Is there something wrong with me? I hate musicals.

Me too, with the possible exception of the original West Side Story! I didn't want to return to Phantom after the interval and fell asleep in Hamilton on the TV. I also detest Star Wars and am considered weird, I've seen more of Star Wars in the queue at Disney. Not liking Only Fools and Horses gets me lots of abusive comments too.

Vive le difference!

I hate them. The only one I’ve ever enjoyed was the Rocky Horror. I find them a huge cringe.

Oh I detest them too! Always have, we were made to watch the practice runs of the school musicals and the finished show too. So we watched the same thing about 5 times in the space of 3 months. God I hated it , others in my class would be delighted to get out of class..not me, I wished I could get back to my studies 🤣 We also were made to watch videos of real musicals too..I just found then extremely boring and annoying. I even hated sitting through Mama Mia

Hate musicals, always the same type of melody and a similar type of warble voiced singer.

I tried to watch the Willy Wonker film that came out, I got as far as the first couple of minutes. Waste of a good film.

Hate musicals, always the same type of melody and a similar type of warble voiced singer.

I tried to watch the Willy Wonker film that came out, I got as far as the first couple of minutes. Waste of a good film.

And cannibal the musical, also written by trey parker and Matt stone!

I have a visceral reaction to musicals...they make me cringe, you can't get in to the storyline without someone bursting in to song, I hate it! Just letting you know you're not alone in your hatred 😅

I love musicals but they’re not for everybody. I love how much joy they bring to my daughter!

Elaine Page on a Sunday is amateur hour. The people you really want to avoid are the ones who have the car radio permanently set to Magic At The Musicals like me 😁

YANBU OP, everyone has different tastes. I've loved musicals since I was 12, trained in it at university, do amateur musical theatre now as an adult - there are still some musicals I don't like (can't get into Phantom and I find Les Mis a bit 🥱 and I hate Heathers!), so no one IBU to like musicals or dislike musicals or have specific tastes when it comes to musicals.

For what it's worth, when I was first getting into musicals it seemed really niche, no one in my school was into them and I was very much an outsider listening to my showtunes on an ipod 🤣 so you are far from the only one who's not a fan.

The absolute worst moment for me is in the cheerier ones at the end when the audience are expected to clap in time to the encore or curtain call. Actually have a visceral reaction and want to crawl under my seat and hide. I feel so humiliated for them which is ridiculous as clearly they are loving every moment but something about that clapping and grinning. Ugh

I adore them. My husband hates them.
Little Shop of Horrors has always been my favourite.

Good point on opera!

I like the opera, love theatre, hate musicals. As a PP observed, it’s the context of the songs. In a musical, it’s just weird. An opera is at least song throughout. No jarring shift.

"How do you feel about opera? For me it’s the best of the lot."

What @Calliopespa said! ( Possibly adding in operetta...)

Which ones have you seen op?

Actually, I tell a lie, there is one that i thought was truly superb; the Rocky Horror show in the late 70s at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs with the original cast -- Tim Curry, Julie Covington, Richard O'Brian, Little Nell et al.
A shining beacon in a sea of dross.

eww yanbu, I hate musicals too!

I read somewhere that the marketing people didn't market the latest mean girls film as a musical because people wouldn't watch it 😄

I thought I didn't like musicals, it was straight theatre only for me but then I discovered Hamilton and Six the Musical so I'm now much more open to musicals. I did see the Lion King about 20 years ago but I think that while the music is fantastic, the staging is a huge part of it's success.

Oh, I love this! I have been a huge fan of Les Mis since childhood, I've seen it live umpteen times and pretty much know it by heart - but still if I happen to come across a stage performance while flicking through the TV channels, I still get the "This is the best thing I've ever seen" feeling.

Mrs Doubtfire was fun, but the songs were very boring

Everyone likes different things - though I would recommend seeing one or two from different genres just to make sure you haven't just seen a bad one!

Me too OP. I only like 3- Cabaret (where the songs are actually done in the club, so it's not weird), West Side Story (for the score and because I used to watch it with my gran) and I do actually like Hamilton- something about it all being sung with almost no spoken dialogue means it exists in a parallel universe (also got to love a legislative process done in rap). I have a feeling I might like Six as well.

I also loathe pantomime and have since I was small. Apparently I didn't laugh once.

We went to see Wicked at the cinema and thought it was bloody awful. The songs are 'really not very good' (DD, 11).

Anything Andrew Lloyd Webber can get in the bin. The increasing tendency to turn everything into a musical is annoying. It's a good story! You don't need to add songs!

I feel that modern musicals seem to favour a particular timbre of voice that is like nails on a chalkboard for me.

I do like some of the Golden Era musicals - and I'm quite fond of opera - but just want to rip out my hearing aid and replace it with maximum attenuation ear filters for every start quiet - open up - swelling bridge - modulate and BELT IT OUT - go back to a whispery, full of vocal fry, end.

In short, if it's going to end up in a book of 23 musical songs for female solo performance, it's likely to irritate the hell out of me. And the equivalent for male singers is going to be bland as fuck and too high for the warmest, richest male voices, too.

Far too many seem to be far too contrived, in a "hey, let's do the show right now folks!" way.
The last one I went to was the Book of Mormon as I was told how wonderful it was. It may have been but the OTT cringeworthy behaviour of the audience, whooping and cheering and drowning out the actors, shouting out the lines and even joining in with the songs utterly ruined it for me.

It seems loads of fans go to see it multiple times.... Baffling.