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Mr. Bones posted:I went to see Rent during the 20th anniversary tour last year, but it didn't have any of the original cast and it was all newcomers who all just kind of did limp impressions of the originals. It was just okay, instead of amazing like I thought it would be. I'd rather watch the movie tbh. Rent hit me hard in the early 2000’s, it’s the only musical I’ve seen more than once. It nailed the zeitgeist of the early/mid 90’s Recently bought the iTunes version of the broadway show and it has not aged well I still like the songs anyway
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what's the point of going to the theater if you're not gonna see hamlet
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Apr 13, 2018 07:35
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I don't "get" musicals
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Apr 13, 2018 08:04
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jesus christ SUPER STAR  blah blahblah blah blahblah say you are is a musical I have seen, but all I remember is talking to Jesus before the show and also having a drying spray painting in a bag in the theater that smelled of solvent the whole time 
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Apr 13, 2018 09:12
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I've never actually seen a musical but I assume they are all like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuWO2vLsjdc But in the case of Cats, more cats
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Apr 13, 2018 09:42
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It's been a long time since I saw it. Which cat was it that got bent out of shape and would start posting threads the second their last one dropped off the first page? Was is Rum Tum Tugger? Mmmmmm, no. Was it Rumpleteazer? Eh, maybe. Oooh, it's right on the tip of my tongue...
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Apr 13, 2018 11:24
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Andrew Lloyd Webber puts on fantastic productions, spectacle-wise. You got the one song in phantom, but then the galaxy brain meme is the loving CHANDELIER. Cats isn’t a good musical, and listening to it it seems like it’s stupid as poo poo, but if it’s right in front of your face and there’s this energy surrounding the performers who are just giving it their loving 100 percent cause they’re gonna be the best drat Mister Mesphistephanie they can be. Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals get to go on to the extent they do because you see a loving show. Some people want to ooh and ahh at cat butt rubbings. That’s their deal, I guess.
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Apr 13, 2018 12:45
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Small note- Evita is his best show, and holy poo poo. Doesn’t need the set dressings, or the special effects. Just a solid soundtrack, good performance, and holy poo poo that political story. Evita is everything Hamilton wishes it was, and even the movie with Madonna is almost watchable.
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Apr 13, 2018 12:49
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I agree it’s a Show but I’ll never say starlight express isn’t god damned garbage
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Apr 13, 2018 14:48
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Cats is good and this post is bad, Pick!!! just smdh if you don't think Rum Tum Tugger is a baller ........ smdh......
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Apr 13, 2018 14:58
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Cats is actually pretty good for a musical, just.... that bar
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Apr 13, 2018 15:01
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bitterandtwisted posted:I saw it in Edinburgh. Performances were great. musical itself sucked. There's no story and the music was meh. Not one humable tune. How has this boring drek been going on 40 years? smdh if you don't hum macavity I had that VHS of the 98 cast growing up and let me tell you Demeter was a hottie
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Apr 13, 2018 15:02
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there are like 3 good musicals, phantom of the paradise little shop of horrors tanz der vampire and all of those rely in part on the idea that they exist in a weirdness zone so powerful that people singing is not the weirdest thing about them
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Apr 13, 2018 15:09
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lloyd webber and sondheim have the same birthday as me and i think that's why i'm gay
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Apr 13, 2018 15:10
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i heard someone describe an episode of the new my little pony as "sondheim-esque" and it would be hard to explain the expression my face wanted to make. i was proud to manage a " oh. i see."
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bitterandtwisted posted:I saw it in Edinburgh. Performances were great. musical itself sucked. There's no story and the music was meh. Not one humable tune. How has this boring drek been going on 40 years? I also saw it in Edinburgh. It was terrible and it rained and a taxi driver tried to chat up my partner, but on the plus side one of the cats came out at the intermission to give this old woman who wouldn't get off her iPad a telling off. Like, really ripping into her, she was crying, it was great. Plus that bit where the Rum Tum Tugger spins around and kicks a ball outta the air and into a garbage can is impressive. And at least it's not RENT, which is basically a double length episode of F.R.I.E.N.D.S with extra HIV.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:24
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RENT has really not aged well.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:26
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RENT was always super bad, and it only gets worse in retrospect. god i hated it so much.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:27
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I like RENT a lot, but yeah it was always really overwrought. It had a certain time and place where the story it told w/r/t the AIDS and HIV epidemic was relevant, but even then it still focused mainly on the more obnoxious characters and less on the people you actually give a poo poo about aka Collins and Angel. I often wonder if it would have blown up as big had Larson not died before it opened.
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Apr 13, 2018 15:30
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Mr. Bones posted:Fiddler on the Roof has a dude named Laser Wolf in it
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Apr 13, 2018 15:31
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A dude I know was in a terrible am-dram version of Rent. He had literally one word [he was the cop in that Christmas Bells Are Ringing song who goes "right!"] and he ended up getting the lyrics to "Lover I'll cover you" tattooed on his forearms and then he fell in with the melodramatic older woman who plays Maureen and then he got hosed by a dog and he ended up getting fisted so hard he had to get butt surgery. RENT - NOT EVEN ONCE.
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Pick posted:there are like 3 good musicals, Cabaret is very good, even if heavy handed. Showboat is alright.
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1redflag posted:Cabaret is very good, even if heavy handed. Showboat is alright. i dont like cabaret
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Apr 13, 2018 15:32
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or chicago
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wow Pick I just lost what little respect I had for you .... next you'll be claiming a chorus line is bad
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Apr 13, 2018 15:33
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a chorus line is bad
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big nipples big life posted:otters oooh id watch that
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Disgusting Coward posted:A dude I know was in a terrible am-dram version of Rent. He had literally one word [he was the cop in that Christmas Bells Are Ringing song who goes "right!"] and he ended up getting the lyrics to "Lover I'll cover you" tattooed on his forearms and then he fell in with the melodramatic older woman who plays Maureen and then he got hosed by a dog and he ended up getting fisted so hard he had to get butt surgery. that was a rollercoaster ride of a post my dude
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Apr 13, 2018 16:16
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oh yeah also since you people know an awful lot about musicals, is there one that is more of a comedy than a drama? Like it's actually funny?
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Creamed Cormp posted:oh yeah also since you people know an awful lot about musicals, is there one that is more of a comedy than a drama? Like it's actually funny? tanz der vampire, little shop of horrors tanz is german though, and though there was an abortive english release, it was only ever funny in german. it's funny in german though.
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Maldoror posted:i really hate musicals Same but I saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch recently and it was fun.
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Apr 13, 2018 16:27
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LOL at "Laser Wolf" because that is indeed one of my favorite musicals.
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Creamed Cormp posted:oh yeah also since you people know an awful lot about musicals, is there one that is more of a comedy than a drama? Like it's actually funny? drat Yankees. I saw it with George Burns as Applegate (i.e., the devil) before he died and it was good. E. Yea, forgot about the producers. That's a good one too. Springtime Hitler Brother Tadger fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Creamed Cormp posted:oh yeah also since you people know an awful lot about musicals, is there one that is more of a comedy than a drama? Like it's actually funny? watch the movie adaptation of reefer madness imho also the producers is funny
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Frankenstyle posted:It's been a long time since I saw it. Which cat was it that got bent out of shape and would start posting threads the second their last one dropped off the first page? Probably Grizabella, the cat who sucks, and gets picked to go to the Heaviside Layer anyways because none of the other cats want her around. esperterra posted:smdh if you don't hum macavity This is a good opinion. Linda Mae Brewer is drat cute. I've also got a crush on Jo Gibb and I don't care who knows it
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Apr 13, 2018 16:37
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Gaunab posted:My only Cats! story is that when I was a child I saw Cats! posters and thought it was some sort of superhero movie or like Power Rangers. My mom's coworker had it on video and let her borrow it so I could see it. I was so disappointed to find out that it was a musical. I saw cats when I was little in Kansas City. Fred Phelps' group was there waving around signs about "fag cats". I think this was before they started making national news. My mom told me not to look at them.
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I haven't seen very many musicals, but CATS is one of the musicals I HAVE seen and it's weird but the songs are good and isn't a musical about songs anyway, so I guess I'll rate it near the top of all of the musicals I have seen.
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Pick posted:i heard someone describe an episode of the new my little pony as "sondheim-esque" and it would be hard to explain the expression my face wanted to make. i was proud to manage a " everyone wants to bring violence to the streets for some cause nowadays and I suggest it's this one let's all start punching these people in the face
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Insane Totoro posted:LOL at "Laser Wolf" because that is indeed one of my favorite musicals.
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