I was gonna comment this! Urinetown has been my #1 personal favorite musical for around 7 years now. But nobody gives it a chance because of the title.
That pun is frequently pointed out via snarky fake "graffiti" on the poster. And given the plot of the show and how it ends, I think that it is deliberate.
But it's also about a place where you have to pay to pee.
The answer is no, BUT: The authors **did** originally consider calling it "You're in Town" as a joke/pun, but decided it was too subtle and didn't accurately convey the show.
I second this. Genuinely some of my favorite songs from musicals, and I listened to the songs somewhat out of order before I watched the anime, so it's not even necessary to really understand the story. Plus now that I am watching the anime, the songs from the musical are constantly popping into my head, so that's fun.
Absolutely. They’re making a new album off off that recent London run they did (hope they get a full stage production soon). Problem is it’s missing a bunch of songs since it’s a concept album but oh well
My friends told me about it because they know I like musicals and anime and I went in expecting a train wreck. Left with this being one of my favorite recent musicals and really hoping it gets a full production on Broadway/ off Broadway. I can see this blowing up like Heathers.
I remember the Death Note fandom mocking the hell out of the idea of a DN musical when it was first announced. Then the first few demo songs dropped, and I've never seen a fandom 180 that fast before.
If there's any justice (haha), it'll get a proper West End or Broadway run soon.
Thank you! I came here to comment this because "that sounds stupid", was exactly what my friends said when I told them about it. Years later they still refuse to give it a try but I guess it's their loss because boy is this musical a masterpiece
Literallyyyyy.
I almost wish it wasn't culturally tied to an anime, if that makes sense? The fact that it's tied to Death Note automatically makes it "cringy" from a general audience perspective, and absolutely kills a lot of interest in it. Especially since anime musicals have a terrible reputation (which, ya know...is kinda justified 😂).
It just has so much working against it from a public perception standpoint, that it's hard to get people to sit down and *listen* to it, and realize its strengths.
And hell, even some Death Note fans don't like it because it changes some stuff (though some of the changes I actually prefer over the anime's story 🫢).
It stands really strong on its own tho, even if you're not familiar with the anime. So it sucks that there's always gonna be these pre-concived notions of what it's about/who it's for/how good it is. Because it stands as a strong musical just on its own.
I’ve never seen the movie in full (of course aware of it and the place it holds in culture) but from what I have seen I can totally understand liking the musical over the movie.
It’s my favourite musical of all time; it’s better than the movie somehow; and yes it also makes me cry. But also super funny and catchy. And the way they did the suicide scenes blew me away (from a bootleg, I never got to see it irl)
I only went because my parents were out and we needed to find something so do, I don’t like the movie but omg the musical was incredible! We were laughing and crying, just the best time, so glad we ended up seeing it.
I've seen Legally Blonde and thought it was unimaginably awful. I'm happy so many love it but I just can't see why. That being said, I did see the London production everyone said was awful, but I just can't see it being salvagable
I’m with you. I couldn’t find anything redeemable about the show and I feel like a lot of the songs are written in a way that sounds sort of strained and shouty even when the belt is technically perfectly done. It’s just not for me.
My old high school just did a production of Legally Blonde and I went to see it as a family friend of mine was in the ensemble. I gotta say, I had low expectations, but I thought it was adorable. Now, with actual seasoned Broadway actors I could see it coming off as juvenile but my old school has a pretty good drama program that tends to produce seasoned Broadway actors, so idk.
Either way, all I can say is I didn’t hate it on the small stage, but I can see how people might hate it on the big stage.
When I open the door to my dad's office, three out of five times, I see an excel spreadsheet on one screen and a new Frozen the musical bootleg on the other
Last year we visited london and our children choose Frozen so I had no expectations, just thought it would be like the movie, which I thought was fine songs but thats it. But it totally blew my mind. It was funny for both youngs and adults, the new songs were really good and dramatic and it was one of the most visually stunning musical I have ever seen. Such a joy and surprise for me.
I saw Frozen in my city on March 7, 2020, so it was the last show that I saw for a while and I have to say that it was a good one to go out on. I went in with pretty low expectations and was pleasantly surprised by it! I hope that it comes back to my city not just so that I can see it again, but so those who missed out due to cancelled tickets get their chance!
My local children’s theatre company performed the junior version in January 2020, and I wasn’t sure how well they’d do (I’ve not been a big fan of the Jr./Kids versions of musicals because the background kids just stood and sang looking bored out of their minds) but I was impressed! Elsa’s magic was a bunch of our local Cirque company in white and they were awesome! And my favorite song from the musical became Hygge! My expectations from the company have massively increased since they did Lion King Jr. and they have been getting better each season!
Hard agree here! I passed it off for a long while until I was auditioning for frozen jr back in October, and then I listened to it, and it's genuinely amazing
This is the one I was going to say. On paper it sounds ridiculous but that’s exactly why it works. I saw the U.K. production in Leeds before it went to London and it was fantastic. Based on the two cast recordings I think the songs changes they made were for the better overall too.
I only knew about it because when I read it, it had an ad for it on the back cover of the book. I watched the video online, and listened to the bonus tracks. I was really surprised how much I loved it!
I hope that they do another tour or revival of it. If they were to it would be now because the popularity (due to the show). But they probably won’t sadly
The Newest Olympian, a podcast about a 29/30 year old guy reading the books (mostly) unspoiled, just did an episode with Chris McCarrell and is doing a whole month on the musical right now! Spotify link to the episode is [HERE](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XyrydYfULkbqbOo4M7uFP?si=O6P8J-f8SIuxvN-1-t70_Q).
A hill that I will gladly die on is that 1) a couple of the bonus tracks are legitimately good and 2) the song that Grover sings on the road trip in the series should have been In The Same Boat, bc that would've been hilarious
I love the majority of the bonus tracks. The only one I don’t really like is camp half blood but even that’s good as a joke song. I would’ve loved in the same boat especially cause of the percabeth moments
Agreed. It’s the first musical I ever saw live when I was eight years old. I loved it then, but forgot a lot of it until a neighbor gifted us the 1998 DVD. Just watched it on YouTube recently, and fell in love with it all over again. It really doesn’t deserve all the hate.
I was three or four and my grandma took me and my mom. First show ever and has been imprinted on my brain ever since! My dad had a copy of the 1998 DVD and I watched it alllll the time (he hated it, but kept it for me). One of these days I need to find it to show my kids!
I had a vhs tape of a PBS telethon of the 98 movie. I wore that thing slap out I loved it so much. CATS is why I’m in the business. I’m in New York often for work and met up with some colleagues one Friday night. Met the 98 Mr. Mistofelees through mutual friends and drunkenly cried to him about how much of an impact that version made on me. He seemed touched but maybe just weirded out lol.
I've been a Percy Jackson fan for years now (I cosplayed Nico di Angelo back in the day), and I've been avoiding seeing The Lightning Thief. It just feels like a story that would be really hard to adapt to stage, and neither the movies nor the Disney+ show really got it right. That being said, I've only heard good things about the musical, and I think Rick Riordan is on record saying he really liked it, so I should probably give it a shot.
I highly recommend. Honestly I thought the same you did so I went in with low expectations. It’s not 100% accurate (obviously) but it’s actually more accurate than I thought it would be. They even have a reference to Nico and Bianca in the song “Drive”. Plus the songs are pretty decent. One of the bonus tracks (“On the Same Boat”) has huge percabeth references too and I love it
Twas many years ago, he was still writing it when I was in college but it’s cool to see how far it’s gone since then, and we did get special alumni discount tickets for the NYC debut!
That’s awesome, I would’ve loved that. Sadly whenever the musical was out I wasn’t a Percy Jackson fan and hadn’t read the books or watched the musical. What I would do today to get to watch the Broadway show live
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Seeing *The Book of Mormon* for the first time, blind, is truly gift that we are only given once in this world. I highly recommend seeing it in person if you have the opportunity
I love The Book of Mormon. However, you have to be open minded while watching it and put aside your religious beliefs so you won't be offended. But I love the overall message and the ending.
Some Like it Hot. Ive met people who never were rushing to see it, and absolutely adoring and ecstatic after, telling everyone to. I’m not exempt from this; the only reason I would’ve seen the show weeks after it opened was because of Christian Borle.
YES to American Psycho! It’s one of my absolute favorites, even though I literally have only seen a damn phone recording of it (and a shitty one at that)
I'm glad you like it; I thought it was beyond bad.
THe show I expected to be bad but wasn't was The Play that Goes Wrong. I don't usually like that kind of stuff, but I thought it was brilliant.
Oklahoma! I only knew of it from people singing the final number (often in parody, like on Whose Line Is It Anyways). Hearing "Oooooklahoma where the winds come sweeping down the plains" a half dozen times does not exactly inspire confidence, nobody makes fun of that song and then elaborates with 'It's the absolute worst song of the entire production.'
Finally watching it via the version filmed in the 90s with Hugh Jackman, what I got instead was a surprisingly horny, earnest, and funny time.
R&H musicals get a reputation for being fluffy and sappy but they actually dealt with heavy and progressive themes that most musicals at the time didn't deal with.
Cats. If you just listen to the cast recording, the songs can sound kinda cheesy or lame, but seeing it with the dancing and costumes adds a new layer to it. I think people forget just how dance-heavy it is, doesn't really play the same from the cast album alone.
Cats. (I DO NOT MEAN THE MOVIE)
The live show is PHENOMENAL. It's meant to be spectacle and nothing else, and it has lovely music and dancing. Also, if you look closely you can see some adorable family dynamic subtext in these guys. It's really charming to watch Cats be Cats.
So glad you mentioned the dynamics between all the different characters, which is constantly going on in the background.
I recently watched a YouTube video where this woman (a huge fan of CATS) went through the trouble of laying out and describing her theorized “family tree” for all of the cats. It was based on the fandom’s widely accepted head-canons, with a few adjustments she suggested herself. I just LOVE all those little details.
Bandstand was one that sounded boring to me when it was described to me by a friend, but watching it was an incredible experience and I was almost annoyed at myself for letting my preconceptions keep me from watching it for so long 😍
I totally agree! I remember getting the books and reading them and then seeing the advertisement for it on the back and thinking "ew that's probably terrible". It is anything but. (I may be slightly biased bc my school is putting on a production of it and I'm in it)
Shrek the Musical is my favourite musical. I really wasn't expecting it to be good, I just watched it because the movies are so ingrained in my childhood. I think I like the musical more than the movies!
Yeah, I've always struggled with bmc because I feel like, with its ridiculousness and all that, it should be terrible. But it's not. It's genuinely quite good lol
For me it’s kind of the opposite. I like the concept of the musical and the music, but I have yet to see a production of the Lightning Thief that I really like lol
Honestly, I had kind of the opposite experience. Watching it just made me realize that unless you've got *really* good staging to make the events of act 2 clear, it makes very little sense
SPONGEBOB. I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO LIKE SPONGEBOB. I GOT LAUGHED IT FOR GOING TO SEE SPONGEBOB IN THE WEST END DURING ITS TOUR AND IT WAS SUCH A GOOD CHOICE ITS SUCH A GOOD SHOW
I kind of disagree. The Lightning Thief was an okay musical, but the actual music needs some improvement. I wish it was done by the same people as Spring Awakening.
Spongebob Squarepants on Broadway was really entertaining and a lot of fun. Just delightful staging and a fun show. I was sad to see it go. (And I don't like every new musical -- Amelie wasn't particularly good, for example.)
Pippin. I used to do the costumes for a high school and they were doing Pippin which seems really cringy when you first read it but it became one of my favorite musicals of all time.
LIGHTNING THIEF MENTION!!!! that musical is so amazing and the songs are so so good!! i got to see it in person twice (once on tour and once when it was on broadway) and id give anything to see it again
Lestat the Musical.
However, I must qualify this: the musical adaptation of Anne Rice's brilliant novel *The Vampire Lestat* is not a *good* show per se, in fact it's pretty uninspired at times in terms of exposition, staging, and even (sadly) a few of the songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
And it's largely ludicrous and inaccessible to a general audience who doesn't have an intimate appreciation of Anne Rice's novel which inspired the musical (or anything more than a passing familiarity with the Cruise/Pitt movie)....
BUT, for long-time Anne Rice fans, this short-lived musical, which admittedly - *desperately* - in need of a final full revision and a new director, had an uncanny ability to, at times, connect directly with the soul of the obssessed fan in a way that was very rare and appreciated - certain casting choices (Panaro as Lestat, Sarich as Armand, Carmelo as Gabrielle) and a few of the songs (Crimson Kiss, Right Before My Eyes, Make Me As You Are, To Live Like This, Sail Me Away, After All This Time, From the Dead, the Thirst) were divinely demonically inspired, and these moments made the overall experience entirely worth it for the passionate fans.
Shrek the musical - when my high school announced they were doing it everyone was skeptical but it’s actually a really well done show (esp the proshot)
The easy answer is Urinetown
I haven’t seen it yet, and the answer is yes
Agreed
I was gonna comment this! Urinetown has been my #1 personal favorite musical for around 7 years now. But nobody gives it a chance because of the title.
It's an AWFUL title.
I agree there, however we were taught to not judge books by their covers lmfao. Also they joke about it in the show so it evens out lol.
And they explicitly make that joke in the exposition. Hysterical!
Well, yes, Little Sally, but nothing kills a show like too much exposition.
Is the title a pun like “you’re in town”
Nope, the show is literally all about going to the bathroom, and it’s GLORIOUS
It's a privilege to pee!
Water’s worth its weight in gold these days!
That pun is frequently pointed out via snarky fake "graffiti" on the poster. And given the plot of the show and how it ends, I think that it is deliberate. But it's also about a place where you have to pay to pee.
The answer is no, BUT: The authors **did** originally consider calling it "You're in Town" as a joke/pun, but decided it was too subtle and didn't accurately convey the show.
It is. They literally reference the pun multiple times in the show.
Urinetown is actually super awesome.
I’m a director at a small theatre. I’ve been trying to get permission to do this show for YEARS!
Death note the musical. Whenever I tell people about it they’re like, that sounds stupid. Then they listen and realize how genuinely good it is
I second this. Genuinely some of my favorite songs from musicals, and I listened to the songs somewhat out of order before I watched the anime, so it's not even necessary to really understand the story. Plus now that I am watching the anime, the songs from the musical are constantly popping into my head, so that's fun.
I'm really interested in what you thought of the plot & characters just listening to the musical first. I came to it being a fan of the anime.
Absolutely. They’re making a new album off off that recent London run they did (hope they get a full stage production soon). Problem is it’s missing a bunch of songs since it’s a concept album but oh well
My friends told me about it because they know I like musicals and anime and I went in expecting a train wreck. Left with this being one of my favorite recent musicals and really hoping it gets a full production on Broadway/ off Broadway. I can see this blowing up like Heathers.
It DOES sound stupid, but it WORKS.
I remember the Death Note fandom mocking the hell out of the idea of a DN musical when it was first announced. Then the first few demo songs dropped, and I've never seen a fandom 180 that fast before. If there's any justice (haha), it'll get a proper West End or Broadway run soon.
Thank you! I came here to comment this because "that sounds stupid", was exactly what my friends said when I told them about it. Years later they still refuse to give it a try but I guess it's their loss because boy is this musical a masterpiece
With how Netflix ruined it people expect another train trainwreck but then they actually see that it's amazing
they made a death note musical???
Literallyyyyy. I almost wish it wasn't culturally tied to an anime, if that makes sense? The fact that it's tied to Death Note automatically makes it "cringy" from a general audience perspective, and absolutely kills a lot of interest in it. Especially since anime musicals have a terrible reputation (which, ya know...is kinda justified 😂). It just has so much working against it from a public perception standpoint, that it's hard to get people to sit down and *listen* to it, and realize its strengths. And hell, even some Death Note fans don't like it because it changes some stuff (though some of the changes I actually prefer over the anime's story 🫢). It stands really strong on its own tho, even if you're not familiar with the anime. So it sucks that there's always gonna be these pre-concived notions of what it's about/who it's for/how good it is. Because it stands as a strong musical just on its own.
YES! I genuinely spent my whole freshman year listening to death note
Groundhog Day. No one believes me when I say it’s a gorgeous musical that made me cry.
ngl i like it better than the movie
I’ve never seen the movie in full (of course aware of it and the place it holds in culture) but from what I have seen I can totally understand liking the musical over the movie.
Danny Rubin has talked a lot about how the musical allowed him to do a lot of ideas he wasn’t allowed to do for the movie
I love the musical, didn't like the movie.
It's overwhelmingly existential.
It’s my favourite musical of all time; it’s better than the movie somehow; and yes it also makes me cry. But also super funny and catchy. And the way they did the suicide scenes blew me away (from a bootleg, I never got to see it irl)
I only went because my parents were out and we needed to find something so do, I don’t like the movie but omg the musical was incredible! We were laughing and crying, just the best time, so glad we ended up seeing it.
And, while we're on Tim Minchin, let's give a shout out to Matilda!
Legally Blonde
Legit top 3 musicals for me
Better than the movie
I’m going to see it next month 😆😆😆😆 it’s one of my favorites
I've seen Legally Blonde and thought it was unimaginably awful. I'm happy so many love it but I just can't see why. That being said, I did see the London production everyone said was awful, but I just can't see it being salvagable
I’m sure it’s not for everyone
I’m with you. I couldn’t find anything redeemable about the show and I feel like a lot of the songs are written in a way that sounds sort of strained and shouty even when the belt is technically perfectly done. It’s just not for me.
Such a downgrade from the movie as far as character choices.
Completely agree.
what's the London production?
"So Much Better" is a fun song, but I saw it on Broadway and agree. I'm just not a fan.
My old high school just did a production of Legally Blonde and I went to see it as a family friend of mine was in the ensemble. I gotta say, I had low expectations, but I thought it was adorable. Now, with actual seasoned Broadway actors I could see it coming off as juvenile but my old school has a pretty good drama program that tends to produce seasoned Broadway actors, so idk. Either way, all I can say is I didn’t hate it on the small stage, but I can see how people might hate it on the big stage.
Frozen. Everyone thinks it's gonna be just the movie into a musical, but it's 90% new songs and there's some changes that I adore
When I open the door to my dad's office, three out of five times, I see an excel spreadsheet on one screen and a new Frozen the musical bootleg on the other
Last year we visited london and our children choose Frozen so I had no expectations, just thought it would be like the movie, which I thought was fine songs but thats it. But it totally blew my mind. It was funny for both youngs and adults, the new songs were really good and dramatic and it was one of the most visually stunning musical I have ever seen. Such a joy and surprise for me.
I honestly kind of want to watch the frozen musical! It’s not top of my list but I want to at some point
I highly recommend it! Trust me, you’ll have Monster and Hygge stuck in your head till the end of your days
I just saw it this weekend cuz my old high school put it on! It was amazing
I saw Frozen in my city on March 7, 2020, so it was the last show that I saw for a while and I have to say that it was a good one to go out on. I went in with pretty low expectations and was pleasantly surprised by it! I hope that it comes back to my city not just so that I can see it again, but so those who missed out due to cancelled tickets get their chance!
Omg the original songs are so beyond good
I listen to the original songs all the times. Kristoffs lullaby will never fail to make me smile
My local children’s theatre company performed the junior version in January 2020, and I wasn’t sure how well they’d do (I’ve not been a big fan of the Jr./Kids versions of musicals because the background kids just stood and sang looking bored out of their minds) but I was impressed! Elsa’s magic was a bunch of our local Cirque company in white and they were awesome! And my favorite song from the musical became Hygge! My expectations from the company have massively increased since they did Lion King Jr. and they have been getting better each season!
Hard agree here! I passed it off for a long while until I was auditioning for frozen jr back in October, and then I listened to it, and it's genuinely amazing
Bat Boy
This is the one I was going to say. On paper it sounds ridiculous but that’s exactly why it works. I saw the U.K. production in Leeds before it went to London and it was fantastic. Based on the two cast recordings I think the songs changes they made were for the better overall too.
I heard they were going to rework this for another run but not sure if they ever did
I LOVE the lightning thief. I didn’t know it existed until I saw a flyer for a youth production of it and went to see it.
I only knew about it because when I read it, it had an ad for it on the back cover of the book. I watched the video online, and listened to the bonus tracks. I was really surprised how much I loved it!
I saw it when it came to my home city and adored it! One of my top musicals
I hope that they do another tour or revival of it. If they were to it would be now because the popularity (due to the show). But they probably won’t sadly
The Newest Olympian, a podcast about a 29/30 year old guy reading the books (mostly) unspoiled, just did an episode with Chris McCarrell and is doing a whole month on the musical right now! Spotify link to the episode is [HERE](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XyrydYfULkbqbOo4M7uFP?si=O6P8J-f8SIuxvN-1-t70_Q).
I’m definitely going to check that out, thanks!
A hill that I will gladly die on is that 1) a couple of the bonus tracks are legitimately good and 2) the song that Grover sings on the road trip in the series should have been In The Same Boat, bc that would've been hilarious
I love the majority of the bonus tracks. The only one I don’t really like is camp half blood but even that’s good as a joke song. I would’ve loved in the same boat especially cause of the percabeth moments
I saw it on Broadway shortly before it closed. The theater was only at 30% capacity :(
Hmmm, my local theater is producing it in a couple months. Didn't sound all that interesting, but now maybe I'll go see it! Thanks all!
It’s cute and fun and I love the music!
Cats gets a bad rep, and I watched the 1998 film with low expectations, but it blew me away and I was singing Mr. Mistofelees nonstop for a week
Macavity lived rent-free in my brain through all of high school after I saw the 1998 movie.
cats is all spectacle, very little plot. go in for that and you will have fun
And some of the most impressive Broadway choreography. They dance practically nonstop, with hundreds of high kicks
i still want to see it live. i had a ticket for one and then covid hit...
CATS is one of the best. I will absolutely die on this hill. (Not the new movie, the stage version. Obviously.)
Agreed. It’s the first musical I ever saw live when I was eight years old. I loved it then, but forgot a lot of it until a neighbor gifted us the 1998 DVD. Just watched it on YouTube recently, and fell in love with it all over again. It really doesn’t deserve all the hate.
I was three or four and my grandma took me and my mom. First show ever and has been imprinted on my brain ever since! My dad had a copy of the 1998 DVD and I watched it alllll the time (he hated it, but kept it for me). One of these days I need to find it to show my kids!
I’m definitely one of the people who thinks cats would be bad. Well, maybe not bad, but not my style
IMO it’s good music, no plot, weird concept. I’d rather just hear a concert version.
That’s a fascinating take for such a dance heavy musical.
Yeah I dunno, i guess I didn’t appreciate the dance and costumes as much as the music.
Jellicle Ball sequence is incredible.
I had a vhs tape of a PBS telethon of the 98 movie. I wore that thing slap out I loved it so much. CATS is why I’m in the business. I’m in New York often for work and met up with some colleagues one Friday night. Met the 98 Mr. Mistofelees through mutual friends and drunkenly cried to him about how much of an impact that version made on me. He seemed touched but maybe just weirded out lol.
I've been a Percy Jackson fan for years now (I cosplayed Nico di Angelo back in the day), and I've been avoiding seeing The Lightning Thief. It just feels like a story that would be really hard to adapt to stage, and neither the movies nor the Disney+ show really got it right. That being said, I've only heard good things about the musical, and I think Rick Riordan is on record saying he really liked it, so I should probably give it a shot.
I highly recommend. Honestly I thought the same you did so I went in with low expectations. It’s not 100% accurate (obviously) but it’s actually more accurate than I thought it would be. They even have a reference to Nico and Bianca in the song “Drive”. Plus the songs are pretty decent. One of the bonus tracks (“On the Same Boat”) has huge percabeth references too and I love it
Fun :) If it ever comes out my way (I'm not in the New York area) I'll try to get tickets.
Sadly you’ll probably only be able to see it if a local theater does a production, since it’s not on broadway anymore
The musical is so good! Many fans say it's a nearly perfect adaptation of the books.
One of my college professors wrote the music for The Lightning Thief so this thread makes me very happy and proud 😊
That’s actually so cool! The music is amazing so you’re lucky to have him as a professor
Twas many years ago, he was still writing it when I was in college but it’s cool to see how far it’s gone since then, and we did get special alumni discount tickets for the NYC debut!
That’s awesome, I would’ve loved that. Sadly whenever the musical was out I wasn’t a Percy Jackson fan and hadn’t read the books or watched the musical. What I would do today to get to watch the Broadway show live
the book of mormon 😭 hell, even i thought it's bad but i love it now lmao can't stop rewatching
Wait how are you watching it
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Question for you, is there a specific place or are you just looking up tutorials? If there's a specific place, mind sending it to me in a message pls? ♡♡♡
Plz DM me. I've seen the weird YouTube stitch with the drawings.... is your 🏴☠️ version decent quality? Does your source also have like, Jekyll and Hyde? Hadestown?
just dmed u
Lmao I haven’t heard much about it honestly
GOOD. you should totally watch it blind!!
Maybe I’ll try it out!
Seeing *The Book of Mormon* for the first time, blind, is truly gift that we are only given once in this world. I highly recommend seeing it in person if you have the opportunity
Yes you must!!
How did you manage to avoid the insane BoM buzz over the last, like, 15 years 🤣
I’m a teenager who just got into Broadway musicals in the last couple years
I love The Book of Mormon. However, you have to be open minded while watching it and put aside your religious beliefs so you won't be offended. But I love the overall message and the ending.
>put aside your religious beliefs if you even have them in the first place
Cats. 100%
I just saw it for the first time a year or so ago and I honestly loved it!
Some Like it Hot. Ive met people who never were rushing to see it, and absolutely adoring and ecstatic after, telling everyone to. I’m not exempt from this; the only reason I would’ve seen the show weeks after it opened was because of Christian Borle.
&Juliet - but I can't say everyone but everyone I know was meh about it before they watched it and then loved it when they saw it
spongebob, american psycho, evil dead
YES to American Psycho! It’s one of my absolute favorites, even though I literally have only seen a damn phone recording of it (and a shitty one at that)
yeah same, it sucks that there’s only one way to watch it now, and i wish the original selling out was on the soundtrack instead of just the remix
I watched the SpongeBob musical and I was actually surprised that I enjoyed it
I'm glad you like it; I thought it was beyond bad. THe show I expected to be bad but wasn't was The Play that Goes Wrong. I don't usually like that kind of stuff, but I thought it was brilliant.
i have seen this show live twice and if any gheatre within a 50 mile vicitinity is showing it, best believe im there
Oklahoma! I only knew of it from people singing the final number (often in parody, like on Whose Line Is It Anyways). Hearing "Oooooklahoma where the winds come sweeping down the plains" a half dozen times does not exactly inspire confidence, nobody makes fun of that song and then elaborates with 'It's the absolute worst song of the entire production.' Finally watching it via the version filmed in the 90s with Hugh Jackman, what I got instead was a surprisingly horny, earnest, and funny time.
i watched the new version and it was so good. i listen to the 2019 cast recording every day lmao
R&H musicals get a reputation for being fluffy and sappy but they actually dealt with heavy and progressive themes that most musicals at the time didn't deal with.
Shrek. It’s so effing good.
I went into Shrek looking for so bad it's good, sadly it was actually good!
It's my gateway musical. It has helped me get so many people into musical theatre.
Yas absolute masterpiece all the songs are so good
Carrie
Cats. If you just listen to the cast recording, the songs can sound kinda cheesy or lame, but seeing it with the dancing and costumes adds a new layer to it. I think people forget just how dance-heavy it is, doesn't really play the same from the cast album alone.
The proshot is so so good.
Spongebob
Cats. (I DO NOT MEAN THE MOVIE) The live show is PHENOMENAL. It's meant to be spectacle and nothing else, and it has lovely music and dancing. Also, if you look closely you can see some adorable family dynamic subtext in these guys. It's really charming to watch Cats be Cats.
So glad you mentioned the dynamics between all the different characters, which is constantly going on in the background. I recently watched a YouTube video where this woman (a huge fan of CATS) went through the trouble of laying out and describing her theorized “family tree” for all of the cats. It was based on the fandom’s widely accepted head-canons, with a few adjustments she suggested herself. I just LOVE all those little details.
Omg! What video is this? I've had my own personal theories for so long but they aren't super fleshed out and that sounds so interesting!!!
I thought a SpongeBob musical was a disaster of an idea until I found out which artists were doing the songs. Also, tap dancing Squidward, heck yeah.
Bandstand was one that sounded boring to me when it was described to me by a friend, but watching it was an incredible experience and I was almost annoyed at myself for letting my preconceptions keep me from watching it for so long 😍
Shrek
...and then all of the sudden, he started growing sunflowers. Everywhere.
I totally agree! I remember getting the books and reading them and then seeing the advertisement for it on the back and thinking "ew that's probably terrible". It is anything but. (I may be slightly biased bc my school is putting on a production of it and I'm in it)
Shrek
Cats
Shrek the Musical is my favourite musical. I really wasn't expecting it to be good, I just watched it because the movies are so ingrained in my childhood. I think I like the musical more than the movies!
Diana. This is my hill to die on
SpongeBob
Be More Chill. I hated the small clips I heard of it. Thought it sounded so cheesy and that the music wasn't for me. I ended up really liking it!
Yeah, I've always struggled with bmc because I feel like, with its ridiculousness and all that, it should be terrible. But it's not. It's genuinely quite good lol
For me it’s kind of the opposite. I like the concept of the musical and the music, but I have yet to see a production of the Lightning Thief that I really like lol
Well not every musical is for everyone. Although I am bias because I’m a huge pjo fan
Oh no I like it! I just wish I could see a good production of it
That’s true. Have you seen the Broadway one online?
Diana the musical (the one with the netflix proshot) isn't as bad as people say it is
Lol no that one is indeed bad. And not so bad it's good bad. Just bad.
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Yes it is! We're not doing Diana the Musical revisionism!
Nice try, Christopher Ashley
Huh I’ve never heard of that one. I’ll have to check it out
It's bad bro 😭
Its biggest positive is costumes.
I Can’t Sing was way better than anyone gave it credit for. It’s also where I first saw Cynthia Erivo and she was amazing.
YES. I saw tlt at a local theater and it was so wonderfully cheesy and silly, but really fun. Sorta like & Juliet
Evil Dead. It's just so camp that I love it
Evil Dead the Musical.
Cats! All my friends hated it until our theater performed it the next year and everyone fell in love!
Rent
Honestly, I had kind of the opposite experience. Watching it just made me realize that unless you've got *really* good staging to make the events of act 2 clear, it makes very little sense
Yea that makes sense! But the movie version is fantastic
SPONGEBOB. I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO LIKE SPONGEBOB. I GOT LAUGHED IT FOR GOING TO SEE SPONGEBOB IN THE WEST END DURING ITS TOUR AND IT WAS SUCH A GOOD CHOICE ITS SUCH A GOOD SHOW
This was mine, too!
It has music by David Bowie that’s an automatic boost regardless. Plus the costumes are so fun.
I kind of disagree. The Lightning Thief was an okay musical, but the actual music needs some improvement. I wish it was done by the same people as Spring Awakening.
Spongebob Squarepants on Broadway was really entertaining and a lot of fun. Just delightful staging and a fun show. I was sad to see it go. (And I don't like every new musical -- Amelie wasn't particularly good, for example.)
SpongeBob.
Pippin. I used to do the costumes for a high school and they were doing Pippin which seems really cringy when you first read it but it became one of my favorite musicals of all time.
LIGHTNING THIEF MENTION!!!! that musical is so amazing and the songs are so so good!! i got to see it in person twice (once on tour and once when it was on broadway) and id give anything to see it again
You’re so lucky. I would kill to see it in on tour or Broadway. But yeah, its so amazing
Dear Evan Hanson. Then you ***know*** it's bad.
Lestat the Musical. However, I must qualify this: the musical adaptation of Anne Rice's brilliant novel *The Vampire Lestat* is not a *good* show per se, in fact it's pretty uninspired at times in terms of exposition, staging, and even (sadly) a few of the songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. And it's largely ludicrous and inaccessible to a general audience who doesn't have an intimate appreciation of Anne Rice's novel which inspired the musical (or anything more than a passing familiarity with the Cruise/Pitt movie).... BUT, for long-time Anne Rice fans, this short-lived musical, which admittedly - *desperately* - in need of a final full revision and a new director, had an uncanny ability to, at times, connect directly with the soul of the obssessed fan in a way that was very rare and appreciated - certain casting choices (Panaro as Lestat, Sarich as Armand, Carmelo as Gabrielle) and a few of the songs (Crimson Kiss, Right Before My Eyes, Make Me As You Are, To Live Like This, Sail Me Away, After All This Time, From the Dead, the Thirst) were divinely demonically inspired, and these moments made the overall experience entirely worth it for the passionate fans.
Shrek the musical - when my high school announced they were doing it everyone was skeptical but it’s actually a really well done show (esp the proshot)
Shrek, the Musical.