for a while complete with his fish-net stockings.... You guys really should see it Posts: 141 | Registered: Sep 2002
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an absolutely awful movie. What's great about it is the experience of seeing it in a theater with regulars (and a shadow cast, if you're lucky). The audience participation makes that movie.
Renting it and watching it at home . . . ugh . . .
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btw, How to Stop Being a Rocky Horror Newbie More Quickly: Sneak a tape recorder into the theater with you, then rent the movie and watch it with the tape playing until you learn all the responses.
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Good Lord. If we had known that a virgin had brought in a tape recorder, we would have had that kid up on stage with us for the whole friggin' show. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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I tried watching Rocky Horror at a free showing at a sci-fi con once. I left within ten minutes. I don't remember much about the movie, but the audience was horribly vulgar.
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EEEWWWWWWWWWW why would you watch it at home by yourself *sick puppies* you watch it LIVE at MIDNIGHT if you can't see a live show then I guess the movie at the theatre would be o.k but not by yourself *shudders* the whole point is the audience is part of the show
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I hated Carousel ( horrible idea in there, if the man who loves you hits you it doesn't really hurt?) Don't like Seven Brides...for much the same reason...if a bunch of guys kidnap a bunch or girls, the girls will come to love them?
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Listen, the Buffy Musical episode was a fun EPISODE but not a GOOD MUSICAL. it's just not, folks. one reason being that nothing happens besides mustard stains and a not-surprising kiss.
Bad Musicals: Jesus Christ Superstar Side Show Lion King
Most musicals I can deal with as long as they're Done Well. But most musicals are not Done Well. So most musicals end up Bad. Those three musicals I feel are Inherently Bad. I've seen them all Done Well and still Haven't Liked Them At All.
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"I don't remember much about the movie, but the audience was horribly vulgar."
*clutches chest, stricken almost dumb with laughter*
I'm trying to imagine a Mormon walking unsuspecting into a live showing of RHPS: "O my stars! You people should all be ashamed of yourselves!" Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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quote: What Icarus failed to mention is that Starlight Express is Cor's favorite musical. But, according to her, you have to see it with the original London staging or it just doesn't work.
Well there you go. I saw it in London a while back. And it WAS good.
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