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Post by d'James on Mar 10, 2016 4:24:55 GMT
For me it has to be Hairspray.
I dislike so much about it.
I can't write how offensive I found the script without having being accused of something myself.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 6:06:53 GMT
Footloose. In the first couple of minutes the show introduces all its main characters and it's immediately obvious how they're going to interact and what the outcome will inevitably be. Then you have to wait for an unimaginably tedious couple of hours while the show carries on as if there was some mystery about the story and a shred of possibility that things might not work out after all. I really don't understand how people can enjoy it. I've seen intervals with stronger storytelling.
I've watched it twice. The second time there was someone in it I wanted to see and I'd blanked out how much I hated it the first time. Seeing the set on stage brought it all back. There was a technical problem and the show started half an hour late, and all the disappointments I've suffered when performances have been cancelled pale into insignificance against my disappointment that this one wasn't.
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Post by greeny11 on Mar 10, 2016 6:31:36 GMT
Wicked for me - apart from Defying Gravity, I found it very boring and the music wasn't to my tastes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 7:19:48 GMT
Ditto Wicked... Such hype but failed to live up to it for me. Great set, not Stephen Schwartz' best score. (And on our night no-one actually defied gravity as the effect didn't work.)
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Post by freckles on Mar 10, 2016 8:06:08 GMT
Pippin.
A couple of great songs but I was so disappointed when I saw it, thought the book was a total mess.
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Post by Dave25 on Mar 10, 2016 8:27:34 GMT
Has to be Wicked. Very annoying show. In my opinion just a bunch of appearances, sets, poorly written songs and incoherent high notes and a dreadful ensemble song here and there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 8:47:59 GMT
Miss Saigon. It basically reads like Boublil and Schoenberg went "well, people liked Eponine and Thenardier, what can we do next?", and I absolutely do not get the rapturous outpourings of adoration it receives. Apart from the helicopter, that was pretty awesome.
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Post by viserys on Mar 10, 2016 8:51:38 GMT
Miss Saigon. It basically reads like Boublil and Schoenberg went "well, people liked Eponine and Thenardier, what can we do next?", and I absolutely do not get the rapturous outpourings of adoration it receives. Apart from the helicopter, that was pretty awesome. Indeed. I'm stunned that in this day and age of hypersensitivity whenever race and gender are concerned, a show so blatantly sexist and racist can still be so popular. Never mind the completely ridiculous second act where nothing at all makes sense. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 8:53:00 GMT
Cats and Wicked for me!
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 10, 2016 8:56:22 GMT
Miss Saigon and phantom
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Post by mallardo on Mar 10, 2016 8:59:16 GMT
I do not get the hate for Wicked - it has to be directed toward the show's mega success rather than the show itself which is highly original in its score - Stephen Schwartz's best by far - and has one of the best books ever in a musical.
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Post by Nelly on Mar 10, 2016 9:20:07 GMT
I do not get the hate for Wicked - it has to be directed toward the show's mega success rather than the show itself which is highly original in its score - Stephen Schwartz's best by far - and has one of the best books ever in a musical. In your opinion. The score or book might not be to peoples taste. It doesn't have to be agenda driven! |
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Post by mallardo on Mar 10, 2016 9:30:06 GMT
That it is agenda driven is also my opinion.
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Post by theatre-turtle on Mar 10, 2016 9:30:46 GMT
I think Cats is a load of tosh - I spent 2 hours wondering what I was meant to be getting and whether I had missed something.
Beverly Knight saved the day with her solo, which was worth the £49.50 alone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 9:34:34 GMT
I'd go with Wicked or Miss Saigon too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 9:41:57 GMT
Cats for most outright 'what the hell am I watching?' reaction.
Wicked for 'I kind of liked it at the time, but really don't understand the excitement'
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Post by Nelly on Mar 10, 2016 9:53:41 GMT
Mamma Mia.
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Post by stageyninja83 on Mar 10, 2016 10:00:26 GMT
Cats definitely, just didn't get it, what a load of tosh. Only went for Beverley and even then felt like leaving at the interval. Story completely pointless/non existent, terribly dull songs and people dressed as cats?!?! Just no!
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Post by adrianics on Mar 10, 2016 10:02:28 GMT
Add my voice to the Cats and Wicked crowd. Watched Cats for the first time last Christmas and alternated between being bored, being baffled and cringing (that rap is a full-on crime against humanity). Wicked is just dull as dishwater.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 10:10:27 GMT
I'm tempted to add Mama Mia, but having not actually seen it on stage I feel it's unfair to judge.
Cats however I will judge until the cows (cats) come home.
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Post by theatre-turtle on Mar 10, 2016 10:24:14 GMT
Add my voice to the Cats and Wicked crowd. Watched Cats for the first time last Christmas and alternated between being bored, being baffled and cringing (that rap is a full-on crime against humanity). Wicked is just dull as dishwater. The rap in Cats is one of the lowest experiences I've ever had in musical theatre - what one earth were Mackintosh /Lloyd Webber thinking?! |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 10, 2016 10:43:36 GMT
Cats
But not far behind it is Phantom
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Post by anita on Mar 10, 2016 10:58:44 GMT
"Into the Heights". Never seen "Wicked" as doesn't appeal to me - my youngest son loved it - my daughter hated it.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Mar 10, 2016 11:10:08 GMT
Made In Dagenham
(ducks)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 11:11:26 GMT
Book of Mormon
Matilda
And ive got to laugh at the idea of anyone not liking Wicked having an agenda. It's ok but certainly don't see anything special in it or get the obsession with it
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