Is there something wrong with me? I hate musicals.

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AIBU? I'm 62 and all my friends seem to have developed a passion for musicals. I have been to quite a few with friends to be sociable and to see if I could get to like them but, with each musical, my dislike of them just grows. I find them contrived, and the music average and the whole experience very boring. I sit there hoping it's over soon. I go to be sociable but it's not an event where you chat or do an activity together. We simply sit, glued to a chair. Some musicals are better than others but overall I'd always rather be anywhere else, even home. Is there anyone else out there who gets my dislike? Am I destined to be a social pariah? My friends seem puzzled and a bit offended by my attitude.

What's eve worse than a musical is when members of the audience "sing" along. If I've paid a lot of money I want to hear professional people not drunken hens bawling along

Thank you. It's good to feel understood!

Incidentally, the Boss is looking very nice indeed. Not bad for 75 years of age. 😍

Good to know @Dangermoo I am in Manchester to see him tomorrow night - better thsn any naff musical 😀

I'm jel! Saw the pics of him sunbathing in Manchester today! Enjoy x 😘

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I’m with you OP.

My DD says I’m a “fun hater” 😬

I like a musical like singing in the rain where there are songs to add to.the plot, not where the lyrics continue the story.

you have to suspend belief with a musical...the best story was in one of elvis' films, there was a scene just him and a girl in the car and he wanted his backing singers, the Jordinaires on the song "but Elvis, where will the voices come from?". " the same damn place as the music! "

My DD has become a musical nerd. I now live in a musical. I started off shaking my head wondering how that happened, but it's like a contagion. I love Hamilton now, it's amazing, and just this evening as a whole family we did a version of Good Morning Baltimore, I was in the bathroom, DD was in her room and joined in with her friend she was on video call with, then DP and the other two DC from downstairs. It's actually great. I reckon our neighbours think we're unhinged but eventually we'll hear them join in through the walls, it's just a matter of time.

You do know that they don't have to be mutually exclusive, right? I saw both The Killers (for the third time) and Bruce (for about the 15th) last year.

Love a good musical too, though. I do think it makes a difference seeing musicals with a big name - not a famous actor who can sing a bit, but an actual musical theatre star who is trained in and specialises in, that genre.

No, it shows you have standards.

The vast majority of musical productions are an artistic compromise. The drama / story is weak because it fits around the music. The lyrics / music of the productions are contrived because they strive to be relevant to the storyline. There are very few exceptions, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, you get the picture. The majority of productions, including most of Lloyd Webber who's popularity continues to mistify me, are absolute junk.

For all my fellow non musicals

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