Musical AIBU

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Random thread, but wrote this out of curiosity.

Am I alone in sometimes finding musicals a bit cringey?

I love them.
In the Heights, anything by Sondheim, Waitress, witches of Eastwick.....i go to the theatre every six weeks and am off to NY for ten days next year to watch new shows.

I love them! Rocky horror and phantom of the opera are my favourite probably phantom more so I Watch the film (Gerard Butler - swoon) probably once a month and hoping to get to London to see it on stage soon! The love story still catches me every time even now on the billionth viewing!

I love blood brothers. So yes to musicals without dancing! there's lots of movement on stage.

I love cheesy musicals. Escapism is my prime reason for watching them. If I want worthy commentary on the state of life I’ll watch a documentary.

There are musicals I adore, and musicals that make me cringe. It's a whole separate genre really, with many sub-types. Personally, I'm a sucker for Doris Day movies, and the glorious old Fred and Ginger numbers. Andrew Lloyd Webber leaves me cold though.

I LOVE THEM. Spend my whole life putting on school productions (4 a year) and do them in my spare time as well! However I hated Aladdin in the West End, I hate Cats and I hate blood brothers favourites are into the woods, Chorus Line, Little Shop of Horrors, too many to mention!

Some can be. I don't know if it's a musical as such but I couldn't stand Into the Woods.

I do absolutely love Blood Brothers, Cats, We Will Rock You, Annie, Carousel, Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Sound of Music etc.

I love musicals and miss my colleague from a few years back as sometimes we would just sing to each other rather than talk!

YABU, OP - you just need to expand your musicals knowledge a little.

If gritty drama is your thing, try Kiss of the Spiderwoman. If you prefer to learn some history while you watch, try Assasins. And for comedy, Spamalot is hard to beat. It really is a very broad genre with something for everyone.

Disclaimer: I also love the cheesey well-known ones.

Massive musicals fan

Although I did see Murder Ballad and I wasn't enthralled

For those that want a musical without dance 'Songs for a New World' which is spectacular

I love old film musicals too, and new film musicals (although I haven't got into Lalaland yet - Once was amazing)

Good job I do like musicals - as my DD is in the third year of an MT diploma so I'll be seeing lots more!

I enjoy musicals - though I can’t enjoy Seven Brides for Seven Brothers any more. I used to love it, as a child, and then I suddenly realised that the song about the Sabine women was about abduction and marriage by rape, and was utterly horrified.

I think my favourite is Fiddler on the Roof, though Anatevka always makes me snivel. Office Krupke from West Side Story is my favourite song.

I am a trained singer, and sing a lot of classical music in a chamber choir, but the one musical form I simply cannot get on with is opera - I am just irritated by the way that an aria or a chorus will go over and over one little thing - like @HarrietKettleWasHere’s post about Moulin Rouge. I am an opera philistine.

I’m with you SDT. Trained singer and studied classical music and violin, but I can’t be doing with opera. Someone once said to me you’re either into opera and concerts or musicals and ballet. I am definitely the latter.

I love musicals.

Apart from We Will Rock You which was a huge disappointment.

I like some smaller musicals. Have you seen Romantic Anonymous currently on at the Winter Globe? The Chocolate Menier sometimes do good ones. The Adrian Mole one on this summer was fantastic. I am surprised it did not get a West End transfer. I like Sondheim and I like some big musicals like Billy Elliot, Mathilda and Les Mis. I also love opera.

When I lived in London I went to the theatre two or three times a week and a good musical is the best form of theatre there is, imo. But there are a lot of rubbish musicals out there, and personally I tend to think a lot of the big West End ones are a bit mediocre. They also tend to be the cheesiest, jazz-hands-esque ones, so can be a real turn off for people who don’t like that kind of thing.

But the best things I’ve seen in the past 5 years are musicals - Company and Floyd Collins at the Southwark Playhouse, Parade and Spelling Bee at the Donmar, The Color Purple and Merrily We Roll Along at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London Road at the National... the list goes on. (I also really loved I Can’t Sing, the X-Factor musical - it was massively underrated!)

Ooh and there’s also some amazing Broadway musicals transferring to the West End soon - Hamilton and Waitress are the two I most want to see. I also really hope Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away transfer because the soundtracks are amazing.

@PrincessoftheSea ooh I really want to see Romantics Anonymous!

New tickets for Hamilton just about to be issued!!!!!

We saw Follies last Friday and then queued at 7.30 the next morning to see it again on Saturday! Imelda Staunton EVEN BETTER than in Gypsy.

Mainly love them, hated Phantom but loved Chicago and Joseph (along with many, many others). The thought of Opera bores me to tears.
Oliver! with Russ Abbott as Fagin at the Palladium over 20 years ago was fabulous.
However, I hate how expensive they can be.

Has anyone got tickets for Barnum at Menier? Marcus Brigstocke as Barnum.

We normally take DC to the ballet at Christmas, but might do this.

@peachgreen, Dear Evan Hansen is coming to the West End next year I think

I live musical theatre. I hate musical films.

Maddie, I also saw Russ Abbot as Fagan all those years ago and he was fantastic. I loved Phantom, Lion king, Joseph with Phillip Scofield, Bollywood and lots more. I hated Chess, We will rock you, ABBA and some others. Some were so so but I introduced musicals to DD when she was three and she was absolutely hooked when she saw Les Mis at 5. She went on to train in London in Musical Theatre and I was just made up.

My DS2 is obsessed with musicals (he has autism) so we see everything we can. Luckily I love them (tho having seen Cats 7 times now I could probably perform it myself!)
Jesus Christ Superstar is my all time favourite tho. Saw it again this summer at Regent's Park open air theatre... just mesmerising.
I'm too low brow for Opera (except 'best bits' on CD) but as a family we DO musicals!

I love musical theatre. I’m not a fan of Lloyd Webber but love Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown and am c excited about seeing Follies and Hamilton.

I’m always a bit confused by people who say “I hate musicals” because they’re so different - no one would say “I hate films”.

Trained singer here, too and I spend a lot of time staging amateur shows for charity.

I always ask people not to dismiss the art form until you've seen it done live by a top cast. No filmed or recorded version ever captures the impact.

There are so many different styles, too.

I'm having a wonderful time at the moment introducing my DD to my favourites and finding new ones with her. Very much looking forward to Christmas, too, because one of her presents is the Hamilton tickets I managed to get yesterday. She's obsessed with it!