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Post by BurlyBeaR on Dec 16, 2018 20:44:14 GMT
I think when someone described Hamilton as the most important piece of art of the 21st century I lost interest in seeing it.
Book Of Mormon: I went into the bar for a bottle of water before it started and was faced with a completely different crowd to that which I’m normally exposed to at a show. Groups of “lads”in their office work attire drinking from beer bottles. By the interval I HATED it. I stayed because I’d paid a lot and had booked a whole weekend in London around it. What a complete waste of money. Every aspect of it was cheap, in very sense of the word except the ticket prices.
Follies. Didn’t get it. Another train/hotel/ticket wasted.
Heathers. Just no.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2018 21:05:54 GMT
Book of Mormon: ten minute sketch spun out of all proportion. Still baffled this is still on.
Don Quixote: haven’t eaten a bread roll since.
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Post by mt24601 on Dec 17, 2018 10:41:32 GMT
Absolutely hated Bat out of Hell, the acting was WEAK, the plot was boring, the dancing did not fit the style of musical at all, the only good thing about it was the vocals and the set design! Other than that I hated everything else about it
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 11:06:18 GMT
Ooh @souchyboy just reminded me of another one: Ferryman.
I was looking at my watch 15 minutes in, which in any show isn't good. In that one it was pure torture. On one level I get why it's a good piece of work. I do however contest that it's not the work of unparalleled genius people think it is. I also maintain that it's just very very dull for large swathes and the payoff isn't enough.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Dec 17, 2018 13:26:44 GMT
Me: *walks up to the gallows*
Hangman: Any last words?
Me: 42nd Street is boring as sh*t
Crowd: Death! Death! Death! Death!
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Post by distantcousin on Dec 17, 2018 13:32:16 GMT
Me: *walks up to the gallows* Hangman: Any last words? Me: 42nd Street is boring as sh*t Crowd: Death! Death! Death! Death!
I saw 42nd Street in Leicester about 5 years.
Apparently, if you can't appreciate it, you have no joy in your heart.... hmmm.
I thought it was boring as hell too. Too old fashioned for me, utterly predictable. Back-of-a-fag-packet plot - leave your brain at the door.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 13:42:38 GMT
Ooh @souchyboy just reminded me of another one: Ferryman. I was looking at my watch 15 minutes in, which in any show isn't good. In that one it was pure torture. On one level I get why it's a good piece of work. I do however contest that it's not the work of unparalleled genius people think it is. I also maintain that it's just very very dull for large swathes and the payoff isn't enough. Oh heavens, 'The Ferryman' was a load of old rubbish. It was so diddle-dai-diddle-dai Irish that I half expected them to Riverdance at the end and shout "top of the mornin'!" each time someone walked in through a door. The goose and the rabbit were cute though, I'll give them that. And Fra Fee is a cute little pocket gayer with nice hair. Still, I'm not sure it was worth 6 and a half hours of my time or however long it was. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 14:58:53 GMT
Ooh @souchyboy just reminded me of another one: Ferryman. I was looking at my watch 15 minutes in, which in any show isn't good. In that one it was pure torture. On one level I get why it's a good piece of work. I do however contest that it's not the work of unparalleled genius people think it is. I also maintain that it's just very very dull for large swathes and the payoff isn't enough. Oh heavens, 'The Ferryman' was a load of old rubbish. It was so diddle-dai-diddle-dai Irish that I half expected them to Riverdance at the end and shout "top of the mornin'!" each time someone walked in through a door. The goose and the rabbit were cute though, I'll give them that. And Fra Fee is a cute little pocket gayer with nice hair. Still, I'm not sure it was worth 6 and a half hours of my time or however long it was. 6 and a half hours? was that all... I thought I was in there for at least a week... |
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 17, 2018 15:27:47 GMT
Me: *walks up to the gallows* Hangman: Any last words? Me: 42nd Street is boring as sh*t Crowd: Death! Death! Death! Death!
I saw 42nd Street in Leicester about 5 years.
Apparently, if you can't appreciate it, you have no joy in your heart.... hmmm.
I thought it was boring as hell too. Too old fashioned for me, utterly predictable. Back-of-a-fag-packet plot - leave your brain at the door.
I agree about the plot (lack of). I don't dislike the current London production - I've seen it 3 times for the various casts & might try to see it once more to catch Bonnie Langford - but I felt very much the minority when so many people were raving about it on here when it opened & I was decidedly so-so. I had expected it to be right up my (42nd) street, as I'd loved Lend Me A Tenor, Crazy For You and Top Hat, but unlike those shows there's so little characterisation that I can't manage to care much about the characters or what happens to them. |
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Post by daisy24601 on Dec 17, 2018 15:39:02 GMT
Wicked. For me its a 4/10 show, poor songs and hideous plotting do not a good show make but everyone else there was cheering after EVERY single little thing that happened on stage. Actress comes on, near standing ovation. Actress sings song, near standing ovation. Actress does some terrible comedy bit, near standing ovation. Actress recites lines from a script that sounds like it was written by a 4 year old, near standing ovation. Actress goes off, standing ovation. It must have been what its like to be at the Cup Final but sat in the wrong end. Terrifying. Blimey, what were the 4 marks you give it for? |
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Post by 49thand8th on Dec 17, 2018 16:40:24 GMT
Something Rotten and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels — everyone around me was howling with laughter and all I could think about was how the material was straight-up dumb or how I could make it better. And I'm all about funny low-brow stuff (I watch Jackass whenever it's on TV), but this just didn't do it for me.
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Post by dgjbear on Dec 18, 2018 8:51:33 GMT
The main one was Mama Mia. I love musical theatre and am an ABBA superfan - but this is just God awful. The film too. It actually diminishes the songs.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 1, 2019 11:38:58 GMT
Rocky Horror (hate this, I don't understand why it's popular with anyone except goth kids)
Fun Home (the dad is a beast and the mother is a screecher)
Company (it was good but I wouldn't rush back)
The Ferryman (tedious in the extreme)
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Post by crowblack on Feb 1, 2019 11:59:41 GMT
It was so diddle-dai-diddle-dai Irish that I half expected them to Riverdance at the end Oh hell yes - a really great cast, and started so promisingly but then bunged in every cliche with half an eye on Broadway and the sort of people who have giclee prints of John Wayne in The Quiet Man on their wall. Towards the end I thought, no, they're not going to actually have a banshee are they oh god they did. With characters coming on and doing their little turns, it felt more like a kitsch musical without the songs. Maybe they should rework it? The cow gum song, old granny reminisces etc. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 12:11:36 GMT
Rocky Horror (hate this, I don't understand why it's popular with anyone except goth kids) I did see Rocky Horror when I was a teen and it was just fine. But I didn't really get into The Whole Thing. Then I watched it again a few years ago and honestly, if it didn't have this enormous cult following, then it would be coming perilously close to just not standing up anymore. There's some really dubious scenes, consent-wise, and I think the messages of sexual liberation are ridiculously tame when viewed through a twenty-first century lens. Yeah I'm a fun-sponge, but if they took it away for a decade or two, then I don't think it would ever make it back. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 12:43:02 GMT
Rocky Horror (hate this, I don't understand why it's popular with anyone except goth kids) I did see Rocky Horror when I was a teen and it was just fine. But I didn't really get into The Whole Thing. Then I watched it again a few years ago and honestly, if it didn't have this enormous cult following, then it would be coming perilously close to just not standing up anymore. There's some really dubious scenes, consent-wise, and I think the messages of sexual liberation are ridiculously tame when viewed through a twenty-first century lens. Yeah I'm a fun-sponge, but if they took it away for a decade or two, then I don't think it would ever make it back. The thing I dislike about Rocky Horror, aside from all those valid points above, is if you declare it's not your bag, you're classed as a total 'fun sponge' but also a 'total square' like that's the only way to be liberated/progressive, when as you rightly point out, it's not all that progressive actually. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 1, 2019 12:46:11 GMT
Rocky Horror (hate this, I don't understand why it's popular with anyone except goth kids) I did see Rocky Horror when I was a teen and it was just fine. But I didn't really get into The Whole Thing. Then I watched it again a few years ago and honestly, if it didn't have this enormous cult following, then it would be coming perilously close to just not standing up anymore. There's some really dubious scenes, consent-wise, and I think the messages of sexual liberation are ridiculously tame when viewed through a twenty-first century lens. Yeah I'm a fun-sponge, but if they took it away for a decade or two, then I don't think it would ever make it back. 100% agree. Musically-speaking, I also think that nothing apart from Timewarp (as it's now a party standard in its own right, I remember it at school discos) is any good in the score. Kookiness for kookiness's sake, along with those t-shirts that say things like "People scare me! XD" |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 12:56:33 GMT
It was so diddle-dai-diddle-dai Irish that I half expected them to Riverdance at the end Oh hell yes - a really great cast, and started so promisingly but then bunged in every cliche with half an eye on Broadway and the sort of people who have giclee prints of John Wayne in The Quiet Man on their wall. Towards the end I thought, no, they're not going to actually have a banshee are they oh god they did. With characters coming on and doing their little turns, it felt more like a kitsch musical without the songs. Maybe they should rework it? The cow gum song, old granny reminisces etc. Now THAT I would pay to see. |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 1, 2019 13:27:36 GMT
*tiptoes in*
MADE IN DAGENHAM was dire.
*tiptoes out*
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 13:35:03 GMT
*tiptoes in* MADE IN DAGENHAM was dire. *tiptoes out* Oh you're not alone there....someone recently reminded me of it and I cursed the 2.5 hours of my life I lost to it. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 13:51:28 GMT
Oh bloody hell the god-damn song from it (only one I remember) is in my head now.
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Post by duncan on Feb 1, 2019 14:19:42 GMT
*tiptoes in* MADE IN DAGENHAM was dire. *tiptoes out* The audience steadfastly refusing to "Stand Up" despite repeated pleading from the cast was a damn site funnier than the actual onstage antics. I've never seen a cast read an audience so wrong, surely they had factored in some backup if the punters refused to stand but no, no they hadnt and poor old former Bond Girl Gemma Arterton looked daft making the gestures to a stoney faced crowd. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 14:19:48 GMT
100% agree. Musically-speaking, I also think that nothing apart from Timewarp (as it's now a party standard in its own right, I remember it at school discos) is any good in the score. Science Fiction/Double Feature There's a Light Roses Tint My World I'm Going HomeA All fantastic songs in the score, for me, The Time Warp is the bottom of the list, especually it became a party standard. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 14:31:06 GMT
100% agree. Musically-speaking, I also think that nothing apart from Timewarp (as it's now a party standard in its own right, I remember it at school discos) is any good in the score. Science Fiction/Double Feature There's a Light Roses Tint My World I'm Going HomeA All fantastic songs in the score, for me, The Time Warp is the bottom of the list, especually it became a party standard. The whole of the floor show firm favourite for me. |
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Post by winonaforever on Feb 1, 2019 14:39:54 GMT
100% agree. Musically-speaking, I also think that nothing apart from Timewarp (as it's now a party standard in its own right, I remember it at school discos) is any good in the score. Science Fiction/Double Feature There's a Light Roses Tint My World I'm Going HomeA All fantastic songs in the score, for me, The Time Warp is the bottom of the list, especually it became a party standard. I love all the songs from Rocky Horror, also love the score of Shock Treatment, the sort-of-sequel. |
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