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What’s the point of them? The film starts, has a story, moves along then next thing people are jumping about, singing, dancing, doing all sorts. Then stop and back to the story, which is normally cobblers.
Gave up on La bloody La Land after they all started dancing on top of their cars at the start.
It’s either one or the other. Music or film. Paint Your Wagon wasted Clint and Lee Marvin. They could have made a Point Blank/Dirty Harry type thing and ended up talking to trees under wandrin stars. Flip a duck.
I got dragged along to a song along The Sound of Music once with the Mrs and my mate and his Mrs. We were the only blokes there.
No musical has ever been any good. And that’s a fact.
Which means of course that you haven't seen Book of Mormon.
Gotta admit, never watch any 'cause even the thought of a musical makes me queasy. Shouldn't knock it before i try it of course, but...well i just hate anything to do with the theatre, bores me to death. Not a very cultural person in that way. I'm sure people only pretend to like it, they all think it's rubbish really
Blues Brothers...James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, John Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, Steve 'Colonel' Cropper, Donald 'Duck' Dunn...that's something special.
They should strap down all the racists, make 'em watch the Blues Brothers a few times, everybody gonna love black people after that.
"Are crap. Each and every one. What’s the point of them?"
Not having this nonsense.
There are some quite brilliant musicals (some already mentioned): The Book of Mormon, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, etc.
Far from being lightweight tat, many good musicals deal with weighty themes - e.g. West Side Story racism/prejudice, Fiddler on the Roof anti-Semitism, etc.
To star in a musiscal you need to be extremely talented singer AND actor AND dancer, a triple-threat; the 2 actors mentioned (as much as I rate Clint) couldn't hold a note and shouldn't have been anywhere near a musical.
Some amazing songs have come from musicals, on a par with the best from regular music - e.g. 'Soft Place to Land' (Waitress), 'Loose Ends' (Witches of Eastwick), etc.
Also good is Miss Saigon, Blood Brothers and The Jersey Boys
There, I have said it.
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Totally agree with all 4. Will add Chicago,Wicked ,South Pacific, Beautiful and Lazy Sunday Afternoon, School of Rock. All at the theatre I am not a film person.
Totally agree with all 4. Will add Chicago,Wicked ,South Pacific, Beautiful and Lazy Sunday Afternoon, School of Rock. All at the theatre I am not a film person.
Was about to say I don't like musicals but of the ones I've seen - I saw Jesus Christ Superstar as a friend was in it, plus Jersey Boys (present for an ex-missus) and enjoyed them both thoroughly.
I saw a west-end type production of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, love the album so that should count!
Nobody’s mentioned Hamilton yet but my missus demanded tickets for her 40th so I very reluctantly forked out a hefty sum for a musical about an 18th century American politician confidently predicting a crap, tedious night out.
It was brilliant, the music can’t help get anyone that’s into hip-hop.
Honourable mention to Moana as well, my five year old doesn’t half watch some Disney crap (Frozen, never again would be too soon) but the songs in that one are ace.
was bought tickets to Miss Saigon for an anniversary back in the 90's and detested it, had seen Grease as a couples thing and just thought "could have watched the film with the cars instead of this shite"; as for Cats, oh my days (as I believe the down with it kids of today would exclaim) what a crock...
those I have enjoyed on stage are Book Of Mormon, The Producers, Priscilla Queen Of the Desert and are all basically inapproprite comedies with songs in....
films of a musical theme, Saturday Night Fever, Cabaret (would like to suffer this on stage) and the suchlike are equally acceptable as the songs/music play a part in the story
but where singing simply replaces dialect for no apparent reason am oot!
Big shout to a recent film Baby Driver where the soundtrack is woven into the story and I really enjoyed it; some friends I've recommended it to loved it, others thought it was utter shite!
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