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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: bubbles4ksu on January 11, 2014, 01:55:32 AM
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it's the best thing in the world behind cat football. what are some of your fav. shows? did you play a lead in high school? tell us about your encounters with this tremendous art.
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i saw les mis in dallas when i was 11 or so. my memory of the evening isn't sharp except i recall there were 200 men humming "one day more" in the bathroom at intermission. what a rush.
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Les Mis is/was trash :buh-bye:
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Les Mis is/was trash :buh-bye:
what an idiot. :lol:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeNnSm4uzGA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeNnSm4uzGA)
is this the best scene in phantom?
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Hairspray was pretty dope
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Oh man wait until WonderMeal gets wind of this thread.
I was in the KSU Theater production of The Music Man as a child. :gocho:
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Saw The Producers in Vegas with the ex-cDub's wife. It was amazing, and David Hasslehoff was in it. Then I bumped into him in the lobby of our hotel the next night. Way too much spray tan for The Hoff.
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it's the best thing in the world behind cat football. what are some of your fav. shows? did you play a lead in high school? tell us about your encounters with this tremendous art.
Love 'Guys and Dolls.' Love 'Wicked.' 'Chess' is also very, very good. 'Sound of Music' is also a favorite for sentimental reasons. Yes, I played a lead in high school, and I was in a few shows at K-State. (Not a lead.)
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i did a play once in junior high. does that count?
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Saw The Book of Mormon recently. Funny.
Saw Avenue Q in Vegas at the Wynn in like 2006. Probably my favorite musical theater experience, and not just because I somehow fell madly in love with the puppeteer who was doing Kate Monster over the course of 2 hours.
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Musicals are absolutely terrible. T's and P's to all of you.
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Musicals are absolutely terrible. T's and P's to all of you.
T's and P's that there aren't musicals about murdering black kids, GeorgeZimmermanIsInnocent. :frown:
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:sdeek:
What the....
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Just "joshing" with my IRL bud ERiI. Friends? (Even if we'll never go see Godspell together?) :D :cheers:
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Bump
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Bump
probably going to the MAC tonight to watch our guy, bubbles, in a performance of RENT. Anyone want to go?
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Bump
probably going to the MAC tonight to watch our guy, bubbles, in a performance of RENT. Anyone want to go?
I wish I lived there so I could go.
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Good luck bubs
Still waiting on 'onder 'eal to grab this thread by the reins.
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We saw the Book of Morman last night and it was hilarious.
I would see more musicals if they were funny and said "eff" and talked about clitorises.
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Man I could dominate this thread. Just came to say Elf the Musical was great. If you like the movie + show tunes it is for you.
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Going to see dear Evan Hansen on bway in two weeks. Pretty excited.
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Man I could dominate this thread.
What's stopping you? Certainly not @WonderMeal .
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Good bump catastrophe, start dominating you disaster, you
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Ok let’s start with Phantom of the Opera. Way overrated. Music is not great and story is creepy guy tries to get girl to fall in love with him and fails? Sorry. NEXT.
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Phantom has some jams
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Actually good musicals:
#1: Something Rotten: if you love musicals you will love this one. Must see for musical lovers.
#2: Wicked: great music & story. Makes the Wizard of Oz make sense.
#3: Book of Mormon: Hilarious if you’re not easily offended. If you are, it’s still ok.
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Les Mis: good story and epic music but super hard to follow. Also takes itself way too seriously. B-
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Lion King: opening is amazing and most scenes are pretty good, but new original songs are lame.
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Hamilton today :excited:
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Meantime reviews:
Aladdin: obviously a good show. Like 90% of it is the genie though, so if they’re not OP it would be kind of a bummer (genie was awesome when we watched it). Original songs are good. Magic carpet scene was weird. Also, NO MONKEYS AT ALL if you can believe it.
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Waitress: some catchy songs. Story is mostly depressing really although I enjoyed it overall. If you love pie you’ll leave hungry. Lots of pie talk.
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Groundhog Day: Great show if you liked the movie. If you loved or are obsessed with the movie you’d probably like it less but idk.
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Color Purple: it’s fine. Songs aren’t as catchy but the story is better than most.
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Newsies: interesting mix between catchy and annoying with the thick accents, but overall good show.
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Matilda: very good songs. Story is obviously popular although I just think it’s weird.
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Rent: just watch the opening from Team America (“everyone has aids” song). My second least favorite storyline after phantom. The 2-3 good songs don’t redeem it.
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Les Mis: good story and epic music but super hard to follow. Also takes itself way too seriously. B-
What about Les Mis is hard to follow? :confused:
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It takes place over like 50 years, and there’s no one to tell you when they’re jumping ahead when you’re in the theater.
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Hamilton today :excited:
Hamilton: lives up to the crazy hype but doesn’t necessarily exceed it. The song for all dialogue is awesome and doesn’t feel forced at all like Les Mis does at times, but that also means you can miss some important storyline details if you’re not paying close attention. Definitely a bit of American exceptionalism which I am a sucker for when it comes to the revolutionary war. I also think that could push it to become a classic musical over time.
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Hamilton today :excited:
Hamilton: lives up to the crazy hype but doesn’t necessarily exceed it. The song for all dialogue is awesome and doesn’t feel forced at all like Les Mis does at times, but that also means you can miss some important storyline details if you’re not paying close attention. Definitely a bit of American exceptionalism which I am a sucker for when it comes to the revolutionary war. I also think that could push it to become a classic musical over time.
Did the length bother you?
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Didn’t even notice tbh.
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This is not the official musical theatre thread, it isn't even the real Hamilton thread :curse:
Hamilton was awesome and overrated all at the same time. The music wasn't great. The rap was wack everything else not rap was very good. The king stole the show.
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Miss Saigon: music is pretty good overall with some catchy songs. Story (partly) and music reminds me of Les Mis. Really not sure how I feel about the story. Not terrible but a little weird and a lot depressing.
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Dear Evan Hanson: great story with OK music. I think it deserved the critic acclaim. Not something I’d really expect to stay relevant 10-20 years from now, but that doesn’t diminish it for me. Some of the themes hit a lot more close to home if you’re a parent. Probably downright scary if you’re a parent of teenagers.
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Dear Evan Hanson: great story with OK music. I think it deserved the critic acclaim. Not something I’d really expect to stay relevant 10-20 years from now, but that doesn’t diminish it for me. Some of the themes hit a lot more close to home if you’re a parent. Probably downright scary if you’re a parent of teenagers.
It was a sad commentary on modern society. If you'd use the right thread you would have seen that already :curse:
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I thought I remembered you posting about it somewhere, but this thread feels safe to me.
Also, I didn’t even find it all that sad. Thought provoking for sure, but ever society has some messed up stuff to deal with and this struck me more as a story about the importance of listening to people you care about.
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I was stunned at how self-serving every single character was. Every interaction seemed like a transaction.
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MIR, you're seriously so well rounded. You are very well cultured. You follow almost all sports that I know, Theatre, Politics, business, etc. I've always wanted to tell you how impressed how ITK you are with everything.
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Thanks friend, I really just fit an odd lane so sports dork and theatre nerd. I don't watch movies very often. Took the kids to Frozen 2 and it was my first time at the movies since the day after Christmas. I only watch like 5 TV shows, and while not 100% musically washed, I'm close.
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does ballet fall under the umbrella of musical theatre?
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Thanks friend, I really just fit an odd lane so sports dork and theatre nerd. I don't watch movies very often. Took the kids to Frozen 2 and it was my first time at the movies since the day after Christmas. I only watch like 5 TV shows, and while not 100% musically washed, I'm close.
:thumbs:
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does ballet fall under the umbrella of musical theatre?
Nope. Ballet is dance, both are peformance art though.
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does ballet fall under the umbrella of musical theatre?
What the heck
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does ballet fall under the umbrella of musical theatre?
What the heck
You generally go to a performing arts center of some sort to see both, unless you live in Wichita and you go to see those things at the same place as the gun show, rv show, oil and gas conventions, and the rabbit expo.